2021 Was Another Disappointing Year for Immigration Policy

When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he inherited a country rattled by a deadly pandemic, a struggling economy, and a bevy of immigration restrictions that his predecessor had imposed to nominally tackle both.

Faced with an opportunity to hit reset on President Donald Trump's controversial approach to immigration, Biden instead kept many of those policies in place and imposed new ones that were hardly more sensible than Trump's. Now, 2021 is ending much the way it started, with the president mistakenly setting his sights on migrants as major COVID-19 vectors and...