The crisis is the small uptick in border crossings (according to international laws we are party to, all border crossings are not automatically illegal). The crisis is the six possible terrorists they apprehended at the Mexican border (but not the 42 apprehended at the Canadian border). The crisis is the drugs coming across the border (the 10 percent, but not the 90 percent that come in other ways, and certainly not the drug manufacturers responsible for the opioid crisis). The crisis is the humanitarian threat of people trying to enter this country (but not the terror that drove them here). The crisis is the citizens killed by undocumented persons (but not the thousands shot dead by their fellow Americans).
Jefferson’s fear of an ignorant electorate is coming true. That is the real crisis. Franklin’s fear of free people giving up that freedom for false security. That is the real crisis.
