Boston Herald

Left proves it’s tone-deaf on illegal immigratio­n

- By JAY AMBROSE Jay Ambrose is a syndicated columnist.

MS-13 is a boogeyman used by the lying, racist President Donald Trump to scare people about illegal crossings at the southern border and don’t listen to him — or so say leftist politician­s, let’s-pretend journalist­s and puzzling professors.

At least these people do not grab you, slice you to death with their machetes, bang your head with baseball bats or, as in one recent incident, carve out your heart. That’s what happened in California, and 19 of the 22 MS-13 gang members accused of this barbarism crossed the southern border illegally in recent years. While you may agree with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that walls are evil, the term is more nearly applicable to freak-show politics.

What we have here is a threat of the left, not just in recent border inanities, but in antifa activists whose masks scarcely hid their brutality when they recently beat a conservati­ve journalist until his brain bled. Then one antifa loyalist tried to blow up a detention facility because itw as run by ICE.

The border argument is do-for-others vs. don’t-do-for-others. It is doing for others to stop treacherou­s desert treks by Central Americans that sometimes end in death. It is doing for others to develop a coherent system that can actually figure out who asylum seekers are before letting them loose in America. It is doing for others to determine whether the adult with a child is a parent or human trafficker plotting her sexual career.

It is not doing for others to say come one and all with essentiall­y open borders and a dread of deporting people already found askew of the law. It is not doing for others to belittle ICE, which protects us while sanctuary cities endanger us with the excuse that if you enforce the law it makes it harder to enforce the law. Democrats share the blame for what these MS-13 criminals did and should at least visit the graveyards of their victims.

I am sick and tired of leftists calling everyone a racist who happens to be a white American and wish I did not have to endure the bigotry of many of them toward Christians, the rich (except for themselves), conservati­ves, corporate chiefs and major chunks of the white working class.

Obviously, there are bad conservati­ves and what does it matter that Trump helped build a great economy especially benefiting black Americans and women? After all, Democratic presidenti­al candidates mostly want less liberty in order to facilitate socialisti­c practices reducing the human soul as much as it does the economy, if there is still such a thing left after the Green New Deal.

Yes, Republican­s and Trump have issues, but they are not alone.

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