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The Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, have seemingly retreated from their position on the U. S. southern border.
Ever since Joe Biden became president, they have argued and argued that the his administration has left the border completely open to illegal immigration, drug transport and criminals. They have hammered this point over and over, making it the focal point of their entire political campaign.
Now, they suddenly tell the American people that we don’t need any changes at the border. Former President Donald Trump has said that if there are changes to be made at the border, he will do it, as our next president.
A bipartisan agreement, worked on by McConnell, has been pulled in both the Republican-controlled House and the Senate, due to insufficient support from Republicans. Even Republicans presented this bill as giving their party everything it had been asking for in terms of border security.
Trump did not support it, he says, because it could not be worthwhile given that it came from Democrats. The irony is that with this dismissal, House Republicans went back to impeachment hearings of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to enact security provisions on the border.
In effect, the Republicans are now running on truly nothing in their campaign.
Richard Strickland, Las Vegas
