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What a Border Crisis Looks Like nationalreview.com/2019/06/border…
Since it’s 2019, what should be properly attributed to dire circumstances and limited capacity is instead taken as evidence of President Donald Trump’s malice.
If what’s happening at the border is a product of Trump policy, it would have to involve an intricate and well-executed plan.
The White House would have to convince the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan to send word down through the bureaucracy to treat children as callously as possible and not to leak word of this explosive guidance.
In the real world, a migrant influx will test even an administration more favorably inclined toward immigration.
The reason that the Left can’t keep their viral images straight — often misattributing to Trump photos of kids in steel-cage holding pens during the Obama years — is that this is a similar crisis to the one Obama faced in his second term, with similar challenges.
All that said, once these migrants are under our care, it is our responsibility to make sure they are treated as humanely as possible. The border needs more resources.
The Trump administration has been asking Congress to pass a funding package, and it should do so forthwith.
To address the root cause of the crisis, it should also change the bizarre asylum rules that have forced us to release family units from Central America into the country, creating an incentive for more to come.
