The Biden Administration appears to have “hit on a successful formula for managing dysfunction at the border—at least for now,” writes Andrew Selee, President of the Migration Policy Institute, in Foreign Affairs.
The new migration policy “is built around a three-part strategy: tightening enforcement at the U.S.-Mexican border, expanding legal pathways for entry, and vetting candidates for asylum and humanitarian protection in countries of origin rather than primarily at the border itself,” he notes.
The new approach faces challenges including whether U.S. courts deem it legal. “But if the strategy works over the long term, it will mark an ambitious effort to reimagine how governments manage the flow of migrants in a safer, more organized way that moves the admittance process much farther upstream, long before most potential migrants reach the border,” writes Selee.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 