Biden’s border crisis strategy ‘inconsistency’ could lead to Democratic election losses: Washington Post editorial

The Washington Post on Sunday criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border crisis and called for a coherent strategy to deal with the record number of migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally.

In an editorial, the Post predicted that the “inconsistency” of the Biden administration’s policies could lead Democrats to lose control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm election, and there is no was probably nothing in its current strategy that would change that outcome.

“In its apparent desperation to craft an immigration strategy that will bring order to increasingly uncontrollable migration, the Biden administration has unleashed a torrent of words and goals unrelated to policies and timetables. specific, ”the Post wrote. “Officials have effectively reversed and canceled some of the Trump administration’s most pernicious policies, but without a clear roadmap for dealing with the immediate crisis – an increase in illegal border crossings for decades – or the long-term challenge. term of migration: dysfunction, disorder and decadence in Central America. “

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The Post noted that Vice President Kamala Harris laid out a long-term strategy to tackle the factors in Central America that are currently driving illegal immigration, but that he lacked a real course of action. He added that his “convoluted message” telling migrants not to attempt the trip to the United States, while removing or relaxing measures to deter the trip, had been a “failure”.

“This failure is measurable and it is politically toxic,” the Post wrote before detailing the “staggering” number of apprehensions seen at the border this year.

In June, a monthly record of nearly 190,000 migrants was stopped by border officials, despite the usual deterrence from the summer heat. According to reports, another record of 210,000 was set in July, although those numbers have yet to be released. A total of 1.1 million migrants have been detained since the start of the fiscal year.

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Alarmed by the numbers, the administration infuriated immigration advocates by announcing it would retain a Trump-era public health measure, originally justified by the pandemic, which prevents migrant families to seek asylum at the southern border, ”the Post wrote. “Yet this measure, known as Title 42, has proven increasingly ineffective as a deterrent. Even knowing that they can be deported without an asylum hearing, migrants often attempt to cross the border. border again and again. “

“For the most part, the impulses of administration are human. However, they have driven a policy whose inconsistency has generated border pressure that could cost Democrats control of one or both houses of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. There is nothing in the administration’s short or long term strategy that is likely to change this dynamic, “he added.