For much of the Biden administration’s first three years in office, migration surged at the Mexican border. Administration officials frequently argued that the problem was beyond their control — a reflection not of U.S. policy but of global forces pushing people toward the border.
Then, starting in December, when the issue threatened President Biden’s re-election, he began a crackdown. The traffic of people crossing the border plummeted. Today, it remains near the lowest point since 2020 and not so different from levels during parts of the Trump and Obama administrations. This week, the Biden administration imposed tough new rules to keep it that way.
For refugees? Is the solution to simply shoot people at the border so they have an equal but opposite incentive not to flee their own country?
Or are we talking about seasonal farm laborers who cross the border to participate in annual harvest? Should we burn down our fruit and vegetable fields and slaughter our livestock en mass so nobody has an economic incentive to take seasonal employment?
It’s obvious that you aren’t taking this problem seriously. We need to detonate our entire nuclear arsenal and melt the entire continent of North America into radioactive slag. It’s the only way to ensure there’s absolutely no incentive to come here.