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Immigration Policy That Ain’t Got The Good Sense God Gave A Horse
When it comes to a difficult issue like immigration policy, fixing the optics and blame-shifting are the only course of action our elected officials seem to be capable of.
When it comes to a difficult issue like immigration policy, fixing the optics and blame-shifting are the only courses of action our elected officials seem to be capable of.
The images of mounted Border Patrol appearing to lash out at people coming across the border in Del Rio, Texas is just the latest in a long line of spot fires in the immigration crisis that are smothered out in the media with a knee-jerk fix while leaving the smoldering issue burning beneath until the next flare up. Press Secretary Jen Psaki was tasked to stand at the podium in the Brady Briefing Room and do the smothering, in this particular case:
What our role is and what the President has asked his outreach team, members of his national security team, homeland security team to do is to explain clearly what our policy is and what our policy is not.
We could not see it…
