In a sane world, a supermajority of American voters would look at the laughable border bill proposed by Senate Democrats (plus a few feckless Republicans) and march each one of them to the gallows while whistling. But this is not a sane world, sadly.
The more you learn about the bill, finally made public over the weekend, the more hysterically offensive it is. I’m not talking about the things that Republicans who oppose it say. I’m talking about the things that the national media, which zealously support its passage, say.
Look at this from Axios on Monday: “The $118 billion package includes $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel. An additional $10 billion is earmarked for humanitarian assistance in Gaza, the West Bank, and Ukraine. The border changes include $20 billion for transportation for deportation, shelters, 4,000+ new asylum officers, more border agents, and anti-fentanyl trafficking efforts.”
In short, that’s $84 billion to be sent overseas, the vast majority to Joe Biden’s dearly beloved Ukraine, and then a quarter of that amount would hire new government workers in the United States to process more poor illegal immigrants dumping themselves onto the care of American taxpayers.
Where do we sign?!
On the same day, Politico heralded the bill as a set of gangbuster “wins” for Republicans — a defined and secured U.S. territory is only a benefit for half the country, you know — but admitted there are some minor drawbacks. “The border emergency authority that is a centerpiece of the
