{"id":1428795,"date":"2023-09-22T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1428795"},"modified":"2023-09-22T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T21:45:00","slug":"america-has-fallen-and-it-cant-get-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/america-has-fallen-and-it-cant-get-up\/1428795\/","title":{"rendered":"America Has Fallen, And It Can’t Get Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

America Has Fallen, And It Can’t Get Up<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Michael Shellenberger via Public<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

The Border Has Fallen<\/h2>\n

During the Trump years, Democrats attacked Trump as cruel for separating migrant parents and children.<\/p>\n

\u201cA policy that separates young children from their parents isn\u2019t a \u2018deterrent.\u2019 It\u2019s unconscionable<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>said Biden <\/a>in 2018. \u201cA policy that traumatizes children isn\u2019t a bargaining chip. It\u2019s abhorrent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two migrants drag another through barbed wire on the border (Getty Images)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

But Dr. Paul Wise, a pediatrician in charge of monitoring the treatment of migrant children in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, <\/span>reports<\/a> that the Biden administration\u2019s U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been separating children as young as eight from their parents.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInterviews with parents and children found that there were minimal or no opportunities for phone contact or direct interaction between parent and child<\/strong>,\u201d Wise said in the court filing. \u201cThe separation of families and the lack of interaction while in custody do significant, and potentially lasting, harm to children, particularly younger children.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying the crisis. In some areas, the border between Texas and Mexico looks like a refugee camp in sub-Saharan Africa. There are thousands of African and Latin American migrants coming through daily. More than two million came last year, over 5,000 per day, and nearly as many will come this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Biden administration rightly points out that it tried telling migrants not to come. \u201cDo not come,\u201d said Vice President Kamala Harris in Guatemala in 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Biden had made clear from 2018 to 2020 that he would reverse President Trump\u2019s immigration policies. And so, many more migrants are coming.<\/p>\n

They also do so because they know we won\u2019t turn them away. Doing so would be cruel. Children, babies, and mothers would die. And the photographs and videos of the horror would travel the world in minutes or seconds.<\/p>\n

If you doubt that this is true, watch the videos of parents sending their children through barbed wire fences and crossing the dangerous Rio Grande River.<\/p>\n

That hardly means we\u2019re helpless to stop the flow<\/strong>. This year, for the first time, US Border Control is encountering more migrants from outside Latin America than from within it. That means people are flying from Africa to Latin America and entering through Mexico.<\/p>\n

Is this part of a plan by Democratic leaders to expand the voting rolls? Some Republicans say so. And in California, some progressive politicians <\/span>want to give<\/a> undocumented immigrants the right to vote. They <\/span>already provide official<\/a> California state driver\u2019s licenses and IDs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But if that was the plan, it\u2019s turning the nation against them<\/p>\n

The migrants are overwhelming not just the state of Texas but also New York, whose Democratic leaders, both Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul, say bluntly that the city is filled up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe national government has turned its back on New York City,\u201d said Adams in April. \u201cThis is impacting our schools, public safety, our ability to take care of those who were already in shelters. This is impacting the entire city.\u201d Hochul is now proposing <\/span>eliminating New York\u2019s \u201cright to shelter\u201d law.<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe the progressive Democrats who run Chicago, Illinois, have more room \u2014 or compassion?<\/p>\n

Not quite. \u201cLet me state this clearly,\u201d <\/span>said<\/a> Chicago\u2019s progressive new Mayor. \u201cThe city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What, then, is to be done?<\/p>\n

The Biden administration doesn\u2019t even bother offering an answer. <\/strong>Democrats can only say what must <\/span>not<\/em> be done. We must not build a wall. We must not deport. Anyone. We must instead find jobs for the millions of mostly unskilled and uneducated immigrants to the US who, critics say, will drive down working-class wages and tax already over-stressed housing, educational, and health systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, we\u2019re seeing a <\/span>return of child labor to the United States,<\/a> as slaughterhouses illegally <\/span>hire teenage migrants on the night shift,<\/a> who are scalded by caustic chemicals and maimed in industrial accidents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago, New York\u2019s Governor Hochul tried to stay above the battle between New York City Mayor Adams and the Biden White House. That all changed late last month when Hochul took off the kid gloves. \u201cWe\u2019ve managed thus far without substantive support from Washington,\u201d she said in what her aides billed as a major speech.<\/p>\n

In the end, nobody will be able to measure how much of the crisis is driven by Biden and how much of it is from the collapse of civilization within the African and Latin American nations themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s clear is that if we don\u2019t fix this, it won\u2019t be just the border that\u2019s fallen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 09\/22\/2023 – 13:45<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/america-has-fallen-and-it-cant-get<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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