It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too
America’s officials don’t respect each other’s borders. Congress needs to step in
Only if parsed in terms of America’s stammering, ad-libbed answer to desperate migrants could it make any sense: scores of men, from countries as various as Venezuela and Mauritania, find themselves in limbo together in the Crossroads Hotel on the outskirts of Newburgh, a pretty, frayed town in upstate New York. They are living on New York City’s dime, but about 60 miles farther up the Hudson river.
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