Friends Like These
Last Thursday's TPS defection shows globalism is alive and well in the GOP
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With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Last Thursday, ten House Republicans crossed the floor and voted with the Democrats to keep 350,000 Haitians in the US, in opposition to President Trump’s attempts to remove their Temporary Protected Status and deport them.
The bill, led by Democrat Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Laura Gillen and advanced by means of a discharge manoeuvre, passed.
It’s dead in the Senate, of course, but that’s not really the point.
Now for the roll-call of shame. The ten Republicans are, in no particular order: Brian Fitzpatrick, Mike Lawler, Don Bacon, Maria Salazar, Carlos Gimenez, Nicole Malliotakis, Rich McCormick, Mike Turner, Mike Carey and Mario Diaz-Balert.
Remember those names. Write them down. If one of them is your representative and their behaviour upsets you, give them a phone call and let them know how you feel. Tell them what you really think of them.
Amazingly, one of these ten Judases, Mike Turner, represents parts of Springfield, Ohio. Yes, that’s the same Springfield, Ohio where Haitians were eating dogs and cats—and probably are still eating dogs and cats right now.
A big fat ginger cat—an old lady’s pride and joy, a little child’s best friend—roasting on a spit. A tiny chihuahua chopped up and grilled to fill a flatbread—barely.
Perhaps more than any other issue during the 2024 election, and any other meme, the dog-and-cat-eating Haitians of Springfield, Ohio underlined the insane evil of President Biden’s border policy, if simply unlocking the gate and leaving it wide open could be dignified as a “policy.” More importantly, it galvanized public support for President Trump’s ambitious promise to deport 20 million illegals over the course of a second term.
Dragging and dropping tens of thousands of Haitians into a rundown little city in the Rust Belt, a place that had known only hard times for decades—the loss of manufacturing and then the Opioid Crisis—was like the final globalist reductio ad absurdum. Instead of investment, support, jobs and real hope, the people of Springfield, Ohio were simply to be replaced by people so alien they might as well have come from the Dark Side of the Moon or one of the rings of Saturn.
This was exactly the kind of America-last politics Donald Trump was elected three times to put down forever.
During the Biden Presidency, close to a million people ended up being shielded by Temporary Protected Status, which, in the words of Texas Representative Brandon Gill, became a “permanent amnesty program for unvetted foreigners.” The status just kept on being renewed and then extended. There was no intention of ever making them leave.
