Biden’s border order: impractical policy, pragmatic politics
The president tries to address one of his biggest electoral liabilities
IT IS INDICATIVE of America’s putrid politics that President Joe Biden’s plan to crack down on migration at the southern border is meant not necessarily to succeed, but to convince voters that he is trying to succeed. On June 4th Mr Biden revealed an executive order that will theoretically allow him to deny asylum to migrants who cross illegally when their numbers are high.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A border order”
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