By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics
When Home Speaker Mike Johnson and 60 GOP members of Congress went to Eagle Go, Texas, just lately for a photo-op, they had been in all probability shocked that the primary query they had been requested was for a present of fingers of those that would shut down the federal government if President Biden doesn’t shut the border.
You see, that query really frames unrestricted immigration on the southern border because the existential nationwide disaster which it’s. No surprise Texas Republican Rep. Pat Fallon misplaced it and instantly shouted, “We’re not gonna do ‘present of fingers.’ We’re not in a classroom. We’re not doing ‘present of fingers.’”
No, after all not. It’s a lot simpler to close down a reporter searching for the reality than it’s to close down the border and save the nation.
The “show of hands” question got here from Ben Bergquam of Actual America’s Voice, one of many few journalists who has reported the exhausting realities concerning the border disaster on a close to day by day foundation for years. He has adopted migrants from the damaging Darién Hole between Colombia and Panama all the way in which up the cartel hall via Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.
For those who watch his reporting, you’ll know this isn’t an harmless caravan of asylum seekers; it’s an invasion, plain and easy. He asks every immigrant two questions: The place are you from and the place are you going? They’re from throughout the globe, not simply Central or South America.
Sure, there are lots from Venezuela, however simply as many from Somalia, Egypt, West Africa, or China. And most of them are navy age males. They aren’t escaping from persecution or violence; they’re coming to America for jobs – and for advantages – and finally to empty our nation of assets.
Bergquam additionally travels to the cities the place the migrants say they wish to go after the Border Patrol helps them cross the border – New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. These cities have opened their doorways to the migrant invasion, and they’ll pay the value because the newcomers join well being care, education, welfare, and different advantages. However we’re all paying, and at a price of no less than 12,000 unlawful migrants a day, the invoice is quickly changing into untenable.
The inflow of tens of millions of illegals below the Biden regime has value the nation billions of {dollars} at a time when our nationwide debt has skyrocketed to an unimaginable $34 trillion. And but Washington does nothing to unravel the issue – not the Biden administration and never the Republican Home of Representatives.
That’s why Bergquam requested for a present of fingers from the members of Congress who had arrived in Eagle Go, as if they’d simply heard of the immigration disaster. Who right here is prepared to close down the federal government if the federal government doesn’t shut down the border?
It’s an affordable query. And there have been actually some members on the tour who would have raised their fingers – warriors like Andy Biggs and Eli Crane from Arizona, Matt Rosendale from Montana, and others, however the Republican management within the Home has a dismal behavior of surrendering to globalist Democrats who’re extra interested by settling unlawful immigrants in our nation than stopping them on the border.
After all, the mainstream media paints Biggs and Rosendale and others who wish to cease the stream of illegals as heartless nationalists – or worse. And after they reject faux options that solely spend extra money to make it simpler for migrants to regulate to life in America, the left says they wish to exploit the border disaster for political acquire. No surprise weak Republicans always cave to the phony offers provided by Joe Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Proper now, Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma is getting used because the sacrificial lamb who will shepherd a faux compromise plan via Congress though it permits as much as 5,000 unlawful entries per day. If this plan is accredited by the Senate, it can give Republicans within the Home only one logical response: Shut down the federal government.
And it gained’t be tough. A big a part of the federal authorities will run out of cash on Friday when the persevering with decision that Speaker Johnson “negotiated” with Democrats expires. Craven Republicans would simply discover some solution to hold the federal government open and fake that they’d gained a victory on border safety, however sensible Republicans know that the Friday deadline is a big alternative.
Bear in mind, it takes only one member of the Home to deliver a movement to “vacate the chair,” and there’s no approach that Johnson would survive such a movement with the slender majority Republicans at the moment maintain. At the very least one GOP member, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, has threatened to deliver such a movement except the border is shut down. If she does, all enterprise involves a detailed till a brand new speaker is chosen, which might simply take weeks.
In different phrases it might shut down the federal government. And that, a few of us consider, wouldn’t be a nasty factor – not when the choice is enterprise as common on the damaged border.
Syndicated with permission from RealClearWire.