What's Happening at the Center
In his latest commentary, in the international affairs journal The National Interest, Mark Krikorian explains that the Biden administration's legislative proposal to legalize virtually all illegal aliens and enact a variety of measures to weaken immigration enforcement and increase legal immigration beyond the current level of about one million a year may never be introduced in Congress and has no chance of passage. Targeted legislative measures are more likely if they include meaningful reform, such as the mandatory use of E-Verify and a prohibition on state and local sanctuary policies. In the absence of these tradeoffs, expect more executive actions to increase admissions and weaken enforcement.
At a notorious opening in the border wall just west of El Paso, locally known as the "Anapra Gap", Todd Bensman spoke to a Mexican immigration officer guarding a 20-foot segment in a pickup truck, along with members of the Mexican national guard.
