Democrats’ Handling of the Border Crisis Is a Debacle That Ranks With President Biden’s Flight From Afghanistan

And it is worse because of the complicity of the Republican leadership in the Senate.

AP/Andrew Harnik, file
President Biden walks along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, January 8, 2023. AP/Andrew Harnik, file

The handling by the Democrats and the anti-Trump Republican senators of the proposed reform of migration across the southern border, which is linked to assistance for Israel and Ukraine, ranks as a debacle equivalent in its incompetence to the shameful flight from Afghanistan. It is worse because of the complicity in a bait-and-switch operation of the Republican Senate leadership.

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