Who benefits from pushing your view here? Who’s better off now that we’re all quieted down about this little bout of lawlessness?
Why don’t you just write “We didn’t see all the video and we need more context.”?
Besides, it is possible to both agree that these tariffs should never have been implemented in the first place and have some sympathy for the agency that has literally never had to do something like this at this scale before and is now under duress to come up with a working, legal, and fair mechanism for implementing one at breakneck speed.
Not me. They’re ordinary people doing administrative tasks. Most of them have dutifully turned up for work and done their jobs as the law required them to. They’re now being asked to work overtime to fix a mistake they didn’t make.
Besides, we’re taking about imposing tariffs, not depriving people of life or liberty. Have some persective.
It certainly would have been prudent for cbp to contemplate this very scenario given their own lawyers predicted it. But let’s be honest, that would have gotten them fired.
That's not what CBP said, and the article itself has the nuance that the headline doesn't