Editorial

What is an emergency?

The recent veto of a Congressional resolution condemning President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border was yet another indication that Congress and both parties do not want to solve the problem, nor address it. Trump’s declaration has laid bare the collusion that has dominated this issue for more than three decades. In the case of the Democrats, they want more voters to maintain their power over a permanent underclass; in the case of the Republicans, their supporters – particularly the so-called RINO segment of the party – want cheap labor.

The recent veto of a Congressional resolution condemning President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border was yet another indication that Congress and both parties do not want to solve the problem, nor address it. Trump’s declaration has laid bare the collusion that has dominated this issue for more than three decades. In the case of the Democrats, they want more voters to maintain their power over a permanent underclass; in the case of the Republicans, their supporters – particularly the so-called RINO segment of the party – want cheap labor.

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan acquiesced to the demands of the Democratic majority in Congress and the less conservative Republicans by giving amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens, most of which had slipped through the southern border. Reagan was told by then-House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill the closing of the border would be an issue address “later.” As with many things in Washington, “later” never happens. Reagan called this one of the worst decisions of his presidency.

Over the next three decades, the issue has come up and each time the American people want the subject addressed. Too many people are coming into the country and then absorbed into the cities.

In 2007 the issue came to a head, and an attempt to give amnesty to what was then considered 10-12 million people was denounced by Americans. The amnesty was defeated, but Congress failed to take steps to rectify the problem. The status quo continued as it had since 1986.

With the ascendancy of Barack Obama in 2008, he used his executive powers to virtually nullify our immigration laws and used “catch and release” as a way to further the absorption of more illegal aliens into the country. Though he talked the game of changing or rectifying our illegal alien problem, he was more than happy to continue the status quo. His decisions in that eight-year period still dog the nation today.

Donald Trump’s election in 2016 was based in a large part on securing the border. The Republicans, who have always paid lip-service to the issue – much as they had to ridding us of Obamacare –, reneged whenever the issue arose. Former Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership were of the Never Trump crowd and were also part of the wing of the party that kowtowed to its donor class, which wants open borders.

With Democrats now in charge of the House, illegal immigration is going back up to Obama-era numbers. A recent Yale University-MIT study showed the number of illegals has ballooned to between 22-30 million with no end in sight.

The problem at the border is getting worse. Attempting to shut down the debate by calling people “racist” is demagoguery. There is an invasion going on and it is financed by elitists such as George Soros, whose many organizations promote open borders here and elsewhere.

Despite the implications the matter might bring later, we support Mr. Trump in his emergency declaration. For 33 years the issue has been fended off by a political class that refused to listen to the voters. He is taking the matter away from the politicians.

Not only should a wall be built, but troops stationed at the border to keep order. While the elite media would like to call this a “manufactured crisis,” we know it’s a crisis that has persisted for years, ignored by our “betters” in Congress and elsewhere who know better than we.