Joe Biden ought to do as Giorgia Meloni does.
And that’s to go to the border.
Meloni is the prime minister of Italy who final week went to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, the Eagle Pass of the Mediterranean, the place determined migrants from Africa have overrun the island.
Joe Biden has not solely averted visiting the Mexican border to witness firsthand the unlawful immigrant invasion that’s happening however refuses to even discuss it.
Biden did make a managed, three-hour stopover in El Paso in January en path to Mexico City, but it surely was so programmed that he didn’t see any of the immigrants, not to mention these sleeping within the streets. He was avoided reporters, and he didn’t take any questions, after all. He by no means does.
Within three days previous to Meloni’s go to to Lampedusa, some 8,500 migrants from Tunisia, in search of to get to mainland Europe, landed on the shores of the as soon as quaint island of 6,000 inhabitants.
The new invasion got here simply as Merloni, in her speech to the United Nations in New York, mentioned the UN couldn’t afford to disregard the worldwide drawback of immigration and the smugglers behind it. She referred to as on the UN to conduct “a world struggle with out mercy’ in opposition to smugglers.
Biden, in contrast, doesn’t utter a phrase about immigration, not to mention the Mexican cartels who’re smuggling hundreds of unlawful immigrants in addition to lethal fentanyl throughout the Mexican border every day.
While it’s a trickle in contrast to what’s happening at Biden’s open border with Mexico, the rising circulate of immigrants into Italy is tending to destabilize Meloni’s far proper administration.
Lampedusa lies between Sicily and Tunisia, simply 70 miles from the North African coast. Although a one-time sleepy island, it’s now Italy’s ocean “border” with North Africa.
And hundreds of determined migrants in search of to flee poverty, crime and chaos in Sudan, Libya and Tunisia, are touchdown on the island as a primary determined step to get to mainland Italy and into the European Union.
Lampedusa could be the dimension of Martha’s Vineyard, however it isn’t fairly so well-known, neither is it a vacationer attraction.
The final time the island made worldwide information was when Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the final Prince of Lampedusa, printed his 1958 traditional novel “The Leopard.”
A guide in regards to the unification of Italy within the 1860’s (Il Risorgimento), it was later made right into a film that starred the late Hollywood actor Burt Lancaster.
That apart, Meloni was elected partially on her promise to crack down on unlawful immigration, in contrast to Biden, who continues to wave thousands and thousands of unlawful immigrants into the nation by means of his open borders coverage.
It has been a coverage of beating all former President Donald Trump’s border safety measures with a program of waving everybody in with no questions requested. And cities and state cross the nation, with no steering, coverage or monetary help from Biden, are caught with coping with the immigrants.
Meloni, no less than, is making an attempt to do one thing about it. Yet regardless of her concern, some 127,000 immigrants have landed on Italy’s shores thus far in 2023, which is double the quantity throughout the identical interval a 12 months in the past.
And Italy’s allies within the European Union are usually not doing a lot to assist. In truth, Meloni final week complained that whereas Germany has curtailed the inflow of immigrants into its county, it’s financing the NGO “charity ships” that assist immigrants get to Italy.
She mentioned the charity and rescue boats have been a “pull factor” for immigrants crossing the ocean to Italy from Africa.
The Biden administration, which ignores the immigrant and drug-smuggling Mexican cartels, additionally funds NGOs alongside the border that assist unlawful immigrants cross into the U.S.
Biden ought to do what Merloni does. And that’s go to the border to witness the injury he’s doing to the nation he has sworn to guard and defend.
But Biden isn’t a pacesetter. Otherwise, he would rush to the sound of the weapons. Instead, he stumbles away.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”