‘Sanctuary cities’ lure migrants to U.S. Open borders mantra an incentive to take deadly risks
“Sanctuary cities entice people to believe they can come to America and Texas and live outside the law. Sanctuary cities also enable human smugglers and cartels. Today, these [victims] paid a terrible price ... ”
— Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Are Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court paying attention?
If you’ve seen the horrific story of 10 illegal immigrants found roasted alive in a Texas parking lot over the weekend, you probably wondered what would make someone risk such a hideous death. Well, no need to wonder: Just ask the Somerville mayor or officials in other selfdeclared “sanctuary cities” or one of the justices on the Supreme Judicial Court. Thanks to them, Massachusetts might as well put a sign at the border: “Illegal immigrants — hop in a hot truck and head our way!”
Patrick is right: The more that liberals including Curtatone, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren insist that any illegal immigrant who can get to America should be allowed to stay, the more they incentivize this risk.
Untold thousands — all tempted into those deathtrap trucks and shallow desert graves by the siren call of the sanctimonious sanctuary-crowd. These people may have died in Texas, but the trail of blood runs from Beacon Hill to the San Francisco Bay, and every so-called “sanctuary” in between.
Nobody is saying these poor souls were headed for Somerville, or to any other sanctuary city in Massachusetts. But what about the four other trucks the U.S. Border Patrol has seized in the Laredo, Texas area this month alone? Or the many illegal immigrants who’ve died crossing the desert during the “sanctuary city” decade? How many of them were planning to join the estimated 210,000 illegal immigrants in Massachusetts?
And now that the state’s highest court, with a ruling yesterday, has essentially invented the right of illegal immigrants to walk out of our state and county jails before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can arrive to detain them, immigrants have yet another incentive to tempt fate in the floorboards of a hot Texas truck.
Open border advocates don’t agree, of course. They blame border enforcement itself.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas called the San Antonio deaths the “human cost” of Congress’ failure to fix a “broken immigration system.” Jonathan Ryan, head of the (subtly-named) pro-illegal- immigration nonprofit “RAICES” (the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services) said it was an “unfortunate example” of what happens when states like Texas crack down on sanctuary cities.
“You can change laws but you cannot stop the movement of displaced people,” Ryan said.
Got that? You have no right to borders, and as citizens you have no right to enact laws enforcing them. The illegal immigrants are going to come no matter what, cheered on by American liberals and protected by courts. You can either bow to their border-free beliefs, or take the blame when bad things happen. That’s the open-borders argument. And in a sense, they’re right.
Enforcing laws has consequences. Sometimes bank robbers shoot at the cops. When the cops shoot back, was the crook a victim of our laws against theft? When a tax cheat gets busted and is put behind bars, his kids lose their dad. Should we open “sanctuary tax shelters” to end the suffering?
Deporting people who are present in a country illegally is the policy of virtually every other nation on the planet. So why is it, to quote Curtatone, “terrorizing immigrants” when America does it? The federal government can require local cops to detain people for breaking all sorts of laws. Why shouldn’t the same rules apply when it comes to immigration law?
And perhaps the most pressing question: How many dead bodies will it take before Massachusetts liberals stop encouraging illegal immigrants to risk their lives in the hopes of finding “sanctuary”?