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.
