According to AOC, America, not the border crisis, is the problem

The indefatigable Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) – a New York Democrat and a proud member of the ultra-left “Squad” – is at it once more, denying that the border disaster is a major problem whereas concurrently blaming America for it. Whereas not that way back, her feedback might need been dismissed because the crackpot theorizing of somebody on the far-left fringes of society, the fact is that AOC sadly represents an anti-immigration-enforcement radicalism more and more changing into mainstream within the present Democratic Get together.

In a March 30 Instagram Stay session, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez asserted that the catastrophe on the southwestern border is “not a border disaster.” Quite, “it’s an Imperialism disaster, it’s a local weather disaster, it’s a commerce disaster. And in addition it’s a carceral [imprisonment]disaster.”

AOC then took situation with the time period “surge,” claiming that “anybody who’s utilizing the time period ‘surge’ round you, consciously, is making an attempt to invoke a militaristic body. And that’s an issue, as a result of this isn’t a surge. These are youngsters and they aren’t insurgents and we aren’t being invaded. Which, by the way in which, is a white supremacist philosophy. The concept that if an ‘different’ is coming within the inhabitants that that is an invasion of who we’re.”

In a NY-14 Digital City Corridor the next day, the left-wing politician repeated many of those claims, together with blaming a long time of U.S. overseas coverage vis-à-vis Central America. Whereas criticizing the overcrowded circumstances underneath which migrants are being held underneath Biden, AOC attacked the Trump administration’s makes an attempt to stem mass unlawful migration as a lot worse (again in 2019, she even referred to immigration detention services as “focus camps”). The truth is, she declared that households “separated” on the border underneath Trump are “owed reparations.” In different phrases, she needs hard-working American taxpayers to compensate overseas nationals for breaking our legal guidelines.

Semantic video games

Probably the most putting issues about AOC’s latest feedback is her obsession with the phrase “surge,” and her makes an attempt to tie it to militarism and white supremacism. Based on the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the phrase “surge” can imply “to rise and transfer in waves or billows,” or “to rise immediately to an extreme or irregular worth.” That the majority definitely describes the sharp enhance in unlawful migration on the southwestern border. The phrase “rebel” is outlined as “an individual who revolts towards civil authority or a longtime authorities.” Whereas “rebel” is definitely derived from the phrase “surge,” nobody has really referred to the rising inflow of unlawful migrants – particularly unaccompanied minors – as insurgents.

Maybe AOC’s quarrel with the phrase “surge” is a (quite
inept) technique to distract consideration from a real-world downside by participating in
politically right semantic video games.

Blaming America

What’s even worse, is that for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez what is occurring on our southwestern border is mainly a disaster of the whole lot (“imperialism,” local weather, commerce, or prisons) apart from what it really is: the inevitable consequence of the Biden-Harris administration’s anti-immigration-enforcement, anti-border-security insurance policies (which AOC, in fact, helps), that are benefiting smugglers and cartels, encouraging migrants to undertake harmful journeys, and creating potential openings for criminals and terrorists to enter the nation.

Quite than providing severe options, she seizes a possibility to take a swipe at her personal nation and society, accusing it of “imperialism” and different horrible sins. The  congresswoman makes use of the “imperialism” label – which Soviet propagandists hurled on the U.S. for many years – to explain American overseas coverage in Latin America, and specifically Washington’s makes an attempt to maintain radical, revolutionary Marxist forces within the area from taking their nations down the abyss of communism (a system that killed 100 million folks worldwide) within the tense, adversarial context of the Chilly Struggle.

Accusations of xenophobia

And, lastly, there’s AOC’s suggestion that considerations over the border “surge” are in some way pushed by xenophobia and racism, quite than any respectable considerations, equivalent to preserving the rule of regulation, defending our sovereign nationwide borders and jobs, conserving out medicine, criminals, and terrorists, and many others. That is steadily the open-borders left’s go-to argument, primarily as a result of it permits the apologists for unlawful migration to keep away from having to defend the indefensible – whereas forcing the opposite aspect onto the defensive. Debunking the baseless cost of border-security-is-xenophobia is pretty straightforward: slightly over half of Border Patrol brokers are Hispanic (as of the top of Fiscal 12 months 2016), and light-skinned unlawful border crossers will not be given preferential remedy or just waved via.

However the issue is that radical leftists like AOC proceed to repeat their anti-American canards – seemingly unphased by any proof on the contrary – and that this blame-America-first mentality seems to be driving the present administration’s insurance policies.