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.

The apparent plan was that the bipartisan Senate leadership, with the blessing of the White House, would propose that when illegal migration (which they have no ability to calculate precisely), surpassed 5,000 in a day, the southern border would be temporarily closed. The minority leader, Senator McConnell, and his acolytes urged preemptive assent from House Republicans, without seeing the bill or having it described in detail.

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