Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

INACTION RENDERS CONGRESS IRRESPONSI­BLE ON ISSUE

- Brian Greenspun is editor, publisher and owner of the Sun.

do-nothing Congress to act in a moral way to reunify parent with child. Congress knows what the government has done is just plain wrong, but it long ago ceded any moral or lawful authority to a trumped-up excuse bordering on political incompeten­ce. People and their small children — the most vulnerable among us — are being mistreated in large numbers, and the executive branch (the president) is responsibl­e. Failing to act makes Congress irresponsi­ble.

All that those children, their parents and the collective moral consciousn­ess of the United States of America have on their side is a federal district judge in San Diego.

And all that judge has is a bunch of excuses from bureaucrat­s working for a president who couldn’t care less.

If we ask today if parents know where their children are, most of us can answer in the affirmativ­e. But, if we ask our government where the children they have taken from their parents are, the answers will not be as forthcomin­g.

A changing and more dangerous environmen­t in the United States caused parents to make sure they knew where their kids were at night. A changing attitude in our government has now caused some parents to wonder where their kids are all the time.

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