The neo-Democrats don’t want you to know a lot of things about the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border with Mexico. Foremost, the U.S. Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, created the immigration laws that the neo-Dems revel in opposing or ignoring without any concern for changing or abolishing them, properly.
Politicians in so-called sanctuary cities, counties, and states are actively flouting laws they know were duly created by the U.S. Congress. Laws that can be just as duly changed or even legislated out of existence. But what fun would that be? Then leftist politicians couldn’t use illegal immigration as an issue every two, four, or six years.
But the left needs as many excuses as it can contrive to call its opponents racist. Which brings up an interesting aside. The left, including the mainstream media, constantly call for civility. Yet, they are the first to accuse those who disagree with them politically of being racist. For example, newly minted socialist Congress member OAC (D-NY) told CBS 60 Minutes she “knows” President Trump is a racist. Where can any effective discussion start after that?
You don’t see that smarmy strategy going from right to left. For example, no matter how much leftist radical groups such as MoveOn.org try to shut down conservative speech about immigration and other issues, major conservative names such as Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Malkin, Levin, Beck, Carlson, O’Reilly, etc., continue to defend the left’s right to free speech—even if it’s being used in an attempt to shut them down.
There are so many other things about what’s happening at our southern border the neo-Dems don’t want you to know. For example, an excellent in-depth story appearing in The Epoch Times (Dec 27, 2018 – Jan 2, 2019), written by Charlotte Cuthbert, illuminates the direct and ancillary factors of illegal immigration that affect Americans that many, maybe most, people don’t know about. First, let’s begin with a marvelous example of some dumb things leftists say about immigration.
Democrat commentator, radio host, and former senior aide to Senator Chuck Schumer (yes, this tells us a lot), Chris Hahn said something really dumb. Now, I’m not excluding myself from the say-something-dumb club. We all do it. And Hahn is one of my favorite liberals (though I fast-forward his butt as soon as he reverts to being “hack-ish”). He seems like a nice guy. But sometimes, like Hahn did the other night, we really lower the dumb bar.
Hahn was speaking with Tucker Carlson when he instigated a wrestling match with a metaphor that eventually had him bound up in an inescapable headlock and pasted to the mat. Hahn said, “And to borrow the NRA’s argument though, if we put a wall up though to block out illegal, you know people from coming here to want to harm us, people who come here legally are going to be the only ones stopped by that wall because people who are going to come here illegally or to harm us are going to figure out a way around it, just like they’re going to figure out how to get guns.” One… Two… Three… Slap the mat. Pinned!
For the record, although Hahn’s apparent befuddlement won’t allow me to guarantee accuracy here, I think the comparison he was aiming at was with the gun rights idiom: gun laws only affect law-abiding gun owners. Hence—I guess—immigration laws only affect law-abiding illegal immigrants or something like that—I guess. “Law-abiding illegal immigrants,” yes, I just wrote that. And yes, my head does hurt a little bit.
Or, is he saying a border wall only keeps out legal immigrants. Geez, Chris, to make a good metaphor there has to be some relationship between the things compared. Besides, why would a wall matter to a legal immigrant? Walls aren’t put up to stop legal immigrants because legal border crossers don’t climb over or tunnel under border barriers. My immigrant mother didn’t care about border walls when she came here—legally. Then, once the metaphor let him up off the mat, Mr. Hahn began making some hack-ish, inane argument about 18-foot walls and 18-foot-one-inch ladders, and blah, blah, blah…fast-forward. What a dumb argument.
Refreshingly, The Epoch Times article introduces us to someone with anything but a dumb argument. Someone who has spent a lifetime trying to make America’s borders safe. Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot has spent some 30 years patrolling this southwest Arizona county, which shares a 126-mile border with the states of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico. I think sometimes people forget that it’s not only the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) that patrols the border. Local law enforcement, mostly sheriffs’ agencies, do also. I think the neo-Dems like that people forget or don’t know.
Sheriff Wilmot, whose deputies patrol this 5,522-square-mile county, reminds us it’s not the CBP responsible for investigating all the crime at the border. When CBP agents apprehend illegal immigrants, they call the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office. Why? Because it’s the sheriff and his deputies who will investigate the assaults, robberies, rapes, and murders the illegal immigrant victims and witnesses have reported to agents.
Wilmot told Cuthbert that gangs of bandits will follow human traffickers to the border. Once the smugglers have transported the illegal immigrants across and have left, “bandits” will find them and rape, rob, and even kill some of these folks.
The sheriff recalled one incident early in his career when smugglers left several illegal immigrants in the desert, just over the border. They told the people they only had a few miles to walk to get to a highway. In this case, the highway was 50 miles away. Most of those illegal crossers, left with little food and water, perished. The sheriff’s office had to investigate these deaths.
In one particularly gruesome case, the sheriff noted searching for illegals in the desert. The air temperature was 120 degrees and ground temperatures were up to 140. They observed vultures circling overhead—not a subtle clue. They found a dead man. He’d taken off his shirt, something dehydrated, delirious people often do. Vultures had pecked the man to the bone from his waist up to his head. Wilmot said on some days the flow of illegals was so high, the crossers outnumbered his deputies 50:1. Illegal immigrants were assaulting deputies daily.
Because of Obama administration policies, federal agents could not enforce federal law at the border. So, enforcement landed in the lap of local authorities. To combat Obama’s policies that transferred the cost of border enforcement to local agencies, Sheriff Wilmot pulled a trick out of his Stetson. He began deputizing federal agents, “so they can do the job the Democrat courts won’t allow.” And it’s not just ICE or border patrol agents he was deputizing.
Wilmot said he’s also deputized “DEA agents, FBI agents, and Homeland Security Investigations agents.” The sheriff said it was frustrating to local law enforcement that the federal government under Obama would not prosecute drug smugglers coming across the border through his county. He questions the politicians’ motivations “when they put their own political agenda above the quality of life of American citizens…” The Sheriff’s Office also has to investigate the crimes committed —drunk driving, theft, burglary, robbery, rape, and murder— in the county by illegal immigrants.
He notes that politicians are not out here in the 120-degree heat when his deputies have to investigate where human traffickers left 14 people to die in the desert. He says, “We need to enforce the laws of this land. If they don’t like it, which you hear all the time they’re the lawmakers, change it. But until then, let’s do our job.” But that’s just it; the neo-Dems don’t want law enforcement to do its job when it comes to immigration. Not when it comes to enforcing laws that interfere with their current political agenda.
Wilmot says since the Trump administration took over, he hasn’t had to take such drastic actions. The federal agents were once again allowed to do the job the Congress charged them to do. But it’s obvious he and other local law enforcement at the border continue to be frustrated along with their federal brothers and sisters-in-arms. Trump-hating federal judges continue to attempt to subvert Congress, and CBP agents, by inhibiting their ability to make the border safe.
Why were the neo-Dems all DACA all the time last year at this time? Remember the Schumer-shutdown over DACA? The neo-Dems would do anything for DACA. Well, that is until President Trump offered them DACA on a proverbial silver platter. Oh, no! We can’t take the deal. Then we won’t have the DACA issue for the ballot. So, they torpedo DACA because they can’t let Trump win—ever. Even when he offers them what they say they want. In fact, he offered them more than they asked for. Still, no matter.
And the neo-Dems just can’t leave law enforcement alone. Since politics have replaced their religion, why not allow politics to also replace law enforcement? Like Sheriff Wilmot alluded to above, law enforcement must be above politics. No one thinks anything of the Secret Service dignitary protection agents protecting people equally, regardless of their politics. But other law enforcement must operate in an at least two-tier social-justice system. One for the elite, their benefactors, and causes—particularly, the leftist elite—and one for the rest of us.
Hillary, Comey, Mueller, et. al. are above the law. Let’s exonerate or immunize them from legal consequences. President Trump, a Republican, on the other hand, let’s keep searching for a crime to pin on him. Gun laws: let’s legislate the Second Amendment out of existence. Abortion laws: you cops better uphold those. Drug laws, property crimes, immigration laws…we don’t like those so, let’s create a sanctuary universe so we can ignore those laws. How can a democratic-republic survive such corruption?
So, let’s talk about the leftist myth that “walls don’t work.” Forget about Israel, Jordan, Tunisia and other foreign places where Democrats have authorized federal funds for walls. The bottom line of this discussion is that walls do work. Yuma County, Arizona is one of the border counties that has benefitted from the installation of a border barrier. In their case, there is a quality fence.
And, please, enough with the odious semantics. Some walls are stronger than some fences and some fences are stronger than some walls. Whether concrete, steel, composites, or playdough left to harden overnight by your kids. Enough, already. Can we get off the playground and return to where responsible adults sort out problems maturely?
Sheriff Wilmot says before the border fence, Yuma County was the worst county in the country on the southern border for illegal border crossings. However, since the “ineffective and immoral fence” was installed, the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office reports a 91 percent reduction in county crimes, including desert deaths, thefts, burglaries, robberies, rapes, and homicides.
But what does Sheriff Wilmot know? Hell, he’s only done the job for three decades. Of course, Senator Schumer and Leader Pelosi know better. I mean, they know more about everything than you and me, right? Oh, and they’re always right, and we’re always wrong—about everything. When will I stop forgetting that?
