What's Happening at the Center
In his recent commentary, Mark Krikorian explains that while Joe Biden will use executive actions to undo President Trump's immigration policy, he will likely do so gradually in the hopes of averting a new border crisis and the political blowback for his party that would result. (Top Biden officials confirmed this after the publication of the commentary.) But it is unlikely that prospective illegal immigrants will cooperate, given the incentives Biden will put in place to jump the border or overstay a visa, forcing the new administration to choose between restoring Trump's immigration agenda or loss of Congress in 2022.
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