"The Case for Open Borders": Stay at home

Migrant children. Image source.

Here's another quote from "The Case for Open Borders". From pages 139-140:

A number of refrains were repeated in the first half of 2021 as the Biden administration explained that they were working to reinstate the asylum and refugee programs that the Trump administration had gutted: "It takes time," "We're working on it," and, simply, "Do not come." The president, the vice president, the press secretary, and dozens of officials repeated the messages, primarily to Mexicans and Central Americans: Stay at home, Quédate en casa. But you can't ask someone whose home was destroyed by a hurricane to stay at home. You can't ask a parent whose child is hungry to wait a few months. You can't ask someone running for their lives to slow down to a walk.