{"id":25215,"date":"2021-11-12T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25215"},"modified":"2021-11-12T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:08:08","slug":"wash-post-border-hypocrisy-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/11\/12\/wash-post-border-hypocrisy-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Sees a Border Crisis in Europe (but Not U.S.), and Applauds EU Leaders for Trying to Combat It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The editorial board of the Washington Post has declared a border crisis<\/a> \u2013 and it is one that \u201cmust be stopped\u201d! No, not the one along the U.S. southern border, where migrants are crossing illegally at a clip of more than 200,000 a month (and those are just the ones we can count). It is the surge of migrants crossing into the EU, aided and abetted by the government of Belarus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post editorial\ncorrectly notes that the crisis, playing out largely along the Polish border,\nis \u201cchoreographed and [is a]cynical attempt to provoke a crisis.\u201d In this case\nthe choreographer is Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and a close\nally of Russian strongman, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite months of sustained high levels of illegal migration along our own borders that began when President Biden took office, the Post remains adamant that it is not a crisis<\/a>. While the Post is disturbed by the \u201cchoreographed\u201d nature of the assault on the EU\u2019s borders by those whose motives are inimical to the interests of the countries facing influxes of migrants, they seem unperturbed by similarly choreographed caravans<\/a> heading to the U.S. border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post laments that organized human smuggling rings are being encouraged by policies that grant migrants\u00a0\u201cBelarusian visas<\/a>\u00a0and flown on\u00a0Belarus\u2019s state-owned airline<\/a>\u00a0to Minsk\u201d and then \u201cbused to the Belarusian border, along with their children and belongings, and in many cases pushed to cross it by Belarusian security forces.\u201d Sou<\/a>n<\/a>d familiar<\/a>? Not to the Post apparently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editorial even goes so far as to applaud EU leaders for taking a tough stance against organized incursions of its border. \u201cFortunately, the European Union shows no sign of rewarding this cruel ploy,\u201d states the paper. Preventing mass incursions of migrants across the U.S., on the other hand, is often depicted as the manifestation of cruelty. Efforts to clamp down on mass migration across our border is labeled as \u201cfearmongering\u201d in another editorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to a Supreme Court ruling ordering that the Biden administration reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, the Post editorialized<\/a> that requiring them to remain in Mexico, in \u201cdangerous tent cities,\u201d pending a hearing on their claims runs contrary to \u201cbasic American ideals and values.\u201d By contrast, the migrants \u201chuddled in the freezing forests without food, is a sign of reckless depravity\u201d on the part of those organizing the assault on the EU\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, apparently, for elitist media outlets like the Washington Post, the concept of \u201cAmerican exceptionalism<\/a>\u201d has taken on a whole new meaning. To them it means that every nation on earth has a right to secure its borders and resist organized efforts to undermine their sovereignty, except<\/em> the United States of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The editorial board of the Washington Post has declared a border crisis \u2013 and it is one that \u201cmust be stopped\u201d! No, not the one along the U.S. southern border, where migrants are crossing illegally at a clip of more than 200,000 a month (and those are just the ones we can count). It is<\/p>\n

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