In one month, December of 2023, three hundred thousand (300,000) people crossed the border illegally. That’s about ten thousand per day, the size of a small town. But in the aggregate for the month, it is the equivalent of the City of Cincinnati. That 300,000 illegals coming into the United States in December 2023, would be greater than seventy-nine percent (79%) of all the cities in the United States, is breathtaking.
In other words, the illegals who crossed in December would be in the top twenty percent (20%) of all cities in the United States. And, according to UN Habitat, those 300,000 illegals that crossed the border, just in December, would rank in the top one-third of all cities in the world. This is an epic self-inflicted diaspora of monumental proportions. And nobody quite knows what to do, that’s what they tell us anyway…
And let’s say everybody is happy about this sanctioned invasion. Let’s say there is no political motivation or plan behind this sanctioning of a flood of people, not just from Central America, but from all over the world, to enter our country with no background check, no known affiliation, no paperwork and no screening. Let’s collectively pretend that is a fact.
If my twelve brothers and sisters and their wives/husbands and kids suddenly showed up at my front door and said “Hey there! We’ve decided to live with you a while…” As much as I love them, I’d have to say “No, you can’t, you won’t, you need to go back home where you belong. I mean I love you, but you can’t stay here.”
I’d say that because I would automatically know that would not be sustainable. It has nothing to do with my compassion, my love for them or our different lifestyles. It has everything to do with our capacity to house, feed and clothe them and keep the peace amongst ourselves so we can continue to move our house and our lives forward the best we can.
In city after city, we are seeing the locals rise up with frustration and anger. A recent Chicago City Council meeting broke out into a shouting match as Chicago residents challenged the Mayor and Council over the influx of illegals. These residents were primarily black. Should we have labeled them xenophobic or racist? Their chief gripe was they have been promised services for decades that they have never seen realized.
Yet, they pointed out, illegals have flooded their streets and neighborhoods and seem to be given consideration (and tax dollar support) they, the residents, have been waiting for decades to materialize.
The latest outrage of Americans of every race, being displaced to accommodate people who have no business being in this country, is students at the James Madison High School in New York City being sent home to distance learning so the city can house illegals in their school. The City cited the extreme winter weather. I sympathize with the notion of not allowing people to freeze to death, but an entire student body being told to go back to the nightmare of the Covid era, distance learning? Why not house them at Rockefeller Center? Or the Javitz Center? Or how about this, pay a cruise line to turn a ship into a floating hotel for illegals?
Booting kids, disrupting their high school experience, returning them to the isolation of home distance learning lock down is a cruelty. During Covid and distance learning, we had nine students commit or attempt to commit suicide in my county alone. Maybe Mayor Eric Adams could get creative and actually put up shelters that work. It was a scandal when Randall’s Island, a park known for hosting youth sport leagues of baseball and soccer, was co-opted to house illegals. This decision brought a halt to youth sports on Randall’s Island. As one mother said “There is very little green space in the City, this was the place where kids could go for their sports.”
Was Randall’s Island a case of “You have to be cruel to be kind?”
There is no doubt that President Biden’s border policy is a complete disaster. But it seems to be never-ending. I heard a definition of insanity is continuing to keep doing something that brings you pain and unhappiness. It’s taking a sledge hammer and hitting yourself in the head with it and crying out “Wow! That hurt!” But you continue to do it thinking if you just hit your head one more time with that sledge hammer, it’ll all work out.
Our border policy and perhaps even President Biden, is certifiably insane. This moving high schoolers out of their school to the isolation of their homes is certifiably cruel and unjust.
Somebody make it stop.