As John McClane put it in “Die Exhausting,” “Welcome to the get together, pal”: Progressives are in the end beginning to acknowledge the catastrophe of President Biden’s open-border coverage.
At least Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson simply admitted the plain: It’s not simply the Windy Metropolis being crippled by the border insanity; “it’s your complete nation that’s now at stake.”
Sound acquainted? Truth is, loads of voices have warned as a lot for practically three years now — solely to be denounced as bigoted, heartless and/or hysterically overreacting.
Johnson spoke at a joint on-line press convention with Mayor Adams and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, all calling for the migrant disaster to be labeled as a federal emergency — a plea from three Democratic mayors that might’ve been inconceivable not way back.
Pleading for extra assets to take care of the 26,000 unlawful migrants who’ve hit Chicago, Johnson added: “With out vital federal assist, this isn’t sustainable.”
No kidding.
Not that merely opening the DC spending spigot will get on the root of the issue, after all: Federal overspending has already introduced its personal disasters within the type of hovering inflation adopted by hovering rates of interest, to not point out the damaging progress in federal debt.
Nonetheless, Democratic screams in cities removed from the border are ample proof that the (principally) Republicans sounding the alarm these final 30-plus months have been fully proper.
And now the lunacy is so apparent that even The New York Instances felt compelled to characteristic the newest “caravan” now wending its method by way of Mexico on its entrance web page: Burying the story gained’t play anymore.
Letting in each comer who is aware of sufficient to cry “asylum!” is certainly a nightmare for your complete nation — with ever-more unlawful border-crossers coming not simply from Latin America and the Caribbean however Africa, Russia and China.
With none of them bothering to hunt asylum within the nations they go by way of on the best way, as US legislation requires — as a result of they’re not really fleeing oppression, however in search of financial alternative right here.
Open-borders lefties consider that ought to be sufficient; the one “answer” they’ll entertain is to legalize the law-breaking.
Even the Democratic Congress of the primary two Biden years wouldn’t try this; as an alternative, the White Home pretended the legislation requires the mass “parole” of unlawful border-crossers and blames Republicans for blocking that suicidal “answer,” together with all of the name-calling about “racism” and “cruelty.”
Factor is, virtue-signaling doesn’t change the truth on the bottom — which ultimately turns into so plain that even a grasp of denial like Brandon Johnson can’t miss it.
But Biden nonetheless gives nothing however empty gestures, like sending two prime officers to huddle with Mexico’s president to supply an empty “settlement” that does nothing to stem the tide, certainly deepens the disaster by holding out recent hopes of mass legalization.
Bear in mind Abe Lincoln’s knowledge, Mr. President: “You possibly can’t idiot all the folks all the time.”
