Because Dem Left Wont Allow Border Control Whaddya know, Congressional Republicans did not cave on the border!—as I feared as late as last week. So Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer failed to get a vote on funding the war in Ukraine before the upper chamber recessed for Christmas because Republicans stuck to their pledge to tie Ukraine to border security. The Democrats’ mulishness on the border crisis is stupid, at least short term. If they would simply agree with the GOP, they could possibly dissipate immigration’s potency in next year’s general election. But the party’s hard-Left and the Treason Lobby won’t allow it. They would rather have Open Borders than win an election. This dynamic may ensure no deal is ever reached.
Republicans played this one correctly. They’re holding Ukraine funding hostage with solid, reasonable, border security proposals. Their opening pitch insisted on a border wall, the reinstatement of Remain in Mexico, reforming abused asylum policies that allow illegal aliens to stay here and avoid deportation, and curbs on the Biden Regime’s power to grant parole. Remarkably, Republican negotiators—even though mostly composed of squishes such as Oklahoma’s James Lankford and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis—stuck to these demands