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Come on, Jake . . . ask the tough questions, willya? [1]

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Date: 2022-09-19

“We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.” ~ Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota not talking about comprehensive immigration reform

September 19, 2022

Senator Mike Rounds

502 Hart Senate Office Building - Washington DC 20510

Phone: 202-224-5842 - FAX: 202-224-7482

Senator Rounds;

You spoke with CNN's Jake Tapper yesterday, September 19, and placed 100% of the blame for America's lack of comprehensive immigration reform on President Joe Biden.

Jake Tapper said, "So, as I said, this immigration crisis has been going on literally for decades. There hasn't been a major immigration bill since Ronald Reagan was president.

"But, as you did not note, and I did earlier in the show, one of the buses sent by a Texas Governor Greg Abbott dropped off about 50 migrants in front of the vice president's residence, including a one-month-old baby.

"There isn't any heads up being given to Mayor Adams. You just heard from him or the individuals on Martha's Vineyard. I get they're trying to send a message, they're trying to get the attention, but there also -- isn't there a degree of trolling going on here?

"And you really have no issue with using human beings, a one-month-old baby, little kids to make a political point like this?"

You replied: "You have to put it in perspective of what's happening at the Southern border right now.

"This is every single day thousands of individuals coming across with babies, and they're coming into those states. Those governors are facing that, not just at the terms of 50 of them. They're talking about hundreds of them, if not thousands, per day.

"And so, yes, I mean, do any of us like the situation that we're in? Absolutely not. Matter of fact, I would suspect that the individuals in the Southern states that are trying to find a way to get the attention of the administration would love to have other alternatives to them.

"It's been 606 days since Joe Biden took office, and this problem has done nothing except continue to develop. This is a national problem. And yet these governors on -- along the Southern borders are the ones that are faced with trying to address it."

You tried to convince Tapper's viewers that because Joe Biden has failed in 606 days to single-handedly implement meaningful immigration reform, he's solely responsible for the problem.

However, five presidents and eighteen Congresses failed jointly to achieve meaningful immigration reform for three-plus decades, including from 2016 to 2018, when Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House.

If you and your Republican colleagues weren't so absorbed with using immigration issues as political weapons, you would have wisely spent your time and taxpayer money to reach across aisles in the House and Senate to pass meaningful immigration reform.

But you haven't.

You've been a Republican Senator for six and a half years, so I'll ask the question Jake Tapper failed to ask. "Why not stop blaming Joe Biden and get to work with Democratic and Republican colleagues to put an end to the human suffering that comes from America's failure to create, promote, and enact humane immigration reform?"

We doubt you have the courage it'll take to answer that question honestly, but hope springs eternal.

Doesn't it?

Frankly,

Davy Z Jones

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