12/1/2018 - Michael Reagan Townhall.com
Once again California
is at the top of the national news every day.
The apocalyptic images
of massive wildfires and destroyed towns like Paradise are gone.
Now the whole country
is watching scenes of tear gas being used against the thousands of illegal
immigrants from Central America who are trying to force their way into the
United States near San Diego.
I hope the people
complaining about how Donald Trump is handling this invasion of our southern
border are paying attention to the news.
They might learn
something most of us Californians already know.
Unlike most Americans,
many of us have been to the U.S.-Mexican border.
We've seen what happens
when the sun goes down. We've seen the invasion of illegals that comes across
into the U.S. - every single night.
We don't like it and we
understand very well how much it has cost our state.
The national liberal
media are, as usual, irresponsibly unfair and unbalanced in their coverage of
events at the border.
They can't stop showing
video footage of tear gas being used to turn back the immigrants as they rush
the California border.
In their never-ending
effort to make Trump and conservatives look as mean and rotten as possible, the
electronic media have made it seem like tear gas is some new and terrible
weapon.
It's not.
Tear gas is the weapon
border patrol agents use when they're trying to stop a rushing mob of illegal
immigrants.
Critics of President
Trump's policy and the media should be applauding the border patrol's use of
non-lethal weapons like tear gas and pepper spray, not decrying it.
They should also point
out that he's following the lead of previous presidents like Barack Obama, who
now pretends to be appalled by Trump even though tear gas was deployed at the
same border crossing during his administration.
Though you'd never hear
it if from the liberal media, many of California's Latinos, who now make up 39
percent of its population, are also unhappy with the invasion of illegal
immigrants.
But few Latinos who
support Trump's immigration policy will dare to say so because they fear a
backlash in their own community.
The Latino laborers and
gardeners who work for rich white liberals also are afraid to say anything positive
about Trump for fear of losing their jobs.
They keep mum - and the
liberal media ignore them.
When the media
reporters do their immigration stories for TV, they interview liberals and
Democrats to show how compassionate they are toward the poor illegals.
They also interview
conservatives and Republicans to show how they aren't compassionate.
Somehow they never
manage to find those everyday Latino workers - many of them here legally - who
are worried about losing their jobs to new immigrants.
The only Latino I
remember being interviewed about the serious problems caused by the arrival of
thousands of Honduran migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing was the mayor
of Tijuana.
He told the immigrants
of the caravan the hard truth no one in California could say without being
branded a racist, "We don't want you here in Tijuana. Get the hell
out."
It's too late to save
California with a tougher immigration policy or a higher border wall.
Decades of liberal
Democrats have already wrecked the Golden State with their high taxes, bad
regulations, transit boondoggles and over-generous social programs for citizens
and non-citizens alike.
Now we have a newly
elected Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, who is for open borders and things
like universal "free" health care.
With a super majority
in both houses in Sacramento, Newsom will be able to do anything he wants and
the state's surviving Republicans won't be able to prevent California from
becoming the Venezuela of North America - with open borders.
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