The migrant crisis reveals Trump's immigration strategy is failing, an important new NYT report demonstrates.
An anonymous Homeland Security official, and others at the border, confirm what's really happening.
Deterrence through cruelty is a failure:
nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
An anonymous Homeland Security official, and others at the border, confirm what's really happening.
Deterrence through cruelty is a failure:
nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
This is what I've been trying to argue. The right way to describe Trump's handling of immigration is as a massive failure. And the endless lies about this issue illustrate the wrongheaded and sometimes delusional worldview undergirding this failure.
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Here's another revelation from the NYT piece.
Administration insiders *know* that Trump's latest moves to get "tough" on the border will either fail or be unjustifiable to the American people.
But the WH keeps insisting they forge ahead anyway:
nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
Administration insiders *know* that Trump's latest moves to get "tough" on the border will either fail or be unjustifiable to the American people.
But the WH keeps insisting they forge ahead anyway:
nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
As I keep tediously repeating, this sort of thing is exactly what Dems need to exercise oversight on.
The incoming chair of the committee that has jurisdiction over Homeland Security has laid out what this oversight will likely look like:
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The incoming chair of the committee that has jurisdiction over Homeland Security has laid out what this oversight will likely look like:
washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
