By Bruce Menke
We know that Congress needs to enact immigration law reform to restore order to immigration into the United States. Isn’t that what everyone wants?
Last February, a bi-partisan group of Senators presented a comprehensive immigration law reform bill. The bill was endorsed by the US Border Patrol. Everyone conceded the bill was not perfect. Bills that receive bi-partisan support in Congress rarely, if ever, satisfy everyone in every respect. What happened to that bill?
Candidate Donald Trump realized that if this bill passed, he could no longer stridently insist that the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress were refusing to address and solve the chaos at the border. Since this has been his main rallying cry, the passage of this bill would be a disaster for his campaign for re-election. So, Donald Trump insisted that his supporters in Congress deep six the bill. Trump’s supporters, like our own Representative Mike Collins, were only too happy to oblige and to refuse to consider the bill.
So where does that leave us? Candidate Trump continues to decry the crisis at the border, falsely claiming the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress refuse to solve the border problem.
Unfortunately, there may be some uninformed voters who will believe Donald Trump’s false narrative.
We need to elect a member of Congress in November who will finally get the job done. Period. Full stop.
Bruce Menke is a resident of Athens
Very simple, the problem is more valuable politically than the solution. Government and the parties that operate it don’t exist to solve problems. Politicians love to demagogue issues, it gets their photos on TV and allows them to solicit enormous sums of money from the public. All the while it distracts from the reality that power and money flow to the politicians and bureaucrats as well as the elites that pull their strings. If government were to solve an issue it would need create another to maintain the charade. Better to milk the current situation for as long as possible. I’m surprised that anyone is naive enough to think that government is here to make things better. It only ex…
They are not necessarily uninformed, they are willfully ignoring facts and don’t do any research beyond what they are told by the maga cult. They all know he’s a convicted felon and rapist, but they still choose him. Blows the mind.