Why Biden may give in to Republican demands on immigration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : For most of the decade before Biden took office, US Customs and Border Protection had four or five hundred thousand "encounters" with migrants at the southern border each year.
52% : There is no cap on how many people can be granted asylum -- if someone is found to qualify on one of those grounds, then under the law, they should get it.
49% : The rise continued at the start of Trump's term, and he adopted sweeping policies meant to discourage asylum seekers, policies Democrats roundly condemned.
49% : So when Republicans insisted all this money needed to be paired with immigration policy changes, many Democrats were willing to negotiate -- some because they believed border and asylum reforms were politically or substantively necessary, and some because they viewed it as a reasonable price to pay for their highest priority of Ukraine aid.
47% : But it's also because more and more Democrats have grown uncomfortable with the border and asylum situation in the Biden years, which have featured a dramatic surge in border crossings and asylum requests.
46% : Asylum is for migrants already in the US or at a port of entry who have a "well-founded fear of persecution" in their home country based on one of five grounds: race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or "membership in a particular social group."
43% : "This Democratic shift is why, when Republicans chose to make border and asylum changes their demand in talks over Ukraine aid, they weren't laughed out of the room.

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