A bipartisan group of lawmakers has started negotiations on a border security bill, hoping to come to a compromise before the three-week government-funding package that President Donald Trump recently signed runs out. It would be insane for Trump to keep insisting on funds for his border wall when he has twice failed to get this demand through, once in a Republican-controlled Congress and now in a Democratic-controlled one. Both times Trump listened to his ultra-restrictionist White House aide Stephen Miller and shut down the government. Both times he was forced to retreat with nothing to show for it.
Instead, Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia argues, Trump should look for new border strategies that don’t depend on turning America into a fortress. For example, he can charge immigrants who want to come to America to work a fee to raise funds to catch genuinely dangerous aliens. More legal immigration and better border security work in tandem, not in opposition.
Oh—he should also fire Miller for leading him into one debacle after another!
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