One View: Obama Should Trumpet Enforcement Success

Edward Schumacher-Matos in the Washington Post:

How do you sell success when its human face is one of innocent people being punished?

The Obama administration is doing a miserable job of selling its successes in immigration enforcement to the American people, and a central reason is because it can’t answer that question.

The number of unauthorized immigrants in this country is dropping. The number crossing the border is lower than it has been in nearly 40 years. Federal, state and local police are cracking down on the very small number of immigrants who commit violent and other crimes.

Yet: Where are the telegenic Border Patrol leaders looking heroic on the cable television shows? Where are the Pentagon-like charts that capture the trend lines in a single, clear image? Where, above all, is the president, standing on the border, giving Americans confidence that the government is in control?  Click here for the rest of the column.

bh