While we’re celebrating our country’s independence this week, we’re also marking another, darker anniversary: The political crisis of the moment a year ago — family separations and official disregard of migrants coming into the U.S. from Mexico — is still a political crisis today.

The danger then was that the public and its representatives — after several weeks of close attention to the federal government’s terrible treatment of families crossing the border and the still indefensible idea of splitting kids and parents — were already beginning to turn their attention to other things.

A year later, the continuing problems have again boiled over — back into the public eye — in large measure because this Congress and this White House are more accomplished at clamor than governance.

Credit by - The Texas tribune

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