Thread by @bansisharma

1. NY Times Stoops to Conquer

Here's a case study in how NY Times slanders an administration to gin up poltical opposition to a GOP president not to its liking (no sitting GOP president ever is).
mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/opi…

2. First of all, don't be fooled by NY Times' feigned late-blooming admiration for George W. Bush. They slandered him mercilessly when he was in the White House. Same with Reagan. And mark my words, someday MSM will praise Trump too, but only long after he leaves the White House.

3. You will notice that NY Times' entire diatribe is without a shred of actual evidence of any immigrant actually being unjustly treated, beyond the cavalier self-serving sanctimony that lying to gain entry into America must be sanctified as heroic because NY Times says so.

4. After scouring through decades of data, NY Times was able to locate one, just one, case of an immigrant soldier who had fibbed to gain residency in the U.S. and was honored (posthumously) for serving in the military.

5. By all means we must honor and celebrate Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez as well as millions of legal immigrants who do America proud, but let us not use their sublime example to promote an indefensible liberal policy preference for open borders.

6. NY Times is now shamelessly market testing a new and clever whopper to tug at our heart strings, saying: We as a nation celebrate the small lies told by our ancestors and warriors. Really???

7. NY Times will have us believe that America is at its finest when it stages Hunger Games at its southern border in which people make a treacherous journey rewarded by American residency if they make it across the border, especially if they endanger a child's life in doing so.

8. Let us do a quick recap of how we got to the present day travesty at the border where children have had to be separated from alleged parents (a practiced temporarily reversed but not fully fixed yet, and that cannot be fixed properly without Congressional action).

9. Obama implemented a policy to just release the illegal immigrants into the U.S. after catching them (if they had a child with them). Word got around and the flood gates opened. Presto, more and more illegal immigrants arrived accompanied by children, using children as chits.

10. Trump admin wants to remove the incentive for illegal immigrants to bring children with them for this purpose. Many children never finish the journey and die along the way. Many are not accompanied by a parent but by a professional paid agent called a coyote.

11. Obama's policy may sound good and compassionate to liberals, but it caused many deaths of children who never completed the journey to the border. Bleeding heart policies sometimes have gruesome unintended consequences. Averting your gaze doesn't make the problems go away.

12. Trump's tough love policy of "zero tolerance" will save many children's lives, but it has other consequences like the ones we are seeing at the border right now. In real life, there are always trade-offs.

13. Well meaning people can disagree on "zero tolerance" policy. What well meaning people should not do is write tendentious NY Times editorials promoting lying at the border to gain entry into the U.S. as all goodness and virtue, pretending there are no negative consequences.

14. Please know that Obama's "catch and release" policy is what brought us to this place. More of the same won't fix anything. It will only make matters worse. So hate Trump if you must, but he is at least trying to do something about it.

15. Congress should also do its job and come up with a long term solution to the border problem. Burying our collective head in the sand is no longer an option. We as a nation have punted on the issue long enough.

16. We should all think about a long term solution and lean on our respective members of Congress to get it enacted. Calling Trump names won't fix anything. He will be gone in 2 or 6 years. The problem will still be with us.

17. Publishing evidence-free editorials promoting nonsensical policies and slandering Trump administration by appealing to the basest instincts of your readers who have been relentlessly primed to hate everything Trump does is easy. Coming up with real solutions is hard.

The END

Some people may object that the NY Times editorial is about DACA children and not about what's happening at the border. No, it is not. The editorial's not-so-hidden purpose is to prime the pump for continuing the insane "catch and release" policy. 1/

Where has NY Times presented any evidence that Trump admin has done anything hurtful to DACA recipents, other than trying to engage Congressional Democrats in tough negotiations to fix the problem at the border in exchange for making every possible concession on DACA? 2/x