Thread by @JewhadiTM

What Do Democrats Mean When They Say They Support Border Security? townhall.com/columnists/der…

As the government shutdown rolls into its third week, ask yourself one question: Do you miss it? Perhaps a better question is, “Have you noticed?”

Outside of the news coverage of it, or if you’re one of the more than 300,000 non-essential government employees on a delayed-pay vacation, odds are you haven’t.

But Dems are hoping you do, and are about to partner with their friends in the media to try everything they can in an attempt to make that happen.

Expect to see a parade of worst-case-scenarios trotted out in profile packages on nightly news and Capitol Hill press conferences.

Furloughed bureaucrats and government contractors will talk about how they are weeks, if not days away from eviction, repossession, their water being shut off, or some other calamity that can only be averted by President Donald Trump agreeing to reopen the government.

The reason for the shutdown building a border wall will not be addressed in any but the most dismissive of terms.

.@SpeakerPelosi called the very idea of a barricade between the United States and Mexico “immoral,” and if there’s one thing someone who supports unfettered abortion up till the moment of birth knows about it’s immorality, though from the other end.

Still, that and that “walls don’t work” are the case Democrats are making against spending less than half of what the federal government spends every single day to secure our southern border. It’s a weak case, to say the least.

But they can make it confident in the knowledge that their main response to building a wall will never be challenged by anyone with a press credential – the declaration that they “support border security.”

Without a physical barrier or some sort, what exactly do they mean by “border security”?

They toss around ideas like “virtual wall,” drones, or more border patrol agents, but none of those stop or even slow down illegal aliens and human or drug smugglers entering the country.

And once an illegal alien is in the country, thanks to liberal judges rewriting our immigration laws, they’re pretty much home free.

Sure, they have to make some weak claim for asylum and pinky-swear they’ll show up for a court date a year or two, but once they’re out the door the vast majority are never seen again. Unless, of course, they’re arrested.

So what security from that is there is what Democrats claim they support? A virtual wall will let border patrol know someone has crossed into the United States, at which point it’s game over and the corrupt system kicks in.

A drone will provide nice HD footage of them marching across the border, maybe even in night vision, but they’d be in and gone. And more border patrol agents would simply mean more people to collect those pinky-swears, since they can’t do anything to stop illegals from entering.

To Democrats, the only “border security” they will really support is liberal activists locking arms in a self-destructive game of red-rover where illegal aliens are greeted with a sandwich, a bottle of water, and voter registration forms.

Trump was right to draw this line, though he should have done it before the midterms when Republicans would have had some leverage over vulnerable Senate Dems running for reelection in red states. Better late than never, I guess. But late is only better if he sticks to it.