In the past month, I have seen several articles or letters (“Biden, Trump have two different views of nation” by Doyle McManus, March 12; “Is immigration an invasion or not?” Alan Tibbetts, March 10; “Setting the record straight on Biden,” Mary Griswold, March 17), which push the erroneous narrative that the Democrats want to solve the border crisis while the Republicans stand in their way by not supporting the Senate border bill. Supposedly, the Republicans oppose the bill because it is so good it will remove the issue before the election.

In reality, the Republicans oppose the bill because it is a bad bill that will not solve the problem. It codifies the administration’s abuse of parole, puts asylum cases before officers who are significantly more likely to rubber stamp them, increases green cards, gives work permits to the adult children of H-1B visa holders, and only grants some expulsion authority if the number of encounters is higher than the worst numbers under Trump. All challenges could only be heard by the liberal D.C. District Court.

Additionally, Griswold attempts to refute the claim that Biden has ignored the border crisis by noting that he proposed an immigration bill on the first day of his administration. However, it was a massive amnesty bill that made it harder to keep people out — hardly the act of someone trying to fix the border.

This is typical Democratic Party propaganda: Blame the Republicans for the border situation because they will not pass bills designed to make the situation worse.

Tibbetts is right about one thing, though. The situation proves that even a foreign invasion cannot bring the two parties together — but only because the Democrats approve of the invasion and want to make it more orderly, not stop it.

Michael Jose

Augusta

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