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The partisan battle continues over immigration, with nothing being done to address the crisis at the border or fix the dysfunctional immigration system.

On Friday, the House of Representatives passed a purely symbolic immigration bill that would provide emergency funding in dealing with the humanitarian influx of immigrants at the U.S. southern border.

The International Business Times reported, voting for the $659 million measure allowed House Republicans to enter the summer recess beginning this weekend and tell their constituents that they did, in fact, attempt to solve the border crisis. But the Senate, which failed to pass an unrelated $2.7 billion immigration bill, was also preparing for the August break Friday afternoon, eliminating any chance that the House bill would make it to Obama’s desk before the long recess.

President Obama spoke condescendingly at a press conference on Friday, “Let’s just take a recent example:  Immigration.  We all agree that there’s a problem that needs to be solved in a portion of our southern border.  And we even agree on most of the solutions.  But instead of working together — instead of focusing on the 80 percent where there is agreement between Democrats and Republicans, between the administration and Congress — House Republicans, as we speak, are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere, that can’t pass the Senate and that if it were to pass the Senate I would veto.  They know it.”

On Thursday, a deviant House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner repeated that any unilateral action by the president will only make the situation worse.

“No more unilateral action by the president,” Boehner said at a news conference.

“If the president takes these actions, he’ll be sealing the deal on his legacy of lawlessness,” he said. “He’ll be violating the solemn oath he made to the American people on the day of his inauguration.”

Both Republicans and Democrats played to the base of their respective parties without ever addressing the need to fix the crisis at the border and to address the broken immigration system.

The real question that no one in the media reported on or even addressed; when was the last time the leadership from the House, Senate and the President sat down in the past couple weeks to address these issues?

I follow politics more than most, but I have not seen any videos or images when the leadership of both political parties and the president sat in a meeting to discuss these issues or any others.

All we get is fiery rhetorical partisan speeches from Republicans, Democrats and the president; no wonder Americans are disgusted by their elected representatives.

We are supposed to be an example to the rest of the world; how far have we fallen!