The only reason they care about the border is because of relentless fear mongering about terrorism in the early 2000s that terrorists were going to sneak across and ulta kill everyone in a 6000 mile radius.

Still, it was incredibly self defeating to have open borders like they did during the Biden administration. Essentially handing republicans an easy win. Yeah I know its hypocrisy to want it sealed after I got in. Sealing it up and removing all the high visibility criminals would've gone a long way to reducing the problem to a non issue and weakening republican strategies. Especially handing work permits to Venezuelans just because their nation failed. Get a better government loserZuelans.

Then there was no effort made towards halting inflation. And inflation in general is quite toxic. Its the slow drip poison on an economy not using real currency.