OPINION: Next time, when the president moves to unilaterally enact massive policy, his advisors would serve him well to keep a certain seventeenth century physicist in mind, anticipate the equal and opposite reaction coming their way and plan accordingly.
All the while, border cities a fraction the size are inundated by many more migrants every day—cities that never proclaimed themselves to be “sanctuary” havens.
The reality is that Trump and the Republicans were certainly playing politics when they enacted the 2019 policy, but in reversing it without anticipating the tens of thousands of people who would inevitably cross the border , Democrats—however well-intentioned—proved themselves to not only be just as political, but incompetent to boot.
Political virtue signaling becomes self-defeating when accompanied by governmental incompetence—exposing the very real challenges associated with well-intentioned positions, failing to address them, proving your opposition’s point, inadvertently moving your own supporters to the other side, and, in turn, setting the issue back.
That is true of any major policy decision, but none is more politically potent with greater humanitarian impact than immigration.While extremist Republican governors are busy scoring cheap political points, Democratic mayors are struggling to match their pro-immigration rhetoric with social services, all while lives hang in the balance.Immigration is, by design and necessity, a federal issue. And the federal government isn’t addressing it.
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