For John, BLUF: I am against illegal immigration (or whatever our Commonwealth's Attorney General wishes to call it), but I am even more against this indirect encouragement of criminal activity in the name of humanitarianism. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Here is the sub-headline:
The more experienced hands in the emergency room diagnosed her almost at a glance. They had seen this novella many times. She was not the first, and she would not be the last.
From The Federalist, by Dr Jon Spiers, 5 July 2021.
Here is the lede plus five:
It was more than 25 years ago that we met as I worked in a border-area emergency room, but my memory of her remains crystal-clear even today.
Her coal-black eyes were piercing and never rested. They radiated fear and hatred. They engaged anyone who moved near her, digesting and assessing, as she tried to answer the ancient question: “Friend or foe?”
Her slow, cat-like movements were like clockwork: Clench her fists, flex her arms, flex her knees, slowly test the restraints on her wrists, look at the door, look at the window, look at the officer assigned to monitor her, strain to hear the sounds in the hall. She never seemed to worry with the 18-inch incision in her abdomen. She was ready to escape at the first opportunity. She had no time for her pain.
Yet it was pain that brought her here, and that saved her life. A week earlier, a call to emergency services had resulted in her passage through the doors of the emergency room and into the public health system.
A man arrived just after her who asked about her, although no one ever thought he was overly concerned about her. He vanished from the crowded waiting area soon after she was taken to surgery, where yards of dead bowel were removed, and the deadly meal she had ingested revealed.
She was a drug mule, carrying within her bowel packet after packet of cocaine, packed inside condoms she had swallowed. One of the condoms had ruptured, and the drug attacked her body, killing much of her intestines, pushing her heart to its limit, and driving her mind to near-insanity.
I feel a little like Émile Zola writing this, because I am accusing the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party of encouraging the abuse of human beings by their fellow human beings, engaged in criminal activity.
People who come across the US Southern Border are tied up in or at least touched by criminal activities, to include drug trafficking, human smuggling, prostitution and physical and sexual abuse. These are wrong, and our current actions on the border only encourage this kind of activity. Criminal activity.
The author ends this way:
While nothing good is ever free, the unlawful carries a price incalculable. It is time Americans realize that to truly help the weak, the strong must stand united for lawful immigration and the value of all human life.
If the Democrats, and the Biden Administration, were truly concerned about helping the downtrodden they would (1) finish building the wall and (2) initiate some sort of free lift, by sea or air or both, from South and Central America, bringing to this Great Nation the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of other's teeming shores, the homeless, tempest-tossed seekers of a better life, lived based on freedom and hard word.
Not ideal, but better than the abuse of refugees and the encouragement of criminality and the building of (untaxed) criminal profits.
And, it might provide a dose of transparency.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
