Immigrants crossing the southern U.S. border is reaching all-time records, with over two million apprehensions so far this year. The hordes include both families and single adults. A “growing number” of them (probably the majority) are requesting asylum, claiming they are refugees trying to escape torture, murder, rape, persecution, and other abuse in their home countries. Republican politicians are calling it an “invasion”, and are relocating them to northern states in a desperate publicity attempt.
(with all due respect and appreciation to you David, its no small matter to open discussion on this difficult topic)
To set the baseline, this is illegal immigration. While the U.S.
drowns in a quagmire of bleeding heartjuice and isolationist vitriol
we get --- nowhere. Note that other nations enforce their borders
in the new and old world; yet we are more enlightened.. and should not?
Some items that are not minuscule:
-2 million apprehensions
-MS13 gang members (even a few; murder/rape/general felony)
-Elements of middle-eastern terrorist cells
-Mules (of every type)
-Destruction of US land/life/liberty along the the border
Our existing issues are no less important, nor do they
justify even one more of the above:
'two wrongs don't make a.....'
Shining light, nation founded on freedom and limited govt.
Once we were, but those principles are under siege
from both without and within. Waving the flag of "give me your..."
is long past, we are struggling at home to recover from the
disaster this illegal influx, socialist legislators, and
Biden administration hobbling is inflicting to those very principles.
Its a strawman to argue that we should care for others, yes we should.
But SHOULD we let our own lands fall to ruin in the process?
No wall, open borders, overstressed borderlands, heavily taxed
public services. Only a fool burns their house to warm the surrounding
countryside.
Just WHO gave any of the pundits and the FEDS the right to say
its ok to crush the public services in Texas/Arizona/New Mexico
because non-contributing asylum seekers need to drain what was
generated based on local 'resident' economy and state/fed allocation.
Who gave them the right to say the lands of farmers/ranchers/citizens
in those border areas were forfeit to hordes who consume, trample, destroy
the land/owners. Write those names down so they can pay for the damages
and institute recovery programs.
I applaud 'outing' the harsh govt/tyrants who are the seeds of this
disaster, but offer that folks like Heugo Chavez, Castro, Che...
none of these were/are easily dissuaded from their destructive behaviors.
The govt invokes sanctions, with some effect, but the world turns, slowly.
Whatever we do we CANNOT worsen the situation in the United States,
the citizens and legal immigrants deserve to benefit from what they
put into this nation, their work, sweat, tears have earned that right.
Compassion is not to be left in the cold, but responsible thought
must include the balance of both.
As the current admin/legislature hurtles us toward power outages,
overpriced commodities, winters cold; and erosion of the common good one
cannot expect the already strapped and strained citizenry to just keep giving.
The armchair urbanist view of critical situations has been the bane of
our culture, it ignores the individuals who suffer (often grievously)
for the pseudo-enlightened understanding of numbers and 'whats best'.
It is true many will sacrifice much to escape evil, sadly they often
inflict what their culture normalized on where they land, thus the
suffering is compounded and in todays N.A. culture most residents
are vilified when they speak up for their 'life/liberty/happiness'
--one persons opinion---