The virtual closure of national borders from Central America to the United States because of the Chinese Virus might end the migration of Central America’s poverty-stricken hordes to the United States, but only if the controls stay in place long enough to become settled policy.
Mass apprehensions at the border have dropped by more than half. Helping, of course, is the knowledge among illegal aliens, that one might contract the deadly microbe on the trip north, but the border controls are what counts.
The virus will pass. Stopping a return to the status quo ante depends on President Trump’s surviving the social and economic upheaval the Asian pathogen has caused, which means Trump—The Sequel must begin on January 20.
With that introduction, some encouraging news ...
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