The hypocrisy of the left and the gullibility of many on the right has never been more evident than this past week during the “outrage” of children separated from their parents at our southern border. Heated exchanges have occurred on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets. Christians who believe in following the law, because at the moment this is exactly what the law requires (more about that later), have been preached to by non-believing leftists and other Christians who hold themselves too pure to support President Trump in anything that he does. . . just because. Rachel Maddow dissolved in tears on camera. And that longtime Hollywood actor and self-determined moral guide, Peter Fonda, first tweeted that Barron Trump, the President’s twelve-year-old son should be locked up in a cage with a bunch of pedophiles, and then, when forced to apologize for that after he was reported to the Secret Service, tweeted that the First Lady should be caged, naked, so people could go by and poke at her. Real class, these Hollywood types!
While those on the right have tried to logically explain why by law this has to happen and that after all, these people have broken the law by entering our country illegally, the left has surrounded and shouted at the Secretary of Homeland Security while she dared to eat dinner in a (gasp!) Mexican restaurant, published the names, phone numbers, and addresses of ICE officers so that mobs could go after them, and even provided the names and locations of the schools that their children attend, instructing activists to surround the schools in order to frighten the children. This from the left who LOVES children! Frighten American children but protect illegal alien children from staying in shelters with nice beds, air-conditioning, school lessons, recess, video games, wide-screen televisions. . . kind of like summer camp for the children of the wealthy!
And while Republicans offered solutions, Democrats demurred. Senator Ted Cruz crafted a bill that would have provided for family detention centers to keep the children with their parents while their asylum requests were being checked for legitimacy. But Senator Chuck Schumer said he wasn’t interested in a permanent fix through a bill, which with bipartisan support could have passed both houses within a day or two and been signed into law by the President who was begging for just such legislative action. It would take too long, Schumer argued. And anyway, he wanted to put it all on President Trump, he said on television. Let him solve it with his pen.
So that is exactly what the President did, knowing that if a federal judge couldn’t be convinced to amend her ruling that children could be detained no longer than 20 days, we would be right back where we started.
And exactly how did we get here? Well, during the Obama administration, around 70,000 children, both accompanied by adults and unaccompanied, entered the U.S. through our southern border. They were housed in cages and provided with silver, emergency blankets, as shown by the 2014 picture that was for some days attributed to the current situation. The court decided that the conditions were appalling for children and so, through the Flores decision, the children, after 20 days, were ordered to be separated from their parents and sent to foster homes, care facilities around the country mostly run by churches, or delivered temporarily into the arms of relatives, most of whom themselves were living here illegally. The other alternative, and the one which the Obama administration settled on for actual families was the “Catch and Release” policy. When they entered illegally and were apprehended, if they had children with them, they were set free with ankle bracelets and told to return for asylum hearings months later. Most of them, 90% of them, to be exact, simply cut off their ankle bracelets and disappeared into the U.S. never to be heard from again. Thus we had an open border for anyone arriving with a child in tow.
Consequently, since it was considered difficult to determine whether or not the adult was actually the parent of the children he or she arrived with, two things occurred and are still occurring. Men are buying children from poor families who are perhaps relieved to have one less mouth to feed and a little extra money (a practice that has gone on for centuries in various countries), and used them as their passport into the United States. The second abomination is that human traffickers are buying or stealing children to sell as workers or as sex slaves in the U.S. and simply walking across the border with them. Of the 12,000 children who have been recently brought across the southern border, only about 2,000 of them were actually brought by their parents! In addition, Border agents report that the young girls are arriving equipped with birth control pills, since it is assumed that they will be raped in the course of the journey.
While people whine about how un-Christian it is to separate families, these poor, struggling families who only want to have a better life, none of these “do-gooders” is considering the two logical situations that should be addressed here:
a) we can not, as a country, support every poor, struggling family in the world who wants to come to America and live off our food stamps, unemployment checks, Medicaid, and subsidized housing. These same “do-gooders” might answer how many poor and homeless from their own communities have they welcomed into their homes, fed, clothed and otherwise supported? The answer would be none! Or would they be willing to accept one of these families from central America into their own homes, caring for them until their asylum hearing and then guaranteeing their presence at such a hearing? Of course not! This does not really touch any of them. It is only a way to rail against a President that they don’t like!
b) what would these same people say about an American parent or parents who dragged their children hundreds of miles on foot across deserts, accompanied by guides who they knew would probably rape their daughters? They would shout that these parents should be locked up for endangering the life of a minor and their children would be taken from them and given to someone who would take better care of them. That outrage has been judiciously overlooked in this case because, of course, it is necessary to paint these careless and unthinking adults as wonderful parents, only wanting the best for their children.
President Trump pledged as a presidential candidate to tighten our borders and to, thereby, keep us safe as a nation since a country without borders ceases to become a country. And that is what he is attempting to do, in part, with the zero tolerance. You can not enter this country illegally and simply stay here any more. If Democrats will cooperate, those families can be kept together until they are deported. But Democrats will probably not cooperate, because their concern as always, is not really the children, but only the possibility of using those children as a bludgeon to hammer away at the President. And they lie while they do it. Time Magazine is running an article with a picture of a young girl of perhaps two or three looking up and crying. The reporter claims that he saw her “ripped” from her mother’s arms and taken away. Time put the girl’s picture on the front of the magazine with a picture of Trump looking down at her and saying, “Welcome to America.”
The trouble is, that girl was never taken from her mother at all. She was brought here by her mother who paid a coyote to help them across the border, leaving her husband back in Honduras. The girl and her mother have always been staying together in a detention facility awaiting, no doubt, deportation back to the father who was happy to hear that they were safe. Unfortunately, millions of Americans will see that false image and read that fake news story and believe every word of it!
The left is like that. They lie, they distort, they twist the truth. And those who dislike the President, either because he defeated Felonia Milhous Von Pantsuit, as one columnist refers to Clinton, or because he is an outsider, a brash, hard-hitting, non-politician who says what he thinks without considering the political niceties. . . those people lap up every lie and distortion and gleefully join the mob of haters.
The left likes to call Conservatives haters because the Christians among us don’t believe in the practice of homosexuality, or all of the new transgender baloney that the left promotes. “Diversity!” “Tolerance,” they cry! But there is no more diverse and tolerant group than Conservatives. We include homosexuals and every ethnic group within our camp because even if we don’t approve of what homosexuals do, for example, we can still like them, accept them as friends, work with them, support them in their careers, fight for their right to free speech and free practice of their religion even if it differs from our own.
But the left can not do that. Most on the left would not date a conservative or even have a conservative as a friend. They call any speech that disagrees with their ideas “hate speech.” The say and do horrid things to adults and children alike who are not like them. They claim to support women, but call conservative women too dumb to vote for anyone other than whom their fathers, husbands, sons, or bosses tell them to vote for. The claim to support blacks, but in the cities that Democrats run, blacks live in the most appalling conditions and the Democrats will not even allow their children to have school choice in an effort to give them a better education and a ticket out of poverty. And any person of color who is a conservative is vilified, called an “Uncle Tom.” They claim to support children, but only the children of immigrants who entered this country illegally. Our own American children they are willing to ignore or, if their parents are police officers, border guards, or ICE agents, they are anxious to terrorize them. And unborn children are just so much tissue with a beating heart, to be ripped out the womb, dissected, and sold for parts.
The left is bigoted, racist, hate-filled, and intent upon destroying the republic in which we live. Obama told us clearly that his goal was to fundamentally transform America, and that continues to be the goal of the left. I fail to understand how so many Americans, even those that I know and have always thought to be logical thinking people, can allow their visceral hatred of the President to so color their thinking that they become the allies of those on the left who would destroy this nation!