| New Guidance Bars Immigration Enforcement in ‘Protected Areas’ -- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/biden-immigra... Migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960. -- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/us/politics/border-crossi... “The Biden administration has created a disaster,” added Mr. Morgan [chief of the U.S. Border Patrol in the Obama administration], currently a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “It did so by methodically – and by all indications intentionally – undoing every meaningful border security measure that had been in place.” -- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/19/bidens-bung... President Biden Eviscerates Border Security and Immigration Enforcement on Day One [Please try to refute the many specific claims made in the article, instead of attacking the site itself.] -- https://www.fairus.org/legislation/presidential-administrati... Attorney General Merrick Garland has rescinded a Trump-era memo blocking so-called sanctuary cities from receiving funding from the Department of Justice. -- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/550675-doj-resci... Christopher Magnus [..] He is an advocate of Sanctuary cities [..] Magnus was nominated by Joe Biden to become the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Magnus I'm sure I could keep going, but I think I've made my point. At the very least, you should be able to understand how I got the impression that the current administration disfavors border enforcement (as if the record-high legal immigration, that continued even under Trump, was not enough). |
I assume by presenting this you're trying to make the argument that "a person could read these headlines and reasonably assume border laws aren't enforced by the current administration."
But this is exactly what I mean by ignorance or lying. If you cherry pick a bunch of headlines and quotes from conservative figures and present them without context, then it seems to me that you're attempting to "spin" the news to match your agenda, which is another word for lying. Lying with the truth is sometimes the best kind of lie.
And anyone who reads this and assumes that somehow CBP and ICE are disbanded and the border is a total free-for-all "because of the libs" is being willfully ignorant and not seeking out a fuller picture to really understand the situation.
I don't mean to put all the blame on the individual reader, but a certain due diligence and skepticism when presented with headlines and quotes like this is warranted. There's also a lot of propaganda out there, which is also a big problem with no clear solution.