Border Crisis: Democrats Created Problem By Dismantling Effective Policies

President Biden has a knack for immediate disasters. This week’s end of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure designed to keep migrants from spreading Covid-19 into America, isn’t just the loss of one tool for enforcing the law. Under Biden, its expiration means the effective opening of the U.S. border.

Because Title 42 was rooted in public-health hysteria, it was the only rubric under which the Biden administration would rigorously enforce the border. All other laws and regulations that flow from the normal and necessary legal distinctions between U.S. citizens and foreigners who have no right to reside in the United Sates are — for Democrats — presumptively unjust and irrational. And so, the Democrats treat those laws with what they see as compassionate neglect.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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President Biden has a knack for immediate disasters. This week’s end of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure designed to keep migrants from spreading Covid-19 into America, isn’t just the loss of one tool for enforcing the law. Under Biden, its expiration means the effective opening of the U.S. border.

Because Title 42 was rooted in public-health hysteria, it was the only rubric under which the Biden administration would rigorously enforce the border. All other laws and regulations that flow from the normal and necessary legal distinctions between U.S. citizens and foreigners who have no right to reside in the United Sates are — for Democrats — presumptively unjust and irrational. And so, the Democrats treat those laws with what they see as compassionate neglect.