Thread by @AmericasVoice

Is the monthly border apprehension metric the best way to evaluate the success of our migration management strategies? Hardly.

A new regional strategy needs a more sophisticated set of metrics
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"People come to America because they believe our nation is a beacon of hope. They want to flee violence, be safe, secure a future for their children and work hard in the nation that welcomed them." - @FrankSharry

"This isn’t the so-called ‘Biden effect’ on border apprehensions. It wasn’t the ‘Trump effect’ in 2018 when numbers spiked. It wasn’t the ‘Obama effect’ in 2014 when unaccompanied minors fleeing gang violence spiked." - @FrankSharry

"What we are seeing is the ‘American effect.’ For centuries, people have come from every corner of the world to America. People migrate, especially when doing so is the best way to stay alive and build a better life for their families." - @FrankSharry

"We have a new administration and they propose a new strategy. They call it a ‘transformative vision,’ a regional strategy related primarily to Central American migration, refugee protection, processing and resettlement, fair asylum rules, and humane treatment." - @FrankSharry

"The premises of this new strategy are that migration happens and should be managed with common sense rules that maximize safe, humane and orderly admissions; that refugees need to be protected, and not returned to the dangers they fled." - @FrankSharry

"We look forward to a more sophisticated, enlightening and realistic way of evaluating what we hope to be a more sophisticated, enlightening and realistic migration management strategy." - @FrankSharry