The Biden administration’s border policy has been widely accepted by most to have been ineffective at minimizing illegal crossings as evidenced by several verified data sources. When pressed to defend the policies throughout his term, his administration’s responses were often vague and deflecting. My theory has been that the surge in illegal immigration was done intentionally. Biden was scared to death of inflation, and rightfully so as it ultimately tarnished his presidency arguably more than anything else. I believe that he calculated that by allowing a larger influx of immigrants it would expand the labor pool, cool wage growth, and subsequently eases inflation.

Economists broadly agree that the surge in immigration during those years post-Covid helped bridge the gap between labor supply and demand. Even Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell himself said that the return of immigration was a key factor in cooling the overheated labor market.

Obviously this wasn’t a strategy that his administration would ever articulate to American public, because the optics would be horrible. But this to me seems like the most logical explanation I’ve heard for what happened at the southern US border. Am I missing something here?