WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on Jan. 9, 2024: * * * The national security threat and humanitarian risk posed by the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has brought our country to an important crossroads. It is far past time that we address President Joe Biden's self-made border disaster, support our customs and border patrol (CBP) agents and provide reasonable reforms to a broken immigration system. Several of the president's first executiv  more