Came across this piece yesterday and most down along the border would not think that. Curious on your take, as it is way out of my wheelhouse.
as long as we: 1) remain an attractive destination for immigrants, 2) don't offer any legal way for residents of many countries to enter the country and 3) offer ways for people that enter the country without authorization to remain in the country we are going to see people trying to enter the country along our land borders. as the passage points out, title 42 greatly exacerbates this problem because it allows us authorities to expel individuals apprehended in the u.s. to mexico without any legal proceeding against them. this essentially provides prospective migrants the opportunity and incentive to try repeated crossings until they finally succeed.
imo, of the three conditions i outlined above it makes the most sense to change the second one because immigrants make us a richer, stronger and happier country while making our country unattractive to immigrants would entail making the united states a worse country for all of us current citizens and residents to live in and trying to rigorously locate and expel persons illegally residing in the u.s. would entail unappealing restrictions on all of our freedoms, would at least temporarily decimate our economy and would inflict needless cruelty on millions of people productively living in the united states and many of their citizen and legal resident family members.
