Opinion: New reports unmask the folly and bad faith of Trump’s border obsession
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 21 at 4:36 PM As this blog regularly points out, President Trump’s immigration agenda is absolutely saturated in a kind of bottomless bad faith that we haven’t quite found the adequate language to capture.
That’s because the actual border is in geographic territory where barrier cannot be built — so the barriers are getting built inland. It’s important to clarify that this is not the type of wall that Trump campaigned on. It’s the type of barrier we’ve been building for many years, under previous administrations, and it’s dictated by fact-based assessments by agencies, rather than by one man’s megalomaniacal desire for a massive wall that he can shout about at campaign rallies.
But the barriers in particular would not solve this problem, and members of Trump’s own administration know it. As The Post reports: Essentially, the debate turns on whether you think we should roll back our basic humanitarian commitments in hopes of discouraging these surges. If you don’t think this — as I do not — you will be more inclined to support aid to alleviating those terrible civil conditions, and investments and reforms that might speed up the asylum-seeking process. There are no easy solutions to this problem, and they all require difficult trade-offs.
The border deployment and funding transfers, as well as recovery costs from hurricanes Florence and Michael, new housing allowances and civilian pay raises, are taking a toll on combat readiness, Neller wrote to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
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