Posted on 01/17/2024 9:45:09 AM PST by lasereye
The left wing response to the border crisis can be summarized as a series of misleading viral stories designed to vilify anyone who believes border control is a basic operation for a nation. It started under Trump with the panic over “kids in cages.” Unfortunately for a lot of the progressive dopes who shared this image below, it was taken in 2014 when Obama was president and Joe Biden was Vice President.
This next photo of a little girl crying also went viral the same year.
Time cut her out and made her part of a cover montage about border separation.
But she was never separated from her mother. She was just tired and hungry from being dragged hundreds of miles from home.
Then there was the AOC-led campaign to re-label Border Patrol facilities “concentration camps”
This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.
This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis ⬇️https://t.co/2dWHxb7UuL
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 18, 2019
This was also briefly popular with the left including some elected Democrats. But it faded and ever since Joe Biden was elected AOC hasn’t repeated that language.
And lets not forget the viral claim that Border Patrol agents on horeseback were whipping Hatian migrants. This was such a big deal that President Biden promised the people who did it would pay.
Once again, it never happened. Even the photographer said so. Sec. Mayorkas knew it hadn’t happened even before he went to the White House and claimed it had.
Given how often the media has jumped on these stories only to have them fall out from under them, you’d think they might learn to be more careful. But it seems that’s never the case. Two days ago another story went viral. The AP headline read, “US says Texas blocked border agents from entering park to try to save 3 migrants who drowned.”
The U.S. Homeland Security Department said Saturday that Texas denied federal agents access to a stretch of border when they were trying to rescue three migrants who drowned.The federal government’s account came hours after U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said the Texas Military Department and Texas National Guard “did not grant access to Border Patrol agents to save the migrants” Friday night. Mexican authorities recovered the bodies of a woman and two children Saturday across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.
“This is a tragedy, and the State bears responsibility,” said Cuellar, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee for homeland security, in a statement.
Some version of this story was published at nearly every major news site, but once again it turns out the headlines were wrong. Unfortunately, a woman and two children did drown in the Rio Grande that night but it happened a full hour before Border Patrol showed up. By the time they arrived it was far too late to matter.
The Biden administration once again pushed a false narrative at the border, now refuted by their own DOJ.
White House claim: “On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency… pic.twitter.com/B8bsP13Mxv
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 16, 2024
The rest of Melugin’s tweet reads:
“On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance.”DOJ filing: The migrants had already drowned at 8pm, and Border Patrol didn’t inform Texas until an hour later at 9pm.
This, like the horseback patrol “whipping” claims – took off as a false narrative, generating headlines that claimed Texas blocked a federal rescue effort, leading to the drownings of three migrants. The DOJ now confirms, those migrants had been deceased for an hour before Texas was even alerted about it.
Drew Holden points out that lots of outlets ran with this story and only a few have corrected it since.
Credit where it’s due. The NY Times at least got the underlying facts right in the story.
Some outlets were just outright dishonest.
Anyway, you get the idea. The media is always ready to jump with both feet on any story that has the right villains. Cleaning up the mess later when it turns out they got it wrong isn’t something they seem to worry about.
In fact, with immigration becoming a big issue in an election year, I’m willing to bet this will happen at least once or twice more between now and November. It wouldn’t be that hard to get it right but they just don’t care.
It’s actually taught in ‘journalism’ schools that there is no objective truth - it’s all spin.
So everything in the MSM is spin and obviously spinning in the Dem/globalist agenda.
They weaponize morality only when useful to them. If the feds aren’t defending our border, why are we obligated to pay taxes? The ONE thing we need government for is national defense. They aren’t even doing that? What’s the point of federal government?
Looks for absolute chaos this year as Trump is re-elected (for the third time as he clearly won in 2020) as they pull every trick in the book to steal power again.
I don’t think Biden will be allowed to run in November. Look for him to be replaced and they know nobody will buy Kamala getting “81 million votes.”
Dangerous year ahead. Stay frosty...
The American citizens who own this Republic have never agreed to sell our country to the globalists who are now in control of our lives and our government. This America border invasion is ongoing and treasonous and our elected representatives, at all levels, are either complicit, deliberately ignorant of the whole situation, or simply do not care what goes on in this US of America as long as they collect their undeserved paychecks and unlimited perks paid for by other Americans. It is MAGA or the escalating devastation of this great Republic with the upcoming election.
How about the one about Texas border guards on horses “whipping” poor migrants?
Wow. Sobering differences.
(Social media is already repeating this Biden administration propaganda.)
They want us to think they are an innocent caravan of “asylum seekers:”
<><>they traveled thousands of dangerous miles over unpaved roads
<><>yet their shoes are spotlessly clean
<><>they are neat, clean, well-dressed, well-fed, and hydrated
<><>they’re from Central and South America, Guatemala, Venezuela,Mexico, Peru, etc
<><>many trekked from Somalia, Egypt, West Africa, and China
<><>most of them are military age men
<><>they aren’t escaping persecution or violence;
<><>they are here to take jobs from Americans
<><>to drain our country of its resources.
<><>to become a dedicated voting bloc
<><>to advance the hidden political agendas of their homelands.
Or tear gassing migrants?!
they know nobody will buy Kamala getting “81 million votes.”
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Voters do not count, Ballots do - they just keep running ballots through the machines until they hit some magic number.
Kamala can get any number of ballots; it just means running the boxes of ballots through the machines a few more times. They do not care who buys what - as long as the Dem wins. They have plenty of high powered lawyers, judges, politicians, functionaries, media outlets, etc ready to go against the election deniers.
Th Lame Street Media and Anti-social Media are all part of the Deep State who wants to claim the throne of socialism.
Won’to be allowed? By what law will he be stopped? He’s not a U.S. citizen or 35 years old?
We have to finish the wall and lay miles of the stuff on each side of it. Since they won't allow A-10s do strafing runs along the corridors.
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