President Biden must make a shock Christmas Day go to to the border.
No, not the Ukrainian border with Russia, or the borders of Libya, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Oman — all of which obtain tens of millions in U.S. border safety cash — however the U.S. southern border in Texas, which doesn’t obtain something.
If Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy, who was on the White House Wednesday, can go to his troops within the besieged front-line metropolis of Bakhmut, on the border with Russia, absolutely Biden can go to his troops in besieged El Paso, which is on the entrance line with Mexico.
Zelenskyy, who’s half Biden’s age, might train Biden a factor or two about management.
Zelenskyy, on the White House, needed to smile, for example, on the reminiscence of Biden providing to rescue him from Kyiv upon the Russian invasion — as if he would reduce and run like Biden did in Afghanistan — or of Gen. Mark Milley, Biden’s high common, predicting that Kyiv would fall in a weekend.
It is all to the great that Biden welcomed Zelenskyy to Washington. He is a brave and inspirational chief who deserves assist.
But Zelenskyy was going to get most of what he wished in navy and humanitarian help anyway, whether or not he got here to Washington or not.
It is within the U.S. curiosity, in addition to the curiosity of NATO and the west, that Zelenskyy defend his nation towards Vladimir Putin’s felony invasion.
So, a cheerful Zelenskyy returned to Kyiv with baggage of U.S. cash
Meanwhile, it’s Texas that’s getting screwed.
So, it may also have been good had Biden invited Texas Gov. Greg Abbot to the White House. Like Ukraine, Texas, together with different border states, has additionally been invaded.
But that was not about to occur, not after publication of a letter Abbott despatched to the president Tuesday, blaming him personally for the disaster on the border, which is able to worsen this weekend because the climate turns bitterly chilly and migrants are sleeping within the streets of El Paso and elsewhere.
Abbott mentioned that Texas communities with out federal help had been ill-equipped to cope with the overwhelming variety of immigrants crossing the border.
“You and your administration must stop the lie that the border is secure, and instead immediately deploy federal assets to address the dire problems you have caused,” Abbott wrote.
Abbott added, “Your policies will leave many people in the bitter, dangerous cold as a polar vortex moves into Texas. This terrible crisis for border communities in Texas is a catastrophe of your own making.”
Immigrants, Abbott mentioned, “are at risk of freezing to death on city streets.”
Biden, to date, has balked at serving to Abbott or Texas. To achieve this Biden might need to confess that he’s accountable for the humanitarian catastrophe going down on the grief-ridden border, not to mention be accountable for the inflow of lethal fentanyl from China that’s ravaging the nation.
This is an administration that, regardless of all proof on the contrary, has insisted that the border is closed and safe. So, you both imagine Biden or your mendacity eyes.
Biden has by no means visited the border or talked to any of the tens of millions of unlawful immigrants he has waved into the nation. Nor has he spoken with any of the U.S. Border Patrol brokers, sheriffs, or different legislation enforcement personnel alongside the border.
While he brags about how usually he speaks with Zelenskyy, Biden doesn’t even discuss to Abbott.
Of course, a Christmas journey to El Paso or Eagle Pass on such brief discover could be difficult, if not out of the query.
Also, including issue to such a daring transfer is the truth that not like Zelenskyy, who wholeheartedly helps his troops, they usually him, Biden way back deserted the U.S. Border Patrol brokers and different legislation enforcement personnel.
To them, Joe Biden is the commander in grief, not the commander in chief.
But Merry Christmas, anyway.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”