Senates Laken Riley vote has Democrats fleeing Bidens border madness

Democrats aren’t very good at learning lessons.But there are some things even they can figure out.One lesson that seems to have sunk in for most of the party’s elected officials is that its insane immigration positions were a giant self-inflicted wound that sank them at the polls in 2024.It’s one thing to be a moderate on immigration.

There’s a case for more legal immigration, including highly skilled scientists, hard-working laborers and dissidents from tyrannical enemy regimes.There’s a case for legalizing “Dreamers” who were not responsible for coming here illegally, or who have served our country in uniform.There’s a case for humane treatment of illegal immigrants, and a case for keeping birthright citizenship.Democrats could have made those cases the past four years.Instead, they opened the floodgates, overwhelmed the asylum system, helped illegal criminals evade local law enforcement, released migrants into the country without making them show for long-delayed court dates, bankrupted cities straining to house, feed and clothe penniless arrivals, and generally acted as if the rights of Americans had to give way to the rights of illegal migrants.Even voters in New York City and New Jersey rebelled in unprecedented numbers.Few of the actions of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were more indefensible or suicidal.They were in retreat by 2024, with nobody even trying anymore to defend their previous policies.When something is unsustainable, eventually, it will end.

It ended when Donald Trump got elected again and Republicans took control of the Senate.The Laken Riley case became a symbol of the illegal-immigration madness and a rallying cry for rolling it back.Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered while jogging in Athens, Ga.in February 2024.

Her killer, José Antonio Ibarra, was an illegal alien from Venezuela.Caught by the Border Patrol in Texas in September 2022, Ibarra was released into the country and put up at the Roosevelt Hotel in ...