Rove Op-Ed Exposes Human Costs of Biden Border Crisis
An open border is an invitation to criminals and a snare for unwary migrants
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 9, 2021
The July 7 edition of the Wall Street Journal included an opinion piece from long-time Republican political advisor Karl Rove, which exposes the human costs of the crisis unfolding daily on the Southwest border. From drug smuggling to crime to sex trafficking, it’s all there, in 15 short paragraphs.
Opinion pieces are inevitably tendentious, so I usually approach them with caution. When they are chock-full of facts -- as Rove’s is -- however, they help to inform the immigration debate.
Rove focuses on Kelly Hancock, the Republican chairman of the Texas state Senate Veterans Affairs and Border Security Committee, and the reports that Hancock and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) received on a June 30 tour of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley (RGV).
Rove contrasts the findings of that delegation and Hancock’s assessments of the border with those of Vice President Kamala Harris, who stated after a June 25 trip to El Paso that "we have seen extreme progress over these last few months."
https://cis.org/Arthur/Rove-OpEd-Exposes-Human-Costs-Biden-Border-Crisis
