By Ray Cardello for March 4, 2024, Season 25 / Post 7

Joe Biden has three coined responses when asked about the state of the southern border or the crisis at the border. “Give me the power,” “the problem with the border is Donald Trump and his MAGA friends,” and his personal favorite, “give me the money.” All of them are sound bites to deflect attention and blame. But none show the magnitude of the impact Joe Biden has had on this country with his poor policy decisions regarding the illegal aliens storming our border at his invitation.

We have repeatedly discussed the Biden border failure over the last three years. With the legacy media finally acknowledging the border crisis, it is crucial that we continue to document the truth to counter the gaslighting of the media and Administration. The biggest falsehood is that the border crisis is connected to legal immigration. Saying this confuses Americans and allows the Democrats to point a blaming finger at Republicans for blocking an immigration reform package. The truth is the Republican led House passed HR2 nearly two years ago to address legal immigration, but Chuck Schumer blocked the bill in the Senate. Furthermore, no immigration reform bill will have any way of stopping the millions of illegals crossing our border between legal ports of entry. These issues are critical but not connected.

The semantics game is popular in the Biden Administration. If you can attach a new label to a situation or person, you can control the public’s view. The illegal alien has gone through many iterations in the last few years, each designed to soften the image of the criminals crossing our border and changing the look and character of our country.

To be accurate, these folks crossing into America are illegal aliens. Illegal because their first act to come to America was to break the law by violating our sovereign border. Alien because they are from another country. Neither is meant to be offensive; it is just factually accurate.

The Left felt this phrase belittled these people invading our country, so the game began. These same folks who have now discovered sensitivity are the same that assigned the term WOP to Italian immigrants at Ellis Island. WOP is an acronym meaning without papers. These Italians were treated with such little respect that some were given new surnames. Migrants, undocumented aliens, undocumented citizens, and the most recent, newcomers. They seem to be working towards how they see these folks in the future: Democrat Voters.

When Biden addressed the border situation this week, he did so as if he had recently been briefed on the crisis. He claimed that we now need to solve the problem. Where has that commitment been for three years, Joe. He was careful to craft his comments to make some think he wanted to close the border, but in reality, his plan was to expedite the illegal alien-to-newcomer process. He wants more money. Of course, it’s the Democrat solution. He wants more border guards, not to stop, but to assist crossers. He wants more judges, not to deport but to process bogus asylum claims. He wants more money to funnel to NGO, like Catholic and Lutheran Charities, which are raking in billions to transport our new “friends” to every state. Listen carefully to the aged man, who looked weak and feeble as he toured Brownsville, Texas. Joe speaks with a forked tongue.