Wednesday, June 26, 2019

It's cause and effect that cannot be ignored

Great piece on CR regarding that awful pic that everyone's seen by now of the drowned father and daughter washed up on the shores of the Rio Grande, and before I go any further with this, let us offer a prayer for the deceased...
O GOD, whose mercies cannot be numbered; Accept our prayers on behalf of the souls of thy servants departed, and grant them an entrance into the land of light and joy, in the fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Now, the Left immediately seized on this tragedy, and I'm certain every Democratic nominee in the first freakshow debate, as well as their Democratic 'moderators', have politicized it to the hilt (I dunno, didn't watch it, know they all sounded off beforehand with the usual 'blame Trump' lines). But first things first: neither the President nor his administration are making people risk life and limb to come to our shores. That's free will to make right or wrong choices, and when some of those choices involve illegal activity, the results can unfortunately be tragic. It certainly doesn't help one bit when a political party incentivizes lawbreaking in the first place!

I agree with Nate Madden that we cannot, nor shouldn't, ignore the real border crisis that's going on, BUT we also shouldn't ignore its very real causes either...
...the administration has been dealing with month after month after month of record numbers of border apprehensions and changing demographics driven by a combination of what National Review editor Rich Lowry describes as “bizarre asylum rules” and inadequate security at the U.S.-Mexico border. These have left enforcement agencies grossly overburdened.

Meanwhile, it has been almost two months since the administration requested emergency border funding to address the ongoing crisis, and a supplemental measure addressing it only passed the House Tuesday evening (where funding bills have to begin, per the Constitution.) That spending package, however, contains no funding for additional border security measures.

It’s also important to keep in mind, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration started trying to address the asylum policies that created the current crisis over a year ago.

And, in case anyone forgot, this isn’t America’s first crisis of this nature. The journey north was still dangerous and the asylum incentives were similar five years ago, the swell of minors from Central America claiming refugee status as Unaccompanied Alien Children got so bad that then-President Barack Obama had to warn Central American parents to stop sending their kids here.

 “Do not send your children to the borders,” Obama warned. “If they do make it, they’ll get sent back; more importantly, they might not make it.”

Look, it’s right to feel pangs of horror and sadness upon seeing a picture of a drowned father and daughter. It’s right to say it’s bad when kids don’t have soap and toothbrushes at detention facilities. These are objectively bad things, but we cannot pretend away the factors that actually created these conditions.

The humanitarian crisis at our southern border is indeed horrific. It was horrific before this picture was taken. It was horrific before the detention centers became as crowded as they currently are. That’s why it’s so important to fix this crisis the right way and prevent others of its kind from happening again.

 You can’t fix a problem when you won’t admit what’s causing it, and as long as our current asylum and security problems persist, this crisis simply won’t go away.
And as long as one political party refuses to do anything towards control of our borders, towards preserving our national sovereignty, towards law and order in our nation that benefits our civil society, this chaos continues...
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 commonsense 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...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.
Related link: Being for Sovereignty and Security is the Ultimate Pro-Life Position

ADDENDUM: And the party's media mouthpieces can no longer deny the crisis either...


Related links: Must-Watch Video Of Media Claiming Border Security Is A 'Manufactured Crisis'
After Months of Denying, Cable Journalists Admit ‘Crisis’ at Border
Posted by an ebb and flow at 11:59 PM