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Since the gauntlet was thrown down and some other posters are trying to pretend that’s the be-all, end-all to the debate, it seems an answer is needed. Lazily poking around we find stuff like this:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/biden-executi...

During his first 364 days as president, Biden took 296 executive actions on immigration—as compared to 86 during Trump's first year and 472 during the entire Trump presidency, analysts Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter write in a new article for MPI’s online journal, the Migration Information Source. Of Biden’s 296 immigration actions, 89 have reversed or started to undo Trump policies, making clear the administration is doing more than unraveling his predecessor’s policies.

The Biden administration’s actions cover a wide range of issues—greatly narrowing the number of unauthorized immigrants vulnerable to arrest, detention and removal; lifting some barriers to U.S. entry and to accessing immigration benefits; and raising the refugee resettlement ceiling to 125,000.

The administration also has acted to protect as many as 1 million noncitizens from deportation and give them eligibility to apply for a work permit by expanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals from Venezuela and Myanmar who are already in the United States; extending TPS designations that Trump sought to terminate for other nationalities but was blocked by the courts from carrying out; and by allowing certain victims of crime who are petitioning for a U visa to receive deferred action while awaiting their visa adjudication.

Still, chaotic responses to high levels of migration at the southern border and lack of progress on two key Biden campaign promises—legalization for the country’s unauthorized immigrant population and rebuilding a border asylum system largely dismantled during the prior administration—have fueled public perception that the administration has done little on immigration.

We have the current border situation because Biden wants it this way, period.

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