Day 298: House Republicans Don’t Want Solutions at the Border

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On his weekly Substack newsletter, Quick Update, Representative Jeff Jackson (D-NC) wrote this about the Speaker’s Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel/national security omnibus bill:

There was almost one big addition to this package: a bill addressing the southern border. The Speaker announced that he was going to include that, only to have his right-flank come out against it and force him to withdraw it. Why’d they come out against it? Because they said it wouldn’t pass the Senate - but that’s a strange thing to say when a bill addressing the southern border just passed the Senate a few months ago.

Jackson doesn’t posit a guess why the right would oppose its own bill to address the situation at the southern border, but I will:

They don’t want to solve it.

Because immigration is not a problem, it’s a scapegoat.

It’s “the common enemy” they need to get voters activated enough to go to the polls. They need a good immigration “crisis” (no wait, a “invasion”). They need to keep saying “We have a common enemy — and if you vote for me, I’ll destroy it.”

Even though they could improve the situation right now by passing their own bill.