border developments, and potential movements of bureaucrats;

Even Democrats are reluctantly finding themselves forced to acknowledge the realities of mass migration, prompting the White House to cede some ground.

As CBS News reports, the Biden administration is now dropping its plan to require illegal migrants to “Remain in Texas” after crossing the border — a proposed move that was intended to alleviate the massive flow of migrants to cities such as New York and Chicago.

Initially, officials in El Paso were going along with the administration, even preparing plans to pay for 400 hotel rooms to shelter the migrants illegally coming across the border. But when the plans became public, the community and local politicians went into an uproar, prompting the federal government to walk back its stance. 

This comes amid a few other concessions the administration has recently made on the migrant issue. For example, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas earlier this month issued a waiver of over 25 federal laws, including environmental protection laws, to expedite the construction of barriers and roads along the border. The administration also announced that it will resume the deportation of Venezuelan migrants.

Nevertheless, the White House is responsible for the migrant crisis by refusing to secure the border and to repatriate those who are apprehended. 

Border Patrol agents in places such as Tucson, Arizona, and San Diego, California, have been allowing apprehended migrants to simply escape into the interior of the country because there is insufficient room to detain them. Furthermore, it was the Biden administration that had halted border wall construction (citing, among other factors, environmental considerations) and has even been auctioning off unused border wall.........more.........