With Title 42 expiring Thursday, removing one of the tools U.S. officials could (theoretically) use to prevent people from entering the United States illegally, and with thousands of people already crossing the border – or what used to be the border — daily, I’m left to wonder at the end game here.

Currently, there are 10,000+ people entering the country each day. What exactly do government officials expect to do to address all of these people from a legal standpoint? And how exactly do they expect to accommodate them? Or do they not know (or care)?

Maybe they’re just banking on geography working in their favor and insulating them in their swampy haven at least for a while. But I highly suspect Americans in border states – and border-border states – aren’t going to be content to stand silent while their communities are overwhelmed with people in need of food, housing, and healthcare, not to mention employment and education. If we thought the summer of 2020 was chaotic, I can’t imagine what the summer of 2023 is going to look like.

The United States is a big country and generally a hospitable one, though we used to at least have a system governing entry into it. What do we have now? At this point, it’s hard to see why thousands upon thousands more people won’t attempt to migrate northward – after all, what’s stopping them?

This “Moore to the Point” commentary aired on NewsTalkSTL on Friday, May 12th. Audio included below.