After Joe Biden visits our nation’s border with Mexico this weekend, his detractors will no longer be able to assert that our president is simply ignoring the myriad problems there, right? If only.

In truth, Biden’s harshest critics, both in and out of Congress, will be unlikely to change their tune. There’s nothing that could make them believe that the president is looking for realistic solutions to the problems at the border.

The naysayers will continue to claim that Biden and congressional Democrats are willfully ignoring the dire situation.

A simple question for these folks: Short of building a wall along the entire border, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, what would you suggest? And one follow-up query: Since Republicans have repeatedly refused to consider any kind of immigration reforms, even those that once seemed within reach, what are your proposed next steps?

The questions could go on from there, of course, but unless and until Republicans can seriously address those two fundamental matters, there’s no sense continuing. The GOP at present would appear to have no even half-decent ideas regarding the situation at the border. Unless, that is, you believe that pointing at Biden and claiming that he’s got no good ideas is itself a good idea.

The Biden administration on Thursday announced some long-overdue border policy changes that are at least a tacit acknowledgement that all is not swell on the U.S.- Mexicoborder.

No soul alive can argue that the situation at the border is under control. Thankfully, the Biden administration is at long last taking steps to acknowledge that reality.

— Tribune News Service