Back To The Border

June 25, 2018

By Gary Bauer

Supporters of the left-wing group LULAC held a demonstration at the McAllen Border Patrol Station Saturday.  For a brief time, they blocked a bus with illegal immigrants who were being relocated to another facility.  A Border Patrol agent had his ankle broken in the scuffle. 
 
Was that the kind of uprising Nancy Pelosi called for recently?
 
Bill Bennett and I fought LULAC during the Reagan years when the group resisted teaching Mexican students how to read and speak English faster.  LULAC insisted that the children be taught in Spanish in our public schools.  And the group still prioritizes foreign languages over English, at tremendous costs to local taxpayers.
 
A similar scene is playing out in Portland, where left-wing demonstrators have blockaded and shutdown the local ICE office for several days now.  They took down the American flag and raised a flag that reads "Refugees Welcome." 
 
Maybe this is the uprising Nancy Pelosi wanted.
 
Here are some facts you may not know: 

• 83% of the children who crossed the border illegally and who are currently in HHS custody "arrived to the United States without a parent or guardian."  In other words, the parents separated themselves from their children before the children arrived here. 

• A majority of Border Patrol agents are Hispanic. 

• Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said yesterday, "We stop 10 terrorists every day from getting into this country." 

If 10 are stopped every day, how many are getting into the country every day because of the left's insane open borders policies?  Border security is national security.
 
Meanwhile the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert Saturday warning all employees to secure their homes and take additional safety precautions due to a spike in "specific and credible threats."  That would be threats from left-wing radicals, not conservatives.
 
This warning comes as Democrat candidates all over the country are calling ICE "a terrorist organization" and calling for it to be abolished.  That means they are literally calling for an end to the enforcement of our immigration laws.
 
Perhaps the radical left's nonsense is beginning to backfire.  A new poll finds that a majority of Americans are now inclined to support Trump's border wall.