I chuckle at the focus on whether the situation on the border is a "crisis" or not. The left and media claims it is a fake or fabricated one, but isn't a crisis an opinion? Me running out of beer on a Saturday could be a crisis. Over the last decade there have been plenty of political crisis', and as was famously stated "Never let a crisis go to waste", right?
Since 1975, there have 522 death (approx) from mass shootings and the gun crisis never gets questioned or labelled a fake crisis yet in 44 years only 522 deaths. That is less than 12 a year. I bet illegal immigrants cause more than that a year. According to US statistics, in 2017, 2028 homicides were committed that year alone by illegals. So 522 deaths over 44 years does warrant a crisis label but over 2,000 in one year does not? That does not consider the financial burden on social services or the illegal contraband brought into this country through our porous border.
But the left's answer is to say this isn't a crisis. Does it matter if you call it one? Its an attention diverter, that is all. Make the arguement about whether it is a crisis or not. That is better than actually addressing the problem because it is a classic approach. Take an arguement you can't win and make it about something else that you can.
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