I brought this up once already this week but it seems the media is now leaning on Republicans to pass the save-Biden’s-ass border bill even harder so I want to bring it up again. There are many ways to approach this but I’m going to focus on this piece titled “Pass the Immigration Bill” by David French.
While I think there’s an obvious problem the French’s argument, his piece is well written and does spell out some of what is going on in the present argument starting with an admission that we do have a serious border problem. And that leads to another admission which I think is also unavoidable at this point: our asylum system is broken and is being gamed by people who have learned how to take advantage of it:
As Julia Preston wrote in an outstanding and comprehensive report for Foreign Affairs: “After years of stalemate in Washington on immigration reform, the…
