1. Presidential Virtue Signaling Has Consequences
A record 19,000 unaccompanied minors were picked up by U.S. Border Patrol during March, part of a surge that left dozens of children in need of rescue after being abandoned by smugglers mid-trip.
A record 19,000 unaccompanied minors were picked up by U.S. Border Patrol during March, part of a surge that left dozens of children in need of rescue after being abandoned by smugglers mid-trip.
2. Smugglers are pouncing on the desperation of people in Central America and South America with fake promises of safe trips and easy immigration processes, reports Axios Latino author Marina E. Franco.
3. Recent examples include a 10-year-old boy found wandering alone in Texas and a pair of girls, ages 3 and 5, dropped over a 14-foot border wall in New Mexico.
4. All of this is totally unexpected. We know how cruel the explosive mixture of false hopes and callous opportunism of the unscrupulous is. Everyone knows except the clueless bleeding heart liberals and Democratic demagogues. I wrote this three years ago:
https://twitter.com/bansisharma/status/1015557499750178817?s=20
5. I also wrote this two years ago, and I mean every word of it. Let us be adults. We need to fix this without harming the children.
https://twitter.com/bansisharma/status/1142084970015526912?s=20
6. There are no easy solutions. There never were. But if politicians of both parties put away their crass political calculations on this human tragedy of enormous proportions and work together in good faith, we can solve this. But good faith has been in short supply.
The End.
The End.
*NOT totally unexpected.
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