On Sunday evening, the long-awaited text of the Senate’s “border security” deal was released. Despite claims from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Sen. James Lankford that prior leaks were incorrect, the bill turned out to be just as bad as suspected, and as I’m about to illustrate, perhaps even worse.
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Naturally, because the motivation for this bill has never been the border crisis, Ukraine funding dominates the first part of the text, with another $60 billion being sent to the Eastern European nation. Do Americans get a secure Southern Border in return? That answer is made clear by several awful provisions, the worst of which we’ll get to later in the article.
The one that’s receiving the most attention was leaked in the week before the Senate released the text. Namely, it says that the “border…
