Nothing marks the start of the summer campaign season quite like Democrats’ frenzied race to the political right. This year is no different, with President Biden announcing on Monday a tough new executive order sealing the U.S.-Mexico border and sharply restricting which immigrants qualify for asylum hearings.

Spooked by his weak polling on immigration issues, Biden seems to have decided the best way to defuse Donald Trump’s immigration argument is to become a softer, gentler version of his predecessor. That includes invoking the same 1952 law that Trump used to enact his illegal “Muslim ban” in 2017, an act Biden decried as barbaric at the time.

Biden and Democrats once warned American voters that Trump’s plan to seal the southern border was a staggering failure of moral responsibility. Now it’s official White House policy. Good luck finding a single national Democrat willing to publicly condemn Biden’s cynical backpedaling on such a fundamental human rights issue.

It’s understandable that Democrats are willing to do just about anything to keep Trump out of the White House. A second........

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