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“Border Crisis” My Eye
Remember George Stephanopoulos asking that seemingly out-of-the-blue question about birth control at the Republican debate in January 2012?
I think about it all the time, because it helps me remember that the Obama Administration sees no distinction between politics and policy and—crucially—is not above manufacturing a crisis in order to take credit for solving it.
I ain’t that smart, but I know that tens of thousands of unaccompanied children don’t just show up somewhere by coincidence.
The New York Times wants you to think all these kids decided to make a spontaneous mass migration to El Norte in order to get away from the murderous gang problem in Honduras and El Salvador. NBC has a similar take.
Some say that rumors have been spreading throughout Central America that a change in our immigration laws is imminent and anyone who can get to the U.S. now will be able to stay.
Am I the only one that thinks this explanation stinks? If it were true, why would they just send their kids? Why wouldn’t whole families make the trip?
Can you imagine putting your kids on a bus or in the back of a truck and sending them to a foreign country—on their own—based on a rumor? I can’t.
Everybody knows that kids get abused, trafficked, killed, beat up, robbed, etc. when they make these journeys. This is not something that is only known to NGO types with degrees from Yale and Brown. Central American parents are, I’m sure, aware of the dangers.
So why would thousands upon thousands of these families voluntarily expose their beloved children to the possibility of such mistreatment? Because life in Honduras suddenly became so very unbearable? Because Latin America just recently developed a gang problem?
I don’t buy it. I don’t buy any of it.
These Obama administration bums are up to their old tricks, manufacturing a “crisis” on the border in order to make Republicans look mean and bash through an amnesty that they expect will give them a permanent Democratic electoral majority.
But they are playing with lives here. Children’s lives. And that’s lower than I thought even they would go.
Published in General
Something else that is curious. Buried in a NY Times piece last week was the fact that, in addition to the 50,000 mostly minors we are hearing about now, there have been 240,000 adults apprehended, and disbursed throughout the country since April. How does that happen? How can 240,000 adults not be noticed? The town of Chelsea, MA, added 700 non english speaking children to it’s 5500 student school population since January. Lynn MA has added 400. There was a story about what appear to be adults registering as ninth graders in their HS. The question is not if you are paranoid, it is are you paranoid enough.
Mr. N told me tonight some of ninth graders registering in Lynn have gray hair.
Barack Obama is aiding and abetting a foreign invasion of the United States. Thus, he is a traitor in the truest sense of the term.