Posted on 06/26/2019 7:55:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Congress is debating emergency humanitarian aid to care for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. The need is obvious. With virtually no barrier to stop them, thousands of migrants are crossing illegally into the United States every day. More than a million will come this year. U.S. law prevents border officials from quickly returning them. While they are being processed, some of the migrants, including children, are being kept temporarily in terrible conditions. American officials have an obligation to take care of them before those with no valid claim to be in the United States are returned to their home countries.
Capitol Hill Democrats are reportedly torn about an emergency aid measure. On one hand, they want to care for the migrants. On the other hand, they fear approving aid would empower President Trump to carry out a plan to deport illegal immigrants whose cases have received full legal due process and who have been ordered deported. Such deportations used to be relatively uncontroversial but are now, apparently, unacceptable to some Democrats.
This moment might be a time for introspection for those who have consistently downplayed the urgency of the situation on the border. Earlier this year, with the number of illegal crossings rising; with the nature of the crossers changing -- more families and more children than in earlier years; with the testimony of border officials that they were unable to handle the situation -- with all that happening, many Democrats and their supporters in the media forcefully denied that there was a crisis on the southern border. Here are a few -- actually, more than a few -- examples:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the situation "a fake crisis at the border."
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called it "a crisis that does not exist."
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, "There is no crisis at the border."
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said, "There is no crisis at the border."
House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Eliot Engel called the situation "a fake crisis at the border."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said, "There is no crisis at the border."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, said, "We don't have a border crisis."
Rep. Lloyd Doggett called the situation "a phony border crisis."
Rep. Earl Blumenauer called it "a fake crisis at the border."
Rep. Sanford Bishop called it "a crisis that does not exist."
Reps. Jesus Garcia, Jose Serrano, Suzanne Bonamici, Donald Beyer, Pramila Jayapal and Adriano Espaillat called it a "nonexistent border crisis."
Former congressman and current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, "There is no border crisis."
All are in public office and all have a say in determining policy. In the media, NeverTrump Republicans, former Republicans and other commentators have joined in.
Former Rep. Joe Scarborough, now with MSNBC, called the situation "an imaginary border crisis."
Former Bush White House official Nicolle Wallace, also with MSNBC, said, "There's not a crisis."
Former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called the situation "a fake crisis."
GOP strategist Rick Wilson said, "There is no crisis on the border."
Former conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes said, "There is no crisis at the border."
The Washington Post's Max Boot called the situation a "faux crisis."
The Post's Jennifer Rubin said, "There is no crisis at the southern border."
The Post's editorial board called it a "make-believe crisis."
And finally, lest anyone ignore the late-night Resistance, comedian Jimmy Kimmel called the situation "a fake border crisis."
Are 26 examples enough? There are plenty more, for those who care to look.
The situation at the border is so terrible in part because those in power, and those cheering them on in the media, have steadfastly resisted common-sense measures to reduce the flow of illegal migrants -- the large majority of whom do not have a valid claim of asylum -- across the border. The resulting paralysis in border policy encourages more migrants to come, making the situation worse by the day.
Perhaps some of those quoted above only want to deny the president a victory, no matter how sensible. Perhaps others are simply looking for a partisan advantage. Perhaps some sincerely believe in open, or virtually open, borders. It does not matter what their motives are. The crisis -- yes, crisis -- at the border worsens every day they do not act.
They are reading a centrally distributed talking point, so I doubt there are more than two or three original thoughts among that entire group. :)
Wouldn’t it be great if someone leaked or investigated to find the “central talking point” network center? It is obviously there.
In the Obama-Romney debate, Romney indicated that Russia was a threat to the US. Obama replied: "And, the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, ..."
Democrats are always a few steps back on all issues.
Know them by their deeds, not their words.
The democrat position is to (while denying they are for open borders) block construction of a wall, block obstruct legislation fixing asylum laws, obstruct legislation that helps ICE, obstruct legislation that permits detention of illegal border crossers, and obstruction legislation that fixes chain migration and lottery migration.
The democrats have opposed helping with humanitarian money up until this point as well, mostly because they were afraid it would be diverted to the wall, but now that it has become such a public issue, particularly with children in the spotlight, they have begrudgingly relented.
Every dem prez candidate, most of the MSM and much of the nation is for open borders. If they win, we will soon see steamboats from all over the world. This will be our final destruction........but the dems will be in charge.
Like everything else the left does. They get a free pass throwing any piece of spaghetti at the wall and whether it sticks or not, it’s all fair game. There’s never a consequence for blathering out any sort of accusation even if proven 100% wrong.
Except it IS real.
And the dems created .... invented .... it.
Former Rep. Joe Scarborough, now with MSNBC, called the situation “an imaginary border crisis.”
Former Bush White House official Nicolle Wallace, also with MSNBC, said, “There’s not a crisis.”
Former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called the situation “a fake crisis.”
GOP strategist Rick Wilson said, “There is no crisis on the border.”
Former conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes said, “There is no crisis at the border.”
The Washington Post’s Max Boot called the situation a “faux crisis.”
The Post’s Jennifer Rubin said, “There is no crisis at the southern border.”
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Funny thing, they are all Cheap Labor Express stooges and Bush League Republicans who have spent their careers advancing the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
The progressive response will be that at the time they spoke, there was no crisis, but Trump’s handling of the border has now caused a crisis that they are needed to solve.
No harm, no foul, and their followers don’t remember anything from over a week ago anyway.
They remind me of the old Woody Woodpecker cartoon in which he is given an eye test and all the letters, even in a bowl of alphabet soup form the words...
“I CAN NOT SEE A THING.”
The Dems are proven liars, they could care less that they change their positions for political purposes whenever they want. people who vote for them act surprised when they lie on the campaign trail to get elected and then never follow through..
Yes...but a the origin of the lack of original thought is hatred for America. Just like the muzzie maps that exclude Israel! I’m sure some commies somewhere, likely in a US college, has already redrawn the N. America map on tribal basis or some such nonsense.!
Would hacking it be illegal?
Wouldn't take too many changes to the messages to make them completely outlandish. The big question is would anyone notice?
On a related note, I’ve toured the fever-swamp known as DU. They incessantly hiss that POTUS has put children in cages and maintains numerous concentration camps where children are abused. Oh and they portray him as proud of treating children or “brown people” worse than animals. They are especially wounded that people keep saying that Obama started the separation of children at the border. On DU, of course, they are always in strict opposition to reality.
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These are not migrants. They are invaders.
You’re talking about the mischief of messing up some of their messages, which might be fun.
I’m talking more about political intelligence, demonstrating how these talking heads and political parrots get their instructions and how they co-ordinate. It would not only be embarrassing, it often borders on conspiracy. It’s fake news in the extreme.
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