Webster defines negligence as: “Failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes.”

My version: “Actions that result in predictably negative results with little or no prior thought or preparation.”

All of which returns your mind’s eye to the ongoing dysfunction at the southern border – a situation that began to spiral out of control the very minute a newly-installed President Joe Biden overturned the various Trump executive orders that had slowed illegal migration to a trickle.

Biden’s policy reversal signaled that Stage I had arrived: a “successful” undoing of Trump border policy. In fact, the president’s action amounted to a full court, in-your-face to Trump and his army of “America Firsters.” The message was hard to miss. Xenophobia would no longer be tolerated. No more children in “cages.” No more family separation. No more tears from a visiting AOC. The adults were back in charge.

But that wasn’t the half of it. The president and vice president doubled down on their promise to resist a wall – to protect those here illegally even if they had committed “minor” crimes (including DWI!). Nobody would have been surprised to see a big ol’ “Welcome” sign hanging over the entrance to Eagle Pass, Texas.

History records that........

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