The two highlights of President Biden’s State of the Union speech last night were also its most risible moments.
President Biden wants to secure the border by giving illegal aliens amnesty, and he declared that Americans must stop treating each other as enemies in disputes over the proper way to handle the China virus.
Apparently lost on his speechwriters were two simple facts: Biden invited the mass invasion at the border, and he declared that Americans who were not vaccinated against the Asiatic pathogen were responsible for spreading it. That, of course, was a bald-faced lie.
It’s About Them, Not Us
Biden’s border blather made one thing clear: His main concern is importing illegal and legal immigrants to change the country demographically, vote for Democrats, and cement permanent power.
“If we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the Border and fix the immigration system,” Biden said, and then continued:
We can do both. At our border, we’ve installed new technology like cutting-edge scanners to better detect drug smuggling.
We’ve set up joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers.
We’re putting in place dedicated immigration judges so families fleeing persecution and violence can have their cases heard faster.
We’re securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Central America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.
Then came an appeal for an illegal-alien amnesty, which is nearly in effect now . Biden’s Homeland Security chief, Cuban visa fraudster Alejandro Mayorkas, has repeatedly vowed to not enforce immigration law. Deportations of illegals have virtually halted as Biden dumps illegals from the border into American towns and cities.
“We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty that has led generations of immigrants to this land — my forefathers and so many of yours.” Biden continued:
Provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, those on temporary status, farm workers, and essential workers.
Revise our laws so businesses have the workers they need and families don’t wait decades to reunite.
It’s not only the right thing to do — it’s the economically smart thing to do.
That’s why immigration reform is supported by everyone from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Let’s get it done once and for all.
That “pathway to citizenship for DREAMers” and legalization of “essential” foreign workers is the amnesty that the Senate failed to pass in Biden’s Build Back Better bill. Labor unions need immigrants to fill their thinning ranks; Big Business wants cheap labor; and Democrats, again, will get the votes.
Since Biden took office, border agents at the frontier with Mexico have apprehended or handled more than 2.11 million illegal aliens. Biden has released almost 300,000 into the heartland since October, and another 220,000 have slipped past border agents.
To their credit, GOP Representatives Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia shouted “build the wall.”
Stop Hating Each Other
Risible moment No. 2 was Biden’s appeal for Americans to stop hating each other because of the China virus.
“For more than two years, COVID-19 has impacted every decision in our lives and the life of the nation,” Biden said. “And I know you’re tired, frustrated, and exhausted.”
In fact, most Americans likely aren’t “tired, frustrated, and exhausted,” because they began ignoring Biden’s diktats long ago, but in any event Biden generously said that mask mandates had ended:
Just a few days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the CDC — issued new mask guidelines.
Under these new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country can now be mask free.
And based on the projections, more of the country will reach that point across the next couple of weeks.
What a Guy!
After touting his many achievements in battling the virus and vowing to “continue vaccinating the world” with the hard-earned income of American taxpayers, he offered this:
We have lost so much to COVID-19. Time with one another. And worst of all, so much loss of life.
Let’s use this moment to reset. Let’s stop looking at COVID-19 as a partisan dividing line and see it for what it is: A God-awful disease.
Let’s stop seeing each other as enemies, and start seeing each other for who we really are: Fellow Americans.
Biden didn’t see it that way in September. Back then, he blamed the spread of the disease on those who refused to be vaccinated with an experimental elixir that had serious, if not fatal side effects.
“While the vaccines provide strong protections for the vaccinated, we read about, we hear about, and we see the stories of hospitalized people, people on their death beds, among the unvaccinated over these past few weeks.” He continued:
This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And it’s caused by the fact that despite America having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot.
In fact, as the data eventually showed, most of those who contract the virus and become dangerously ill or even die are vaccinated. The protection from the vaccines wanes after about six months.
Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were maskless, as was his audience in the packed chamber of the House of Representatives.
