How a Stephen Miller Fox News Appearance Launched the “Border Crisis”

Is there a crisis at the U.S.–Mexico border? It depends on your definition of crisis.

The monthly number of individuals being apprehended there for unauthorized crossings is higher than it was two years ago, pre-coronavirus, and given seasonal trends this summer’s totals might end up being higher than those observed at any point during Donald Trump’s term. But on an absolute basis there are still fewer crossings being documented than there were during the summer of 2019, and many fewer than were routinely recorded during the first decade of the...