Here is the double standard. If you are a private citizen and you have an accident with a backhoe, you go to jail for spilling 1,500 gallons.
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McClintock highlights the disparity in consequences for individuals versus EPA officials.
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President Trump proved that using the existing law he could secure the border. The laws did not change on January 20, 2021. The Presidency changed.
Not because of a lack of resources, but because the laws that have been adopted in the 1970s make it cost prohibitive.
When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?
If a little waif showed up on your doorstep the first thing you are going to do is get that little child back to its family and its home.





