Both sides benefit from the status quo.
The left are naturally softer on border protections due to their ideology and potentially get more votes eventually.
The right gets cheap labor and something to rile up their base up with.
Great point! Imagine if we spent the 110B we've given to Ukraine on defending our own border and addressing income inequality in our own country. What's going on with Ukraine is absolutely SICK.
If October does end up dry I may try to squeeze in one more river float. Probably won't do the Willamette again, but might do the McKenzie... Or Clackamas...