Criminal Responsibility

Amidst all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the separation of criminal border-jumpers from their children, a few are speaking sense. In City Journal, Bob McManus has this analysis:

The federal government is treating no one inhumanely; the “families” involved are not so much immigrants as they are economic migrants with no inherent right of entry into the United States—and to the extent that there is an “ongoing human tragedy” on the border, responsibility for it resides with those attempting to enter the county illegally.

Americans have the right, if not the duty, to lock their doors to keep their persons and property safe. Why shouldn’t the nation, too?

Opponents of the administration’s border policy are arguing for blanket immunity from the democratically legislated consequences of blatantly illegal conduct.

Analysis: true.