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Dereliction of duty: The border crisis is Congress’ fault nypost.com/2019/04/01/der… via @nypost
Congress could fix all this in an afternoon, with a few key changes in the law. Trump has a Nancy Pelosi problem much more than an Andrés Manuel López Obrador problem. But, since Pelosi is unmovable, Trump has to try to work the Mexican president.
Mexico has done more to play ball with the US under Trump than many would have thought possible, yet all illegals showing up at our border are still traveling through there. Mexico doesn’t make controlling these migrants a high priority because they will end up here, not there.
The talk of cutting off the border isn’t aimed at the migrants, who largely don’t come through ports of entry, but at forcing the Mexican government to do more. Maybe the mere threat of the resulting economic disruption will work.
Even if this gambit were guaranteed to succeed, it’s insane that a sovereign country of unparalleled power has tied its own hands such that it must try to bully and cajole a foreign nation to do immigration enforcement for it.
In a sane world, Congress would take seriously the spectacle of US officials scrambling to handle a flood of humanity showing up every day, and give them the authority and resources to get the situation under control. That it won’t is a dereliction of duty of the highest order.
