New liberal line: Biden is “afraid of looking soft†on illegal immigration
Jazz ShawPosted at 4:01 pm on April 3, 2021
Have you ever had one of those moments when it seems as if you’ve slipped through some sort of dimensional doorway into an alternate reality, as happened in some of the original episodes of the Twilight Zone? Reading some of the liberal editorials making the rounds these days can produce a similar effect. That’s what happened when a reader sent me a link to this editorial in the Boston Globe written by Marcela Garcia, a member of the paper’s editorial board. The subject was immigration (carefully avoiding using the word “illegal†anywhere in the column) and the author was seeking to find an explanation as to why President Joe Biden was being too tough on immigrants and not relaxing restrictions on immigration. I’ll just give you a moment to collect yourselves after that shock to the system.
The official name of the malady is xenophobia. Donald Trump did everything he could to spread the condition, and it still infects us.
Unlike Trump, President Biden doesn’t fear displaced foreigners who fled their homes due to civil conflict, natural disasters, persecution, or systemic violence. Nor does he blatantly use them as handy political props. Still, he may be afraid of appearing soft on immigration, just as some were labeled soft on crime a generation ago.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/04/03/new-liberal-line-biden-afraid-looking-soft-illegal-immigration/
