Of course there are jerks on the Right who will lie on behalf of their politics, but deceit and hypocrisy seem to have metastasized throughout the contemporary American Left, with the corrupt media its willing accomplice.
On CBS last Sunday, Kamala Harris declared America’s southern border to be more or less secure, any lingering problems in that area being the result of the policies of the previous president. Both aspects of her statement were brazen lies. In July, the startling numbers of June were exceeded by 13%, over 212,000 having been apprehended by Border Patrol. That number, by the way, does not include the thousands of others who escaped detection altogether!
Immigration facilities at the U.S./Mexican border having been overwhelmed since Biden came into office, his government has been dispatching thousands of “illegals” throughout the States for the better part of its regime. The Republican Governors of Florida, Texas and Arizona, three of the states most impacted by Biden’s open-door policy, have sought to highlight the stupidity of that policy by sending hordes of illegals to sanctuary States in the North which, while claiming to be committed to the plight of the new immigrants, thought they would never actually have to deal with the financial/logistical repercussions of their presence.
In an obvious response to Kamala’s lie, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, had approximately 100 “illegals” dispatched to her home neighborhood in Washington, D.C.. In a previous blog I discussed Mayor Bowser’s outrage with Abbot’s tactics. Similarly Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, recently sent one or two plane loads [the reports vary] of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, an island bastion of the wealthy which certainly never expected to have impoverished foreigners roaming its streets. Confronted with approximately 50 of the latter, some in the community welcomed them with open arms while others deemed their presence an abomination and declared a state of emergency.
California being another jurisdiction proud of its status as a sanctuary state, governor Gavin Newsom was among the many Democrats who insisted DeSantis be charged with offenses such as kidnapping and human trafficking by the Department of Justice. His reaction ironically suggests sanctuary states are not really eager to welcome those seeking sanctuary. Meanwhile Republicans doing the very same thing Biden’s immigration bureaucrats have been doing since he took office, are apparently heartless criminals. Irony of ironies, actual human trafficking by various gangs has been unequivocally facilitated by Biden’s policies! Foreign drug lords and human traffickers have made tens of millions exploiting those policies.
As is often the case, this is not a simple black and white issue. The argument made by many Democrats that the Republican governors in question seemed to be callously using their migrants to score political points, is not without merit. It has been suggested that those sent northwards neither knew where they were going or gave their permission. Renae Eze, a spokesperson for Governor Abbott, on the other hand, maintains this is a lie, the thousands dispatched by Texas having signed consent waivers to their relocation.
I of course have no way of knowing the truth. But what is beyond argument is that the reaction of Democrats in D.C., N.Y., Chi., Cal., and, more recently, Martha’s Vineyard, exposes the sheer hypocrisy of their supposed empathy for America’s newest immigrants, people who seem to garner far more compassion from them when they are a thousand miles away in some Southern, Republican State.
What better illustrates that hypocrisy than the statement by Lisa Belcastro, Martha’s Vineyards homeless shelter coordinator, who told reporters on Thursday: “We cannot, we don’t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants.” They simply “have to move from here to elsewhere.” This on an island of “compassionate” multi-millionaires 84% of whom, by the way, voted for Joe Biden in the last election!