GOP Must Answer Biden’s Border Crisis

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Posted: Sep 13, 2022 12:01 AM

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Take a look at the southern border since Joe Biden took office: the lawlessness, the human trafficking, the enrichment of the drug cartels, the bodies floating in the Rio Grande. These crisis conditions might not be what Biden had in mind, but they are the direct result of his policies and so far he has shown a callous indifference to human suffering. After a year-and-a-half of willful negligence on the border, there is no longer any question President Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are in violation of the oaths they swore to uphold the law. The big question now is what the Republican Party will do about it if it retakes Congress in November’s midterm elections.Conservatives already know what many Republicans will want to do about it: as little as they can get away with. Strongly-worded letters, a few hearings, umbrage-taking on Twitter and Fox News, and of course, lots of fundraising emails. But no real action: no wall, no deportations, no accountability for those in the Biden administration who are making a mockery of the law. This has been the unofficial GOP playbook for decades — talk the talk about border security and immigration enforcement, but do little to actually fix the problem.This time, the posturing won’t cut it.First of all, there’s the scope of …