Why Obama won’t take strong action in border crisis

Published July 15, 2014 2:41pm ET



Does President Obama want to solve the border crisis? It depends on what the meaning of “solve” is.

The president says a majority of the tens of thousands of families and unaccompanied children flooding across the southwestern border will be returned to their home countries. But his actions suggest that won’t really happen.

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