{"id":359347,"date":"2021-03-31T12:45:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=359347"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:45:59","slug":"these-democrats-rushed-to-the-border-when-trump-was-president-are-now-quiet-under-bidens-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-democrats-rushed-to-the-border-when-trump-was-president-are-now-quiet-under-bidens-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"These Democrats Rushed To The Border When Trump Was President, Are Now Quiet Under Biden\u2019s \u2018Border Crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthese-democrats-rushed-to-the-border-when-trump-was-president-are-now-quiet-under-bidens-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=359347&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4798.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In recent weeks, an undeniable humanitarian crisis has erupted at the border between the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-nearly-1000-child-migrants-held-more-than-10-days-in-border-detention-facilities\">reported<\/a>, nearly a thousand migrant children have been \u201ckept in border detention facilities for longer than 10 days \u2014 far longer than the maximum amount of time children are supposed to be housed in Customs and Border Protection custody, 72 hours,\u201d while the Biden administration enforced a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-transparency-even-the-leftist-media-is-slamming-the-biden-administration-for-border-blackout\">border blackout<\/a>,\u201d preventing the media from covering the ongoing border operations.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 let alone a crisis far worse than what unfolded under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Here are numerous Democrats who couldn\u2019t hold a photo op at the border fast enough when Trump was president, and are now practically nowhere to be seen\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Kamala Harris<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/immigration\/sd-me-kamala-refugees-20180622-story.html\"><span>June 2018<\/span><\/a><span>, now-Vice President Kamala Harris \u201cjoined hundreds of protesters along the San Diego border with Mexico\u201d to \u201cdenounce President Donald Trump for his zero-tolerance immigration policy, which has separated more than 2,300 youth from their families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calling his policies a \u201chuman rights abuse,\u201d Harris said, \u201cI spoke with the mothers who are there, and my heart is broken,\u201d and that \u201cthese 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/immigration-kamala-harris-detention-center-families-separated\/3639033\/\"><span>visiting<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cmigrant mothers who have been separated from their children at the Otay Mesa Immigration and Detention Facility near San Diego,\u201d Harris declared, \u201cThat is a prison.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2019, Harris was one of \u201cat <\/span><span>least 11 Democratic presidential candidates\u201d who visited a child migrant detention facility in Homestead, FL, before or after \u201ctaking the debate stage in Miami.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Joining Harris was Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, now Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and former San Antonio Mayor Juli\u00e1n Castro. Later, other Democrats arrived, including Marianne Williamson and Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6451612903226\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am so proud to be a Democrat. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenGillibrand?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenGillibrand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeteButtigieg<\/a> are arm-in-arm, the morning after a debate, to shine a light on the injustices happening at the Homestead private detention center. What\u2019s happening here is wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0rRnnRNEG2\">pic.twitter.com\/0rRnnRNEG2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Sams (@IanSams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanSams\/status\/1144600215695048704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cF<\/span><span>ollowing a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas on Monday, the New York congresswoman <\/span><span>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/span><span> called conditions \u2018horrifying\u2019 and denounced sexualized threats against her \u2014 allegedly made by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers \u2014 in the lead-up to the visit,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/01\/aoc-border-facility-horrifying-cbp-officers-tweets\"><span>Guardian<\/span><\/a><span> reported in July 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cJust left the 1st CBP facility. I see why CBP officers were being so physically &amp; sexually threatening towards me,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1145762201619357696\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> at the time. \u201cOfficers were keeping women in cells w\/ no water &amp; had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.478260869565\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just left the 1st CBP facility.<\/p>\n<p>I see why CBP officers were being so physically &amp;sexually threatening towards me.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were keeping women in cells w\/ no water &amp; had told them to drink out of the toilets.<\/p>\n<p>This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1145762201619357696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cNow I\u2019ve seen the inside of these facilities. It\u2019s not just the kids. It\u2019s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress. I brought it up to their superiors. They said \u2018officers are under stress &amp; act out sometimes.\u2019 No accountability,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.461077844311\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now I\u2019ve seen the inside of these facilities.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the kids. It\u2019s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress.<\/p>\n<p>I brought it up to their superiors. They said \u201cofficers are under stress &amp; act out sometimes.\u201d No accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1145764653835964419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cAfter I forced myself into a cell w\/ women &amp; began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as \u2018psychological warfare\u2019 \u2013 waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc. Tell me what about that is due to a \u2018lack of funding?\u2019\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.464285714286\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After I forced myself into a cell w\/ women&amp;began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as \u201cpsychological warfare\u201d \u2013 waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what about that is due to a \u201clack of funding?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1145766311794040834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Earlier in June, photographs went viral of the Congresswoman protesting outside a Tornillo detention center, crying while looking through a fence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ll 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, &amp; caged them,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the time. \u201cMore kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.358974358974\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ll 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,&amp; caged them.<\/p>\n<p>More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>We need to save these kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HhdMqc5zML\">https:\/\/t.co\/HhdMqc5zML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1143379755540066305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Elizabeth Warren<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Sen. Elizabeth Warren also visited the border in 2019, \u201cjoining a protest that had been in place for months,\u201d according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/before-debate-democrats-visit-childrens-migrant-shelter-amid-fresh-fury-over-conditions\/2019\/06\/26\/08ed7de4-9815-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html\"><span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe 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,\u201d the report continued.&nbsp;<\/span><span>\u201c\u2026Surrounded by reporters, Warren moved toward the protesters\u2019 camp \u2014 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 \u2018free the children.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will stay here at Homestead until this facility releases these children and closes down,\u201d Warren said. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Warren visited another detention center in Texas in June 2018, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/news\/national-news\/2018\/06\/27\/sen-elizabeth-warren-on-border-visit-every-mother-i-spoke-with-said-she-was-lied-to\"><span>claiming<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cEvery mother I spoke with said she was lied to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll 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,\u201d Warren said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In June 2019, Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke also visited the migrant detention facility in Homestead, Florida.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Beto O\u2019Rourke, under fire from fellow Texan Juli\u00e1n 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,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2019\/06\/27\/at-florida-detention-site-for-migrant-teens-beto-orourke-slams-trump-parries-julian-castros-jabs\/\"><span>Dallas News<\/span><\/a><span> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe 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 \u2026 not criminally prosecuted, not detained, and not warehoused in tent cities like this one,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cO\u2019Rourke 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,\u201d the report continued. \u201cSweat dripped from O\u2019Rourke\u2019s chin as he addressed dozens of media for nearly an hour, along with demonstrators holding vigil at the center.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe see them. We hear them. We support them. We love them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will not give up til they are free.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i>@ighaworth<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, an undeniable humanitarian crisis has erupted at the border between the United States and Mexico.As The Daily Wire\u00a0reported, nearly a thousand migrant children have been \u201ckept in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311449,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4798.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"These Democrats Rushed To The Border When Trump Was President, Are Now Quiet Under Biden\u2019s \u2018Border Crisis\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4798.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"These Democrats Rushed To The Border When Trump Was President, Are Now Quiet Under Biden\u2019s \u2018Border Crisis\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}