America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell's "1984," and partly the poet Homer's land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. No one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two million people have crossed the southern border illegally in the last 12 months. Millions more are on the way. The Biden administration unilaterally and simply destroyed existing immigration law.

What followed was surreal. The administration claimed covid was again on the horizon. So it justified forcing American citizens to keep wearing masks in public buildings and transportation. But at the same time, it waived all such requirements for illegal entrants.

Citizens who obeyed our laws had to mask up; foreign nationals who broke them did not need to take such precautions.