Obama's 'man-caused' disaster
As a defender of the nation's borders, President Barack Obama is a hell of a pool player.
The president enjoyed a game at a bar in Denver with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper the other day...
....as one would expect of a president who didn't have any depressing visits to frightened ranchers, overwhelmed border agents or desperate migrants on his future itinerary...
The White House brushes off criticism that Obama is avoiding the border as mere "optics," in contrast to its highly substantive focus. But it is still not taking the crisis seriously.
Republicans in Congress should crumple up the president's border request in a ball and start over...
The nearly $4 billion the president is requesting for the border is not fundamentally about enforcement that will reverse and end the tide, but about managing the influx.
A devastating critique of the request by the Center for Immigration Studies notes that about half of the money goes to the Department of Health and Human Services "for acquisition, construction, improvement, repair, operation, and maintenance of real property and facilities." The enforcement portion of the request, according to CIS, "is not truly geared toward removal," but instead to "recouping costs for temporary detention and subsequent transporting of aliens."...
Of course, even if such a bill were to pass and to be signed into law, that'd be no guarantee that the president of the United States would enforce it. That speaks to an entirely different man-caused disaster.
