Buried deep in the story attached to this blog is an item that needs a quick response.

President Obama is coming to Texas this week to raise money for Democratic Party candidates, but he has no plans to visit the border region — the one that’s at the heart of an immigration crisis involving children and young adults.

Bad call, Mr. President. You should go there and see for yourself.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/211384-texas-dem-obama-one-step-behind-on-border-crisis

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the reason Obama is being invited is to enable local pols to play politics rather than deal with real challenges.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from the border region, says the president has been a “step behind” in responding to the crisis involving a flood of immigrants coming to the United States from Central America. They’re fleeing drug lords, human traffickers and severe poverty.

Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, has invited the president to see the border for himself. The president is balking. Why? He doesn’t want to politicize this event?

Please. Presidents venture into crisis hot spots all the time. Yes, there’s a political element. There also is a chance for the president to lay eyes on a crisis, which well could energize him to push Homeland Security and Immigration and Naturalization Service staffers to find answers to deal with this flood of immigration.

Is all of this President Obama’s fault? Blame belongs to the nations from which these immigrants are fleeing: Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. I’ll say once again that Mexico, that vast country that sits between Central America and the U.S.’s southern border, also is culpable because it is allowing these young people clear transit through its territory to the United States.

I strongly encourage the president to complete his trip to Texas by visiting the border region. Take a look, Mr. President, and see with your own eyes what’s riled so many of your fellow Americans.