Less politics … more governing

To the editor:

There’s a saying that an evil man will burn down his own country in order to rule over the ashes. That unfortunately seems to describe recent actions of Trump and his MAGA enablers. We need immigration reform and improved border security, but as of this writing Trump is trying to kill a bill that would provide exactly that.

A bipartisan group in the Senate is nearing an agreement that would reportedly expand detention capacity, make it more difficult to claim asylum, speed up processing, and add to border patrol staff. But Trump doesn’t want the border problem addressed because he wants to make the issue a centerpiece of his campaign. He said on Truth Social that fixing the problem now would be a “gift” to the Democrats.