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How Do We Get Past the Coming Border Crisis?
April 28, 2021
The Newsletter
Thomas Warrick
was DHS Deputy Assistant for Counterterrorism Policy from August 2008 to June 2019 and is now Director of the Future of DHS Project and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
OPINION Border security is back on the front pages and needs urgent action to head off the crisis that’s coming. The March 2021 numbers of Department of Homeland Security encounters at the US southwest border are, almost literally, off-the-chart (see graphic). The Biden administration campaigned on major changes to immigration policies, and delivered on those promises with a combination of day-one executive orders and proposed legislation.