Rex Huppke Wants You to Think About the Children...Every 4 Years
- Fred
- 16 hours ago
- 2 min read
Updated: 13 hours ago
During the Barack Obama Administration, Glenn Beck got a tip that immigrants to America were being treated poorly on the Mexican Border. He grabbed a film crew and, for a week, reported on the "Humanitarian Crisis" on the U.S. side. He implored his audience that this was not a partisan gimmick, there were real people suffering. Kids in cages, kids separated from families, immigrants being abused in general. With the exception of a few local news affiliates picking up the story, America Yawned.
When Donald Trump was on the campaign trail (the first time), you remember him screaming into a mic "we will build a wall! And Mexico will pay for it!!" The American Left was mad, Mexico was mad, everyone was mad.
Lo and behold, the press, once Trump was elected, decried the Humanitarian Crisis at the border. The conditions on the ground really hadn't changed much. The topic polarized America. Donald Trump did start to build that wall. (But Mexico didn't pay).
After 4 years, Joe Biden promised a quieter, and gentler, America.
Did Biden tear down the wall? Actually no, he kept building it.
Were immigration policies changed? Actually no.
Biden said immigrants were welcome, but then kept deporting them.
When Donald Trump was re-elected, the Left decried that he'd deport immigrants by the millions! Almost every Left-leaning publication had a story of someone who had been unjustly deported.
Today, the USA Today's Rex Huppke loudly reported that 3 children were being deported, simply for being kids of the wrong nationality. "When I read about the chaotic and cruel nature of these deportations and thought about the terror these children faced being rounded up, held by their presumably panicked mothers then flown by strangers to a country that isn’t their own, I was tempted to ask of Trump-backing Republicans out there: When will this be bad enough to matter to you? At what point do you say, “This isn’t what America should do to anyone, much less some of its most vulnerable young citizens”?
Wow, that's powerful. (sarcasm)
Oh, coincidentally, on the same exact day that Huppke's article dropped: Deportations DOWN over Trump's first hundred days vs. Biden's first hundred days.
The sooner you realize that Rex Huppke, and his ilk, are simply highly paid political pawns, the better. When he was with the Chicago Tribune, during the Obama Administration, did he champion the plight of the immigrant? Of course he didn't. (You can look it up).
One Political Party loudly politicizes immigrants. The other silently politicizes immigrants. Have you figured out the common denominator yet?