{"id":1906,"date":"2018-06-22T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2018-06-22T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:54:42","slug":"fake-news-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2018\/06\/fake-news-immigration.html","title":{"rendered":"Fake News and Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, Fake News is alive and all too well.<\/p>\n<p>This was witnessed in spades this past week as the Fake News\/Kill Trump media lied through its fangs about the President on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The Fake Newsies, at least 90% of whom are Democrat Party operatives, waxed hysteria over the \u201cseparation\u201d of Hispanic <em>children <\/em>from their \u201cimmigrant\u201d parents, i.e. those who entered America illegally through the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the blame for all of this was laid at the feet of the President, who was excoriated by his political enemies in Washington D.C. and their apologists and fellow partisans in the Fake News industry for his \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>By now, any remotely honest observer of the political scene should know that the truth is profoundly otherwise than what fake journalists and commentators would have us think.<\/p>\n<p>First, the \u201cseparation of families\u201d for which Trump is being blamed is a feature of a policy that was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed into law back in 2008 by George W. Bush.\u00a0 This policy was continued throughout Barack Obama\u2019s two terms.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the emotionally-charged photos of detention facilities circulated by the Fake News media that were designed to convict Trump of heartlessness were taken <em>while Obama was President. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is one crucial respect in which coverage of this issue reveals itself for the Fake News that it is.\u00a0 Yet it is certainly not the only respect.<\/p>\n<p>Second, that for <em>a decade\u2014<\/em>the decade that their fellow partisans held control of the levers of power in D.C.\u2014fake journalists didn\u2019t utter a peep about this policy for which they are now blasting Trump proves that they are cooking a controversy for partisan political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t journalism. It is advocacy. It is political.<\/p>\n<p>It is fake.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the vast majority of those crying over the \u201cseparation of families\u201d have spent decades undermining the sanctity of the family at every conceivable turn.\u00a0 The idea of \u201ctraditional family values\u201d is one upon which this crew has set its sights with a vengeance.\u00a0 They have not only mocked and ridiculed all things religious (and, particularly, Christian), they have aggressively sought to fundamentally transform the entire cultural and legal landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have just now discovered the sanctity of the family\u2014and make no mistakes, when they shed their tears (however fake, like their news, these tears undoubtedly are), they imply their recognition of this spiritual and moral reality\u2014have campaigned inexhaustibly for such family-crippling things as: no-fault divorce; de-stigmatizing both co-habitation outside of marriage and illegitimacy; sexual promiscuity; free contraceptives; the empowerment of the State (Child Protective Services) to remove children from their parents, i.e. to \u201cseparate families\u201d; the empowerment of children to divorce their parents; the elevation of homosexuality as something to be celebrated as a viable alternative to heterosexuality; and so-called \u201csame-sex marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, these same people who are now crying over <em>children <\/em>being separated from their parents have been <em>championing <\/em>the \u201cright\u201d of <em>mothers <\/em>to <em>kill <\/em>the children in their wombs, children who, at that stage in their development, literally have no one to sustain them but their mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, as President Trump said three years ago when he announced his bid for the presidency, <em>some <\/em>of those crossing our southern border are bad people.\u00a0 Border agents, among the bravest and most patriotic of Americans (and many of whom happen to be Hispanic), have readily attested to the truth of Trump\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>People who resolve to undermine a nation\u2019s sovereignty by breaking its most fundamental of laws are willing to do virtually anything else to fulfill their desires.\u00a0 It is understandable that they should want to leave their home countries and come to America so as to provide a better lives for themselves and their families. But unless it is morally permissible for one\u2019s personal happiness to be purchased at any and all costs\u2014unless the ends always justify the means\u2014this doesn\u2019t change the fact that such people disrespect America and her citizens when they invade our country.<\/p>\n<p>The point, here, is that these people have also sent their children\u2014some as young as four years-old\u2014across multiple countries, in some cases, and extremely dangerous terrain just so that <em>they <\/em>can eventually get here. Parents have given their young daughters contraceptives in the expectation that these girls would be raped by human predators.<\/p>\n<p>American-born children can and have been separated from their American-born parents for offenses that pale in comparison to such egregious abuses.<\/p>\n<p>And it isn\u2019t just parents who have weaponized children in this way.\u00a0 Many of the \u201cparents\u201d and other adult \u201crelatives\u201d aren\u2019t related to these kids at all.\u00a0 The US government is trying to <em>protect<\/em> these children by making sure that they aren\u2019t released into the custody of negligent, abusive, criminal adults.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, during a conversation with Democrats and some Republicans over immigration policy some time ago, Trump was said to have referred to some Third World countries from which his opponents wanted to encourage more immigration as \u201cshitholes.\u201d For this, the Fake Newsies (but few others) took him to task.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, most of these left-wing Democrats in the Fake News media and elsewhere are tirelessly complaining about the \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d \u201cinstitutional racism,\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d of America, or, as those on the left have not so affectionately referred to it, \u201cAmeriKKKa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This latest episode in the Fake News media\u2019s <em>Kill Trump<\/em> series would have caused more thoughtful, or more honest, people to suffer a massive dose of cognitive dissonance: On the one hand, there has been occurring for many years a mass exodus of millions of non-white people from their home countries from all over the world.\u00a0 On the other hand, these same people are risking their own lives, yes, but the lives of their children to flee to\u2026a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d country.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfascists\u201d of AmeriKKKa are intent upon building a wall, true, but to prevent people from, not <em>leaving, <\/em>but <em>entering<\/em>, specifically, entering <em>illegally. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A historically white country which remains majority-white and which the American-born left continually derides as \u201cracist\u201d is, in reality, the salvation of the world\u2019s non-white peoples. This, at any rate, can only be the view held by those who are willing to do anything and everything to get to America.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t expect for the Fake News media to say so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, Fake News is alive and all too well. This was witnessed in spades this past week as the Fake News\/Kill Trump media lied through its fangs about the President on immigration. 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