The border “crisis” did not break because of some tragedy caused by a porous southern border. On the issue of border security, it has fallen to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to provide justification for the irrational. She warns darkly about a terrorist threat crossing our southern border, though both the size and details of that threat are too “sensitive” to release. What we don’t know is how this terrorist threat compares with other dangers and vulnerabilities that require funding as well. Then, the ignorance, arrogance and stubbornness of one man would turn a budget crisis into a constitutional crisis — and turn Republican defenders into abettors of creeping authoritarianism.

Source: Washington Post January 10, 2019 22:41 UTC