Authoring their own political nightmare, open border extremism leads to equal and opposite reaction

A story in the San Antonio Current by Michael Karlis about Governor Abbott’s speech at the Republican National Convention in July began with: “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s fervently anti-migrant speech… — and the crowd’s response — drew swift condemnation from immigration reform groups, one of whom described the mood in the room as feeling “sinister.””

 Clearly Karlis and the San Antonio Current have no compunction about conflating legal migration and illegal migration in order to defame Governor Abbott on the issue of border security. There is nothing new or unique in this but it does constantly need to be addressed to blunt the effectiveness of the Leftist propaganda strategy of constant repetition of the untruth that being for ordered, limited immigration is the same as being anti-immigrant and anti-immigration in general. 

More interesting is the quote Karlis carried about a “sinister” feeling in the convention arena.  

Karlis wrote that the director of public relations for a DC-based nonprofit called Global Refuge, one Tim Young, said via X: “This doesn’t feel like a political rally. It reads as something far more sinister when you have thousands of people chanting ‘SEND THEM BACK’ and proudly waving their ‘MASS DEPORTATION’ signs in the air.”

That an open borders, which is inherently anti-law and order, advocate finds “sinister” people who are upset at years of purposeful law breaking and chaos with the country’s borders and immigration rules, is hardly surprising. 

What is surprising is how shallow is the argument of many advocates opposing the re-establishment of order and enforcement of the country’s immigration laws.  

Take for example officials with America’s Voice, a group that seems to favor mass illegal immigration as well as offering full American citizenship to over eleven million illegal immigrants. 

About Abbott’s speech and the signs waved by some delegates favoring deportation of illegal entrants into the U.S., the group post via X, according to the San Antonio Current story: “The fact that area full of people were waving these signs, without thought to how many American families and lives would be destroyed by such a policy, should be THE front-page news story today.” 

The emotional tug of that statement works, but only if one ignores that the very same harms of “families and lives” being “destroyed” exist for American families directly due to the unprecedented number of illegal immigrants now filling towns and cities. 

Have people like Tim Young or the folks at America’s Voice ever bothered to give serious thought to the almost limitless list of harm coming to American families, including millions of legal immigrant families and especially lower income families, from the pouring into the county of ten to twenty million illegal aliens?  

Many direct and indirect harms can be seen across a wide range of life from overcrowded public school classrooms and big increases in housing rents due to the demand spike created by so many, to higher property and violent crime rates as well as jobs lost to millions willing to work off-the-books at lower cost. 

No, they do not ask such questions. 

Most proponents of border chaos and unfettered illegal immigration simply resort to calling those who oppose their harmful to American families, lawless agenda, Nazis. 

That same San Antonio Current article reports that “Grassroots group Mothers Against Greg Abbott called the signs “offensive” and likened the gathering’s vibe to that of a Nazi rally.” 

The story also implied that Abbott is a white supremacists because of his use of the word “invasion,” because the author claims the term is frequently used by “White supremacists.”

There is plenty of emotion over illegal immigration and mass deportation from all sides and since open border advocates and their press minions rarely, if ever, cover immigration issues in a manner that promotes rational debate as opposed to name calling, we have a justifiable right to charge that they have no interest in solving the problem but only dedication to creating and growing the problem.  

That reality forces others into what will be perceived as extreme and almost unilateral action that will further inflame unrest and overall will hurt American families, both immigrant and native, the most. 

The no accountability, open border advocates are the authors of their own political nightmare.

This article first appeared in the August, 2024 edition of the Buffalo Gap Round-Up News.