After overseeing an unprecedented two-year border crisis, President Biden implied during his State of the Union address that he finally had a plan to resolve this disaster. But when pressed for further details, Biden’s own officials stressed that “no proposal is under serious consideration.”
Instead of pretending to have a plan in place, Biden should pay attention to the solutions that lawmakers have already rolled out. Last Congress, a group of border-state lawmakers introduced the Border Solutions Act. If passed, this bill would address one of the border crisis’s major driving forces: the perverse incentives in our asylum system. Because merely receiving an asylum hearing often takes over four years, people can file claims that lack merit and work indefinitely in the U.S. while their case is pending.
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