As pandemic wanes, border debate takes new twists

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Mark Krikorian, a longtime hard-liner on immigration, agrees that the Texas border wall plan is unrealistic and that there's not much state troopers and the National Guard can do to fight unlawful immigration.
57% : "They're approaching border security in a new way - a way that keeps us safe and secure, and treats people compassionately.
53% : After a surge of migrants into the United States captured headlines earlier this year, the politics of the southern border has come roaring back.
53% : The 2022 midterm elections are 16 months away - and the 2024 presidential election farther still - but the political jockeying is well underway, and the southern border is a topic of intense focus.
53% : As for the Texas governor's pledge to continue building the border wall, Mr. Jones of Rice University points to the major hurdles.
51% : Meanwhile, seven Republican governors have pledged to send small but symbolically meaningful contingents of National Guard troops and state police to the southern border, after a request for help from the GOP governors of Texas and Arizona.
49% : The anticipated Biden administration plan to effectively reopen the southern border by gradually phasing out the use of Title 42 public-health authority centers on the waning of the pandemic.
47% : When Mr. Biden took office in January, he immediately ended the Trump-era national emergency on the southern border and the diversion of funds from the Department of Defense to border wall construction.
45% : Between March and October 2020, more than 200,000 migrants were turned away at the U.S.-Mexico border under Title 42 without the typical process to claim asylum.
43% : Perhaps most consequentially, the Biden administration is planning to phase out a pandemic-related, Trump-era restriction on U.S.-Mexico border crossings - one that allows the U.S. government to turn back most migrants before they can seek asylum.
37% : All of this follows a promise by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas to use state money and crowdfunding to finish building the border wall that former President Donald Trump started.

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