A man walks between a canal carrying water from the Colorado River and a border wall separating San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico with San Luis, Ariz., on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico.In our post-decency age, politicians who promise to stand watch at the U.S.-Mexico border and keep out imagined hoards of dirty, drug-dealing migrants may no longer offend Americans’ sense of compassion and fairness.
If any of Utah’s politicians disagree — if they think they should ignore real concerns such as the environment, housing and health and instead campaign on promises of not only closing our borders but alsoOur chambers of commerce. Our health care administrators. Our farmers, restaurants, hotels and resorts.
An improving Mexican economy is keeping more workers home, Fox said, and the United States will be forced to turn to other Latin American and Caribbean nations to make up the shortfall. And that, he rightly noted, will be a lot more difficult if the United States fails to get its immigration act together.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was one of four Republicans with the courage to support the measure, while Sen. Mike Lee was among those shamefully toeing the Trump line and voting to kill it.