House Democrats Outdo Themselves with an Unserious Border Security Proposal, Part 2
By Dan Cadman on February 5, 2019
Read Part 1
In a prior posting, I discussed some of the many objectionable features of the bill that House Democrats are putting together as their gambit in the government funding vs. shutdown game with President Trump and the Republican Senate, and the fundamentally disingenuous way in which they are packaging that proposal as some kind of "smart" border security and immigration control.
For many reasons, there is nothing smart at all about such a move, nor will it prove to be effective, but that seems to be the point: just more smoke and mirrors that they hope both the American public and the Republican majority in the Senate will buy into.
I wrapped up Part 1 by saying:
[T]he House bill would apportion massive amounts of funding to radically expand use of alternative-to-detention [ATD] programs instead of actual confinement for immigration law violators. While this probably sounds superficially attractive because most people dislike thinking about human beings put into lockdown in a jail-like environment, it's the equivalent of offering the president magic beans in lieu of real border security.
To be specific, here is what the summary says the bill would do:
https://cis.org/Cadman/House-Democrats-Outdo-Themselves-Unserious-Border-Security-Proposal-Part-2
