Posted on 04/18/2022 5:28:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Beto O’Rourke had called for an end to Title 42 for months.
He said the emergency health order from the federal government, which allows officials to turn away migrants at the border to control spread of COVID-19, was ineffective and has led to mass repeat crossings which overwhelm an already overworked Border Patrol staff.
But earlier this week, O’Rourke raised some eyebrows. He called on the White House not to end the health order until it had laid out a plan to help border communities deal with the increase of migrants expected after its end in May.
O’Rourke’s comment confused and confounded some immigrant advocates who are typically on his side.
“[Beto O’Rourke], buddy, Border Patrol processed 10,000 Ukrainians in a week!” tweeted RAICES, the Texas nonprofit that provides immigration legal services. “Should they have waited in Mexico while you try and figure out a plan for them?”
Mario Carrillo, the campaigns manager for the progressive pro-immigration group America’s Voice, said it sounded like O’Rourke wanted to keep Title 42 in place.
“If his position is that we should eliminate Title 42 — and he has expressed that before … we certainly support him in that,” Carrillo said. “I think it’s important that Democrats are clear on the fact that Title 42 has not worked and it, in fact, has led to more chaos.”
O’Rourke has since clarified that he firmly supports ending the pandemic-era health order, even as his opponents have cast him as a flip-flopper. But the responses to his position illustrate the challenge O’Rourke faces as he tries to take on the issues of border security and immigration,
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But for Democrats, especially in Texas, tackling these issues is more difficult. O’Rourke has had to distance himself from President Joe Biden’s border policies, while going after Abbott’s.
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“Should they have waited in Mexico while you try and figure out a plan for them?”
No, they stay in Mexico.
P2 calls for an end to Beto’s political career.
This is all political theater. Beto wants open borders, he wants to open the floodgates. I think we all know that.
We shouldn’t have ANY “migrants” being let in.
If you show up without permission to enter, you are removed.
So who was it that figured out this energy policy?
Robert Francis O’Rourke.
beto is a gimmick, nothing more.
But the prog live and breath gimmicks, narratives, memes, anything but actual facts.
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One thing about Title 42 has never been made entirely clear. The provisions of this regulation were not only to keep out potential cases of COVID-19, but ALL infectious diseases, including but not limited to, measles, mumps, diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine combined with polio vaccine, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, smallpox, even chicken pox and open running body sores. No injections are given, and there is a huge pool of unvaccinated and vulnerable potential victims of all these plagues.
The people running the border program cannot be held to account quickly enough.
>But earlier this week, O’Rourke raised some eyebrows. He called on the White House not to end the health order until it had laid out a plan to help border communities deal with the increase of migrants expected after its end in May.<
Awwww, so worried about the border communities now. GO AWAY. We know who you really are and who you really care about. POS!
Look out, Bobby Frank “Swerve and Crash” O’Rourke is on the road again!
Bobby Frank is unaware that the Valley is turning red.
“Threading the needle” = lying with style
Democrats are so good at threading needles with their tongues. It’s one of their few skills.
Beto won’t be able to jump the curb.
PR puff piece for this dreadful loser.
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