Posted on 04/03/2019 9:05:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Put yourself in the presidents shoes. He saw the border crisis building. He warned Congress. They did nothing. Now he has to do something.
Months ago, the administration alerted lawmakers that the number of people entering the country illegally and making unqualified asylum claims was skyrocketing. The only options were to stop them from crossing or let them in and release them while their bogus claims were being processed. The latter option, Congress was warned, could add another one million to the illegal population before the year was out.
It was, by any reasonable definition, a crisis.
The White House asked for resources to address it, but Congress didnt deliver. This led to a government shutdown. Still, lawmakers refused to negotiate, insisting there was no crisis.
That assertion is no longer tenable. This week, even Obamas former secretary of homeland security, Jeh Johnson, acknowledged its a crisis.
Leaders on both sides of the aisle should be in the Oval Office, working into the night until they hammer out a solution. That is not happening. Instead, the House leadership is considering a vote to criticize the administration.
With Congress whistling past the graveyard, what is the president to do? He must look for ways to address the overwhelming challenge with the tools at his disposal. He is already trying to build the wall, despite congressional obstructionism. But what else is possible, and how effective would those measures be?
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http://www.gradickcommunications.com/episode/04-03-19-the-wednesday-show-w-dick-bachert/
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Ask The Bitch what she would do?
He went around congress for the money to build the wall, he can go around them for this. He does nothing for his position or ours if he makes hollow threats. And stop calling names like some socialist democrat.
That is already happening. Most now are coming over deserted areas, not ports of entry.
liberals are too dumb to stop and realize that over 3,000 California farmers produce avocados year round. Grown using clean water, tested for ‘funny stuff’ and safe to eat, they are delicious.
I guess you didn’t hear about the ‘slow-down’ yesterday, that continues today and for the foreseeable future? Trucks lined up. Juirez shopkeepers upset from the traffic jams. Not a formal shutdown, but accomplishes the same effect.
We only have so many BP folk, a job description that has always been hard to fill because its crappy work locations. Those BP folk who were scanning vehicles are now babysitting infants. The longer and the more babies and mommies BP have to babysit before HHS can get the bleeding heart ‘charities’ that assisted them in getting here, to cough up a pillow and a bed, the longer the port of entry truck lines will get. And the worse traffic will get for Mexican border towns. We can’t pull people out of thin air, although Kirsten has asked for volunteers agency-wide to go work the border. And we shouldn’t be expected to.
Leftist Media are Dishonest. They are a continuous stream of Disinformation.
My position is to close the border for an hour or two in order to get everyone’s attention in Mexico City. Let them know what can happen if they don’t at least try to get some control over their internal affairs. And my message to the President is making hollow threats weakens his position greatly, something I do not want to see.
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