Doyle McManus: It's Democrats' time to tell what they'd do to solve asylum
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2019
3 minutes
Democrats have long railed at President Trump for an immigration crackdown they consider cruel and misguided. Now Trump has handed them a new argument: His policies aren't merely inhumane, they're chaotic - and counterproductive, too.
The president has tried every draconian measure he and his hard-line aides could come up with, but none of it has stopped Central Americans from grabbing their children and fleeing north.
He's detained migrants in freezing cells and makeshift camps, separated toddlers from their parents, forced asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. Still they come,
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