BHM:Surely you realize I distust him when he says this since there nothing to actually force him to and once Ukraine has their money, it is back to business as usual. If Biden had any real passion for border security, he could have fixed it back in 21/22 when he had both houses of congress.

"The Republican Party retained their majority in both the House and the Senate, and, with inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, attained an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 109th Congress in 2005."

So did Trumpolina. Let me reemphasize Albabys point that the significant blocks on both sides that want to pass immigration reform get torpedoed by those who like the status quo, because it's and easy vote getter issue. Right now that's Trump. It's not a "both sides" issue, the people who like the issue are normally Republicans. I remember De Santis bemoaning the fact that Abbott had a border with Mexico and he didn't.

So Abbott gets to grand stand in stand off against the Feds and string barb wire as if that makes a difference, but it's a good show for Q and all those whose main personality if a distrust of the government. Historically that's fine to an extent as the Midwest to the West, and the South always distrusted the Fed, but why they trust the state beats me. Historical stats show that state governments are far more corrupt than the Fed. So State govs get in on it just by talking about sending the National Guard. So it isn't like y'all are seen as beacons of trustworthiness, more like the corrupt, immoral, conspiracy loving RW nutjobs we have to deal with.

Biden can, if he wants to activate the National Guard, but he's reserved and not rash in his moves. I like that.

So it looks like we are doomed to have the RW grandstanding about a border they have a chance to fix, but for the nth time aren't and this time because Trumpolina wants to grandstand on the border issue.