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The Border Crisis Has Come to My Town; Yours May Be Next
Townhall.com ^ | March 22, 2021 | Mark Davis

Posted on 03/22/2021 4:43:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

And yet, as I write this, about 3000 teenagers from our besieged border are talking up residence about a half hour down the road, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The border crisis is now a very local story for me, and your town may be next.

In an arrangement hatched between the federal government and Dallas city officials, an enormous exhibit space at the convention center will be home to a massive population of teenage boys for a period we are told will not exceed 90 days. That’s about all we have been told.

We do not know how these kids got into the country in the first place. We do not know who offered them up for this misadventure. Did parents roll the dice hoping our freshly softened borders would be easier to breach than they were under Donald Trump? Were their journeys financed by payments to smugglers or cartels? We have no idea what the specific plans are for where they will go from here, or with whom. There is plenty of talk of “sponsors” and “family members,” but little definition of how thinly those terms will be stretched in order for this operation to be viewed as a success.

And what does success mean? It depends on whom you ask. Immigration attorneys are all over the local TV news touting the moral necessity of spiriting these kids away from the dangerous, ragged border to live among the skyscrapers of a major American city. Activists are pushing for the next phase, invoking the urgency of making sure these teens find proper homes.

And that’s where the whole scheme becomes clear.

In the latest incarnation of never letting a crisis go to waste, this is a disaster by design. The imagery of teeming populations penned at the border has fueled a narrative for rescuing them via a bus caravan to a better place. But rest assured-- that enormous convention center, viewed as a glorious haven this week, will soon be stigmatized as an unsustainable nightmare, so the pressure can be applied to facilitate emptying its residents out into the custody of a broad community of benefactors, atomized across my state of Texas and heaven knows how many more.

Many will be well-meaning souls from faith-based organizations, eager to help unfortunate youngsters. Others may actually be family members, spirited from whatever time zone they have to drive from to whisk a relative out of Dallas to a home where the floors are not made of concrete.

At every step, the city and the federal government will strut as if they have crafted a Mother Theresa-caliber act of unassailable grace. A fawning media culture is already providing cooperative commentary. “The first question,” posed one local reporter,” is how they will be kept safe.”

An important question, to be sure. But for many, not the first. The up-front question that will not be welcomed as warmly is: How in the world is this even happening? Among those asking is Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who delivered a scathing statement in Dallas Wednesday, blaming President Biden’s policies for “enticing unaccompanied minors into inhumane conditions.”

Abbott said Texans and the rest of the nation have a compelling interest in knowing the causes and circumstances of this first wave of migrants—how they got here, the accompanying levels of gang and cartel profiteering, the long-term prospects for their indefinite stays in America. To that end, he seeks to send state law enforcement officials into the convention center to ask questions he feels have been neglected.

As those specifics are investigated, some larger answers take shape. These teenagers are the first phase of an operation that may spread to other American cities, fueled by the breathless plea that border suffering can only be alleviated with springboards into American cities, followed by distribution among countless ill-defined people and places.

As these scattered populations approach adulthood, they can safely await legalization and naturalization, which will be demanded by every Democrat who can find a camera and microphone. The ultimate goal is the reward of decades of grateful Democrat voting.Anyone daring to suggest that this has been a sloppy and improper way to handle migration will be pilloried as a cruel hatemonger. And that’s before we even get to the condemnation that awaits anyone suggesting that it has all been on purpose, with the exact intention of tugging at heartstrings while flooding the interior of America with migrant minors.

This is not just a people-moving operation; it is a “psy op” on a vast scale, a psychological operation designed to wear down any attempt to adhere to normal definitions of asylum or to devise a way to process new arrivals in a careful, manageable fashion.

I have three thousand new neighbors. But they won’t be here long. Soon they will vanish into the landscape of Texas and states beyond. It is impossible to imagine this as the only experiment, because it is hard to imagine who stops the next one, and the next. If the Biden administration finds more willing blue cities eager to participate, look for more convention centers to be prepped, and for the accompanying call for armies of sponsors and family members to follow. This is just the beginning.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alejandromayorkas; chicago; illbordercrossing; illegalimmigrants; illinois; immigration; joebiden; mediawingofthednc; texas
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1 posted on 03/22/2021 4:43:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why couldn’t Abbott have said NO

You are not bringing potentially diseased illegals to live at the Dallas Convention Center or anywhere?


2 posted on 03/22/2021 4:50:31 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: Kaslin

Dallas is not a town. It’s a city. This sort of thing is why I left the city (Seattle) for a small town in a rural area. I was tired of the liberal cesspool. You can fight, or you can leave.

A man’s got to choose his battles.


3 posted on 03/22/2021 4:52:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Kaslin

Even Bernie Sanders understands the dangers of open borders (he has since back-pedaled). Bernie:

“If you open the borders, my G_d, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the world,” he continued. “I don’t think that’s something that we can do at this point. Can’t do it. So that is not my position.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bernie-sanders-on-open-borders-cant-do-it/


4 posted on 03/22/2021 4:53:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Kaslin

5 posted on 03/22/2021 5:01:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Guenevere
Abbott should have used the Texas National Guard to stop the influx and stop the Feds from releasing the invaders into the US. He didn't and the Guard is, as near as I can tell, just providing logistical support to the Feds. The article says that Abbott is seeking to send in investigators into the convention center. Seeking? Whose state is it. He should send in whoever he wants and back up that access with force, if needed. He won't. All hat and no cattle. Meanwhile the human tide is coming in at the border and the release and transportation of unscreened individuals throughout the US will create the Fauci third wave to justify further oppression of US citizens. It is time for the states to really stand up and stop the invasion or the Marxists will rule over the ruins of the former USA.
6 posted on 03/22/2021 5:10:11 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin

Not only more Democratic voters but more Democratic bodies, leading to more Democratic districts and more Democratic representatives in Congress.


7 posted on 03/22/2021 5:11:48 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Kaslin
Excellent..! A whole new supply of young, energetic drug dealers.. The democrats will be please...
8 posted on 03/22/2021 5:13:16 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: Lizavetta

This the plan to permanently change the demographic of the population of the USA.


9 posted on 03/22/2021 5:25:26 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake (He )
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To: Kaslin
Maybe it's just a bunch of new sex slaves for the Hollywood and DC elite...
10 posted on 03/22/2021 5:26:14 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: unread

Keep your daughters safe
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/blog/categories/untitled-category-2


11 posted on 03/22/2021 5:31:12 AM PDT by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Kaslin

And yet, another question arises...how many are actually “teenagers” and not adults lying about their age? This has happened before. Quite a few times. How do you check the truth since no one knows anything about these “kids”. How many, teenagers or not, are members of violent south American gangs? How do you check?
Dallas isn’t a beautiful city anymore- it is an open sewer, just like any OTHER city owned by demonRATs. Why didn’t Abbott refuse this garbage?


12 posted on 03/22/2021 5:33:50 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Kaslin

3000, eh?

Too bad yer out numbered.

Guess y’all FORGOT the Alamo.


13 posted on 03/22/2021 5:37:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Anybody see this guy calling them what they really are? ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Didn’t think so.

I’m beginning to be very disappointed with Abbott, this should have been stopped before they crossed the border. If biden wants to ignore the constitution and border, Abbott does not have to join in. TEXAS can defend its own borders. Abbott can stop this and not allow them in or send them back.

I know some will say look at Arizona. They didn’t have hundreds and possibly thousands carrying a known virus. This is a major public safety issue, even if it is just a minor flu for healthy folks. It’s most likely a death sentence for me, and I’m not too far away, about 4 hours from Dallas. I already see way too many illegal aliens now. I’ve seen the adverse affects for 30 or 40 years. I’ve seen them at work while I couldn’t even get a job interview...

Send these invaders back.


14 posted on 03/22/2021 5:52:09 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I survived the great Texas freeze out. I may not survive biden...)
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To: Kaslin

This is an attempt to flood Texas with as many of these parasites as possible. The end game is to allow them to vote and turn Texas blue. THAT is how they win. FOREVER.


15 posted on 03/22/2021 5:56:35 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Paleo Pete

Its all about turning Texas purple..then Blue

ALL urban decline commences with electoral fraud. ALL OF IT.

The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses..allowing free reign over the local electoral fraud.

Electoral Fraud ALWAYS precedes Leftism..because at the end of the day..Leftism is essentially a disordered mind/mental illness...and most people who can hold a job and are productive enough to be taxpayers are not mentally ill and reason just fine

rampant illegal immigration is about getting enough bodies into the problem districts that always vote “130%” of their illegible voters, and into Red urban centers to start to turn them Purple .

Georgia is the latest state having the pleasure of that experience. It appears to be sufficiently refined recently in Virginia. Almost happened in Texas 2016 and 2018; 2020 “reversed” the purple trend in Texas. The UniPartians are attempting to rectify that


16 posted on 03/22/2021 5:58:00 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Pollard
So, I guess we can begin to understand why these people live their lives behind all those walls, bars and razor wire..

Maybe concertina would be a good investment for the future... That is to say, IF we have a future... :(

17 posted on 03/22/2021 5:58:31 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: Kaslin

Abbott, send them to DC. DO NOT let them stay in Texas one Effin night. I am sure Abbott is holding his finger in the air to properly modify his fluff speeches


18 posted on 03/22/2021 6:18:31 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Kaslin
I can see Mexico from my house. No problem here because they are being bused to Tucson and the very liberal mayor is receiving them.
Tucson is having a huge problem with them. Crime is up and the hospitals are full of covid illegals.

Watch the mayors.

19 posted on 03/22/2021 6:30:12 AM PDT by SisterK (Let the King of my heart Be the fire inside my veins)
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To: Kaslin

Preach the Gospel to them. Welcome them. Turn them into staunch Republicans and citizens who respect and honor the Constitution.


20 posted on 03/22/2021 8:07:12 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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