Ouch: Yet another Bidenite border “fix” that makes life harder for the law-abiding.
What will it take for the president to address the real problem, namely his own policies?
The latest insult: Customs and Border Protection just announced the closure of two Mexico-to-Texas railway crossings, at El Paso and Eagle Pass, blaming a spike in smugglers using trains to move migrants into the country illegally.
Tellingly, it’s moving personnel from the two bridges to other parts of the border to help process the record number of illegal migrants — an estimated 10,000 per day — seeking to enter the country.
Better to take border agents off that processing (let the migrants wait in Mexico) and have them help inspect the trains.
The “solution” CBP chose will harm the law-abiding.
Closing official ports of entry, like bridges, makes it harder for people (US citizens and visa holders) to cross legally and blocks legal cargo, dampening trade that boosts the US economy.
In September, an estimated $1 billion in goods got stuck on the Mexican side of the border when the Eagle Pass crossing was closed for just three days.
This follows Team Biden’s similar Dec. 4 closing of a legal crossing point in Lukeville, Ariz., which has US citizens trapped between trying to come home through dangerous cartel-controlled turf and just jumping the border on their own.
In response, after begging President Biden to intervene, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered the state’s National Guard to the border to help reopen the Lukeville crossing.
Hobbs — a Democrat — complains, “The federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe.”
Republicans in Congress are refusing to approve aid to Ukraine until President Biden sees sense on the border.
They want to curtail his granting of parole to “asylum seekers” end-running the regular immigration process; he’s waved in hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that way just this year.
Give in, Mr. President: Ukraine aid is vital, but polling shows the public is overwhelmingly with the GOP on this one.
Stop bowing to the hard left on immigration, and making ordinary Americans pay an ever-increasing price.
Take the GOP’s offer, fund Ukraine, and at long last, actually secure the border.