These Democrats Rushed To The Border When Trump Was President, Are Now Quiet Under Biden’s ‘Border Crisis’
In recent weeks, an undeniable humanitarian crisis has erupted at the border between the United States and Mexico.
As The Daily Wire reported, nearly a thousand migrant children have been “kept in border detention facilities for longer than 10 days — far longer than the maximum amount of time children are supposed to be housed in Customs and Border Protection custody, 72 hours,” while the Biden administration enforced a “border blackout,” preventing the media from covering the ongoing border operations.
During this period, the overt hypocrisy of high-profile Democratic figures has also been on full display, with many even refusing to admit that the situation at the border is a crisis at all — let alone a crisis far worse than what unfolded under the Trump administration.
Here are numerous Democrats who couldn’t hold a photo op at the border fast enough when Trump was president, and are now practically nowhere to be seen…
Kamala Harris
In June 2018, now-Vice President Kamala Harris “joined hundreds of protesters along the San Diego border with Mexico” to “denounce President Donald Trump for his zero-tolerance immigration policy, which has separated more than 2,300 youth from their families.”
Calling his policies a “human rights abuse,” Harris said, “I spoke with the mothers who are there, and my heart is broken,” and that “these mothers in there think that they are alone. We need to remind them and everyone else that they are not alone, and that we all stand with them.”
After visiting “migrant mothers who have been separated from their children at the Otay Mesa Immigration and Detention Facility near San Diego,” Harris declared, “That is a prison.”
In 2019, Harris was one of “at least 11 Democratic presidential candidates” who visited a child migrant detention facility in Homestead, FL, before or after “taking the debate stage in Miami.”
Joining Harris was Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, now Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro. Later, other Democrats arrived, including Marianne Williamson and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
I am so proud to be a Democrat. @KamalaHarris, @SenGillibrand and @PeteButtigieg are arm-in-arm, the morning after a debate, to shine a light on the injustices happening at the Homestead private detention center. What’s happening here is wrong. pic.twitter.com/0rRnnRNEG2
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) June 28, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Following a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas on Monday, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called conditions ‘horrifying’ and denounced sexualized threats against her — allegedly made by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers — in the lead-up to the visit,” the Guardian reported in July 2019.
“Just left the 1st CBP facility. I see why CBP officers were being so physically & sexually threatening towards me,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the time. “Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”
Just left the 1st CBP facility.
I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me.
Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.
This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019
“Now I’ve seen the inside of these facilities. It’s not just the kids. It’s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress. I brought it up to their superiors. They said ‘officers are under stress & act out sometimes.’ No accountability,” she said.
Now I’ve seen the inside of these facilities.
It’s not just the kids. It’s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress.
I brought it up to their superiors. They said “officers are under stress & act out sometimes.” No accountability.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019
“After I forced myself into a cell w/ women & began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as ‘psychological warfare’ – waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc. Tell me what about that is due to a ‘lack of funding?’” she added.
After I forced myself into a cell w/ women&began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as “psychological warfare” – waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc.
Tell me what about that is due to a “lack of funding?”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019
Earlier in June, photographs went viral of the Congresswoman protesting outside a Tornillo detention center, crying while looking through a fence.
“I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents, & caged them,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the time. “More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids.”
I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them.
More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable.
We need to save these kids. https://t.co/HhdMqc5zML
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 25, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elizabeth Warren also visited the border in 2019, “joining a protest that had been in place for months,” according to The Washington Post.
“She climbed to the top of a ladder, which had been set up across the road from where the detained children were being held so that visitors could see inside. Warren hugged a girl who had been part of the protests and waved to detainees who were playing soccer under the sweltering sun,” the report continued. “…Surrounded by reporters, Warren moved toward the protesters’ camp — a series of small canopies where activists had huddled with signs, food, and water. One sign listed the board members of Caliburn International, the owner of the facility; others read ‘free the children.’”
“We will stay here at Homestead until this facility releases these children and closes down,” Warren said. “We start by saying that we do not lock people up for money; we follow up by saying, we do not lock people up for political ends, which is what the president of the United States is doing here.”
Warren visited another detention center in Texas in June 2018, claiming, “Every mother I spoke with said she was lied to.”
“All of this started with someone lying to the mothers in order to get them separated. They have not been able to talk to their children and they have no idea where their children are,” Warren said.
Beto O’Rourke
In June 2019, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke also visited the migrant detention facility in Homestead, Florida.
“Beto O’Rourke, under fire from fellow Texan Julián Castro over his stance on immigration law, spent more than an hour outside a federal detention site blasting the Trump administration for mistreatment of migrant teens,” Dallas News reported.
“We want to get to the same place, and I think Secretary Castro may not understand that our proposal calls for every family, every person who is seeking refuge or asylum, fleeing violence or persecution, to be welcomed through our asylum laws … not criminally prosecuted, not detained, and not warehoused in tent cities like this one,” O’Rourke said.
“O’Rourke climbed a step ladder to peer over the fence at the youngsters walking from one tent to another in the distance, most wearing bright orange ball caps,” the report continued. “Sweat dripped from O’Rourke’s chin as he addressed dozens of media for nearly an hour, along with demonstrators holding vigil at the center.”
“We see them. We hear them. We support them. We love them,” he said. “We will not give up til they are free.”
Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at @ighaworth.
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