Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas
Posted on 08/05/2021 6:33:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas
Semantics are important for how we communicate and define issues. One who controls words controls the narrative.
So, take the words migrant and invader. Is there a difference? It's all in how they are perceived by some, and the effect their illegal border crossings have on the U.S.
One definition of invasion should focus our attention: "The entrance or advent of anything troublesome or harmful..."
Does anyone want to argue that the tsunami of humanity coming across our southern border overwhelming border patrol is not troublesome or harmful? Two motels in La Joya, Texas, are housing migrants who have tested positive for COVID-19. Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley is paying the bill and insists the migrants are being kept in isolation, though many report seeing them wandering outside of the motel. Many migrants are even getting bus tickets to fan out across the country. How many of them are carrying the virus?
Instead of securing the border, the Biden administration's Justice Department sued Texas and its governor, Greg Abbott, "seeking to block an executive order that restricts the transport of migrants through the state and authorizes state troopers to pull over vehicles suspected of doing so." On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Abbott's order. Is the administration trying to encourage more migrants to come? And coming they are by the tens of thousands. Is there to be no end?
What about the rights of American citizens and their property along the border? Texas rancher Brent Smith, who is also an attorney for Kinney County, told Fox News he sustained thousands of dollars in damages to his property from trespassing migrants. The administration has money to help the migrants. Who will help Smith and other property owners who suffer damages?
Gov. Abbott has ordered state police to arrest migrants as trespassers, but they are likely to have only minimal success due to the overwhelming numbers. He also has ordered a chain-link fence to be erected along some of the most porous sections of the border, but experience shows those can be easily traversed.
The problem as well as the solution begins at the top with the Biden administration. Despite Biden's claims that entire families who seek to cross the border illegally are being turned back, most are not.
It's no accident. By now it can only be called administration policy. The Biden administration appears to want to flood America with people from other countries - Central America, Mexico, even Africa. Isn't Vice President Harris supposed to be in charge of resolving the problem? Where is she?
How much more - how many more - can we take? All presidents swear an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of our country. President Biden is not enforcing immigration laws passed by previous congresses and signed by former presidents of both parties. If he were a Republican, especially if Donald Trump was still in office, Democrats would likely be clamoring for impeachment. With Biden, Democrats barely give lip service to the invasion and then change the subject, speak talking points, or lie.
A rose by any other name is still a rose. And an invasion by any other name is still an invasion. We cannot sustain a country with what amounts to an open border no matter what it is called.
In my opinion, this is an impeachable offense.
Koch Bros. turned out not to be conservative or liberal, nor Warren Buffett/Bershire Hathaway, nor Bill Gates, nor even George Soros. Soros foments civil anarchy as an elite, oligarchic control mechanism, it’s not left or right, it’s ABOVE. You can tell because CRT is all the rage, but it doesn’t apply to “compassion” for home-born African-Americans of modest employment skills, because the unending flood of migrants across the border mean money for the 2,100 billionaires.
True, and as much as I hate it, it ain't a scandal until the New York Times says it's a scandal, so Biden not controlling the border, nor even attempting to control the border will not lead to his impeachment.
Tangent point to controlling the narrative: Which is why I've urged for decades that conservatives use the term "preborn" instead of "unborn".
Other words where the left controls the narrative through the words they use: gender, homeless, far-right, insurrection, protest/riot. I'm sure there are others.
Well, Son of a Bitch
Never Trumper Cal Thomas actually said something good about President Trump.
Well Cal, too little too late.
With a Democrat House?
Right.
Biden could murder someone during the State of the Union address and he still would not be impeached.
Besides, are you that anxious for President Harris?
Mommy; why didn’t we ride in the hollow horse?
If it’s an Open Door provided by the US government it’s not an invasion (per say:-)
Just add 50 kilovolts.
Expel Biden, as he is totally responsible for the foreign invasion.
Human garbage. These people don’t care about our sovereignty(they wouldn’t even know what the word means), they don’t care that they are violating the border and the laws of someone else’s country, they don’t care that they aren’t wanted here any more than if a stranger demanded to be allowed to live in your home because they want a better house to live in.
Our fellow Americans into whose towns these parasites are being dumped are having their homes broken into, vehicles stolen, exposed to more Covid and their entire way of life disrupted.
They’re only here for their own selfish interests. None of them give the slightest thought to fixing conditions in their own countries, just invade the country next door and make them pay because “I want a better life’’.
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