By Peggy Perkins
MAGAs’ insistence that they want border funding has proved to be a lie, as Democratic and Republican senators hammered out a strong agreement that the MAGA Republicans, like our Rep. Mike Collins, rejected. The former president demanded his supporters prevent any solution. These extremists even condemned the Republican legislators that took part in negotiating a bipartisan solution to our southern border.
MAGA lawmakers have been holding up aid for Ukraine and Israel while seeking concessions on immigration measures. Now that there was a bipartisan deal on the table, they said “Never mind.” They now say, Biden just needs to revive all the executive actions that Trump had put into place.
Problem is, most of Trump policies were found to be illegal. Speaker Johnson demands Biden build a border wall without Congress approving sufficient funding. They demanded an end to “catch and release” which the proposed bipartisan bill did along with other stringent measures.
Maybe Johnson and his MAGA colleagues have grown so accustomed to Trump’s lawlessness that they figure Biden should be willing to cross a line now and then, too.
Our immigration system is confusing. Still, one would hope that politicians paid to understand these things and who have made immigration a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign, might not be so feckless. MAGA elected officials failure to pass to the most serious border funding measure in decades to secure the border only underscores their cynical disinterest in actually securing the border and governing.
Peggy Perkins resides in Winder