Playing Politics Over Progress

TODAY, or tomorrow at the latest, the United States Senate will pass and reveal to the world a brand new reformed bi-partisan immigration bill, one which will greatly strengthen American immigration control, providing meaningful organization and support for reasonable, organized, healthy immigration, instead of our current chaos at the border. President Biden has long since indicated his intent to sign it. Hell, President Biden, behind in the polls in this election year, has pretty much indicated that he would be happy to sign anything at this point..of course he would....All that is need is agreement and approval of the bill in the House of Reps, controlled by Republicans, and therefore very pro immigration reform, or so one might think. However, Donald Trump is proving once again that he is not quite the imbecile that his detractors like to believe he is, and is telling House Republicans to oppose the bill, because passing it would probably enhance President Biden's approval ratings, and might help get him reelected.He is of course quite correct in this thinking. Enough House Republicans seem to be listening to Trump to derail the bill. We'll soon see. The MAGA Republicans cannot win in tis situation. If the bill becomes law, Democrats can honestly claim as much credit as Republicans for immigration reform, and it if doesn't pass because of a MAGA revolt on the hill, Democrats can accurately blame Republicans, especially Trump Republicans, for its failure. Biden, champion of immigration reform and enforcement - Trump, the one who stopped it. How can Trump benefit from that narrative? - the precise narrative which will be repeated by Democrats during the campaign, over and over, and supported by facts. If the bill becomes law, immigration becomes a non issue going into November, and that is intolerable to Republicans, since they have so few actual issues and arguments to make other than the need for immigration reform. They certainly can't go into the campaign complaining about immigration chaos when they prevented its solution. Nobody wants out of control, chaotic, mass immigration, just as nobody wants commonplace abortion, disease, or war. But the Trump-Republican solution, which consists mostly of a wall and of systematic mistreatment of immigrants, simply...will....not...work. Like General Patton said: "Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." Let's put people on the border, preferrably peoplle organized in a military fashion, even, oh shockingly, the military itself, since it is already on the payrol, and will not cost another penny. Maybe some of the guys from all those little military bases the United States seems to strangely have in countries like Jordan, and Lebanon,the ones which keep getting attacked, (as if it is unbelievable that an American military base in the middle east would be attacked, for any reason), could be redeployed to the actual American border, to actually defend America, crazy as that may sound. Imagine that, the American military, monitoring, defending, organizing the nation's border. Who is better at organizing than the military? And, please bear in mind, military organizations can be welcoming and helpful as well as defensive, aggressive, and harmful. Let's ask Trump and his supporters if they would rather wait another year, until after the election, to do anything at all about immigration and the border. Their answer should reveal their true priorities quite accurately.