After watching Stacey Abrams give the Democrat rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union address, there is no way around the fact that Democrats support completely unfettered and unregulated immigration. For them, this is a natural part of life, like breathing air, sleeping at night, or Cardi B interrupting an otherwise good song.
Trump said, “Now is the time for the Congress to show the world that America is committed to ending illegal immigration and putting the ruthless coyotes, cartels, drug dealers, and human traffickers out of business.”
This is a completely overlooked part of the immigration crisis. The worst of what’s happening isn’t necessarily in the U.S.; it’s south of our border, where an industry of smuggling, trafficking, and sex abuse systematically afflicts the thousands of Central Americans making the 2,000-mile journey to the U.S. So long as we have an unmanageable immigration system and no border barrier, which Border Patrol agents say they need, the enterprise grows and harms more migrants.
As for the proposed “wall,” Trump gave his most clear, succinct definition to date of what it’s supposed to be. “This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier, not just a simple concrete wall,” he said, rebutting Democrats who keep imagining a thousand-mile-long Great Wall of China. “It will be deployed in the areas identified by the border agents as having the greatest need, and these agents will tell you: Where walls go up, illegal crossings go way, way down.”
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This is the reality. Trump didn’t insist on “the wall,” but only some wall where it’s needed. And the immigration debate isn’t just a matter of protecting Americans. It’s critical when it comes to the lives of Central Americans who are raped and abused partaking in the heinous but lucrative operation that brings them to the U.S. border by way of smugglers and traffickers.
In response, Abrams, who failed in her campaign for Georgia governor, repeated what has become the Democratic line about the assertion that we should welcome virtually all immigrants without question.
“We know bipartisanship could craft a 21st century immigration plan, but this administration chooses to cage children and tear families apart,” she said. “Compassionate treatment at the border is not the same as open borders. … Democrats stand ready to effectively secure our ports and borders, but we must all embrace that from agriculture to healthcare to entrepreneurship, America is made stronger by the presence of immigrants, not walls.”
Okay, where’s the part about ending our sham asylum law? Or helping out border agents who, over and over again, insist they need more border barrier? When Democrats speak, that part never seems to come.
Democrats aren’t to be taken seriously on border security, and Stacey Abrams reaffirmed that with her State of the Union rebuttal.
