An over-reaction is still a reaction.
Here is an article by "Liberal Patriot" contributor Ruy Teixeira, quoting at length another Substacker (Noah Smith - "Noahpinion")
here. They identify what they see as an unwillingness among Democrats to confront their own responsibility for sowing seeds. When I write that Democrats have created problems that the administration is trying to fix, I am not pulling that opinion out of my own fundament.
The illegal immigration problem was easy to create; it essentially requires no effort except to stand down from enforcement. It is much harder to reverse (enforce). Political reality intrudes: the administration has at most four years, and maybe only two depending on how midterms go. So they're in a bit of a hurry, and one way of speeding things up is to surge. Admission standards loosen up; training time shortens; and add in whatever else they've done to cut corners. This is, as usual, observation and implies no endorsement. People who oppose immigration enforcement and not just immigration enforcement done poorly are also in the wrong.
