The Biden administration’s southwestern border coordinator, Roberta Jacobson, told reporters during a White House briefing Wednesday that the administration’s “more humane” immigration policies may be driving the migrant surge at the southern border and encouraging smugglers. “Surges tend to respond to hope, and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent up demand,” she told reporters. The former ambassador to Mexico said “the idea that a more humane policy would be in place” under Biden may have driven a surge in people choosing to arrive at the southern border in an “irregular fashion,” while blaming human smugglers for promoting “disinformation” about the law changes and urging people not to listen to them. “We’re going to try our best to do everything we can at each end of this, in the United States but especially in Central America and Mexico, to ensure we have safe, orderly, …