David Brooks: Biden’s Executive Order for the Undocumented Is ‘Self-Destructive’

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BROOKS: “But as for the politics of this, I just think the president is looking reactive. It looked like, 'We're way behind in the polls, we have got to be tough on the border.' So a couple of weeks ago, he's tough on the border. And then all the activist groups are upset with us and probably a lot of the junior staff is upset, and so now we got to faint this way. And, to me, it's just — set aside the substance of it. The politics of it, I think, are self-destructive, that -- the immigration issue is one of the top issues in the world today. And you just have to have a simple rule: I believe in immigration, we're going to control the border. That has to be it. And the British Labor Party is hitting the British Conservative Party from the right on this issue, and so that's to me where Biden has — his job is to get reelected right now. And so, to me, it's simple: secure border, secure border, secure border. And I would not muddy that message."

(via RealClearPolitics)