I mean many laws especially regarding the border were simply abandoned under the previous admin. It was basically an open border. So yes we've returned to the norm. That's not a bad thing. If anything it makes people visiting the US safer.
If I grant you that, then at the very least we both agree _something_ has changed then and it isn’t just the media.
But I don’t think it’s just that- what do you have to say about Noem v Garcia then, where the Supreme Court ruled this administration was not following the law?
Can you explain this perspective? I consider an open boarder to be something similar to what we have between states. I can go to New Jersey, and back again to New York, and no one asks any questions, no one checks my papers, I don't need a visa or a reason to be in NJ, and I don't need to declare anything I bought in NJ to NY customs.
By contrast, the US boarder under Biden was enforced with millions of deportations, expulsions, and legal processing. While it's true more migrants were allowed in under parole and asylum programs, and some Trump-era restrictions were lifted, the US-Mexico boarder did not resemble the open NY-NJ boarder.
So given the the checkpoints, border patrol agents, deportations, surveillance systems, legal entry requirements, physical barriers, detention facilities, visa controls, asylum processing, and international boarder agreements, I can't see how it was "basically open".
Under Biden if you climbed over the border wall illegally, waited to be picked up by border control, and then falsely claimed asylum, you'd be assigned a court date, and then disappear into the country. They'd almost always miss their court date and never be heard from again. Millions of people were entering the country per year in this manner.
Yes there were many systems as you mention, but all those systems amounted for naught when the end result is the person still entered and remained in the country illegally.
But that's not really "basically an open border" though is it?
Can you quantify "almost always"? Because here are some data I found:
- 83% of nondetained immigrants with completed or pending removal cases attended all of their hearings.
- 96% of nondetained immigrants represented by a lawyer attended all of their hearings.
- 15% of those who were ordered deported because they did not appear in court successfully reopened their cases and had their removal orders rescinded. In some years, as many as 20% of all orders of removal for missing court were later overturned.
