Columnist fails to reveal truth of what’s happening at the border
Kathleen Parker makes some obvious points in her Tuesday opinion piece, “Biden must be more transparent about border crisis.” That would qualify as the understatement of the year.
It took a group of 17 U.S. Senators visiting the border to let the public get even a glimpse of conditions there – children inches apart, sleeping on the floor, in the midst of a pandemic.
Parker suggests that the president might have wanted to think things through before opening the floodgates to “unaccompanied” minors. She is being rather generous here.
The president, or rather those who decide what executive orders to put in front of him for signature, knew exactly what would happen. The plan is obvious: create a flood of immigrants at the southern border, overwhelm the border patrol and disperse emigres throughout the country without any way to track them. Do it on Day 1 and count on aircover from a compliant media.
Now we have 1 or 2 million potential new voters who will be forever thankful for the Democrats’ largesse. Let’s also pass HR-1 to make sure they have a say in how their new country is governed. Never mind the problems created for the rest of the population.
History from 1936 Germany seems to have repeated itself at Capitol
In the March 29 Daily Almanac (Life & Arts section), the citation for 1936 is “1936: German Chancellor Adolf Hitler claimed overwhelming victory in a plebiscite on his policies.”
Why does that piece of history seem to resonate somehow in the political environment of the United States in 2021? In 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich earned Hitler nine months in jail. To many observers, the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion at the Capitol Building was ominous. Thankfully, the U.S. Constitution should protect us from such folly. Robert Jacobson, Columbus