I think the main criticism is that the GOP has passed up their best opportunity to actually get changes to the border. This was probably their only chance to get a border bill passed in the next decade or more - even if Trump were to win, and be followed by President Abbott.

Except that this is more of a statement about the democrats' unwillingness to negotiate AT ALL on this issue instead of one of Republican recalcitrance. I posted the entire summary of HB2 upthread and bolded a number of really excellent provisions for border security. As near as I can tell, no democrats voted for it.

But they're very quickly going to run up against the fact that's not true. So they're going to find themselves in 2025 unable to do anything to solve these problems.

It depends. Trump should have learned something by now about what he can and can't get away with in terms of executive orders and how he can game the democrats by baiting them into suing him over an order that he knows a judge will shoot down. Were I him that's how I would play it: Issue an EO, let the democrats sue me to keep the border controls soft, then blame them when the judge inevitably shoots it down.

That's highly cynical but all the democrats have to do to break the cycle is...do the right thing and take up HB2 in the Senate.

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