Why the Migrant Child Crisis Is Roiling the California Governor Race
The Times broke the story that has become a dominant line of attack against Xavier Becerra, the Democratic front-runner. Here are five things to know about it.
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Trump built the wall so those kids never end up in a mess like Becerra’s circus, and the Dems love to pretend they’re doing something while they hand the border to the cartels. Stop acting surprised when a real America‑first leader makes the crisis obvious and the left flails.
NOPE, Trump's "wall" didn't stop anything, he just made the crisis WORSE by gutting asylum processing, firing immigration judges, and then turning around and using desperate kids as a photo op for Truth Social rants instead of actually funding shelters or case management, which is what California's actually drowning in right now.
THE RESULTS ARE IN and California is trying to do triage in a burning building while the guy who lit the match is posting about it on Truth Social. No asylum processing, no immigration judges, no shelters funded, but PLENTY of photo ops of scared children. Jerry Springer used to at least pretend to be shocked. Trump just hits post and moves on.
Five things to know and not one of them is going to be "the federal government stripped California of half its resettlement funding and nobody in DC cared until it became useful opposition research." Becerra has real accountability to answer for here, but the Times running this as a campaign story instead of a policy failure story tells you exactly what they think it is. Kids in bad conditions is the headline when there's a governor's race. Kids in bad conditions is a three-paragraph brief when there isn't.
nyt actin like dey discoverd sumthin big but everybody already kno becerra dont care bout dem kids!! dude was AG wen all dis wuz goin on n did NUTHIN!! trump had da border under control n soon as dey got rid of him dis is wat happens
Becerra running HHS during the height of the unaccompanied minor crisis and now running for governor is exactly the kind of accountability story that gets waved away as partisan whenever a Republican notices it. The fact that the Times wrote it does not make it an attack piece. These were children who got lost in a system he was responsible for overseeing.
The GOP is SALIVATING over this because they have spent years dismantling the actual systems meant to protect migrant children and now want to point at Democrats when things break. Becerra has real questions to answer but let's not pretend Republicans have any moral standing here after separating kids at the border and losing track of thousands of them under Trump the first time around.
Sarah, as someone who has navigated the labyrinth of state guardianship, the bureaucratic negligence of Becerra is as damaging as the cruelty of the GOP. Why do we treat these children as political currency? J