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Excerpt: "The president has exaggerated threats but ignored the hazards his border policies created."

Trump's Oval Office. (photo: Carolyn Kester/AP)
Trump's Oval Office. (photo: Carolyn Kester/AP)


The Crisis Is in the Oval Office

By Editorial Board, The New York Times

09 January 19


The president has exaggerated threats but ignored the hazards his border policies created.

ow fitting is it that President Trump’s first Oval Office address, which he requested be televised live in prime time by every major network, was aimed at stirring up the American public about a crisis largely of his own making?

Not that the border crisis is one of Mr. Trump’s self-serving political fictions — like the deep state or widespread voter fraud. It may have started out that way, but the situation has, with the president’s nurturing, become something far more tragic.

Pursuing poorly thought-out and even more poorly executed policies on the pretext of battling a nonexistent national security crisis, Mr. Trump has helped create a pressing humanitarian one. Desperate migrant families being detained en masse at the border are overwhelming a system pushed beyond its limits by an administration that chose to ignore the implications of its actions — overcrowding, children falling gravely ill and, paradoxically, the haphazard release of throngs of detainees into border communities stretching from California to Texas.

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