Border Crisis: Close the Border over the National-Security Crisis, Not over a Covid Emergency

I appreciate the noble intentions of stalwart Republicans led by Senator Mike Lee (Utah) and my friend, Congressman Chip Roy (Texas), not to mention those in the state governments who’ve hauled the Biden administration into the Supreme Court over the potentially existential crisis on the border, which I detailed here yesterday. We are being undone by a president who is derelict in his duties to protect our national security and uphold the law, and by his party, which has signed on to — or is at least too intimidated to resist — the radical, anti-American Left’s position that the United States should not have a border.

I might very well do the same thing if I were in the position of Senator Lee, Congressman Roy, and other Republicans whose states are bearing the security and economic ravages of (a) Biden’s impeachable conduct, (b) the progressive “transformational change” agenda, and (c) Republican leadership’s preemptive surrender on the scandalous $1.7 trillion omnibus. I might just shrug my shoulders and conclude that Title 42 may be a ridiculous response to the crisis, but it’s the only one ready to hand, so we have to run with it.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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I appreciate the noble intentions of stalwart Republicans led by Senator Mike Lee (Utah) and my friend, Congressman Chip Roy (Texas), not to mention those in the state governments who’ve hauled the Biden administration into the Supreme Court over the potentially existential crisis on the border, which I detailed here yesterday. We are being undone by a president who is derelict in his duties to protect our national security and uphold the law, and by his party, which has signed on to — or is at least too intimidated to resist — the radical, anti-American Left’s position that the United States should not have a border.

I might very well do the same thing if I were in the position of Senator Lee, Congressman Roy, and other Republicans whose states are bearing the security and economic ravages of (a) Biden’s impeachable conduct, (b) the progressive “transformational change” agenda, and (c) Republican leadership’s preemptive surrender on the scandalous $1.7 trillion omnibus. I might just shrug my shoulders and conclude that Title 42 may be a ridiculous response to the crisis, but it’s the only one ready to hand, so we have to run with it.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.