Op-ed: Border Bill Ironies

By Mark Krikorian on February 6, 2024

I wrote about the Lankford–Schumer border bill over at the New York Post, but I didn’t mention the irony of the two chambers’ simultaneous and opposite approaches to immigration.

As early as this week, the full House of Representatives could vote to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for disobeying the law, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty. But at the same time — possibly even on the same day — the Senate could vote on a measure crafted in part by that same cabinet member to “solve” the crisis caused by his own disobeying the law, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty.

And, to top it off, the Senate’s legislative “solution” conveniently guts the very laws (mandatory detention and parole, as Andy McCarthy has explained) that Mayorkas is disobeying!

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[Read the rest at National Review]