Democrats refuse to pass law requiring illegal immigrants to be tested for COVID…
…and yet it is reported that border guards will be fired if they refuse to be vaccinated by November 1st.
Not only that, but many of those untested and possibly-COVID-infected illegal aliens who are streaming across the border courtesy of Joe Biden & Company have been seeded throughout the country without consulting the communities in which they will be placed.
Here’s some information about the proposed bill:
Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks offered her REACT Act on Wednesday in the United States House of Representatives. Democrats, however, blocked the bill, which would require the Department of Homeland Security to give a COVID test to everyone crossing the border illegally.
Miller-Meeks called her bill “commonsense legislation.”…
“[A recent DHS] report further stated that we recommend DHS reassess its COVID-19 response framework to identify areas for improvement, to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 while balancing its primary mission of securing the border,” she said. “Currently everyone legally entering the United States by plane is required to display a negative test for COVID-19. Why aren’t we requiring this of those who come here illegally?”
It’s not even as though this bill would require the deportation of people who test positive. It merely would require that they not be released from custody for a while. Also, it’s not as though other people entering this country from foreign lands aren’t being tested for COVID. They are. For example:
While the Biden Administration is testing individuals arriving from Afghanistan and vaccinating them for COVID as well as other childhood illnesses, it isn’t doing that with those crossing the border illegally.
Miller-Meeks also had this to say:
“We recently watched a debacle unfold in Del Rio, Texas where we have learned that DHS did not test any of approximately 15,000 migrants who camped out under the Del Rio Bridge, many of whom came from South America where they’re experiencing the Lambda Variant. We now know that around 12,000 of these individuals were released into the United States.”
I’ve looked and looked, but I have yet to find an article that explains the rationale the Democrats gave for blocking the bill. Maybe they didn’t even offer one – after all, they have the House majority and can vote without explaining why.
When queried a little while ago about why illegal entrants to the US aren’t required to provide proof of vaccination or be tested for COVID, Jen Psaki gave her typically nonsensical and even insulting-to-intelligence type of answer:
“As individuals walk across the border they are both assessed for if they have any symptoms, the intention is for them to be quarantined, that is our process.”
“They’re not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time.”
Sure thing. I thought the official administration word is that COVID can be spread even without symptoms, and I’m also under the impression that the people crossing the southern border illegally didn’t come all that way merely to have a cup of coffee and return.
The bill had originally been introduced back in March, when it was defeated. Miller-Meeks (who won her election by six votes, by the way, and whose seating was challenged by Democrats) is a military veteran and physician who for a while was the director of Iowa’s Department of Public Health.
Does anyone doubt that Democrats are hypocrites on the subject of COVID and public health? The evidence is overwhelming. And of course that’s not the only issue on which their hypocrisy shines forth.
Another chance for us to ask the question posed by the immediately previous post:
At what point, if ever, will Americans’ dissatisfaction with the Biden administration translate into voting behavior?
The elites personal behavior tells us all we need to know about what they think the real risks of COVID are. Every thing they do is intended to make this ‘crisis’ last as long as possible.
They’re not hypocrites. It’s their plan. Spread chaos throughout the country by thousands of poor, uneducated people carrying disease. What better way to bring the country down? Add in a 3.5 trillion inflation booster and Soros must be dancing all around.
physicsguy:
They are indeed hypocrites, and it is their plan. Being a hypocrite is to publicly profess to believe one thing but to not really believe it and to act contrary to it.
JimNorCal:
I am pretty sure that most people have no idea this is even happening (the blocking of the proposed statute). I could only find coverage on Fox and some other news outlets with a local interest or blogs on the right.
If people don’t even know what the Democrats are actually doing or not doing, they’re not going to turn on the Democrats.
It [testing positive] merely would require that they not be released from custody for a while.
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I have yet to find an article that explains the rationale the Democrats gave for blocking the bill. — Neo
For this operation, their plan is to flood the country with millions of immigrants in a modest amount of time. That much is certain. To hold 10 or 20% of them for a multi-week quarantine would be a huge bottleneck.
Tommy Jay:
That’s easy to figure out. That’s not what I was referring to, however. I was referring to the rationale, the argument they publicly offered – if any – for blocking the bill.
@ Neo > “If people don’t even know what the Democrats are actually doing or not doing, they’re not going to turn on the Democrats.”
And hence we see the necessity of the media purges, censoring, and dismissing of conservative concerns and actual news if it casts doubt on The Narrative.
Hunter Biden’s Laptop, for instance, but examples are legion and I could give six or eight links just from today’s news.
They can still call the Covid-paranoia-opposition’s posts “just their opinion” – despite solid studies and irrefutable expertise of at least some of them, but other examples are firmly in the “Just the facts, Ma’am” territory.
My big question is WHY are some of the Democrat Media NOW talking about the events they previously deep-sixed or skated past, to Biden’s detriment?
Even if DeSantis loses in the courts (and these days any judge’s ruling is a fit subject for crystal ball gazers), he might make enough waves that the situation impinges on the consciousness of at least some of the Democrats and Independents open to the real consequences of the unbridled invasion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-sues-biden-administration-over-immigration-policy/ar-AAOVpqP?ocid=msedgntp
Other than it’s only a cudgel to beat citizens in line and they really have no faith in their Vax who knows why one case has no bearing on the other.
To the extent it’s discovered, it fulfills the role of….yeah, we’re doing this stupid thing to you and there’s not a damned thing you’re going to do about it.
No hospital admission rights for mother’s Choice and survivors of planned parent/hood. No health mandates for illegal aliens, and, in fact premeditated exposure of families and communities to pandemic conditions. Demos-cracy is aborted in darkness.
Like many, I used to think that one’s time spent pointing out hypocrisy was in some way going to help our cause. But not too long after the Biden junta took office, I began to think “It doesn’t matter. They don’t care. Whatever works for them right now, they will do.”
And that’s right. Nobody in the Biden administration who has anything to do with the disaster on the border is going to wake up tomorrow, slap their forehead and say, “You know, maybe firing Border Patrol people for not getting vaccinated but letting thousands of untested, COVID-positive people into our our country really doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t look good, so let’s change our policy.”
In fact it, does make sense…to them. (1) More immigrants, the better. (2) Fewer people to stop them, the better. (3) the ones that do lose their job are probably the ones most likely to cause trouble in more ways, so if they and their families suffer the loss of income, serves them right.
And here we are.
A conscious plan to flood the US with immigrants to change it in bad ways.
A plan implemented over many years
https://mobile.twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1440840452136050692
It is really a malignant transformation of Cloward-Piven.
America is doomed. Another three years of this? Illegals now get to vote in Leftist states like Vermont in all but federal elections.
The news is that about 400,000 illegals will walk thru the Southern door to our country in the next month alone. Cooler weather means more illegals. Including, according to Panama’s government, some 85,000 Haitians on the march.
The day is fast approaching where the choice will be to go postal or stay home and “lick the hands of those who feed you”.
Indeed it’s already here but hope dies a slow lingering death.
NY State: no vaccine = no job, no unemployment = take as many of the bastards with you as you can.
The most dangerous of men is the one who has nothing left to lose.
Roll-aid:
Agreed.
They are not the least bit worried about their hypocrisy being pointed out, and they believe that their policies suit their ends.
Geoffrey Britain,
We’re fighting the NYS vaccine mandate now. My job (NYS Unified Court System) had a 9/27 deadline to file a religious or medical exemption. An Albany Supreme Court judge issued a temporary restraining order so the mandate is on hold while the NYS Unified Court System files more papers, goes judge shopping (you can do that when you control the system that is going to hear your case) and hires a prestigious NYC law firm to represent them.
I am unvaccinated so, of course, I am waiting to hear what happens to my job. Especially since I won’t be eligible for unemployment if I am fired. I have a spotless record and only two sick days in my entire career but none of it will matter.
I didn’t fill out the religious exemption because it was not given out in good faith. It has a number of spots where I must check a box agreeing that the court system can put me out of work at any time, indefinitely. Also, I would need to write an essay on my religion, as well as provide the name of my pastor (I’m Roman Catholic) as well as other supporting documents about my religion. So they can contact my pastor and check on me. Almost all of that is illegal, I believe.
And even if the exemption is granted, it is only good for one year, can be revoked at any time (another one of the check boxes you must agree to to submit it).
An attorney I spoke with said that it violates my civil rights under color of law, and is in violation of the Federal Civil Rights act, title VII. But the attorney didn’t want to take my case. Very few attorneys want to sue the court system, especially over the vaccine.
Also, Governor Hochul, who has threatened roughly 40,000 NYS nurses with replacement by less qualified foreigners, and who has also been doing a really creepy, ‘speaking for God’ bit, is going to authorize the NY National Guard medical staff to pick up the slack of the nurses who are terminated.
Never mind the fact that there isn’t nearly enough NG nurses and doctors to do that: the kicker is, the National Guard part-timers don’t have to be vaccinated until 2022. So, she will replace nurses (who are suddenly dangerous, when last year they were heroes) with National Guard nurses, who don’t have to be vaccinated yet, but somehow aren’t a danger or liability.
And how many of those NG nurses, are the same nurses about to be fired? Probably quite a few.
I knew my state was a mess. I had no idea it would go this insane, this fast.
Fractal Rabbit
The fact stands; these clowns won elections and they or those like them are most likely to win the next ones.
I always read the comments at Powerline’s The Week in Pictures because it quadruples the number of snarky political memes and other humor for the day.
This is just a selection of those that are at least quasi-relevant to the topic.
Starting with some observations especially for Fractal Rabbit – and if you get fired, we’ll take up a collection to move you to Florida.
Mt Geoff-Debbie
People declining to get the shot cover a gamut from well-informed and doubtful to pig-headed.
People recommending that others get the shot cover the gamut from well-informed to well-intended.
People demanding that others get the shot just tend to be pig-headed.
floridaobserver
My good friend declined to get the shot. Her golf friends make her sit “over there” at lunch and even refuse to ride in the golf cart with her. In the past few weeks, one came back from a trip to France, another went to CA, and two more returned from other trips. All went via plane, took cabs, ate in restaurants, etc., etc, but treat a wonderful woman they’ve known for 30 years like a pariah.
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A few more, but most of the selections today are worth a visit. There are some great meme-art-brokers over there (that is, they have a vast library of bookmarked memes, but don’t seem to create their own). Is there such a thing as a Meme Gallery?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b5360b781ce5029d39abbba40958fc0939147cec7113da1bdf50045ecca386c5.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/297e5dda55f4918372b9b678c00dfd533456eb68a39768f08224d123af0b9f80.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3207864918225d0ab641bb8d9418a8b37fbb43e3a58865b6960abfe367bc48d0.jpg
These are general purpose memes for the times.
Harry Truman nailed it.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5bcb527d61934c87a010b23c17a30f6f5eb350ad9ee822f30647cbfc1b36ef92.jpg
A new take on the Serenity Prayer (as perhaps displayed in the cabins of at least some of the “Firefly” crew).
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/89278c1d4d5d4c2c24d55765435f3282f2c59047876d6eac6bc7d7003280eb4c.jpg
Geoffrey, these are for you:
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Again for Geoffrey, which I think has been around for awhile but posted again by a commenter FCinNH at TWIP today.
“Stolen from a comment on Larry Correia’s blog.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/the-weak-in-pictures-bidens-terrible-no-good-week-edition.php#comment-5556755027
Paired with a quote from Claire Wolfe also making the rounds.
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Aesopfan. the Men Who Wanted to Be Left Alone also know that, when they finally have to fight, their families are also doomed.
And those participating in the attacks are a larger number than just the local zoning board or some other collection of little Hitlers. Could be the cop you helped at an accident three years ago. Or the school counselor who screwed your kid’s college app data because of something you said at the school board meeting last year.
Enormous anger, many targets.
physicsguy:
They are indeed hypocrites, and it is their plan. Being a hypocrite is to publicly profess to believe one thing but to not really believe it and to act contrary to it. (Neo)
I read your article and then response and I laughed.
Hypocrisy is acting at odds with what one truly believes, not acting at odds at what the outside observer believes. The left only believes in power. Therefore it is not hypocrisy to say one thing and do another because that helps them in their end goals.
As a young man I used to believe they were hypocrites and illogical. But all one has to do is recognize power is their center philosophy and it all falls into place, and it is entirely self consistent. The belief in hypocrisy is only us using our moral centers and projecting. It has nothing to do with what they believe.
If chaos helps in their reach for power, then they will encourage that. If lies help, they will lie. They will tax the rich while using insider knowledge to become wealthy themselves.
No, they are, at base, completed corrupt and power driven, so there is no hypocrisy.
Brendan:
You laughed?
I used the dictionary definition of the word:
Not in contradiction to his actual beliefs, but to his stated beliefs. Hypocrisy is about pretense. As I wrote, it’s “to publicly profess to believe one thing but to not really believe it and to act contrary to it.”
Or see this:
In some cases, the hypocrite does not espouse beliefs of any sort but allows others to infer decent beliefs.
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