The Wall

This is in the category of you can't make this stuff up...

We all know that Trump famously campaigned on building a wall on our Southern border and boldly declared that Mexico would pay for it.  First, everyone knew the bit about Mexico paying for it was just typical Trump bullshit.  But given the problem of illegal immigration, he did set out a program to build a wall.  You either loved it or hated it, but it did start to be built.  I think he wound up building about 500 miles of wall in certain sections of the 2700 mile border.  Out where I live in San Diego if you drive down to the border you can see it snaking up in the hills.

The wall combined with some specific policies like remain in Mexico, the establishment of ICE, the bolstering of CBP and others seemed to stem the flow of illegal aliens as his administration unfolded.  Of course when the Biden administration came to power the wall was one of the first things they stopped.  They thought it was an abomination and declared that not one more foot of wall would be built.  They also dismantled many if not all of the policies and programs that seemed to be a factor in controlling illegal immigration.  But okay.  Elections have consequences.  Let's see how it goes.

Well, it's a shit show.  If you live on the border like me, you know that there has been a record flow of illegal aliens into the country.  It's a human catastrophe.  And it's not even as bad here as it is in Texas.  In an ultimate case of unintended consequences, cities like New York, Chicago, LA and others who have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities have now been inundated with illegal aliens and they are spending literally billions of dollars (that they don't have) to take care of them.  Of course, they appeal to the border states to stop sending them but it's not gonna stop.  

If you look at almost any video of the constant stream of people coming across the border, it's mostly young, military aged men.  Oh there are some families and there are tragic stories about people trekking thousands of miles with children, but that's the typical case.  And they are coming from all over the world.  I read a story about a flight every day from Istanbul to Bogota.  It is filled every day with young African men bound for our border.  From Bogota they fly to Nicaragua which has virtually no immigration restrictions and from there they make their way North.  It is not a stretch to call it an invasion.  

So I saw on the Fox News website tonight a story about the Biden administration now intending to start building a wall.  I know some reading this probably abhor reading Fox News, but if you're interested you can read the story here.   And I've done a little work for you.  I reviewed CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, and the WSJ websites to get an alternate perspective on this story.  But there is nothing.  Zero.  I could find a story done by AP (that I didn't see picked up by anyone) and the Fox News story.  So as I've warned before, if you're getting your news from one source, you're not getting news. You're getting propaganda.  And that's true of any of them.

But in this case here is a story about a major about turn by the administration to take action that impacts all of us, and it's getting scant coverage.  Is that because it's not worth covering.  Nothing to see here, move along.  Or is all about bias and protecting one side or the other.  That the border has been a disaster for 2 years that no one in the administration would even acknowledge has been maddening.  And now that there seems to be some small realization that they have totally fucked this up, they are trying to quietly implement some things that the guy they hate started.  You can't make this stuff up!