Is there any aspect to the Biden administration that comes from careful planning, research, and execution? Or is this White House simply making up policy as it goes along? Its responses to COVID-19, economic plans, and immigration policy all suggest that their positions change with the wind.

That’s particularly true on the latter. Joe Biden campaigned on opening up the border, explicitly so in promising an end to the Remain in Mexico policy negotiated by Donald Trump. He and his team made a particular point of promising humane treatment of migrants and expanded asylum opportunities, only to be shocked, shocked when this new set of incentives touched off the worst migrant crisis in at least twenty years. Almost immediately, the White House began wildly shifting its rhetoric in a failed attempt to stave off more migration, and the situation has worsened ever since.