Kamala Harris Visits Border To Find "Root Causes"

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People apprehended the border are not a homogenous group. Treating them as such doesn't allow you to get to those root causes. Also, border crossings soared in 2019 too so it's hard to blame Biden's policies alone for this.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/15/migrant-apprehensions-at-u-s-mexico-border-are-surging-again/

Pew breaks down demographic differences between 2021 and 2019. The big thing to notice is that we have mostly single adult crossers in 2021 (nearly 70%) compared to mostly family crossers (nearly 65%) in 2019. The share of people coming from Mexico versus other Central American nations has risen as well.

There very well may be a belief by immigrants that Biden's policies are welcoming, causing more people to come now that the pandemic has been easing up, but it's important to remember that the Obama/Biden immigration policy was not friendly to undocumented immigrants, with record deportations and staffing in border patrol.