Congress wobbles on border fence

“The new bill makes much of building 700 miles more of security fences along the border. But it nowhere suggests imposing sanctions on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens. That would be the surest way of shutting down the economic magnet that lures hundreds of thousands north from Mexico every year.

It is a truism to say every bill crafted by Congress and eventually signed into law is about politics. It is meant to be. That was what Congress, democracy and the Constitution of the United States are all about. The Founding Fathers of the American Republic very deliberately designed the House of Representatives to have terms lasting only two years, contrast to the four-year, five-year or even seven-year terms for which the members of lower houses of most later successful democracies in the world are elected. This was designed to make the lower house, which contains the main fiscal spending power under the Constitution, to be more responsive to popular needs and demands.”

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