{"id":35162,"date":"2019-01-11T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35162"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:56:39","slug":"when-facts-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35162","title":{"rendered":"When Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Investor’s Business Daily<\/a> posted an editorial about the situation on our southern border. I guess you might even call the editorial a fact-check on some of the things we have been told recently by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

The editorial reports:<\/p>\n

NPR’s “fact check” \u2014 like countless others \u2014 dismissed Trump’s claim as false because “illegal border crossings in the most recent fiscal year (ending in September 2018) were\u00a0actually lower than in either 2016 or 2014.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

What they aren’t telling you is border patrol agents apprehended<\/a> more than 100,000 people trying to enter the country illegally in just October and November of last year<\/em>. Or that that number is way up from the same two months the year before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nor do they mention that last year, the border patrol apprehended more than half a million\u00a0<\/em>people trying to get into the country illegally. And that number, too, is up from the year before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

NPR may call that a fact-check, but it seems to me that it is more like political spin.<\/p>\n

The editorial continues:<\/p>\n

Trump’s critics certainly don’t bother to mention that those figures only count illegals the border patrol caught. It does not count\u00a0the ones who eluded border patrol agents and got into the country<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security<\/a> claims that about 20% of illegal border crossers make it into the country. Other studies, however, say border agents fail to apprehend as much as 50% of illegal crossers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even at the lower percentage, that means that 104,000 illegals made it into the country in 2018 alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is that not a crisis at the border?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I strongly suggest that you follow the above link to read the entire editorial. It contains a lot of important information that is not necessarily being reported.<\/p>\n

The editorial notes that previous Presidents noted the crisis and promised to fix it:<\/p>\n

Here’s another problem with claims that we don’t have a crisis at the border.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Past presidents all treated it like one.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1982, for example, President Ronald Reagan said that “The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem\u00a0<\/em>detrimental to the interests of the United States.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Bill Clinton said in his 1995 State of the Union address that “All Americans \u2026 are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.” That’s why, he said, “our administration has moved aggressively\u00a0<\/em>to secure our borders.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

President George Bush, in a prime-time Oval Office speech in 2006, declared that securing the U.S. border is a basic responsibility of a sovereign nation. It is also an urgent requirement of our national security.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bush also promised to end the practice of catch-and-release “once and for all.” He said that “people will know that they’ll be caught and sent home if they enter our country illegally.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

President Barack Obama in 2005 declared that “we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States\u00a0<\/em>undetected, undocumented, unchecked.” And in 2014 even he admitted there was a crisis on the border \u2014 one that he did virtually nothing to fix. (Apprehensions at the border last year were almost the same as in 2014.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The editorial concludes:<\/p>\n

Yet despite repeated promises by presidents and Congress for the past three decades, the border remains nearly as porous as ever. And catch-and-release is still alive and well. Is it any wonder so many try to cross the border illegally every month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isn’t the failure of leaders to do what they all say is necessary to protect national security interests the very definition of a crisis at the border?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats, it seems, want to label everything a crisis. We have a health care crisis. A clean water crisis. A “food desert” crisis. An infrastructure crisis. A homelessness crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats label just about\u00a0everything<\/em> a crisis. Why? Because they want to whip up public support for bigger, more expensive, more intrusive government programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everything, that is, except for the very real, long-standing crisis posed by a porous border that each year lets in tens of thousands of illegals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The current government shutdown is about border security. Any other discussion is irrelevant spin. The Democrats simply do not want President Trump to have a border wall, and the Republicans do not want to see an end to cheap labor. That is the impasse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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