Build the Wall?

Bret Stephens, the “conservative” columnist for the New York Times, headlined his op-ed piece today “Biden Should Complete The Wall.”

Do you know why Central American states and Mexico have so many drug cartels and criminals and so much violence?  Who do you think is buying those drugs?  I get so angry when I hear people say that drug addiction is a victimless crime.  Bullshit.  Whole countries are victims.  The person selling cocaine or meth or for that matter, the person using it, is helping to wreck the lives of thousands of people.

Do you know that the refugees are a small percentage of our population compared to the refugees taken in by Germany or Italy or Greece in the last few years?  They number in the thousands, not millions.  

Do you know that climate change is playing a role in the refugee explosion?  Two hurricanes in 2020 devastated much of Central America, wrecking homes and crops.

Nevertheless, Stephens points out something important in his column.  Nobody cares about our drug addicts, or the relatively small numbers, or climate change.  The German, French, and Italian right-wing nationalist parties are largely the result of refugees.  Brexit is largely the result of refugees.  Biden and the Democrats will lose big in 2022 if the problem isn’t fixed, and in that regard it is a crisis.

Of course, if the Republicans were humanitarians, they would be trying to solve the problem.  They aren’t.  They will use the issue (see Ted Cruz, now worried about children at the border) to beat the Dems over the head.

Unfortunately, the Administration will have to turn people away.  There’s no room in this inn.