Border Official: Biden’s Immigration Policy ‘May Have Driven’ Migrant Surge, Encouraged Smugglers
The Biden administration’s southwestern border coordinator, Roberta Jacobson, told reporters during a White House briefing Wednesday that the administration’s “more humane” immigration policies may be driving the migrant surge at the southern border and encouraging smugglers. “Surges tend to respond to hope, and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four …