The border is a mess, so why hasn’t Congress fixed it?

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