Dan Pfeiffer: “To summarize, Johnson demands a border bill in exchange for passing Ukraine aid; the White House and Senate work on a border bill; Johnson opposes the bill without even seeing it, despite repeatedly declaring that the ‘crisis at the border’ is the House GOP’s top priority.”
“Some commentary suggests that Johnson keeps moving the goalpost to prevent his caucus from having to vote on Ukraine aid, which is vehemently opposed by MAGA Republicans but enthusiastically supported by the Republican establishment and more moderate GOPers. With Johnson in perpetual danger of being McCarthy-ed, I am sure avoiding a tough vote is a factor. However, I think Johnson and the Republicans have another more nefarious reason — they want a crisis at the border to help them in the election.”
Yeah, no kidding. They’ve been offered lots of ways of doing immigration reform and have zero interest. Also, they typically reject the idea of arresting and imprisoning the very top of companies that employ undocumented workers.
If they really meant what they say about how jobs are being “taken” from citizens, wouldn’t they back such a thing? It’d be easy to shut down a lot of the employment of undocumented workers. Walk into Tyson or some other big company, arrest those at the very top (not low-level clerks; I’m talking C-suite people) and entertain the idea of REVOKING corporate charters of companies that do this.
All it would take is one extremely high-profile example and it would be a sea change. Do Republicans mean what they say, though? Of course not.
They know some industries don’t have the labor and would crumble. They only care to the point that people at the bottom have someone to blame for their problems, and its not the ones actually causing harm. The ‘they hate the same things as me’ party.