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Quote of the Day: Dan Henninger on ‘The Great Migrant Embarrassment’
This quote comes from Henninger’s Wonder Land column in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, October 13.
Republicans have been labeled “anti-immigrant,” notwithstanding their arguments that it’s about the rule of law, not immigrants.
Progressive Democrats have self-defined as pro-immigrant, but under real-world pressure, that stance turns out to be a fraud. The Biden administration’s see-and-do-nothing policy catastrophe–drownings, abandoned children, illegal migrants wandering the nation, a fentanyl-addiction crisis emerging alongside–has shocked most Americans. The sanctuary-city pose has collapsed. Whatever advantage Democrats thought they had on immigration, Team Biden-Harris wrecked it. They claim they inherited the problem. Well, they blew it.
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Democrats in border states may pay politically in November for Mr. Biden’s nonfeasance on the migrant surge. But this tragic mess will remain, with most Americans wondering when their political leaders will resolve it in a way that honors the ideas the crisis is dishonoring–the border, the law, liberty and opportunity.
One little item that Mr. Henninger does not mention, since it would cast a bad light on his fellow WSJ editors, is that they are some of the ones who cast Republicans as “anti-immigrant,” leaving out the “illegal” part. He and his editorial board might be listened to more if they made that distinction.
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Which includes mostly not becoming politicians too. Or even thinking that politicians should matter.
This is something that many people don’t even know about. I live in a region where there are many businesses that offer the service to send money to people in countries south of the US border. I’ve discussed with people the fact that they live here for that purpose. Their plan is NOT to become American. Their plan is to send home money to support and build up their family there, and to be able to return home at certain point and enjoy their family again in a better situation because of the money that was sent there.
If I recall the stat correctly, around a third of Irish immigrants returned to Ireland.
That’s not really surprising, is it? The money they earn here goes a lot farther back in the crap-hole they came from. Heck they might even get to be one of the oppressors they were “fleeing” from!
And when the money runs out, they come back illegally to earn more money. Their lifestyle does not change, only the money source does, so they do not succeed in either place.