President Biden's recently unveiled border security policy will likely do little to fix the surge in crossing attempts at the southern border, according to an immigration policy think tank. 'At present, the government is offering neither investment nor solutions,' reads an American Immigration Council analysis of the Biden policy. 'It is essentially crossing its fingers that the asylum system will fix itself.
But success on the Biden administration’s own terms – reducing border crossing levels for the next six months or longer – would require far more than that. It would require the United States to do what it has tried, and failed, to do for a decade: stop people from fleeing their homes, in the midst of a global displacement crisis, by making life harder for some of those who have already arrived in the United States,' the analysis reads. Instead, the report calls on the U.S.