Posted on 07/20/2019 2:19:13 PM PDT by Starman417
Kudos to Humberto Fontova over at TownHall.com for reminding us of another time when liberals weren’t so kind to refugees seeking asylum while fleeing genuine repression and poverty. Then even the New York Times and parallel universe occupant Thomas Friedman supported secure borders to the point even a bitter clinger might blush:
''America is a country where the rule of law rules. This picture (a U.S. Marshall pointing a genuine assault rifle at a terrified 6 year old Hispanic immigrant, whose mother had just drowned or been eaten alive by sharks) illustrates what happens to those who defy the rule of law and how far our government and people will go to preserve it. Come all ye who understand that.'' (The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman.)When the President is Clinton, not Trump, when the refugees are Republican-leaning Cubans and not undocumented Democrats, those who shout “xenophobia” and “racism” today were quite silent then. Imagine if today an ICE or Border Patrol agent shoved an AR-15 under the chin of a 6 year old from Honduras. They do not do anything of the sort yet are falsely slandered as guards in modern-day concentration camps who make women drink out of toilets – the only such camps in human history that people climb walls and cross rivers to get into.TAKE THAT! -- you uppity Cuban-American ingrates! But The New York Times’ Tom Friedman (who had an obscenity-laced meltdown on CNN last week sputtering against President Trump’s “racism” and “xenophobia”…blah…blah) had barely started venting his spleen against those insufferable Cuban-Americans….
“One only hopes that this affair will remind the extremists among the Miami Cubans that they are not living in their own private country, that they cannot do whatever they please and that they may hate Fidel Castro more than they love the U.S. Constitution -- but that doesn't apply to the rest of us.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes wad 10 years old when on Thanksgiving Day 1999 a five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found clinging to an inner tube three miles off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Fishermen rescued him and took him to a hospital for treatment. But his mother and 11 others on the raft had drowned in their attempt to come to the U.S. from Cuba. The rest as they say is history and Democrat hypocrisy
Time was when liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton shared Donald Trump’s dream of family reunification for illegal alien families on the other side of the border. Hillary should know about deportations, since she was First Lady when presidential hubby William Jefferson Clinton returned a young Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba, literally at gunpoint.
As recently as June, 2014, when unaccompanied minor children were being ferried by “coyotes” under contract north on the tops of boxcars in what GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush said was an “act of love”, Hillary Clinton told CNN such children should be quickly returned to their foreign parents, to send a message:
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WHO DID IT? CLINTON DID IT!
If the president at the time had been a Republican, that picture would define his/her presidency and would be published thousands and thousands of times.
Dems wanted to report Cubans because they are Conservative. So I guess it was okay to report Elian, but not others...Dems you can’t have it both ways!
Saw that on the television. That’s the day I became a Freeper.
Bill Clinton will burn for that.
Because Elian floating alone in the water after his mother drowned was protected by dolphins, he was considered an “elegua “ a holy child. Castro needed to control him.
Thanks Starman417.
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