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It’s being called a “crisis” at the southern border, where a record influx of migrants is entering the U.S. from Mexico. Migrant deaths have reached an all-time high, an identity theft crime spree has emerged, and now Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has mobilized the National Guard to help handle migrants bused in from southern states. Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker also cites tragedies like the drowning death of Texas National Guardsman Bishop E. Evans as collateral damage and demands accountability from the president:
Earlier this year, the devastating news that Texas National Guardsman Bishop E. Evans had drowned while saving the lives of two illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande — it was heartbreaking. And it should have gotten us to a better place than we are right now, a whole lot more attention than we are giving it right now here in Washington, D.C. He was only 22-years-old and the two illegal immigrants that he tried to save — that he did save — turned out to be drug traffickers.
The Biden administration should not keep saying that we don’t have a crisis at our southern border. And even when Biden met with the president of Mexico recently he barely spoke a word, while the meeting was dominated with the Mexican president speaking on how his national gas prices are much lower than ours.
Internationally, we’re being mocked. Biden says that there is no crisis even at the border — that there is a little bit of tension, that maybe there’s a fault of COVID, or maybe it’s a fault of climate change, or maybe somehow it’s Trump’s fault. Does this sound familiar? He’s been rotating the same excuses for all of his administration’s failures, many failures: The high gas prices, the inflation, the summer of rage that they just went into, the rising crime, the progressive prowlers that are even running people out of restaurants right now.
Where’s the accountability — where’s the personal responsibility? This is a problem that we have at hand facing us in November, and the lack of leadership and strength…this is really challenging, and it’s challenged up against America’s potential. We’re better than this.
National Guardsman Bishop Evans showed us that there are those in our society who are good, who will do everything they can to help to save lives, regardless of the situation. The better angels. Do our overwhelmed agents at the border, our struggling communities up and down the Rio Grande, and the terrified unaccompanied children — does this administration care at all? Can we even look at Bishop Evans to lead us even out of eternity by him doing the right thing? Or is this administration just watching, along with all of us.
