On Friday, President Joe Biden made the first morally calamitous decision of his young presidency: He agreed to retain Donald Trump’s historically low cap of 15,000 refugees to be admitted this year. The decision, the White House said, was “justified by humanitarian concerns and is otherwise in the national interest.” The claim was so preposterous, and so utterly at variance with Biden’s own professed values, that several hours later the administration was forced to walk the decision back.
