By any metric, the great mass migration crisis at the U.S. southwest border stands as a transformational event of lasting consequence in American history. It has flooded the nation with at least 10 million foreign nationals for some 45 consecutive months. Its beginning may be traced to Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021. Its end may come as soon as 2025.
This was the largest, most sustained mass migration border crisis ever recorded in the United States. It will affect all Americans in one form or another, beginning with its having, by most accounts, just decided an American presidential election.
Yet as this debacle seems poised to draw to a close, many questions—the causes of the crisis, its full magnitude, and the range of consequences—are all in dispute among the American public.
To address this destructive state of affairs, a bipartisan national congressional or presidential investigative commission is now necessary to study and then write the official government history of all that happened at the U.S. Southwest Border from January 2021 to the present.
Why?
Because allowing competing partisan-driven narratives to fester without end, in a permanent state of national dispute without an agreed-upon basic fact set, will almost certainly undermine future public policy solutions. To relax the tensions between Americans on this one defined issue of high public interest, and to stave off cyclical border crisis repeats, we must have clarity.
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