It’s Time for President Biden to Take Back Control of the Texas Border

MAGA Republican immigration policy is no longer just a series of cynical, cruel, ill-considered, half-baked, ham-fisted, pig-headed political stunts, although it remains all of those things. It is now at the center of two serious-as-a-heart-attack threats to U.S. national security—threats that are themselves each potentially more grave than the chronic problems with immigration that are their ostensible cause.

On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he would effectively ignore a U.S. Supreme Court decision that correctly observed that the Constitution gives the U.S. federal government authority over our borders. The justices ruled that Texas could not deny access to the border for federal officials who sought to remove concertina wire that Texas had put in place to make entry into the U.S. more difficult and, consequently, more dangerous for migrants seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.