Rhetoric trumps solutions on immigration

A group of immigrants’ arrival to the Flathead Valley on Wednesday has raised more questions than answers. What hasn’t been lacking is inflammatory rhetoric from politicians eager to make hay of a situation they still know very little about.

Let’s sort through the facts, or at least what we’ve been told.

In a letter to the Inter Lake, Flathead County Commissioner Randy Brodehl says his sources told him that two families from Venezuela who crossed into the U.S. illegally were flown to New York by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office.