A short time ago, the news media insisted that even acknowledging the caravan of some 5,000 impoverished Central American migrants marching toward the United States was racist fearmongering. They said there was absolutely nothing to worry about.
Yet, here’s a headline that appeared this week in the New York Times: “Migrant Caravan, Now in Guatemala, Could Present an Early Test for Biden”
Why, you ask, might it be a “test” for the incoming president? After all, we were told in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections that Trump was exploiting the caravan for nothing more than political expediency.
New York Times liberal writer Charles Blow said Trump’s rhetoric on the caravan “encapsulates a sentiment” about “America … being invaded and overrun by people who are not white and not European, which risks the maintenance of American heritage, which is white heritage.”
Washington Post writer Max Boot went on CNN and accused Trump of demagoguery and of “really pandering to the fears of Trump supporters and Fox News viewers who tend to be older, white, male, who are alarmed about the supposed invasion of dark-skinned newcomers coming to America.”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo pleaded with his viewers, “Please, don’t see these people as Trump does, monsters on the march. See them as they are: desperate, leaving behind whatever they had, and whomever they knew, all for a better chance at life, a real life.”
On Fox News, overt Trump hater Shepard Smith said, “The migrants … are more than two months away, if any of them actually come here. But tomorrow is one week before the midterm election, which is what all of this is about. There is no invasion. No one’s coming to get you. There’s nothing at all to worry about.”
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote, “There is in fact no emergency, no invasion, no reason to panic.”
A New York Times report accused Trump and his supporters of attempting “to push alarmist, conspiratorial warnings about the migrant caravan.” The report diligently noted that the caravan was “more than 2,000 miles from the border.” A separate article in the New York Times described Trump’s focus on the caravan as “political opportunism.”
So why the sudden concern now?
Well, it’s a “test” for Biden because he promised during the 2020 campaign that he would fling open our southern border to every poor and sick person who wanted in. But now we’re in a raging pandemic, and that doesn’t seem like such a good idea, even as the extreme Left of the Democratic Party, which is to say, the majority of its leadership, believes a virus is no excuse to keep taxpayers from assuming the care of the world’s destitute.
Biden faces a choice between angering most Democrats and flooding the country with an estimated 8,000 migrants who are on their way now and who will all need food, shelter, and healthcare, courtesy of the taxpayer, and surely aren’t taking proper precautions against the coronavirus.
Biden’s team is at least pretending to deal with it. “The situation at the border isn’t going to be transformed overnight,” some unnamed “transition official” told NBC News regarding the caravan. That means nothing, though. It means they’re waiting for the caravan to show up at the border, where each of the migrants will invariably claim asylum.
And on asylum, which for years has served as a gaping loophole for illegal immigrants without any legitimate claim to remain in the U.S., Biden has only promised to relax the system.
You’re not struggling, by any chance, are you? Good, because there are foreigners who need you to provide them welfare! Biden is just the man to make sure that happens.
