Yesterday, Biden signed an executive order suspending “asylum” requests on any given day migrant crossings exceed 2,500, effectively sealing the border. Or, at least for those few moments following each small wave. The gesture constitutes a necessary pivot for the president, who trashed Trump for similar policies on the 2020 campaign trail, but now — five months before the election — faces an illegal immigration crisis Americans are increasingly furious over. And… okay, I do just have a few questions. Walls: do they work, or do they not? 2,500 a day: has anyone considered 0? And if all it took to patch our border was a tough election and a two-page note, are we basically admitting the last four years of “nothing can be done” was just a total lie? I don’t know, I’m starting to think the only thing that works is not secretly wanting an immigration crisis.

Monday, CA state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill re-imposing penalties for street vending, six years after the state decriminalized it. Though Wiener hastened to clarify the problem is not street vending per se, but “fencing” — the often-indistinguishable practice of vending stolen goods — the bill marks a clear step forward on California’s slow-going journey to make crime illegal again. After a prolonged affair with anarchy, the state is re-deriving sensible anti-theft laws from first principles, with politicians realizing the goal of, say, vending bans was never to punish the little old lady selling tamales (RIP, Virginia), but to deter criminals from running well-oiled larceny operations. Given the past decade of lawlessness, it’s hard to get too excited about something so trivial as “pack up your table of stolen goods.” But at this point, we’re happy to meet a rare policy W halfway.

A federal appeals court Monday blocked Atlanta-based investment firm Fearless Fund from exclusively awarding grants to businesses owned by Black women, marking yet another blow to DEI following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that outlawed race-based college admissions. Now, I’ll admit it’s been fun watching America relearn the literal Kindergarten lesson of “racism is bad,” but I do wish we could have remembered the fact before Black Chicks Only LLC built out a discriminatory network of investors and sponsors including some of the largest corporations in America. Then again, had the fund not so dramatically narrowed its available pool of portfolio companies by discriminating based on race and sex, we may never have seen the rise of famed plant-based food chain Slutty Vegan. And where would we be without black-owned Beyond Meat patties?

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