Good fences make good neighbors
Except on our Southern border?
What would Robert Frost think?
What a fence does: Having a clear boundary between your house and your neighbor’s,
and respecting that boundary, helps to keep the peace between neighbors, and
thus good relations between neighbors are partly dependent on fences as a
marker boundaries. ‘Good fences make good neighbors’ pithily expresses
the need to have clear boundaries between properties, as well as the need for
neighbors to respect these boundaries, if relations between neighbors are to
remain amicable and ‘good’. Source
With that prelude I have never understood the Democrat’s opposition to
Donald Trump's desire to have a wall on the southern border. It is quite clear that
the southern border has been porous for some time and that people can get into
the country without too much difficulty and beyond our control because the
border are is so open and vast. What's
the point in having a border if the border doesn't mean anything?
Why don’t we rename the county: The United States and the Americas?
As a further point Democrats
who belittled and berated Donald Trump for wanting to build a wall accusing him
of racism, among other things, laid the groundwork for the belief by all people
South of our border - or anywhere else - that if Democrats gained office the
border would be open. And so the
incredible problems we have had with undocumented aliens coming in droves across
the border into the country straining social services can only be put at the
feet of Democrats. They wound up encouraging this because they were so eager to
damn the policies of Donald Trump. Lesson be careful how you hate?
It's hard for me to
understand why anybody in any political party would want to fail to define and
defend the border. The US has such a problem with that southern border not just
with undocumented aliens coming across but with drug smuggling it would seem
that a more secure border would be an objective of any political party with a
sensible view of geopolitics.
Mayor Adams in New York has
called the migrant crisis in the city- the city in which I live – one that is
very serious and the first time that he has seen a problem in his professional
career that he's not sure has a solution or an end. It is not surprising that border state
governors have taken action to try to ship immigrants who come into their state
to other states because these undocumented aliens create just as much strain on
the Texas economy as they do on the New York economy or any other economy. And
Democrats are the once who have strongly supported this porous border policy,
so Democrat run states need to share the pain. Since Texas is on the border and
since the federal government that is supposed to be guarding the border hasn't
done that Texas has wound up bearing the brunt of the burden along with other
border states.
It is often pointed out that
allowing people to flood across the border and get in a queue for citizenship
undermines other avenues for citizenship that have been in place far longer and
that have required a thorough vetting of applicants who have had to wait many
years for their applications to be considered and approved. Why do that?
This is another example of
the Democrats creating a policy much like French foreign policy at the end of
World War Two period. At that time the French were determined to be on their
own and not necessarily to follow the United States. French foreign policy
became the opposite of US foreign policy. Whatever US foreign policy objectives
were the French objectives were the opposite. And this is precisely what the
Democrats have done with Donald Trump. Whatever Donald Trump likes, whatever he
endorses, whatever he supports, they are instantly against, without even
thinking about it. And this border situation is the perfect example of how that
kind of cancel-culture has gotten them into a great deal of trouble.
Joe Biden put the border
problem in the hands of Kamala Harris who decided it was a toxic problem that
it had no solution and she didn't want to be anywhere near it. And as far as I
can tell nobody in the administration has done anything to try to deal with the
issues that came to the border with the election of Joe Biden. The Democrats
insistence that Donald trump's closed border policies were wrong led to this
mess.
There are many examples of Trump
supported policies that were subsequently blocked by Democrats or by medical
experts during the COVID crisis. And while there's no sense that Donald Trump
had any kind of magic touch it's also clear that he had a number of ideas and
policies that never should have been dismissed out of hand the way they were.
But this is the new world in which we live and in which Democrats have
supported this culture of cancellation as well as an approach to assert that
they know what is right and have implemented policy based upon their view of
science even where science is in dispute.
Just a reminder here…
science is much less in dispute than it is in flux. When policy needs to depend
on some aspect of science that's in dispute, we need to have a better way to
decide what we think the approach should be rather than have one party dictate
and steamroll its own view into the future.
The Democrats bull on the China shop approach to the southern border
problem should be enough to convince just about everyone that when it comes to
dispute resolution, they don't have a clue, let alone the answer.
But we do have complaints
from some politicians such as the mayor of New York City who are very concerned
about how they are being overrun by immigrants and about the financial burdens
being placed on their cities. We do not find the liberal press engaging in any
criticism of the open border policy. Instead, if you want to consider the
positives and negatives of Trump's wall all you need to do is go to this
article on Vanity Fair (here). I think you'll agree that the article
displays a lot of vanity and little fairness.
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