Today’s coagulated politics is nullifying the most dramatic achievement of Donald Trump’s second term, the restoration of order along the southern border. This has created the prerequisite for policies that could improve the nation’s dynamism, and its understanding of itself. Yet neither political party will seize the moment for immigration reform, thereby risking the wrath that envelops those guilty of seeming accommodating.

More than the inflation Joe Biden’s policies ignited, even more than the senescence he could not palliate, uncontrolled immigration upended his presidency. Control of borders is a core attribute of national sovereignty. The Biden administration’s abdication of this responsibility sent a radiating, demoralizing message of indifference and incompetence: The government

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