By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics
When Home Speaker Mike Johnson and 60 GOP members of Congress went to Eagle Cross, Texas, not too long ago for a photo-op, they have been in all probability shocked that the primary query they have been requested was for a present of fingers of those that would shut down the federal government if President Biden doesn’t shut the border.
You see, that query truly frames unrestricted immigration on the southern border because the existential nationwide disaster which it’s. No marvel Texas Republican Rep. Pat Fallon misplaced it and instantly shouted, “We’re not gonna do ‘present of fingers.’ We’re not in a classroom. We’re not doing ‘present of fingers.’”
No, after all not. It’s a lot simpler to close down a reporter looking for the reality than it’s to close down the border and save the nation.
The “present of fingers” query got here from Ben Bergquam of Actual America’s Voice, one of many few journalists who has reported the exhausting realities concerning the border disaster on a close to each day foundation for years. He has adopted migrants from the harmful Darién Hole between Colombia and Panama all the best way up the cartel hall by means of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.
In the event you watch his reporting, you’ll know this isn’t an harmless caravan of asylum seekers; it’s an invasion, plain and easy. He asks every immigrant two questions: The place are you from and the place are you going? They’re from throughout the globe, not simply Central or South America.
Sure, there are a lot from Venezuela, however simply as many from Somalia, Egypt, West Africa, or China. And most of them are navy age males. They aren’t escaping from persecution or violence; they’re coming to America for jobs – and for advantages – and in the end to empty our nation of sources.
Bergquam additionally travels to the cities the place the migrants say they wish to go after the Border Patrol helps them cross the border – New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. These cities have opened their doorways to the migrant invasion, and they’re going to pay the value because the newcomers join well being care, education, welfare, and different advantages. However we’re all paying, and at a charge of not less than 12,000 unlawful migrants a day, the invoice is quickly changing into untenable.
The inflow of tens of millions of illegals beneath the Biden regime has value the nation billions of {dollars} at a time when our nationwide debt has skyrocketed to an unimaginable $34 trillion. And but Washington does nothing to resolve the issue – not the Biden administration and never the Republican Home of Representatives.
That’s why Bergquam requested for a present of fingers from the members of Congress who had arrived in Eagle Cross, as if they’d simply heard of the immigration disaster. Who right here is prepared to close down the federal government if the federal government doesn’t shut down the border?
It’s an inexpensive query. And there have been definitely some members on the tour who would have raised their fingers – warriors like Andy Biggs and Eli Crane from Arizona, Matt Rosendale from Montana, and others, however the Republican management within the Home has a dismal behavior of surrendering to globalist Democrats who’re extra occupied with settling unlawful immigrants in our nation than stopping them on the border.
In fact, the mainstream media paints Biggs and Rosendale and others who wish to cease the stream of illegals as heartless nationalists – or worse. And once they reject pretend options that solely spend extra money to make it simpler for migrants to regulate to life in America, the left says they wish to exploit the border disaster for political achieve. No marvel weak Republicans always cave to the phony offers provided by Joe Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Proper now, Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma is getting used because the sacrificial lamb who will shepherd a pretend compromise plan by means of Congress despite the fact that it permits as much as 5,000 unlawful entries per day. If this plan is permitted by the Senate, it should give Republicans within the Home only one logical response: Shut down the federal government.
And it gained’t be tough. A big a part of the federal authorities will run out of cash on Friday when the persevering with decision that Speaker Johnson “negotiated” with Democrats expires. Craven Republicans would simply discover some approach to preserve the federal government open and faux that they’d gained a victory on border safety, however sensible Republicans know that the Friday deadline is a large alternative.
Keep in mind, it takes only one member of the Home to deliver a movement to “vacate the chair,” and there’s no means that Johnson would survive such a movement with the slim majority Republicans presently maintain. A minimum of one GOP member, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, has threatened to deliver such a movement except the border is shut down. If she does, all enterprise involves an in depth till a brand new speaker is chosen, which may simply take weeks.
In different phrases it could shut down the federal government. And that, a few of us imagine, wouldn’t be a nasty factor – not when the choice is enterprise as regular on the damaged border.
Syndicated with permission from RealClearWire.
