Reality Check, Part Three
No deal. The stalemate continues. Questions abound. Here are a few:
The Democrats tell President Trump: “Reopen the government and then we’ll negotiate ‘border security’ later.” Ladies and gentlemen, if you believe that, I have some lovely land in the Everglades that I’d like to sell you. If the Democrats are intransigent under the maximum leverage that the partial shutdown puts on them now, could we reasonably expect them to negotiate in good faith under less leverage down the road? Of course not.
Democrats also say that they can achieve border security without a physical barrier. If that’s so, why were there 266,000 (!) arrests of illegal aliens for non immigration related crimes in the United States in 2017 & 2018?
Apart from the physical impediment to illegal border crossings, why don’t the Democrats admit that a physical barrier will also have a tremendous deterrent effect PSYCHOLOGICALLY?
And, if a physical wall is such a bad idea, why did Turkey build a 900 kilometer wall along its border with Syria in 2017 and 2018? And why did the European Union FUND large portions of that wall?
And if a physical wall is so ineffective, why do so many wealthy estates across America have them?
And why are the Democrats ignoring the advice of expert Mark Morgan (Border Patrol Chief, UNDER BARACK OBAMA) who states that physical barriers “ABSOLUTELY WORK” and that Mr. Trump is “right” to advocate for one?
And why has NO ONE insisted that Pelosi and Schumer explain why they voted FOR a border wall in 2006 and 2013, but won’t do so today?
And why has no one INSISTED that Pelosi and Schumer put forth cogent reasons WHY the US shouldn’t build the wall. Nowhere do they explain why it’s a bad idea. They say that it’s expensive, yes, but considering the profligate spending that our government indulges in on a routine basis, and considering the tremendous costs to our country that not having a wall entails, saving 5.7 billion dollars by not building the wall does NOT qualify as cogent.
Many questions. Few answers. But one thing, I think, is clear: The Democratic Party refusal to fund the border wall is, pure and simple, partisan spite. It is the result of a political party that is becoming more and more leftist and more and more unreasonable by the day. They’ve got their eyes fixed on reaping troves of grateful immigrant voters of the future. And they’re so frantic about this, I suspect, because their own analysts see working class and middle class voters fleeing the Democratic Party in droves as Republican driven prosperity continues.
The American people MUST see through this. We can’t let them win this gambit.