Incidents on the Southern Border

The border twixt the USA and Mexico, as it is now known, is long and has been fluid since well before 1492. The definition of said border has been defined and observed since the late 19^th century. There are communities that have existed, and continue to function, astride the border for centuries. The Bracero Program (during WWII), NAFTA and now the SMCA have necessitated traffic, goods and people, travel back and forth between our countries in constant and enormous volumes.

Migrants, from multiple countries south of the border, have created a problem. The source of said problem, unfortunately, is ill will expressed by extremist, white supremacists north of the border. This ill will has been the key ingredient to a migration situation some have viewed as untenable.

The handling of the migrant situation on the southern border has been described politely as horribly insufficient for decades.  The 45 administration took a bad problem and created an international disgrace by attempting to pretend that the border could just be closed to migrants.  Then they terminated programs designed to help Central American countries deal with the issues that motivate their citizens to flee en masse, pretending that that would do anything but what it did; exacerbate the problem.

Multiple pundits are upset that their warnings to the incoming administration were not received and acted upon properly.  They, especially the various government officials, really should make helpful suggestions, introduce useful regulatory change, or STFU. 

President Biden was VP Biden when the Obama administration tried, while a destructively uncooperative Qpublican legislature helped not at all, to deal with what was already chaos at the southern, US border; he really is already aware that there's a rather enormous, ongoing problem.

The 45 administration did it's level worst to make the transition to the Biden administration as dysfunctional as possible; southern border included.

Yes, it's a mess and if these legislators were in congress as far back as the Obama administration, or before, and they've not developed constructive ideas, beyond warning the current President about the international disgrace on our border with Mexico (especially the Qpublicans whose efforts have been criminally negligent, at best), they are a very large part of the problem.