"No End In Sight": Biden Administration's Failure To Contain Border Surge

The Biden administration is scrambling to control the biggest surge in 20 years, with the nation on pace for as many as 2 million migrants at the southern border this year - the outcome Biden said he wanted to avoid.

Shortly before Christmas last year, Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, two top advisers to President-elect Joe Biden, sat for an interview with EFE, a Spanish wire service, to issue a stark warning to migrants considering journeying north to the nation's southern border: Don't come now - but help is on the way. The next day, Biden was similarly pointed, saying his administration - while eager to roll back Donald Trump's immigration policies - first needed to implement "guardrails" to avoid winding up with "2 million people on our border." Less than a month later, the new president began tearing down some of the guardrails himself. He issued five immigration executive orders on Inauguration Day alone and promised an immigration policy far more humane and welcoming than that of his predecessor. His administration also began allowing unaccompanied minors into the country, a marked departure from the Trump administration. Now, the Biden administration is scrambling to control the biggest surge in 20 years, with the nation on pace for as many as 2 million migrants at the southern border this year - the outcome Biden said he wanted to avoid.