Plenty of media heads talking about what Senators were thinking in voting down the bipartisan immigration reform bill. In my view they were not thinking about what is best for our nation. See my previous post about Here We Go Again. What we are seeing at the southern border is a refugee migration, more like the Middle East and not generally seen before in the western Hemisphere. These are mostly good people looking for a better life. There are just far too many, far beyond the scope of out existing immigration laws. The proposed bipartisan immigration bill addressed these problems. It tightened asylum rules and ended “catch and release”. It expedited the asylum review process. It allowed and required the President to close the border entirely when numbers exceeded the Border Patrol holding facilities. It was humane. It was good legislation. Biden said he would sign it. I would have done so also.
LaBoyteaux–What were they thinking?
