Once again, the Left is fixated on the humanitarian crisis as another caravan made up of thousands of migrants, this time mostly from Honduras, makes its way north to the U.S. border. Reporting that “1,000 are now stuck … on Mexico’s southern border as authorities refused to let the group cross en masse,” USA Today laments their plight, writing “the migrants … say they are escaping poverty, poor working conditions and violence.”
Let’s assume that’s true — that a video of migrants in a queue receiving cash before they embark on their long journey is not some obscene political stunt but an act of human charity from an unidentified donor. Ignoring that, the fact remains that most of the Central Americans who make it as far as the U.S. border will attempt to cross it between ports of entry. Over 300,000 migrants did precisely that in 2017.
A question that needs to be asked is “Why?” Why is the first inclination of an oppressed people seeking refuge to commit a crime rather than show up at a border station and be legally accounted for? A related question is “Why are liberals indifferent to this fact?”
Liberals claim the issue of immigration has become a political football, and indeed it has. But it is the Left that made it that way. In 2003, Hillary Clinton declared on a New York radio show that she was “adamantly against illegal immigration.” Listen for yourself.
