I have an op-ed in the Daily Beast that helps illuminate both the politics and the causes of the large numbers of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A coalition of Republican-led states is asking a district court to consider whether the Biden administration should be held in contempt of court for violating an order requiring it to expel undocumented immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The supposed offense? Letting Haitian immigrants enter the country legally.

The effort shows the states are not interested in solving illegal immigration, but rather, keeping immigrants out of the country entirely. Indeed, by trying to stop the legal flow of immigrants, they are explicitly requesting that the Biden administration intentionally sabotage the border in a way that would increase illegal immigration.

These Republican-led states want immigration illegal, even if it means more chaos.

You can read the whole thing here.

I have previously explained in detail how the Obama administration ended illegal immigration by Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border by letting them in legally, how the Trump administration recreated illegal immigration by Haitians by banning that process, and how the Biden administration again nearly eliminated Haitian illegal immigration this summer by reopening legal immigration at the border to them.

You can read the more complete explanation here.

The graph of Haitian border crossings is as clear as can be: illegal immigration is a policy choice, not a natural phenomenon. People who are fighting to stop legal migration want illegal immigration and border chaos. To create order at the border, we need legal immigration, as I explained in my TED talk in 2020.