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Blumenthal and the Illegals

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We have been very careful over the years not to call the border busters who illegally are crossing what has become a mythical redline (AKA “the U.S. southern border”) into the United States “illegal aliens.” The preferred designation in much of the media has been “undocumented workers,” even though the “workers” are present in the United States illegally and have no work visas.

Who controls the language, George Orwell makes plain in his writings, controls both the past and the future, and The Big Lie always begins with a little white lie, fatal, almost unnoticeable omissions of the truth.

The truth, hovering like a thunder cloud over our politics during the past year, has been painfully obvious to two sets of people: those living in border states whose daily lives have been upturned by a massive influx of “undocumented workers,” many of whom are too young to work in the United States; and voters elsewhere in the country who have eyes to see and ears to hear -- minus those equipped with functional sensory apparatuses whom prejudice, both the good and the bad kind, or political necessity has rendered deaf and dumb.

Among these last is Connecticut US Senator Dick Blumenthal who, unlike President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, has not been asked whether he has visited the U.S. semi-permeable border. So asked, Biden and Harris have white-lied it, their deceptions tolerated by many partisan tribunes of the people who get mighty touchy when the right people -- pun intended -- pull the wool over their eyes.

Harris did visit the border, sort of, but she was careful to appear at a section where she would not become entangled in such disturbing scenes the country has grown used to from the moment Biden derailed former President Donald Trump’s effective border policies, opened his arms wide and said in so many words – “Come, but not until we are ready for you.”

 The unprocessed “undocumented workers” came… and came… and came…

They are coming still, even though Biden, stubbornly unprepared to stem the influx, has on and off toyed with reinstituting a Trump policy that required border jumpers to remain in Mexico while being processed.

Biden along with, say, 90 percent of the American media and more than half the general population – certainly not the lower orders found wriggling in Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” -- loathes Trump and all things Trumpian. And Trump’s loathing of the media, complicit in three failed attempts to remove him from office, has been returned by the former President in equal measure, tied up in a bright red “fake media” bow.

Blumenthal has not visited the border since it started bleeding illegals. Now a new horde of hundreds of thousands of “undocumented workers” is assembling in Mexico for yet another assault on Texas, Arizona and California. There is little indication that the new onrush of “undocumented workers” can be repelled by overburdened border guards, although one governor, Greg Abbott of Texas, is fortifying gaps in the border wall and has called out the National Guard to greet the group.

Asked by a Channel 8 reporter to comment on a secret, early morning plane delivery of illegals to Westchester, New York – some of the illegals having been transported to Connecticut -- Blumenthal, affecting astonishment, said this was the way things were supposed to be: “If it is family reunification, if these children are brought to New York or New York State so they can be reunited, we might not know about it. That’s what these government agencies are supposed to be doing.”

“If” is the operative word in Blumenthal’s response. In fact, no one, including Blumenthal, knows how many of the illegals transported, one paper noted, to Danbury and Hartford are resettlement children; how many have been legally processed before arriving in Connecticut; how many among the resettled children and others have been tested for Coronavirus; of that number how many have tested positive; how many “undocumented children,” or older undocumented non-workers in the group, have been vaccinated or where will they be residing in Connecticut?

Biden sanctions applied to unvaccinated travelers entering the United State appear to be, ironically, far more stringent than they are for “undocumented workers.”

In point of fact, the United States provides a legal means of entry to refugees, and illegal entry always has been frowned upon by U.S. Senators such as Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking. Human trafficking -- and its attendant criminal features, including rape, prostitution, illegal drug running and avoidance of deportation -- most dispassionate observers would agree, has been boosted by Biden’s inept border policies.

Some may find Blumenthal’s pretense of astonishment at the reporter’s question and his “white lie” answer to the question unbecoming in a man who, as Connecticut’s Attorney General for more than two decades, is intimately familiar with laws, reasonable regulations, and those who intentionally break them.

Blumenthal is up for re-election in 2022.


Comments

Donna said…
throw the rascal out!
Anonymous said…
Not getting my vote!

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