Inhumanity on the Border

On or about June 24, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legal right of the President of the United States to regulate immigration in the interest of national security.  Any reasonable person able to read the law could see that the law gave the President that authority before the matter was taken to court by the State of Hawaii and others.  It is obvious that Progressives took this matter court, not because they thought they were right, but because they were using the courts to delay and interfere with President Trump in the lawful exercise of his duties.

Defeated on this count, Progressives from the U.S. House and Senate ran down to the border with Mexico to stir up more trouble.  For some time, radical groups (with the help of the Mexican government) have been flooding the border with persons, primarily from Central America, claiming amnesty and demanding admission to the United States. These elected officials accused the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of treating these persons inhumanely because they were separated from their children while being afforded due process.  The Liberal media and various other groups made it a cause celebres.

President Trump said that his administration was just enforcing the law.  However, they changed the procedures by which the law was being enforced to reunite families and ensure that family separation would not happen in the future.

We applaud President Trump for rectifying problematic procedures he inherited from the Obama and Bush administrations.  We advocate for enforcement of all immigration laws … in a just and merciful way.

When I was in the U.S. Army, I was stationed in Germany in the early 1970’s.  Let me share with you what inhumane border enforcement really is.  I saw the Iron Curtain.  I saw what the Communists did to keep people from escaping their harsh, totalitarian rule.  I saw the armed soldiers who were under orders to shoot anyone, including women and children, who were trying to cross that border.  I saw the signs warning of land mines.  I heard and read the news reports of persons who were killed because they wanted to live in a free country like Austria, Germany, or the USA.  I saw what inhumane treatment really is.  Don’t tell me our border enforcement is inhumane.

I remember the protests against the Viet Nam War.  The protesters were howling about American aggression and how unjust the war was.  I’m asking, where were the protesters when we went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan?  Some said that we invaded Iraq under false pretenses, and that there were no weapons of mass destruction.  They said President Bush lied so that Halliburton could make money off the war.

So, where were the protesters?  There were a few, but nothing even close to the antiwar movement during Viet Nam.  What was the difference?  Could it be that we no longer have the draft?  Ya think!

Those kids in the ‘60’s were angry about the war in general, but the draft was “where the rubber met the road.”  They didn’t want to die in some rotten jungle.  So, they chanted, “Hell no! We won’t go!”

I think the protesters who are in the streets this very day are like the protesters of the ‘60’s.  They have convinced themselves of the morality of their position as a defense mechanism.  What this is really about is that they hate Donald Trump and anyone else who agrees with his policies.

I have news for them, and for the Liberal, main stream mafia … er, media.  When we go to the polls in November, I will remember the way they played politics with efforts to protect the national security, the American worker, and the safety of our communities.  I will vote for candidates who support President Trump’s efforts to secure our borders.  I urge everyone who agrees to do likewise.