A vote for Biden is a vote for poverty, homelessness, terrorism, child sex trafficking, drug deaths and more
Progressives have betrayed their own values.
Did President Joe Biden really mean to create a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the kind that we haven’t seen in memory?
Did he intend to import 10 million people with only the clothes on their backs without a thought about how they will be fed? Where they will live? If there will be enough doctors and hospitals to care for them when they get sick? To keep them warm in winter?
Misery and death are the direct results of Biden’s immigration policy. How could he (or the people actually running the administration) not foresee the shocking and horrific results?.
To understand he devastating impact of Biden’s policies. witness families desperate to find for a warm place to escape the bitter cold. In CTA buses and police stations in Chicago. At O’Hare airport. In New York, in a school that was cleared out of students to make room for the homeless.
Has Biden forgotten, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” Millions of freedom searchers have disappeared into somewhere in America, but for Biden, they’re on their own. It’s a return to the laissez-faire days when Ellis Island immigrants had to fend for themselves, collapsing into hovels, ghettoes and tenements.
Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appear to be as disinterested in the searchers’ plight as the worst of the far right, nationalists who comprise the “basket of deployables.”
Across America, hospitals struggle. Doctors are over-booked. Schools and social services are taxed. Yet no one—not progressives/liberals/Democrats, not the corporate media, not politicians—care enough to study how well these disappeared millions are doing.
Do they give a fig about child sex trafficking? Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors are lost children. The Department of Homeland Security in 2022 couldn’t account for 85,000 who have been placed with “sponsors.” A whistle blower testified that the government is a “middleman” in a lucrative child trafficking ring.
Progressives ignore illegal immigration because they are captives of their own, unbending and unrealistic ideology.
Are the networks and cable news channels trying to find out what has happened to these kids? It’s left to our imaginations to think about how an 11-year-old girl is sold to someone she was told she could trust, only to find out that she has to service perverts.
Maybe some of these minors end up working in factories, like children in a Charles Dickens novel.
Illegal drugs, Fentanyl mainly, smuggled across the border are the leading cause of death of young Americans. Does Biden bother to watch the heart-breaking testimony and stories of parents who have lost a child to Fentanyl? Did he call and console any? Has he a plan to stymie the import of those drugs?
Let’s not forget the Mexican cartels. They are the equivalent of a Fortune 500 company. Making billions not just with drug smuggling but also by reaping thousands of dollars for each illegal immigrant they guide across the border.
Among them are multitudes of single, military-age men who are potential terrorists. Or criminals who have raped and murdered Americans. They come not just from Central American countries but from more than 100 nations world-wide; some are U.S. enemies. Since Oct. 1, the start of this fiscal year, almost 100,000 illegal immigrants got way from authorities and disappeared into the country.
Amazingly, Biden has ignored mayors from his own party asking for relief from the effects of his destructive border policy. Of course, the mayors didn’t care about the flood of illegal immigrants until they started to arrive in their cities. If Texas or Florida hadn’t started sending them to Chicago, New York and Martha’s Vineyard, the mayors wouldn’t have cared. Now they’re raising a stink about their burdens, although they have only as many total illegal immigrants in their cities as come across the border in a single day.
The national cost of dealing with illegal immigration is estimated to approach $200 billion annually. Desperate to cope, the mayors have stuck it to their own residents by putting the illegal immigrants at the head of the line for various services. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build a tent city on polluted land in a minority neighborhood ignited such loud objections from nearby residents that he had to cancel his plans. In New York, students at one school were sent home so illegal immigrants would have a place to stay.
The list of pain and suffering Biden has caused could go on and on. And yet, there’s no acknowledgment. Failure to do so by him and the very people who claim moral superiority is not just puzzling, but also deeply worrying.
Progressive hoot and holler about their superior compassion, caring, kindness, sensitivity, humainness, benevolence and more. It’s as if they’ve copyrighted those adjectives.
Yet they erase from their consciousness the nightmares that they have created for those who spent fortunes, traveled unbelievable miles and risked their lives to find a better place to live. In America—a place of freedom that is so despised by those same progressives.
In good faith, I struggle to understand what Biden is trying to do by opening the border. Every public policy must have a goal, a purpose. Yet, I cannot identify with any clarity the purpose Biden’s policy.
Lacking not just a good explanation, but any explanation at all, conspiracy theories pop up about his motives. And why not? Is he actually trying to remake America—its culture, values and governance by flooding the country with people who have different values?
Maybe it’s grounded in the belief that the country needs to be changed racially and ethnically, because it’s in the grip of white privilege.
Or does he have a more practical reason, figuring that illegal immigrants will vote for Democrats as a thank-you for allowing them into America? Is it a power play?
Some, for ideological reasons, want open borders because they believe they’re doing a good thing. They truly think that it’s a blessed endeavor to allow in anyone who wants to come to America for whatever reason. Supposedly it’s the compassionate thing to do. And those who would “close” the border, do it for “hateful” reasons.
This reasoning is pitiful, even contemptible. They are lost in their ideology, denying what should be apparent. They are pushing America down a path that’s disastrous, even deadly for America and Americans. But the far left ideologues don’t see it. For them, the disaster is just the cost of achieving their vision of what America should become. They bridle at how their vision is blocked by hateful, far right, xenophobes, homophobes, etc., etc.
This failure is one of the greater threats to democracy. People who are so blinded by their doctrines that they reject reality. People who posit their truths as a papal ex cathedra. So much so that no alternatives can be considered.
We can only pray that God gives them gifts of sight and sound so that they can find the truth. And get set free of their deaf and blind lives.
Dennis Byrne is a retired Chicago journalist, freelance writer and author. Email: dennis@dennisbyrne.net