This is the story of two cities.
Or, extra precisely, it’s the story of two visits to “two” cities, each named El Paso.
One was the go to to the actual border metropolis of El Paso, the place immigrant ladies and kids had been sleeping in chilly and crowded soiled streets, by New York Mayor Eric Adams final weekend. He went to see firsthand what the disastrous inflow of unlawful immigrants is doing to El Paso — and to New York.
“New York cannot take anymore,” Adams stated of immigrants being bused north. “We can’t.” He stated, “No city deserves what is happening.”
The different was the sooner go to by President Biden, whose open border coverage has brought on the disaster. He went to a Potemkin Village-like pretend model of El Paso the place the streets had been quiet, clear and empty, with out an unlawful immigrant in sight.
Biden, wanting round like a vacationer on his first go to to the border, which it was, appeared to say, “Problem? What problem?”
Adams went to the border to see what was actually occurring. Biden went to the border to see a sanitized model of what was occurring.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, his stage supervisor who says the border is safe, made certain of that.
Mayorkas is to Joe Biden is what Grigory Potemkin, a Russian minister, was to Russian Empress Catherine II.
It was Potemkin, after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 1783, who as historic delusion has it, arrange a collection of pretend villages populated by his cheering males dressed as peasants for Catherine to evaluation.
As she handed by in her river barge, Potemkin would have the pretend village disassembled and reestablished downstream in a single day.
This is like what Mayorkas did in El Paso. He arrange a pretend village. Only he depopulated the village. He had the Border Patrol take away the immigrants from the streets so Biden wouldn’t see them.
Hence the president, who has allowed some 2 million immigrants to cross into the nation illegally, to not point out one other 1 million getaways, didn’t meet or discuss to a single one in every of them. Thanks to Mayorkas they had been saved out of sight.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, amongst others, desires Mayorkas impeached. Upon Biden’s arrival, Abbot handed the president letter on the El Paso Airport demanding that Biden take quick motion to stem the stream of immigrants by imposing border legal guidelines. “He needs to step up and take action,” Abbot stated.
Biden later informed reporters he had not learn the letter.
Maria Rodiguez, 23, an immigrant from Venezuela, who had been residing in a dumpster for 5 days, informed the New York Post,” People are saying if you’re out within the streets the Border Patrol will get you and deport you as a result of the President is coming to El Paso, they usually don’t wish to present him the truth of issues.”
The Border Patrol union tweeted out, “El Paso being cleaned up as if nothing unusual ever happened here. Just in time for Biden’s ‘visit to the border.’ We suggest just landing in Des Moines, Iowa and telling him it’s El Paso. He’ll never know the difference.”
In truth, from the tv protection of the sanitized occasion — or non-event — it might effectively have been Des Moines.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, stated “You’re never going to develop true policies and programs and operations unless you’re willing to see what exactly is going on. And he refused to do that.”
Instead of assembly with any immigrants, or with Americans whose properties and ranches alongside the border have been vandalized and thrashed, Biden visited the El Paso County Migrant Service Center which had been emptied of immigrants.
After Biden left, the immigrants returned to the streets.
Maria Rodiguez went again to her dumpster.
And Biden’s immigration coverage remained intact. It reads: “Come to America. We have a dumpster waiting for you.”
America, beneath Joe Biden, is the place the streets are paved with mildew.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”