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October 7, 2021 - 5:37pm
I read that more than 17,000 foreigners have crossed the Channel illegally into the UK from France in the first nine months of this year. Apparently this is a cause of some consternation.
That’s less than three days’ worth of illegal entries at the U.S.-Mexico border under Joe Biden.
Part of the reason for the disparity, of course, is that the sea serves Britain as a natural barrier. Meanwhile, the Rio Grande, which accounts for 1,200 miles of the 2,000-mile border, is not especially grand, and in places is hardly a river at all, its water entirely diverted for irrigation.
This was why Donald Trump made the construction of a border wall a central part of his 2016 campaign. And so, running as the anti-Trump, Joe Biden made halting the construction of that wall a central part of his 2020 campaign.
Biden won, and within hours of taking office ordered work on the wall to stop.
I saw the consequences of this decision on a recent visit to the border at El Paso. This city, at the farthest western tip of Texas, has long faced a significant flow of illegal immigrants. While the city itself has had real border barriers for years, in the outskirts and out in the countryside fencing was either risible or non-existent. Trump succeeded here, as elsewhere along the border, to get significant portions of the wall built, usually in the form of concrete-filled metal bollards placed a few inches apart (so the Border Patrol would be able to see what’s on the other side).
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SubscribeThe minds of the left are diseased. Trump was just the catalyst for the current mania, but the sickness is in THEM not him.
I think we all know that politicians are happy to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration in the full knowledge that once in, deportation on any significant scale is unfeasible. They will have mass migration, whether the electorate vote for it or not.
Only a handful of these migrants will be active agents of the democrats…. drug dealers, rapists, vote fraudsters, gang members etc but they will, with Biden/ dems backing, bully and coerce the many who just want to have a better, safer life and happy to pay tax to get it.
I heard that there are payments of $4m a day ‘not to build’.
We are all so racist and white supremacist in the west that it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want to come here. Maybe they didn’t get the message?
The border wall is now symbolic of the failure to stem immigration. The current rate inbound ~ 2M/year with an estimate of 11-40M undocumented already in the US. Whether this influx will end the American experiment is up for debate. The culture of some 200 years is being altered by those who may not need to join the culture. Time suggests their children will adopt the culture, meanwhile much uncertainty.
I am a Canadian who proudly became an American citizen. It is, after all, a pretty good place to live. And I do not deal drugs, rape, or murder.
Which, I’ll bet, were probably the last characteristics you would have ascribed to me because I said I was Canadian.
And, I very much wish to help change American culture because, I think, that is what a proud, active citizen does to any culture they are a part of: change it for the better.
Are you with me so far? Because I am getting SO sick and tired of many people so very quickly thinking those illegal immigrants from south are probably thieving, drug dealing, rapists.
My bet is the vast majority of those people are ordinary average people like you and me. They are just desperate to get out of living in Mexico. And who can blame them?
And yes, they will change American culture. Mostly, I believe, for the better. Just like me, who was able to get in legally.
I think the issue is other, not a dichotomy between nasty criminals and worthy workers. The issue is does the government have the authority to set rules respecting who may come in and the will to enforce them. Because circumstances in their home countries are bad cannot equate to a right to immigrate. The world is full of bad circumstances; the US cannot save all, not even the millions arriving at our southern border.