You break it, you own it, so Trump owns the US border policy
In marvelling at Trump’s cruelty, it’s easy to overlook his gross incompetence
On January 11, 2018, Thomas Homan, then acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts on border security. The TV programme, a daily breakfast buffet of propaganda, featured a discussion of the political hypocrisy and policy failures of Democrats; the criminal dangers of sanctuary cities; and the sad futility of legalising undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children. Yet after a full year of Donald Trump’s presidency, there was also good news to report. “Under this president, we had a 45-year low in illegal immigration on the border this year,” Homan told his Fox hosts. “That’s not a coincidence — he is successful,” Homan said of Trump. “We made a lot of good progress this year. We got a lot more to do. Let’s continue the work we’re doing.” Here we are, however, only 15 months later, and Trump’s border is, by his own definition, a “crisis”. Migrants are stashed under bridge o...
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