Traditional immigration policy has failed. Biden is right to try reform it.

This week, at a summit with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts, President Biden said that the Western Hemisphere was “experiencing unprecedented levels of migration — greater than any time in history.” This is not hyperbole. There were 2.4 million apprehensions at the United States’ southwestern border last fiscal year, which is about 600,000 higher than the prior year, the previous high. These numbers are likely to get worse over time, and not just in the United States.

The Western world faces a perfect storm regarding migration. Climate change means equatorial regions are far more prone to drought and disease, making farming and living there much more dangerous. Poverty and political instability in these regions persist, and post-pandemic problems have festered. So, people move toward the richer and more temperate north — Europe and the United States. But migration’s scale is creating problems both of politics and policy.

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