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| Blumenthal |
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.
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