Steve Levy: Nielsen was a scapegoat

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Steve Levy: Nielsen was a scapegoat

By Steve Levy | Fox News

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.

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[TomSea]

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Former FBI agent suggests Kirstjen Nielsen may have written the infamous anonymous New York Times op-ed

Could President Trump have finally gotten rid of that anonymous New York Times op-ed writer without even realizing it?

That's what one former FBI agent speculated following the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday, per Mediaite. Josh Campbell, a CNN analyst and former FBI special agent, suggested on Twitter that Nielsen's resignation letter bears a striking resemblance to the Times op-ed written by an anonymous senior administration official who said they were part of a "resistance" working to undermine Trump's worst impulses from within.

Read more at: https://theweek.com/speedreads/833874/former-fbi-agent-suggests-kirstjen-nielsen-may-have-written-infamous-anonymous-new-york-times-oped

[Sanguine]

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.

I think this is a ruse to prevent anything from happening for the better.  "Only Congress can fix this" appears to be BS.  It looks like policy could be corrected to turn this around, but the will isn't there, and it's easy to keep blaming Congress rather than doing what needs to be done.

[TomSea]

And also, one reads that they already voted on the replacement wall or something back in 2007... so the hold up?  They aren't funding it, I gather.

So, it seems they don't even need to vote on the wall itself, you hear that in the news. They just need to fund it.

[Right_in_Virginia]

There's no mystery here.  Anyone who heard her interviews over the past week or so knows she was under water.

Sometimes a job is just too overwhelming.  This was one of them.

[corbe]

   She was Kelly's protégé at DHS and I can certainly remember a time when Kelly was the be all to get all by some here (I thought so too).
   So quickly we are consumed and spit out as just an excuse for the discombobulating that has become this Administration's policies.