WHEN POLITICS MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAN
THE BOY IN the video is crying. He is 10 years old, and he has been walking alone on a rural road outside of La Grulla, Texas, for a long time. He was traveling with a group, he says to the Border Patrol agent who has found him, and got left behind. “I came here looking for help,” he sniffs. “I’m afraid.” He doesn’t know what will happen to him, or why the adults around him are behaving so unpredictably.
There’s no doubt that this boy was in mortal peril. Hundreds of bodies have been found at the Texas border in the last year alone. But whose fault is it?
Commentators have blamed everyone from his parents in Nicaragua to President Joe Biden, but the real problem—not just
