Nielsen was a scapegoat

President Trump is rightly frustrated over the border crisis, but it’s ludicrous to blame the dilemma on his former Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned, apparently under pressure, Sunday afternoon.

Blaming Nielsen for the border chaos is like blaming your energy commissioner for an oil shortage brought upon by an OPEC embargo. The obvious culprit in the present border overload is the Democrats’ refusal to address the asylum law loopholes that prohibit border agents from turning illegal aliens around at the border once they utter the words: “I want asylum.” Asking Nielsen to single-handedly reverse this insane policy would be asking her to break the law.

Nielsen has done her job, repeatedly warning Congress about the law’s imperfections and then pleading with them to update the statute to reflect today’s reality. She got most Republicans on her side, but couldn’t get a single Democrat to vote for the elimination of the loophole. And, like the president, she could get very few, if any Democrats, to even concede we have a crisis at the border.

It’s cruel and unrealistic to expect a commissioner to corral needed votes from a party that has already internally agreed to sacrifice national sovereignty for the purpose of allowing as many illegal aliens as possible into our country, knowing full well that it’s just a matter of time before they are granted amnesty, citizenship and the right to vote –thereby ensuring Democratic control of the two branches for at least a generation to come.

Nielsen’s job was made infinitely harder by the fact that the media, which is now in many ways an extension of the Democratic Party’s public relations arm, was aiding and abetting a scenario whereby television viewers were asked to ignore their own eyes and instead buy into the Orwellian talking points uttered by the crisis deniers.