The American economy is likely to expand a lot in 2021-22. People from low-wage countries around the world will want to seek work here. If the Biden administration continues to send the message, "Just show up" ... it's going to have an unending border crisis on its hands
Public support for immigration depends on public perception of an orderly process controlled in the national interest by the national sovereign. That perception broke down in Europe and the US in the mid-2010s, with dangerous political consequences. Don't repeat old mistakes.
I agree with most of that. Which is why I think it is so urgent that national governments make - and enforce - the rules of immigration, unlike what happened in the mid-2010s.

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