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“Walls do not save lives. Walls end lives,” said failed Texas senate candidate, former congressman and progressive cult hero Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke.
This was a direct challenge to President Trump’s declaration that “walls save lives.” It also raised the brow-furrowing question of exactly how a flat, inanimate object moored to ground ends lives.
Addressing an audience that was dwarfed by the President’s, O’Rourke elaborated:
“More than 4,000 children, women and men have died trying to come to this country. To work jobs that no one will take.”
“More than 4,000 children, women and men have died trying to come to this country. To work jobs that no one will take.”
“To be with a family member, to flee horrific brutality and violence and death in their home countries.”
““As we build these walls, 600 miles of the 2,000 mile border walled up and counting, we push them to ever more treacherous and remote stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, thereby ensuring greater suffering and death. We stand for America, and we stand against walls.”
How many faulty premises did you catch in that? To support O’Rourke’s message is to accept that virtually endless waves of migrants passing illegally through our borders have a right to do so and should not be stopped.
The crisis at the border is not the fault of migrants who choose to violate our immigration laws, you see, but America’s fault for pushing them to violate our laws via a more treacherous route.
