{"id":11235,"date":"2018-06-20T20:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2018-06-20T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T03:30:55","slug":"border-politics-and-the-use-and-abuse-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/border-politics-and-the-use-and-abuse-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Politics and the Use and Abuse of History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n

Much has been written \u2014 some of it either inaccurate or designed to obfuscate the issue ahead of the midterms for political purposes \u2014 about the border fiasco and the unfortunate separation of children from parents.\u00a0Rich Lowry\u2019s brief analysis<\/a>\u00a0is the most insightful.<\/p>\n

The media outrage usually does not include examination of why the Trump administration is enforcing existing laws that it inherited from the Bush and Obama administrations that at any time could have been changed by both Democratic and Republican majorities in Congress; of the use of often dubious asylum claims as a way of obtaining entry otherwise denied to those without legal authorization \u2014 a gambit that injures or at least hampers thousands with legitimate claims of political persecution; of the seeming unconcern for the safety of children by some would-be asylum seekers who illegally cross the border, rather than first applying legally at a U.S. consulate abroad; of the fact that many children are deliberately sent ahead, unescorted on such dangerous treks to help facilitate their own parents\u2019 later entrance; of the cynicism of the cartels that urge and facilitate such mass rushes to the border to overwhelm general enforcement; and of the selective outrage of the media in 2018 in a fashion not known under similar policies and detentions of the past.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Much has been written \u2014 some of it either inaccurate or designed to obfuscate the issue ahead of the midterms for political purposes \u2014 about the border fiasco and the unfortunate separation of children from parents.\u00a0Rich Lowry\u2019s brief analysis\u00a0is the most insightful. 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