WEEK 158 / 337 — The Fixer
“If you don’t have Borders, you don’t have a Country!”
Don’t worry, the Republicans, and your President, will fix it!
“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media.…
....Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years…
ONE WEEK PAST THE PEAK, THE GROUND TILTS DOWNWARD. THE BORDER FIRESTORM IS THE FIRST BATTLE OF A HARDER ROAD — AND THE SUMMER OF THE HUNT IS ONLY BEGINNING.
TO BE CONTINUED →
This week in the saga
The summit glow gives way to a firestorm at the border, and he makes it the frontier of the whole war: without borders, he says, there is no country. As the outcry peaks he signs an order halting the separations, telling the country not to worry — he and his party will fix it. A jacket becomes a battlefield; he insists the words scrawled on the first lady's coat were aimed only at the fake news. Then he pivots to the argument he prefers: the system is unfair to those who waited in line, and entry should be earned on merit. One week past the peak, the ground tilts downward, and the summer of the hunt is only beginning.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 158. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…