It’s Not That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Knows Nothing . . .

It’s Not That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Knows Nothing . . .

By Chris Buskirk| 

As tragedy struck an acquaintance this week, I was reminded today of the fleeting nature of life. The Psalmist begged God, “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!” What can one say to that but, Amen! As important and precious as our lives are, they are fleeting, delicate, ephemeral.

But Christmas is a season when we pause to remember and to honor the advent of the Creator who took on human vesture, as the Liturgy of St. James so memorably puts it, and in doing so we catch a glimpse of the eternal. Politics, though important, gets put into perspective.

Yet Christmas was also the day I was reminded of how quickly and perversely even the highest things are misused for low purposes. I realized almost immediately that I had made a mistake when, out of sheer habit, I looked at Twitter on Christmas morning. Within moments I happened upon a tweet from the Bronx’s newest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It began cheerfully enough: “Joy to the world.”  Wonderful. “Merry Christmas everyone.” And a Merry Christmas to you, too! I thought. Look, per Rodney King, we can all just get along if only for a morning. The congresswoman-elect continued: “. . . here’s to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love . . .” Lovely. Sounds like just the way to spend Christmas.

But just after this bit things started to get dicey. What she actually said was, “. . . here’s to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love for all people.” And just after the period was an earth emoji. My antennae were now on high alert. I know where this leads and it isn’t good. It’s not that I am opposed to happiness, family, love for all people, or even the earth. Far from it! The apostle Johnwrote, “We (Christians) love because he (God) first loved us.”

No, I was on alert because I have seen this movie before and I know how it ends. Progressives open with the Bible (Joy to the world!) and close with whatever ill-advised talking point tops their current agenda. And Ocasio-Cortez did not disappoint. When she said, “all people” and added the little earth emoji, that was a signal—or what the Left likes to call a “dog whistle.” It meant, America isn’t just for Americans, it’s the common property of the whole world and you selfish, backward, deplorable boobs who think otherwise are just delaying our entry into the progressive utopia that’s always just a day away.

As expected, she lowered the boom after the emoji by adding, “(including refugee babies in mangers + their parents.)” The syntax is a bit awkward, I don’t think there were many (any?) refugee babies in mangers in the United States this year. Surely if there were, they would have been located by some intrepid CNN reporter and a headline would have blared, “Trump Detains Children In Barns For Christmas.” Rather, she was smuggling her political agenda into a Christmas message and using rhetorical sleight of hand to conflate the two.

She’s wrong on several counts, the least of which is her biblical illiteracy.

She wants you to believe that Jesus, the incarnate Lord, was a refugee, as he lay in the manger in Bethlehem. He was not. Luke tells us that Joseph and Mary had traveled there to be counted in a census.

Worse though, is the implication that if Americans believe they have a right to control their borders, control who and what goes in and out of the country, and, most important, who becomes a citizen and thus has a say in governing the country, that those people are somehow guilty of denying the Lord or that they would have denied the Lord 2,000 years ago. It is a shameful mischaracterization of the Gospel and attempt to manipulate people using their Christian faith for transient political ends.

It is particularly vexing that it comes from a woman of the Left as it is the Left that wages open war on Christianity, that a century ago forsook the Gospel of Christ for the social gospel. It is what Princeton theologian J. Gresham Machencalled “the type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases” but which is, in fact, a “modern non-redemptive religion called ‘modernism’ or ‘liberalism.’” It is also a gross act of bad faith and is a cancer on our politics.

I will respectfully disagree with many on the Right who say that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Millennial know-nothing. That’s not true. It’s just that nearly everything she thinks she knows is wrong.

But she is not alone. I won’t make a political point here. Rather, I’ll follow the Psalmist once again, who reminded us that “man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.” A gravestone at the church of St. Martin’s in the Fields in London captures it nicely:

Remember, Man as thou goes by
As thou are Now, so Once was I
As I am Now, so must thou be
Prepare thyself to follow me

https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/28/its-not-that-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-knows-nothing/

The Media's Meltdown Over Rush Limbaugh

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By Jeffrey Lord 

It was the day before Christmas and the media was stirring, targeting Rush.

Yes, while most Americans were bustling around to get the last minute presents or beginning to pour the egg nog, the liberal media was having (again!) a fit. The cause of it all this time was…..Rush Limbaugh.

Yes, you read that right. And Rush, previously scheduled to be out there Christmasing himself made it a point to be back on his show on Christmas Eve to take note of the media circus that had made him the the sudden main attraction.  

It all started as the Trump showdown with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over funding for the wall was presumed by the media and its legion of liberal leakers to be over. The President, Americans were told, had caved. But in fact, as is frequently the case, the liberal media  - not to mention Chuck and Nancy - had gotten it wrong.

Word reached Rush through the best possible of sources: the President himself. Rush had stood by the President’s decision to let Democrats shut the government down rather than accept no border wall funding. When the President, through a third party, re-affirmed that decision to Rush in a Direct Message that said “The president wants you to know he’s not going to sign it unless there’s proper money in it for the wall,” in total Trumpian style standing by his guns, the media freaked out in serious fashion. Perhaps adding to their frenzy was the knowledge that Rush himself had earlier been a guest at a White House Christmas Party where he had a chance for a one-on-one moment.

For those Americans who looked up from their wrapping duties and took notice, it was hilarious to see the media all heated up because they had been shown to be utterly wrong in their predictions - and Rush (again!) 100% right. So, what else to do but blame the shutdown on Rush? Rush had a fine time playing a montage of all those who tried to pin the shutdown on him. A sampling from Rush’s show included these: 

KATY TUR: Rush Limbaugh is in control of the government.

DON LEMON: President Rush Limbaugh?

BAKARI SELLERS:  You have a president in Rush Limbaugh.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Rush Limbo. (sic) There’s a guy, in a golf shirt down in Palm Beach telling the president what to do. This is crazy. Is Rush Limbo calling the shots or are his listeners calling the shots?

PHIL RUCKER: Well, this week, with the shutdown I would say Rush Limbaugh.

RINA SHAH: This entire debate has been hijacked by Limbaugh. 

HUGH HEWITT: One person: Rush Limbaugh. 

MARIA CARDONA: … puppet masters in the likes of Rush Limbaugh. 

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: I don’t think we’d be in a partial government shutdown without those voices like Rush’s.

BRIAN STELTER: This is kind of a Rush Limbaugh shutdown.

NORMAN ORNSTEIN: This is a Trump-Limbaugh shutdown.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Maybe the Democrats should go negotiate with Rush Limbaugh.

But, of course, none of this was true. Here’s Rush explaining the facts on his Christmas Eve show:  

“I shared with you the message.  “I just got a message from the president that he’s not going to sign this. He will veto it unless there’s money in it for border security and the wall.”  The media took that story and turned it into Trump had his pen ready to go. He’s on the verge of signing it!

And then I start complaining on the air and somebody walks in and says, “Mr. President! Mr. President! Rush Limbaugh… (stammering) Y-y-you’re losing Rush Limbaugh! He’s going nuts,” and Trump stops.  “Oh, really?  I better not sign it.”  That’s not what happened!  What happened was the president got word to me that whatever news stories we all had that said he was gonna sign it were not true.  He wasn’t.  It wasn’t that anybody had changed his mind.

…(The media wants you to think that) He’s there, he’s poised, he’s got that pen in his hand. He may even have the D already written down! Then they run in there and say, “Mr. President! Mr. President! Rush Limbaugh says you shouldn’t sign it,” and Trump stops.  “Oh, really?  Okay. Well, then I won’t.”  That’s not what happened.  But they want you to think that’s what happened because it diminishes Trump.  And it gives them another chance to shoot at me, which they, of course, love doing as well.” 

Bingo.

As the year comes to an end and 2019 dawns, this Christmas episode serves as a reminder of just what lies ahead. As if it has not already been crystal clear from the moment Trump came down that Trump Tower escalator in 2015, the media had two takes on the President. The first was not to take him seriously.

Then, when it became apparent millions of Americans were in fact not only taking him seriously but were about to elect him President of the United States - they piled on and piled on. Story after story was written along the lines that he had no chance to win. And…they were wrong again. Now, two years in to the Trump presidency the goal has been to both stop him from doing anything substantive (this is what was behind the Kavanaugh circus) not to mention trying to get him him tossed out of the Oval Office in an American style coup, using the Mueller probe or, if needs be, impeachment to do it.

The media’s Christmas freak out over Rush Limbaugh should serve, in fact, as a warning of what is to come in the New Year. Which is to say when Americans come out of their holiday reverie, they will find the media is going to ramp up its assault on the President, doing its level best to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters. It will be a 24/7, all day, all night constant media bludgeoning with one purpose and one purpose only: to remove Trump. 

What happened with Rush Limbaugh over the Christmas holidays is, one can be certain, only the beginning.

And a Happy New Year to you!

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-lord/2018/12/29/medias-meltdown-over-rush-limbaugh

FACEBOOK WEIGHS COMPLAINTS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT

FACEBOOK WEIGHS COMPLAINTS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT

 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN FACEBOOK

The anti-conservative bias exhibited by Silicon Valley’s tech giants and its impact on our cultural and political life is a huge topic that we have addressed many times. This post will just note a few recent developments.

Tyler O’Neil reports on Facebook’s consideration of dueling bias claims:

On Tuesday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced a few results from the “civil rights” audit led by former ACLU lawyer Laura Murphy. That audit focuses on liberal concerns like voter suppression and targeting of minorities.

How voters could be “suppressed” on Facebook is anyone’s guess. But this liberal “audit,” in which groups like the NAACP, Color of Change, the Human Rights Campaign, the Urban League participated, is dear to the hearts of those who run Facebook:

Sandberg personally endorsed the “civil rights” audit, writing, “the civil rights audit is deeply important to me, and it’s one of my top priorities for 2019.”

For some reason, Facebook is conducting an entirely separate investigation into bias claims by conservatives, which has not been similarly endorsed by the company’s management. The results of that investigation, which is being carried out by Covington & Burling, a highly-respected Washington law firm, will be released next year. I can give the Covington lawyers a head start, based on testimony by Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defending Freedom before the House Judiciary Committee, highlighted by Mark Pulliam.

Put aside for a moment the fact that Facebook, as Tedesco testified, once banned the Declaration of Independence as hate speech, and generally suppresses any criticism of, or opposition to, abortion. The problems go deeper. For one thing, Facebook has adopted the European Union’s restrictive (and non-American) views on “hate speech”:

Facebook takes its cues on hate speech from Europe. Along with other tech giants, it signed an agreement with the European Commission to suppress “hate speech” online, including “all forms of intolerance.”

Liberals generally define “intolerance” and “hate speech” to include more or less everything with which they disagree, so that “tolerance” requires suppression of views other than their own. Orwell should have thought of that one. But there is more. Where does Facebook turn for advice on what constitutes “hate speech”?

Silicon Valley polices “hate speech” and “intolerance” by delegating their regulation to far-left advocacy groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center. … Facebook acts on the SPLC’s advice to identify “hate speech,” which in the SPLC’s opinion includes mainstream religious or conservative views.

Our readers probably know that the SPLC, apart from being the world’s richest organization with the word “poverty” in its name, is a thoroughly-discredited hate group that exists only to pursue a far-left political agenda. We hope that future defamation cases, like the $3.375 million settlement the SPLC recently paid to Islamic moderate Maajid Nawaz, drive the SPLC into bankruptcy. But that process, given the SPLC’s vast offshore riches, could take a while. Meanwhile, we are stuck with their vicious slanders.

Mr. Tedesco testified on behalf of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which the SPLC libeled as a “hate group”:

Amazon excluded ADF from the Smile program after five years of participation based solely on SPLC’s ideologically driven “hate group” designation.

SPLC’s designation of ADF as a “hate group” is, frankly, preposterous. ADF is one of the nation’s most respected legal organizations advocating for the freedom of every American to peacefully speak, live, and work according to one’s convictions without fear of government punishment. Since 2011, ADF has won nine victories in the United States Supreme Court, including:

• National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, 138 S. Ct 2361 (2018) – preventing states from requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise for abortion or otherwise undermine their pro-life message;

• Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 138 S. Ct. 1719 (2018) – overturning a court order requiring a cake artist to create custom wedding cakes celebrating same-sex weddings based on religious hostility;

• Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, 137 S. Ct. 2012 (2017) – barring the government from excluding religious institutions from a grant program that enables qualifying applicants to purchase rubber playground surface to ensure children’s safety;

• Geneva College v. Burwell & Southern Nazarene University v. Burwell, 136 S. Ct. 1557 (2016) (these two ADF cases were consolidated with Zubik v. Burwell, which vacated lower courts’ rulings against the schools and remanded for further proceedings, stating that the government may not enforce the abortion-pill mandate until the issue is resolved);

• Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (consolidated with Conestoga Wood Specialties), 134 S. Ct. 2751 (2014) – striking down federal burdens on ADF’s client’s free-exercise rights;

• Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S. Ct. 2218 (2015) – unanimous decision upholding a church’s free speech right to place signs inviting people to its services on equal terms with other
signs;

• Town of Greece v. Galloway, 134 S. Ct. 1811 (2014) — upholding a town’s practice of
opening its public meetings with prayer;

• Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, 131 S. Ct. 1436 (2011) –
dismissing an Establishment Clause challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program, which allows residents to claim a tax credit for donations to private organizations that provide scholarships for children to attend private schools.

Recently, one expert ranked Alliance Defending Freedom first among “[t]he top performing firm[s]” in the nation because it “won all four of its decisions before the Court during the five-year period” spanning 2013-2017.

So the U.S. Supreme Court is a hate group too, apparently. And the Constitution, like the Declaration of Independence, is a hate document. Don’t laugh: that is exactly what the SPLC thinks. Maybe Facebook agrees.

We will have much more to say about the left-wing dominance of supposedly neutral platforms like Facebook during the months to come. In the meantime, it is safe to say that any platform that relies on the Southern Poverty Law Center to police “hateful” content–content which is, almost always, protected by the First Amendment–is a tool of the Left.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/facebook-weighs-complaints-from-left-and-right.php

With identical tweets, Schumer and Pelosi reveal themselves as mouthpieces for the same propaganda puppet master

By Thomas Lifson

I have long wondered about who writes the talking points that keep Democrats reading from the same script. That person – or more likely, persons – evidently issues instructions that the office holder branch and the journalist branch of the Democratic Party mimic in their public statements. But in order to appear slightly authentic, they are supposed to speak extemporaneously and make it appear that they all came up with the phrases-of-the-day spontaneously. This works for interviews with print and television journalists, but the rise of Twitter has introduced new danger of exposure.  Now we have proof that the current ostensible leaders of the Democrats’ party are often just actors reading from scripts supplied to them by people hidden from public scrutiny.  Christmas Eve saw the presumptive new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issue a tweet that was identical, word-for-word, to one issued 23 minutes earlier by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Image credit: Pixabay

Schumer’s version:

Chuck Schumer‏Verified account @SenSchumer

It's Christmas Eve and President @realDonaldTrump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock market is tanking and the President is waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve—after he just fired the Secretary of Defense.10:37 AM - 24 De 

And Pelosi’s:

Nancy Pelosi‏Verified account @NancyPelosi

It's Christmas Eve and @realDonaldTrump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock market is tanking and the president is waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve — after he just fired the Secretary of Defense. #TrumpShutdown

11:00 AM - 24 Dec 2018

Needless to say, the mainstream media takes no interest at all in the process by which Democrats achieve what is euphemistically called “message discipline.” The notion that there is a command center that instructs Democrat office holders what to say each day is certainly an important subject, for the identities of those staffing the command center determines a large portion of our national political dialogue. Who pays these people, whoever they are? Who selects them to put words in the mouths and twitter accounts of people that supposedly represent their constituents?

I have long wondered about who writes the talking points that keep Democrats reading from the same script. That person – or more likely, persons – evidently issues instructions that the office holder branch and the journalist branch of the Democratic Party mimic in their public statements. But in order to appear slightly authentic, they are supposed to speak extemporaneously and make it appear that they all came up with the phrases-of-the-day spontaneously. This works for interviews with print and television journalists, but the rise of Twitter has introduced new danger of exposure.  Now we have proof that the current ostensible leaders of the Democrats’ party are often just actors reading from scripts supplied to them by people hidden from public scrutiny.  Christmas Eve saw the presumptive new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issue a tweet that was identical, word-for-word, to one issued 23 minutes earlier by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Image credit: Pixabay

Schumer’s version:



And Pelosi’s:



Needless to say, the mainstream media takes no interest at all in the process by which Democrats achieve what is euphemistically called “message discipline.” The notion that there is a command center that instructs Democrat office holders what to say each day is certainly an important subject, for the identities of those staffing the command center determines a large portion of our national political dialogue. Who pays these people, whoever they are? Who selects them to put words in the mouths and twitter accounts of people that supposedly represent their constituents?

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/with_identical_tweets_schumer_and_pelosi_reveal_themselves_as_mouthpieces_for_the_same_propaganda_puppet_master.html#ixzz5b1lX2Uwr
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SHUTDOWN? WHAT SHUTDOWN?

BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN

Rumor has it the federal government has shut down. Have you noticed? I haven’t. I was on Howie Carr’s radio show this afternoon, talking about the shutdown–or perhaps we should say, alleged shutdown. Here are a few observations:

1) It goes without saying that the shutdown is the Republicans’ “fault.” It makes no difference whether the president is a Republican or Democrat, or who controls congress, or whether the shutdown is prompted by Congressional inaction or by a veto. An iron law of reporting holds that the GOP is to blame for all shutdowns.

2) So that’s a given. The question is, will anyone care? The public has become rather jaded about shutdown theater, I think. In 2013, the Obama administration deliberately tried to dramatize the shutdown by closing the national parks and D.C. monuments, and taking other measures to make the shutdown relatively visible and even impactful. I don’t suppose the Trump administration will do the same.

3) Before the script changed, Mitch McConnell vowed that there would be no shutdown, saying:

Well, [President Trump] can speak for himself, but I think that a government shutdown is not a good option. That’s my view. The American people don’t like it. I don’t know how many times, you remember my favorite country saying, there’s no education in the second kick of a mule. We’ve been down this path before and I don’t believe we’ll go down this path again.

I’m not sure what McConnell was talking about. The latest notable shutdown, the one he must have had in mind, occurred in October 2013 and lasted for 16 days. The Obama administration tried to maximize shutdown pain, and the press universally blamed Republicans and deplored their supposed intransigence. What was the result, in the midterm elections that took place just over one year later? Wikipedia reminds us:

The elections saw sweeping gains by the Republican Party in the Senate, House, and in numerous gubernatorial, state, and local races. The Republicans gained control of the Senate for the first time since 2006, and increased their majority in the House. The Republicans also gained two seats in governors’ races. …

Overall, the elections resulted in the largest Republican majority in the entire country in nearly a century, with 54 seats in the Senate, 247 (56.78%) in the House, 31 governorships (62%), and 68 state legislative chambers. Moreover, Republicans gained their largest majority in the House since 1928, the largest majority in Congress overall since 1928, and the largest majority of state legislatures since 1928.

Obviously the shutdown wasn’t politically fatal to the GOP–to say the least–despite the Obama administration’s efforts.

4) How and when will the shutdown end? The history of shutdowns is interesting. The longest-lasting shutdown ever was in 1995 and lasted 21 days. That record could well be broken this time. To the extent the administration “shuts down” by furloughing non-essential employees in, say, the EPA and the Commerce Department, the situation won’t generate a lot of pressure from voters. And I don’t think President Trump is in a mood to cave (contrary to early appearances). Still, something’s got to give.

The $5 billion Trump is holding out for represents only a portion of the cost of building the remaining wall–which, by the way, has been mandated by legislation for some years–and Trump has indicated he is open to compromise on the amount. A wall already exists on part of the Southern border, so all that is really at stake here is how much more of a still-incomplete wall will now be funded. In theory, compromise should be easy. But both sides see symbolic importance, and political benefit, in holding firm. So the faux shutdown could go on for a while.

I have no idea who will “win” the shutdown by any rational criterion, although, given the context, I would bet on President Trump to get most of what he wants. But one thing I will guarantee: no matter what happens, the press will assure us that the shutdown was a disaster for the Republicans. Again.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/shutdown-what-shutdown-2.php

There’s An Illegal Alien Health Crisis At The Border

by Jeff Dunetz | 

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are calling for medical help from the  CDC, Coast Guard, and the Pentagon to screen illegal immigrants and they’ve asked American and Mexican disease specialists to investigate the surge of sick migrants caught at the border after another illegal immigrant child died in U.S. custody. None of those steps will solve the illegal alien health crisis that few people are talking about.

Per Secretary Nielsen

“Our system has been pushed to a breaking point by those who seek open borders. Smugglers, traffickers, and their own parents put these minors at risk by embarking on the dangerous and arduous journey north. This crisis is exacerbated by the increase in persons who are entering our custody suffering from severe respiratory illnesses or exhibit some other illness upon apprehension.  Given the remote locations of their illegal crossing and the lack of resources, it is even more difficult for our personnel to be first responders.

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A DHS official told reporters that “literally dozens” of sick migrants are being transported to hospitals across the border each day and that growing numbers of children showing illness are present in border patrol custody.  Given their young age,  children will be most susceptible to disease. Anyone who has been a teacher or a parent knows that young children can be like little petri dishes when it comes to some illnesses.

In reaction to the growing illness problem, especially with kids, the CBP announced that it conducted secondary medical checks on all children in CBP care and custody, with a focus on children under age 10. But its unsure how that will help, because most of the illegals are still in  Mexico.

The illegal aliens In Tijuana are living in unsanitary conditions, packed close together. If one person sneezes the germs spread to many. Add on top of all that, it’s the beginning of the flu season, and it is doubtful the migrants had their flu shots. Therefore when they cross the border, illegally or legally they may be spreading their illness into America.

Who is to blame for the problem, NOT CPB. According to Secretary Nielsen, the border agents are being overwhelmed.

“Our system has been pushed to a breaking point by those who seek open borders. Smugglers, traffickers, and their own parents put these minors at risk by embarking on the dangerous and arduous journey north. This crisis is exacerbated by the increase in persons who are entering our custody suffering from severe respiratory illnesses or exhibit some other illness upon apprehension.  Given the remote locations of their illegal crossing and the lack of resources, it is even more difficult for our personnel to be first responders.

“We at DHS are committed to continuing to assist those in need – in the past year alone the Border Patrol assisted more than 4,300 people in distress along the border – that’s a 20 percent increase in rescues from the year before.

“To put this in perspective, there were six migrant deaths while in CBP custody during FY 2018 – none who were children.  In fact, it has been more than a decade since CBP has had a child pass away in their custody.  It is now clear that migrants, particularly children, are increasingly facing medical challenges and harboring illness caused by their long and dangerous journey.

Democrats, of course, are looking to place blame. Soon to be House minority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said in a statement,  “It is incumbent upon Congress to ask serious questions about what happened and who bears responsibility.”

Officials told the Washington Times, ” that the problem lay south of the border. Smugglers are encouraging a surge of migrants — particularly families with young children — to make the trip from Central America to the U.S. The migrants are convinced they can take advantage of lax policies to gain an illegal foothold in the U.S.

You see,  Rep Hoyer, the answer is obvious just look in the mirror. As long as the Democrats reject the policies that would discourage illegal aliens from trying to sneak into the country, there will be illness, and possibly death at the border. If the Democrats truly want to stop children and adults from getting ill as they come into the country, they need to end programs such as “catch and release” and build a wall, fence or whatever you want to call it.  Congress needs to fund a barrier that will discourage people from sneaking into America. And YES fences and walls work.

Our DHS and CBP can only do so much:

To those in Congress who continue to refuse to take action to address the loopholes that cause a flood of humanity to travel north and place children at risk, I once again call on you to do your job, protect vulnerable populations, secure our borders, and provide the men and women of DHS the authorities and resources we need to address this crisis. Please put politics aside, we have a common cause – let’s work together to protect family units and unaccompanied alien children. It’s a mission we share.”

https://lidblog.com/theres-an-illegal-alien-health-crisis-at-the-border/