DO YOUR JOB — THAT’S A BORDER!

Frustrated by yet another House Judiciary Committee meeting about the border crisis, Rep. Doug Collins

(R-Ga.) stopped his opening statement yesterday to castigate his colleagues for doing nothing about it. The Democratic majority has not introduced any bills to address the flood of illegal immigrants, such as changing the asylum process. Collins said Democrats are happy to keep blasting President Trump in hearings without coming up with solutions themselves. An excerpt:

IN February, the Border Patrol apprehended 66,000 individuals. That number has been above 92,000 every month since. Peaking at over 132,000 in May alone.

You know just last week, I was horrified and deeply affected when Secretary [Kevin] McAleenan told me that there are three ongoing cases where a small group of children, 5 to 8, in each case had been used by dozens of different adults to cross our border seeking release in the US. And my colleagues claim . . .

. . . look, I’m gonna stop. I’m not going to read this.

You know what is dehumanizing? It’s continuing to bring the same witnesses, or the same peo

ple from the same agencies, to talk about this over and over and over again. What’s dehumanizing is doing that and not doing anything about it. That’s what’s dehumanizing.

It’s talking about a problem. Talking about a problem. Talking about a problem. And never putting a solution up.

And look, my Democratic colleagues have ideas. I may disagree with those ideas, but put a bill up! I have a bill. Put mine up. Make amendments to it, do whatever you want to do. That’s what Congress is supposed to do.

What a competent and capable majority would do is actually put a bill forward.

We’re having bash-the-president time. Bash-the-administration time. This is all this is. This is what bothers me. I can read another opening statement, we can ask questions and we’ll all go through this. And we can talk about how the administration is not competent, not capable — I think that just falls back, it falls back on this committee.

Why has the majority not put a bill forward?

No offense to our witnesses, we’ve heard your statements. So I don’t know what’s going to move us this time that didn’t move us last time.

This is becoming, unfortunately, a committee of press releases. That’s it.

Dehumanizing is taking people you say you care about but doing nothing for them. That’s dehumanizing.

Competent and capable? Last time I understood, Congress should pass legislation. I’ll be very slow. Pass. Bills. That. Matter. Don’t have hearings that are strictly stunts.