Tuesday, August 14, 2018

On My Mind: Monstrous, Indeed!




In response to a column I read the other day 
in a free monthly newspaper for senior citizens in our area
 I take exception to the writer's charge that the alleged treatment 
of the children of illegals detained at the border 
by our government was monstrous. 
Monstrous, indeed! 


Baby detained at the border?

 The recent photograph of a toddler crying for his mother,
 while allegedly locked in a cage at the border 
 and which was posted on social media websites this 
past June was both disturbing and heartbreaking
 and invoked the wrath of many people
 against the "zero tolerance" immigration policy
 implemented by President Donald Trump. 

Thousands of outraged viewers vented through "tweets"
 after the this picture was posted by Jose Antonio Vargas
  via Twitter with the accompanying caption: 
"This is what happens when a government believes
 people are "illegal" "Hashtag Kids In Cages".
He also posted this picture on Facebook
 where it received at least 10,000 shares.

 The same picture of this child surfaced again on Facebook
 compliments of a Latin advocacy group called
 the Brown Berets de Cemanahuac,
along with the caption:  
"Stop separating families."

Shocking.  Sensational.  Scandalous.

 According to CNN.com, the picture,
 which so incensed the social media world, 
was not taken at a border detention center. 
 The child in the cage was actually part of a protest
 against the Trump White House immigration policies,
 which had taken place in front of City Hall
 in Dallas, Texas on June 10, 2018.
 Those who staged this protest
 later admitted that the little boy started crying
 when he spotted his mother standing in the crowd.

 How ironic it is that while the Internet screamed
 with condemnation at our president for
 purportedly separating families at the border,
 the people behind this protest had no problem
 at all exploiting an innocent child
 in order to stir up even more unreasonable hatred
 and mistrust of President Donald Trump
 across our nation and the world.

 All President Trump did by instituting a "zero-tolerance' policy
 was merely reactivate legislation regarding illegal aliens-
  a law which has been disregarded for many years now-
which calls for those trying to gain illegal entry into
the country to be arrested and detained
 before being deported back across the border.

Although his political enemies and the news media
 seem to rally against our president no matter what
he does in the best interest of the American people,
there are far greater issues in this heated debate
 over immigration that I think many Americans
 are not fully aware of, like the truly monstrous situation
 for American citizens living along our nation's
southern border with Mexico.

In 2010, 58 year old Arizona rancher Rob Krentz,
 a member of one of the state's oldest ranching families,
 was found brutally murdered on his property.
His widow, Sue Krentz claims they were use to seeing
 and encountering illegals regularly crossing their land
which lies along the state's southeastern border with Mexico.

 Quoted in an article in the LA Times, Mrs. Krentz said:
 "We asked for help and no one came.
  We requested a secure border, 
and were told security was not to be expected.
 When we asked for safety we were described as racist."

 Sue Krentz has since become a vocal advocate
 of President Trump's extended border wall.
 On the day of his death, her husband had been checking out
  water lines which he suspected had been cut by illegals crossing 
 his land  when he was shot and killed by an unknown assailant.

Eight years have passed and his murder still remains unsolved.

  Another rancher living near the Mexican border is Presnell Cage
  of Brooks County, Texas who over the years has discovered
 the remains of dozens of people who died while trying to evade agents 
of the US Border Patrol by cutting across his remote property. 
Although he sympathizes with the mostly poor men,
 women, and children seeking a better life for themselves in America,
 Mr. Cage is aware of the darker side of the plight of many,
 who, in their desperation, have unwittingly become the victims of smugglers.

 He recalls a pregnant woman knocking on his daughter-in-law's door
 begging for help.  She had been left out in the wilderness 
along the Texas-Mexico border by a smuggler. 
Cage believes that immigration laws should be enforced
  and that illegals are breaking the law when they come here,
 but he is quick to add, "..the politicians can't be honest about it." 

Although President Trump was pressured into
 signing an executive order to reunite children and their parents,
 this measure is not going to solve the ongoing crisis of drug-dealers
 and human traffickers penetrating our southern border.
 Neither will it stop Islamic jihadists from coming here
 to commit mayhem and murder.

And, although media "fact-checkers" insist that terrorists
 have not crossed into the United States from Mexico in recent years,
 according to Jihad Watch.com, a Somali man named Abdulahi Sharif,
 entered the US illegally through the San Ysidro port of entry in 2011.

 An immigration judge ordered him to be deported, 
however, the 30 year old Muslim detainee was set free
 due to the "catch and release" policy implemented by
 the Obama Administration  at the time.

 He then vanished off the radar
 until showing up in Edmonton, Canada
 six years later, where in early October 2017
 he was arrested after stabbing a police officer
 and mowing down four pedestrians with a truck.
 Authorities also found an ISIS flag in his car.



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