Every Republican and Democrat in Congress must have the guts to vote on border security legislation or drop their pretense that they care once and for all.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York on Thursday will take up the border legislation that Donald Trump helped kill in his bid for the White House.

The bipartisan proposal is a sharp turn to the right for President Biden, who instead of legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants already here is willing to shut down the border when certain triggers are met.

The bill makes it harder to qualify for asylum, adds nearly 5,000 asylum officers, triggers expedited deportation, and targets money laundering and fentanyl traffickers.

In other words, it does everything immigrant advocates fear and what anti-immigration hardliners keep clamoring for during their constant parade to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Yet, the same Republicans pointing to the “border chaos” and who blame Biden for it killed the legislation a few months ago and are vowing to do it again this week.

Why? Because their concern about border security and drug trafficking, which is killing too many Americans, is insincere and........

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