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Preparing for the Next Big Migration Challenge
The Biden administration will need to learn from Obama’s mistakes on the border as well as Trump’s.
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Bloomberg News recently reported that pandemic-induced economic deprivation, two fierce hurricanes and the hope that a new administration might ease security threaten to create a new wave of migrants at America’s southern border. “There are going to be caravans, and in the coming weeks it will increase,” said the head of a civil-society organization in Guatemala.
With the pandemic far from beaten, the issue has a pressing new public-health dimension, making the problem harder than ever. President-elect Joe Biden may have to grapple with all this during his first weeks in office.