In Mexico, we've seen destitute Haitian families heading north for weeks. Why was US unprepared?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : (You have to be physically present on U.S. soil to apply for asylum.)
52% : The news that some Haitians are being allowed to reach family in the U.S. and apply for asylum, or that Border Patrol won't use large animals against migrants in Del Rio is, of course, welcome news.
50% : Here in Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, the sight of desperate migrants, often on foot, heading north from central America toward what they believe to be a better life - and asylum - in the United States is not uncommon.
49% : After coordinating on social media, they started traveling - bus loads teeming with exhausted, sweating children and parents - through Mexico, toward the U.S. to apply for asylum.
44% : - For weeks, deeply upsetting images have dominated the Mexican news of Haitian families clutching sobbing babies in diapers as they attempt to make their way to the U.S. to apply for asylum.
44% : That tens of thousands of people were en route to the U.S. to apply for asylum was no secret.
37% : The government can save its hollow responses that the images of Border Patrol chasing Black bodies on horses "do not reflect the U.S." and this administration can continue to virtue signal with its excuses of expanding Temporary Protected Status.

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