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Republicans in Congress are currently heavily divided on whether to pass a bill to solve what they call a “crisis” at the border, or to let the “crisis” continue unabated for the remainder of 2024 in hopes that former President Donald Trump can get elected to a second term and take credit for it in 2025. A bipartisan group of senators — led by Sens. James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) — recently assembled a framework for a border security bill that would allow an unprecedented shutdown of the border if crossings top 5,000 in one week. Presid…