The Biden administration’s decision to restart a controversial immigration program is being made only with “political optics” in mind, according to one expert.
“That is all they care about is optics, get more people in, getting them through the ports, not between the ports, so they can say, ‘Look, our numbers at the southwest border are down. We’re doing great,’” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center
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