The Atlantic has a new article, “How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration: The party once championed an approach popular with voters and politicians alike. Why give up on it?” by Cecilia Muñoz and Frank Sharry.

They write, “How did Democrats fall so far and so quickly on immigration? It’s easy to blame Trump, and the lure of his xenophobic rhetoric. But we believe that immigration has become a losing issue for Democrats over the past decade because elected leaders have followed progressive advocates to the left, beyond the political space available to them. Voters, feeling unheard and frustrated, may have squirmed at Trump’s racism and radicalism, but they also saw him as someone who took the problem seriously and was trying to address it.”

The article provides no critique of Biden’s immigration policies. It was these policies, not the “progressive advocates,” who mis-managed immigration. Biden failed to address the public about the issue. He tried to bury the news on border crossing by shifting migration into temporary visas.  The number of persons entering the country in during the Biden administration far exceeded past patterns for decades, and put strain on public shelter programs and school systems.

One of the authors, Frank Sharry, “served as an immigration advisor to Kamala Harris.  Harris told the public that she would not have changed anything Biden did.