Of course, the border won’t be moot. It will be erased, even less visible than the palimpsest barrier over which 6 million pairs of footprints have stomped since Biden took the oath of office 25 months ago.
That’s why you can’t blame the states for their desperate but meritless pleas to the Court. For over a century, judicial rulings and congressional Democrats have nullified their powers to uphold the rule of law against trespassers. If the Court won’t help them, the states must rely on Biden, and it is Biden who has quite intentionally left the border defenseless, knowing full well that the states would be besieged.
This is no longer just a problem for red states, either. The costs of unchecked illegal immigration — the drain on health-care systems, schools, welfare services, sanitation, police departments, courts, etc. — now plague even states whose Democratic ruling classes have encouraged Biden to ignore the catastrophe. Their “sanctuary cities” now mewl about deepening budget crises that are entirely of their own making. Witness New York, where Mayor Eric Adams suddenly finds a $4.2 billion hole in his budget because the Big Apple somehow believed it could keep a safe 2,000-mile distance from the inferno Democrats were stoking.
That’s why you can’t blame the states for their desperate but meritless pleas to the Court. For over a century, judicial rulings and congressional Democrats have nullified their powers to uphold the rule of law against trespassers. If the Court won’t help them, the states must rely on Biden, and it is Biden who has quite intentionally left the border defenseless, knowing full well that the states would be besieged.
This is no longer just a problem for red states, either. The costs of unchecked illegal immigration — the drain on health-care systems, schools, welfare services, sanitation, police departments, courts, etc. — now plague even states whose Democratic ruling classes have encouraged Biden to ignore the catastrophe. Their “sanctuary cities” now mewl about deepening budget crises that are entirely of their own making. Witness New York, where Mayor Eric Adams suddenly finds a $4.2 billion hole in his budget because the Big Apple somehow believed it could keep a safe 2,000-mile distance from the inferno Democrats were stoking.
