“You know what American voters hate?” asked Alex Nowrasteh. “They hate chaos.”
Nowrasteh is the senior vice president for policy at the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank. One of his primary areas of focus is immigration policy, which is why I had called him. Why, I asked, had most Americans opposed former president Joe Biden’s loose border approach, which allowed over 5.7 million migrants into the country during his term in office? Because, replied Nowrasteh, “having large numbers of people crossing the border willy-nilly”—with no idea of who they are, or what they will do once they get here—is untenable.
