Posted on 05/27/2022 10:48:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Joe Biden plans to travel to Uvalde, Texas this weekend to “grieve with the community” following a deadly shooting that left at least 19 elementary school students and two adults dead. It’s the closest Biden will be to the southern border since taking office.
The president is right to visit Uvalde, but there’s no reason he can’t visit the border too, even though he will most likely use his trip to grandstand about restricting Americans’ access to guns. Uvalde is about an hour from illegal immigration hotspots such as Eagle Pass and Del Rio, making them an easy stop for Biden, who hasn’t visited the border in more than a decade, next week.
Despite repeated calls for Biden to physically address the border crisis that he created by repealing Trump-era law enforcement, the White House did not announce any plans for the Democrat’s motorcade to stop at the overwhelmed border.
Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border, especially involving illegal border crossers, are on the rise after the president and his team explicitly welcomed illegal immigration. While it’s difficult to calculate just how many tragedies have occurred since the Biden administration issued an unofficial gag order to cut off the press from accessing data held by federal officials, recent press coverage suggests that fatalities from drowning, heat exhaustion, and starvation are becoming more frequent.
In 2021, at least 650 migrants died during their attempts to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Many of them succumbed to heat exposure and drowning but others were killed by feuding Mexican cartels.
Tragedies specifically in Del Rio, which is about an hour’s drive from Uvalde, are also on the rise. In the first half of 2021, officials documented a record-breaking 66 deaths among illegal border-crossers. That’s nearly double the lives lost the entire year before.
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If he did go all the way to the Rio Grande River’s edge...it would be a shame if he accidently slipped in and couldn’t be rescued.
The Fed’s have been dropping off busloads of border crossers for months upon months. The elected locals have been saying there are no resources to feed and shelter them. That includes the Democrat locals, too.
IIRC, the Mayor said a town of 17,000 was going to be about 55,000 if the Fed’s kept dumping the illegals there.
From 2019:
https://thetexan.news/small-texas-city-flooded-with-immigrants-mayor-seeks-help-from-congress/
Biden’s is, truly, “. . . a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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