The Biden administration has, for the time being, bailed itself out of the country’s worst illegal immigration crisis in history — just in time for the November election.
The number of migrants encountered attempting to enter the United States by coming over the southern border illegally dropped in July to the lowest levels seen in the Biden administration, comparable to historic norms under the Trump and Obama administrations.
The steady decline in crossings has been months in the making since peaking at 371,000 total migrants encountered last December.
As the Biden administration has worked with Mexico to deter migrants from heading north and implemented its own deterrence mechanisms through executive action, however, it is simultaneously expanding workarounds for migrants outside the country to be admitted.
Republicans have objected to the Biden administration’s quest to…
