our current situation is the outcome of congress leaving a broken, outdated immigration system in place for over two decades. the white house has two years to plan for the end of title 42. we we all knew the deadline. but the white house produced no plan, missed the deadline and bum with bled into another crisis telephone bumbled into another crisis. paul: let s bring in wall street journal ist columnists journal column itselfs dan dan henninger kim strassel and jace isen riley. jason riley. this has really come to a head. how serious just from a practical point of view is surge? oh, i think it s very serious, paul. the democrats have pretended for years that the only people who care about this issue are fox news viewers. they ve demonized these border governors when they re republicans for complaining, for being hard-hearted, and i think all of that is changing right now. they re discovering the border for the first time, and i think it s going to cause them all k
paul: sorry, jace, i m not writing you a $1.2 the million check. [laughter] so, but what about the moral case, dan? i mean, there s an argument that you hear that, in fact, slavery s the damage from slavery has cascaded down through the decades, compounded by jim crow which only ended in the 60s and, therefore, you know, the damage continues. what s your response to that? well, i don t buy that. i think we ve moved well past that. there were, there was the jim crow era, there has been discrimination. one of the arguments they make is this is this part to make up for the discrimination in housing, let s say, that existed in the 1940s and 1950s. but hay go so far as to say this goes to make up for the things the police did paul: overpolicing. overpolicing in the 1990s. so they are putting in everything, every argument imaginable into this which i