You might be interested in this report at the Center for American Progress, “Taking Migration Seriously: Real Solutions to Complex Challenges at the Border”. Here’s a snippet:
The Biden-Harris administration has proved committed to managing regional migration by tackling its root causes. Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to develop a comprehensive regional framework to address the root causes of migration, manage migration in the region, and strengthen the asylum system at the border. A few months later, in July 2021, the administration followed up on this order with a collaborative migration management strategy that focused on improving regional collaboration. The administration has also released a blueprint to address the root causes of irregular migration, with strategies to tackle insecurity, corruption, and violence in an effort to promote human rights in Central America.
Despite these efforts we presently have an unprecedented number of people crossing our southern border without permission, certainly at least 3 million last year considering both “encounters” and “getaways”. There’s an old observation that the way you know you have enough light in a reading room is if you can read there. By that standard the Biden Administration self-evidently isn’t doing enough.
A good place to start in looking for guidance would be the Immigration and Naturalization Act, the guiding legislation. Very few of those crossing the border are refugees by the standards defined in the law. Making an analogy with Cuba is fatuous because a) the circumstances today are different than they were 60 years ago and b) there was specific legislation addressing their status. If you want people from Venezuela, for example, to be automatically defined as refugees, the appropriate legislation should be enacted.
IMO the preponderance of the evidence suggests that most of those crossing our southern border are in fact economic migrants and, sadly, the evidence is quite clear that there is no great demand for people without a high school-level ability to speak, read, or write English. Increasing that population further injures those already in the bottom tier of the economy.
Reading that American Progress excerpt posted was filled with nothing more than bureaucratic platitudes. As for searching for “root causes†isn’t that what Kamala Harris set out to do in the early days of the Biden’s presidency, as the official immigration czar? Now, after almost 2 years and over 5 million illegal crossings, with more not caught, are we better off than when the country was first handed over to Biden?
The tiniest bit of research reveals that our ability to address root causes is quite limited. I’ve written about that in the past. I agree with it in principle and think we should devote as much attention to near-shoring as we do to onshoring and reshoring. However, I’m realistic enough to recognize the difficulties.
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/10/28/bidens-border-crisis-is-far-worse-than-you-think/
Bidens a union guy, he’s proud of that. Uncontrolled illegal immigration does the unions no good.
Biden is clearly not calling the shots and no, Harris isn’t either.
The party that benefits, at least in the short term, starts with a large D.
Flooding the country with tens of millions of dependent, illiterate voters changes political calculus for decades to come.
Is that just, well, politics ain’t beanbag? Or is that cause enough to call treason?
The border situation is probably a lost cause. Lots of people want open borders for various reasons. The DNC thinks all immigrants will vote for them. Agribusiness wants cheap manual labor, preferably undocumented and easily controllable. Quite a few of the immigrants have been (or will be) sold into prostitution or slavery. I suspect a large fraction of the “unaccompanied” children have been sold to the sex trade. The children are actually accompanied by coyotes and groomers.
All these immigrants compete directly with American workers, especially semi- and unskilled workers. Blacks, native Hispanics, poor whites, and low-skilled union workers (e. g., SEIU) are especially vulnerable.
However, Silicon Valley uses H-1B visas to replace native American IT specialists. So, all American workers suffer.