Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Self-induced Crisis
President Trump is claiming a Democratic law is forcing the administration to break up families engaged in illegal immigration. He and his attorney general say there is nothing they can do to prevent it. Unfortunately, that is not true and the media have widely reported the falsehood. It is one thing to arrest a migrant for crossing the border without papers. It is quite another to take the children from the migrant and put them into a foster care system that has lost track of nearly 1500 of them. Trump is looking like an unfeeling demagogue as a result of this move and has created a crisis for his administration whether he sees it that way or not. Few parents,no matter how ideological they are, can imagine their children being torn from them and held in mass incarceration. Come November they will have a chance to express their concern, or even outrage, over the move. With waves of Republicans retiring from the House and key Senators stepping down, Trump may be facing a hostile Congress for the first time. If he does, he will have only himself to blame.
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