Immigration Questions

Sure, why not?

Lie #1. “These people are refugees, fleeing from mortal danger / These people should immigrate legally instead of choosing the illegal path.”

There’s no danger in Central America that is more mortal than the journey to the border. These are not refugees because there’s nothing for them to seek refuge from. Their cities aren’t carpet-bombed. When you look at actual refugees, for instance, the Ukrainian ones, you’ll see that they are a) almost all women and children; b) almost all desperately want to go home; c) aren’t picky about the country they end up in. Finding a 25-year-old male Ukrainian refugee who is not severely disabled or a very religious father of 6 is an impossibility.

So no, not refugees.

At the same time, “these people should immigrate legally” is just as much of a lie. There is absolutely no path for these people to immigrate to the US legally. None. Zero. It doesn’t exist. It exists for people like me and my husband. But not for the people crossing the Rio Grande and crawling through barbed wire. They lie about being refugees because there’s no other way for them to immigrate to the US.

So no, not absolute lunatics who disregard the safe, legal path in favor of illegality.

You want more lies?

“Comprehensive immigration reform” that, as  Ann Coulter famously said, always means “amnesty” whether said by Republicans or Democrats.

“Trump / Biden wanted to solve the migration crisis but Democrats / Republicans didn’t let him.”

I could continue but you get the picture.