Double-Crossed At the Border
Things Aren’t Always What They Seem
Okay, I’m just going to say it: I am for building a wall along our border. The amount of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs being smuggled across is only going to keep increasing, and we need to do something about it.
What does it say about us as a nation, if we continue to allow foreigners to breech our border with impunity? So, all right, let’s get on with it. Let’s put up a big, beautiful wall and make those nasty Canadians pay for it. We’ll show them it will no longer be an easy stroll into America to dump their drugs, and their weird bacon, strange hats, and screechy singers . . . Wait, what?
Had you going for a minute there, didn’t I?
Our border with Canada spans more than 5500 lightly defended miles, yet the security of our northern boundary is rarely mentioned. H’mmm, why could that be? It couldn’t be because the Canadians are the right color (white), and speak the right language (English), could it? (Quebecers are a different story.) They look and sound just like “us”, so they must be okay, right? Right?
The racial factor cannot be dismissed. Many average Americans (read: white) are suspicious of, and frightened by, brown people, speaking a foreign language, and “poisoning the blood of our country”, to use the words of the worst among us. And, it is obvious the Republican Party is only too happy to exploit that fear.
So, now we have a “crisis”, an “invasion”, no less. But, what if the people who believe our southern border is being invaded, would remove their heads from their asses for one minute and actually looked around? Perhaps they would not see what they expected to see.
I will not deny there are important issues along our border with Mexico that need solving. But, to call it an invasion is divisive and wrong. Rex Huppke of USA Today wrote a very interesting article about this:
Recently, the United States Senate surprisingly came up with a bipartisan bill to address immigration and border issues, along with funding for Ukraine and Israel. The Wall Street Journal, hardly a bastion of liberalism, said of the proposed legislation, “By any honest reckoning, this is the most restrictive migrant legislation in decades.” This bill gave Republicans much of what they had been demanding.
It was the R’s who made immigration into a major issue. Voters were suckered in by Republican promises to work tirelessly on this dire threat to our nation. Then, when the Republicans got the bill they said they wanted, they double-crossed all those voters by turning around and rejecting it. Why would they do that? Well, Sunkist Jesus ordered his spineless toadies in Congress to sink the bill, because passing it might help Joe Biden and the Democrats. That tells you all you need to know. If there really was an “invasion”, wouldn’t our leaders take whatever steps were necessary to protect America, and not give any thought to the politics of it? Come on, don’t be naive.
For most Republicans, the border issue is a club with which to pound Democrats, and the R’s do not want to give that up. They do not give a rat’s ass about solving the problem. Yeah, way to do what’s best for your country, you shameless jerks.
Here’s an old Readers Digest-type joke I may have gotten from an old Readers Digest: “The opposite of ‘pro’ is ‘con’, so the opposite of progress is Congress.” How true, eh?
But, I don’t know, maybe we get the Congress we deserve. And when I say “we”, I mean “we the people”, as in the voters of this great land. Doesn’t it seem as though American voters, collectively, are the 2nd dumbest, most ill-informed group of people on the planet? Only the candidates we vote for are worse.
Nobody could possibly believe we are sending our best and brightest to Washington. Marjorie Taylor Dumbass, Lauren Bubblebrain, Matt “Too-Many-Nicknames-To-Mention-Just-One” Gaetz - Christ, what a steaming, heaping pile of idiocy and mendacity! And, there are dozens more just like them! And, thousands of people voted for them! My goodness. (Hold on there, Democrats. Your roster includes Senator Love-Me-Some-Bribes from New Jersey and Senator In-the-Pocket-of-Big-Coal from West Virginia, so don’t go getting all full of yourselves.)
You know, we cannot continue to vote for these people and then complain about what they do when they get in there. As the great George Carlin succinctly said, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
But, I digress. Back to the subject at hand - the border with Mexico. I’ve lived more than four decades of my life within 60-70 miles of the Mexican border. I am aware that this fact does not make me any kind of an expert on border issues. I am simply providing context.
I have never once felt in danger from Mexicans invading my town. While acknowledging the problems with drugs, and people crossing the border illegally, I can truthfully say I’ve never felt unsafe, any more than when I lived in Pennsylvania, a few hours from Canada.
In fact, there’s a history of Mexicans being welcomed here. In the heyday of the shopping malls, it was not uncommon to see Mexican license plates all over the parking lots. Free-spending Mexicans were a significant boost to the local economy.
And, by the way, who do you think does the crappy, terrible jobs that Americans do not want to do? Many immigrants clean toilets in hotels, pick lettuce, work in meat packing plants, or landscape in 100+ degree heat, because they want to work. Of course, there are bad apples in any group, but the majority of Mexicans and Central Americans come up here to provide for their families. Republicans want us to believe they all come up here to deal drugs and rape Americans, and “poison our blood”.
I am not suggesting we have a completely open border. We should have control of our borders and limits on how many people can cross. Border towns and the Border Patrol should get whatever help they need. I also think we should have laws to expedite the process for people crossing the border for purposes of employment. And, we should stop dicking around and finally do right by the children of undocumented immigrants - the so-called DREAMers.
What would be most helpful with our border issues, is if the Senators and Representatives in Congress would do their fucking jobs for once, and the Orange King of the Losers would shut his gaping, abnormally large piehole. I have zero confidence that either of those will happen.
Oh, and one more thing on this subject - To the Congressional demagogues who demand a total closing of the border, and that we recommence building a wall along our boundary with Mexico, I believe you are engaged in a despicable performance for the gullible and slow-witted, in an effort to gain a political advantage. Or perhaps you’re just stupid. In any event, I would gently suggest that you shut the hell up. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
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