Opinion: The real fault lies with a president and Congress who would rather exploit the migrant surge than do what it takes to stop it
Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation Sunday as secretary of Homeland Security is best understood as a ritual sacrifice for the failures of the American political system on immigration. Ms. Nielsen wasn’t responsible for the surge of Central American migrants arriving at the border to claim political asylum, but Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress both needed a fall guy.
As he so often does, Mr. Trump had undercut Ms. Nielsen’s authority recently by pulling the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to run the Immigration and Customs Enforcement....
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