I’m sick and tired of all this “open borders” claptrap. Our borders haven’t been open since 1883. Instead, there is a mess at the border, and it’s been that way for decades. In 2006, a bipartisan group in the Senate drew up a reform plan, but Republican House members torpedoed it, and immigration reform has been a joke ever since.

The first joke was President Trump’s border wall, which (don’t laugh) the Mexicans were going to pay for. Then Trump prankster Stephen Miller decided to scare off immigrants by separating them from their children. Ha ha. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the National Guard to the border to stop the immigrants but to no effect. He was only joking.

Now the Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and Florida are shipping immigrants unannounced to blue states — sending a middle finger to states that regularly support their requests for federal disaster relief. Yuk yuk.

The Republicans will never support immigration reform because they can’t afford to. Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion on Roe v. Wade showed them what happens when the dog finally catches the car. As in a Roadrunner cartoon, the car blows up in the dog’s face.

The punchline to all of these jokes is the same. The Republican Party no longer knows how to govern.

Robert Supansic

McKeessport

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