America is still the “land of opportunity” to many. Freedom and justice are ideals we should all strive to live up to. Our country has been a hope for many immigrants who have worked tirelessly to legally integrate into these United States.
Yet, the obsession with open borders plagues the political ideology of the Left. The hope that “we” as a people can help everyone on the planet is a tall order, and one that we cannot possibly afford to fulfill.
The hard truth of immigration starts here: We cannot afford to offer social programs to all citizens if we host open-border policies. By contrast, we can experiment with open borders only IF we leave behind the comfortable social programs that keep people from starving to death on our own dime. It’s a Catch-22 that no politician following liberal rhetoric wishes to discuss.
Despite these truths, people immigrating to the United States illegally were specifically encouraged to get to our country within Biden’s first 100 days if they hoped to be granted amnesty.
This encouraged tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to spill over the border. we now have no means to help these desperate individuals, who are entering the country at an approximate rate of six thousand per day. Halting the border-wall construction, and turning a blind eye to the droves of underage immigrants, has done nothing to help anyone.
Recently a nine-year-old-girl drowned in the hopes of illegally entering the United States. The lies proffered by the Biden administration brought her to her death, and no one has won in this situation.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the young girl was traveling with a Guatemalan woman and a three-year-old Mexican native. They attempted to swim across the Rio Grande. This popular method of passing into the United States has been deadly before, but, in the minds of many would-be immigrants, the risks are overshadowed by irresponsible false promises promoted by our own elected officials.
Hundreds die each year trying to make this journey, but this girl’s death has caught national attention as Americans come to realize the gravity of the situation. She is giving more weight to the thousands of nameless children who are being held at the border without any clear plan of how to proceed by the current administration.
When our leaders do not clearly follow common-sense immigration policies, and encourage illegal immigrants to cross at will as fast as they can, we cannot be surprised at such tragic results, but everyone should take note: If our leaders had encouraged her family to work hard and legally apply for a work visa or citizenship, she may still be alive, and that is the harshest truth of the matter.
By pandering to movements instead of reality, those in power are partly responsible for this sorrowful loss of life.
