Their idea was to tie approval of military assistance to Ukraine to tough border security demands that Democrats would never accept, allowing Republicans to block the money for Kyiv that many of them oppose while simultaneously enabling them to pound Democrats for refusing to halt a surge of migrants at the border. It was to be a win-win headed into November’s elections.
But Democrats tripped them up by offering substantial — almost unheard-of — concessions on immigration policy without insisting on much in return. Now it is Republicans who are rapidly abandoning a compromise that gave them much of what they wanted, leaving aid to Ukraine in deep jeopardy, border policy in turmoil and Congress again flailing as multiple crises at home and abroad go without attention because of a legislative stalemate.
They’re trying to spin some nonsense about how we don’t actually need any new law for the border (even though they were screaming we did for years, but forget about that) and Biden just needs to enforce current laws and “shut it down.” What current laws are not being enforced? They cannot say. What they mean by “shut it down,” they don’t know.
Shut it down means we do something like the red light//green light game in squidt Gamesz along the border, and nothing that moves gets in.