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Jerry Coyne's website - Trump’s defense of the Wall

Ken Kukec
Posted January 8, 2019 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

Presidents traditionally use prime-time addresses from the White House to speak to the American people seriously about the nation’s most pressing issues. Donald Trump said nothing new tonight, nothing he hasn’t said over and over again before, and made no case that there was a national emergency at the nation’s southern border. Given that, Pelosi and Shumer had nothing new to say in response.

There is no crises at the southern border; illegal entries across that border have been dropping for a decade now, and reached a 46-year low last year. Immigrants crossing that border commit crimes of at lower rates than do native-born Americans. None of issues Trump uses to monger fear on this issue — crime, terrorism, disease, etc. — would be alleviated by erecting a wall.

Trump could have had an immigration and border-security deal a year ago — indeed, he preliminarily agreed to a bipartisan deal on those topics, struck between senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham — just as he preliminarily agreed just last month to a continuing resolution to keep the government functioning through February. In both instances he reneged on those promises solely because the most extreme immigration hardliners in his base grew restive, insisting he make good on the preeminent promise of his presidential campaign: to “build a wall.”

The current governmental shutdown serves no purpose and is a source of hardship for many. What the nation needs is comprehensive immigration reform — serious public policy to be worked out among serious people. As he continually demonstrates, Donald Trump is not such a serious person.