6/26/2019
- Sheriff David Clarke Townhall.com
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump addressed the
nation in a primetime telecast to declare the situation at the U.S. southern
border a humanitarian crisis and announced a national emergency declaration. He
asked for additional funding for the Border Patrol, which could not keep up
with the influx of migrants. He talked about the lack of resources and
indicated that this was a situation that was out of control. Democrats in
Congress scoffed at him saying it was a manufactured crisis. The liberal
propaganda machine more commonly referred to by me as the editorial pages of
the usual suspect newspapers parroted the constructed crisis theme.
I find it incredible that only now does the open-borders,
and pro-illegal immigration crowd see that the situation is indeed at a crisis
level. Now you can’t peruse any newsgroups without finding some story about how
inhumane the conditions
are at the detention facilities. The left, instead of acknowledging their
misdiagnosis, yet again found an opportunity to play politics. Instead of
approving a swift congressional funding bill for more resources, Democrats and
their ilk in the leftist media have decided to weaponize the crisis, making it
an opportunity to slam President Trump. It was after all Democrat Rahm Emmanuel
who coined the phrase, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” He was insinuating
that if there was a political advantage to be had in a crisis, then use it to
score political points. Never mind that the opportunity is a sleazy political
cheap shot.
The left and Democrats aren’t interested in fixing the
problem at our southern border, nor has it ever been about the kids in the
detention centers. Recall that the political crusade when all this started was
wrapped around the hashtag, “children being held in cages.’
That never happened under Trump. The file footage used to smear the
administration and Customs and Border Protection was taken during the Obama
administration. Leftist opportunists did not care much about the children or
the conditions they were in when their guy Obama was running the operation.
There was no political upside in slamming Obama. Oh and never mind the left and
the media’s ‘move along nothing to see here’ attitude that the separation of
children from adults was an Obama era policy stemming from a court order. Also,
disregard the fact that many of the adults illegally crossing with children
were often not the actual parents and that human smugglers were using this
method to engage in sex trafficking. That stuff is not as important as taking
an opportunity to skewer President Trump. Immigration and Customs officials
have discovered that some people traveling as a family unit are a mixture of
families from different countries. Try sorting through that. In these
instances, close enough is not good enough. Previously deported dangerous
persons use this as a way back in to the US.
Democrats are making this crisis about toothbrushes and soap
as if more of these items will cure the crisis of an organized influx of people
exploiting our lax immigration laws. Illegal immigration is the gift that keeps
on giving for Democrats. More illegals mean the need for more government
services as many of those exploiting asylum will become permanent members of
the underclass in the United States. Members of that demographic vote for
Democrat politicians under the threat of losing welfare, if they do not keep
these frauds in office.
Democrats in Congress are not interested in fixing this
crisis. They want the wedge issue. They’ll talk about it, demagogue it and
dance all around it but when Trump started the dialogue by offering some
solutions, Democrats fled like their hair was on fire. They are skilled
at using kids as political pawns and that exaggerated stories or just the
thought of children being mistreated tugs at people’s heartstrings. They hope
that this provides a slow bleed that they can use going into the 2020 election.
They hope to make Trump die a slow metaphorical death over this from negative
coverage like the baseless reports about Trump ordering children to be held in
cages during detention. There appears to be no more political juice to squeeze
out of the orange of Stormy Daniels, Trump’s tax returns, separation of
children at the border or the Mueller Report so this one will have to do for
now. Too bad that the left does not have the same alarmist sky-is-falling
concern for the protection of US citizen babies in the womb or those living on
the streets or are addicted to dangerous drugs.
Threats of impeachment are
proving to be a loser for them right now. The problem for them is that this
detention center issue too will end up on the ash heap of all their other
sky-is-falling rhetoric.
I just returned from the El Paso Border Sector in Texas. I
have seen what passes for housing on the Mexican side with children happily
playing outside. It resembles where one would keep a junk yard dog. I bet the
Mexican media doesn’t seem to have an interest in slamming their government
about the conditions of children living there. The illegals in US detention
camps probably see it as an upgrade from what they left.
With Democrats, it’s never really about the children or
their teeth for that matter. That is a smokescreen. It’s really about defeating
Trump in 2020. Their hatred for the president has blinded them from doing what
is right. Hopefully it will cost them at the ballot box.
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