The president finally acknowledged last week that illegal immigration is a “crisis,” and he vowed to seal the border with Mexico if Congress passed legislation that would give him emergency authority to do so. “If that bill were the law today,” Mr. Biden said at a campaign event Saturday, “I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”
Mr. Trump has been pressuring House Republicans to kill any immigration compromise, and he almost certainly has their ear. The former president leads the incumbent in head-to-head polling, and he’s been endorsed by a majority of Republicans in both chambers of Congress, including Speaker Mike Johnson. Mr. Biden may have decided that it’s finally time to take border security seriously, but it isn’t clear that Republicans in Congress take the president seriously.
That leaves the country with what is in a way a presidential race between two incumbents, each trying to make the contest a referendum on the other’s first-term record. Which makes the Biden White House’s dithering on immigration all the more remarkable. Border security is an issue that plays to Mr. Trump’s strengths, and it has become demonstrably worse on Mr. Biden’s watch. If the president is trying to get to Mr. Trump’s right on illegal immigration, it’s a fool’s errand.
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