First Lady Jill Biden is to be recommended for visiting Ukraine on Mother’s Day and assembly with Olena Zelenska, spouse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
She did so after consoling Ukrainian refugee ladies and youngsters in Romania and Slovakia who had fled hazard and dying in Ukraine.
These refugees advised Biden heartbreaking tales of hardship and starvation as they sought security from savage Russian assaults on their cities and villages. The tales introduced tears to the First Lady’s eyes.
Other U.S. leaders have additionally visited with Ukrainian refugees in international locations that border Ukraine, like Poland, which has taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees. They are to be applauded additionally.
Their visits present U.S concern and dedication to serving to harmless victims of what has amounted to the primary warfare in Europe for the reason that finish of World War II.
Politicians from Massachusetts like Sen. Edward Markey, U.S. Reps. Stephen Lynch of Boston and Lori Trahan of Westford, are additionally to be credited for assembly with Ukrainian refugees in Poland and elsewhere.
U.S. Rep. James McGovern of Worcester even accompanied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Kyiv, the place they met with Zelenskyy.
This is all to the great, after all. And it’s good for the politicians who get good media consideration.
It could be equally good if these political leaders confirmed the identical concern for the hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants — largely ladies and youngsters — crossing the Rio Grande into Texas.
But they, Democrats all, discover it way more politically handy to go to the border of Ukraine than the border of the United States. The solely time these Democrats went on to the southern border was when Donald Trump was president.
But who can blame them? Even President Biden, who thrashed all of trump’s strict border insurance policies, received’t go to the southern border both. And he’s in all probability afraid to inform Kamala Harris to go. She would possibly say no.
Like the others, Biden additionally finds it extra politically handy to go to Warsaw to hug a hungry and frightened Ukrainian little one than it’s to go to Eagle Pass, Texas, and hug a hungry and frightened little one from Guatemala.
The solely Biden administration official who does go to the border is Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and he pretends that there’s nothing to see there.
While presiding over the worst border invasion within the nation’s historical past — and shortly due to finish of Title 42 — Mayorkas tells the American those that “the border is secure.”
It’s safe all proper, safe sufficient to allow the Mexican coyotes to make hundreds of thousands smuggling terrorists, criminals and medicines into the nation. The Mexican coyotes are the brand new Russian oligarchs.
Perhaps, as soon as his proposed Disinformation Governance Board — dubbed the “Ministry of Truth” — is up and operating, the TikTok woman — Nina Janowicz — may name Mayorkas as its first witness.
Mayorkas has unfold extra misinformation concerning the southern border than Vladimir Putin has about Russia’s border with Ukraine.
While the Biden administration and the corrupt institutional media have largely ignored the human disaster alongside the southern border, it’s not unusual for border patrol brokers to return throughout youngsters as younger as 4 or 5 who’ve been deserted by coyotes, or youngsters who’ve drowned crossing the Rio Grande.
It is a disgrace. It didn’t must occur. With planning, the inflow of immigrants may have been dealt with in an orderly and civilized method.
After all, we’re a nation of immigrants. Only there was a course of. We didn’t sneak in however stood in line, waited our flip and realized the foundations. Biden wrecked the method. Now he’s a wreck.
And has given new life to Donald Trump.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”