Sometimes I see an article in the newspapers that seems so absurd, I feel like I have to say something, but then surely the average reader would have seen the absurdity of it, so there is no need for me to point it out.
But then when both Chicago papers say the same thing and
more than once, somebody is failing to see the bigger picture. (trib (Our immigration mess needs an
overhaul, not DeSantis’ stunts, September 18) (Time Texas Gov. Abbott sends
asylum seekers here to sow chaos, but Illinois is better than that, September
18)
Over 2 million people have entered our country in the last
year outside of our visa program. They
just walked right in. Millions more if
you go back a few decades. We used to
call them illegal immigrants, but they have been taught to claim asylum, so
that practically speaking, most of them are going to get to stay here. Court dates are now years away, and most
don’t come back to court anyway.
Most of these have crossed the border through Texas and
Arizona. The border states have asked
for help from the federal government for decades to do something to stem the
flood of people coming into their states.
And the federal government has done nothing.
The rest of the country is essentially oblivious to all of this. It doesn’t affect them directly, and the news
media give it very little attention. Oh,
they may show a few short videos of people crossing the border, but they don’t
show the impact on the state in which they are entering.
What do you do with thousands of people a day who are
entering your state and expecting people to take care of them?
Some governors of the border states have started shipping
some of them to areas that seem the least concerned about this massive influx
of human beings.
And so many people are calling all this a stunt, a cheap
political trick close to an election.
A stunt? A
trick? Hell, no!
Congress and many politicians around the country don’t see
any problem with millions of people whom we don’t even know who they are just
walking into our country. They complain
about a couple hundred migrants being dropped off at their door. Like, what are we supposed to do with them?
I am as compassionate as anybody about the plight of poor,
disadvantaged people, but if you don’t see a problem or two here, then you
shouldn’t be making our laws or writing editorials in newspapers.
Sometimes I think we should just annex Mexico and half of
Central America. We would need to give
them 10-20 years before granting full statehood, but I think it’s something to
consider.
Whatever Congress decides to do, I think shipping migrants
to certain key places around the country may be the only way to get Congress to
act.