Fiasco of Linking Immigration Reform and Foreign Aid Signals Need for Leadership in the Congress

The Republicans should start by stripping away the phony Democratic pretense that what is going on on the southern border has anything to do with immigration.

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Migrants are led to a processing area after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States. AP/Eric Gay

The fiasco of the attempted linking of minimal immigration reform with substantial assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and the murder by the Russian government of the leader of the democratic opposition, Alexei Navalny, coming within a few days of each other, require some American congressional leaders to show some leadership.

The attempt to link immigration, specifically the inundation of the southern border with millions of illegal so-called migrants, to the urgent need for military assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan seemed to some a clever tactic by the Republicans.

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