God bless U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, for trying to pull off bipartisan immigration reform in an election year.

As I’ve written before, there’s a hard truth in American politics: You don’t do border reform in an election year.

It can’t be done.

But here came Arizona’s senior senator, riding out of the sun-bleached desert, saying, “Nothing is written.”

The bipartisan plan would provide policy tools to dramatically slow record levels of immigrants pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border.

But the broad terms of the deal no longer make sense for Republicans.

Negotiators are essentially asking the Republicans to pay Joe Biden — with aide to Ukraine — to save his own hide.

Biden is currently staring into a 31-point approval rating abyss vs. Trump on the matter of who Americans trust most to manage the border.

Why would Republicans accede to more Ukraine aid, something Biden badly wants, while removing one of his key liabilities from the election?

With his border management, Biden has hoisted himself on his own petard. “Chaos........

© Arizona Republic