GOP govs show no love for Biden’s border bumbling
Joe Biden would do well to listen to the governors, even if they are Republicans.
They certainly could not give him any worse advice than he is getting, particularly when it comes to the ongoing crisis at the southern border.
When he halted construction of Donald Trump’s border wall, it signaled an open invitation to immigrants around the world that the southern border was wide open.
Biden since then has refused to address the border crisis or answer any questions about it, while his administration has repeatedly lied about it.
He put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of the border, and she has not been seen since. It is as though she said, “Joe, this is on you, not me.”
And Alejandro Mayorkas, his pathetic head of Homeland Security, must be the only person in the country who believes the border is closed.
Since Biden cannot or will not address the disaster at the border — let alone the fiasco in Afghanistan — he has repeatedly sought to change the subject.
That is why he constantly talks about climate change, as he did with his pathetic speech before the United Nations, or he goes on about vaccinations and masking.
Besides Biden’s cognitive issues is the fact that he has never run anything — not a business, not a town, a county, not a city nor a state. As a member of the U.S. Senate for 36 years, Biden never ran anything more than a committee. As Barack Obama’s vice president for eight years, he simply took orders.
So now he’s expected to know how to be an effective chief executive of a country, let along the leader of the free world? Not likely. Biden acts as though he is always waiting for someone to tell him what to do
And when he does do something, he acts as though he is presiding over the Democratic Party and not president of the United States.
It could be argued that Barack Obama never ran anything either before he became president. True. But Obama, a talented politician, was slick enough to pull it off. Biden can hardly utter a complete sentence without getting lost in the weeds.
Biden needs help and everybody knows it.
Enter the governors — Republican governors, that is. Twenty-six of them — which is about half the governors in the country — signed a letter asking to meet with Biden to discuss the crisis at the border.
The heart of the letter pointed out to Biden that it was his policies that created the crisis in the first place, but it was up to the governors of the various states to deal with the fallout.
This is because thousands of unvetted, unvaccinated and unmasked illegal immigrants are being shipped into their states without their knowledge or consent.
“While governors are doing what we can,” the
GOP governors wrote, “our Constitution requires that the president must faithfully execute the immigration laws passed by Congress. Not only has the federal government created a crisis, but it has also left our states to deal with the challenges that only the federal government has a duty to solve.”
“Our immigration system may be complicated and complex, but the solution to ending the border crisis is simple and straightforward.
As president, you have the ability to take action to protect America, restore security and end the crisis now,” they wrote.
They added, “The monthlong surge in illegal crossing has instigated an international humanitarian crisis, spurred a spike in international criminal activity, and opened the floodgates to human traffickers and drugsmugglers.”
While signers of the letter included conservative Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron De DeSantis of Florida, it also included moderate Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker.
Baker, a critic of fellow Republican President Donald Trump, has looked kindly on Biden. Having now to deal with the fallout from Biden’s illegal immigration policy may have changed things.
There is little chance that Biden will meet with the governors, or even read the letter. Anyway, if he did, he’d likely squint into the teleprompter and say, “Come on, man.”