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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a private meeting of Senate Republicans Wednesday afternoon that the politics of the border has flipped for his party and cast doubt on linking immigration policy with new aid for Ukraine, according to multiple sources present.
McConnell thanked Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for his work in trying to negotiate a border-and-immigration bill. But the Kentucky Republican also said, “When we started this, the border united us and Ukraine divided us.”
It looks as if President Biden will be running in two races this year: one in America against Donald Trump and one in Israel against Benjamin Netanyahu. Maybe Trump could name Netanyahu his running mate and we could save a lot of time. Biden’s support for the Israeli leader is costing him with his own progressive base, while Netanyahu is now turning on Biden in ways that could win Trump fresh support from right-wing American Jews. Trump-Netanyahu 2024 — that has a certain ring to it, not to mention an air of truth.
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Migrant fatalities surge to record rate amid inadequate tracking, identification
Mount Cristo Rey rises in the desert like two hands in prayer, the U.S. and Mexico sides, over a graveyard without tombs. hThis year, migrants died in this harsh landscape — in the Rio Grande, in the desert, in neighborhoods and on city streets — in numbers never seen before at this border crossing known as the Paso del Norte. Yet no stones mark the places where they died, only numeric coordinates inked on police reports in El Paso; Sunland Park, N.M.; and Juárez, Chihuahua.