The progressive media establishment is growing ever more desperate in the project to keep as many foreigners in the United States as possible and signal to the corporate elites who exploit foreign labor to drive down the standard of living for American workers and undermine the integrity of their communities its commitment to open borders. Every day, the mainstream media proclaims its subservience to the party of mass immigration and the moneyed interests that party represents.
In his rant yesterday evening, Chris Hayes of MSDNC lectured his audience, “We’re an interconnected society of humans who depend on each other to survive and thrive, and there’s not some neat line you can cleave between America and foreigners. We just have neighbors and communities.” This is the standard transnationalist line. It skirts the line known as borders. Borders are as neat or as messy as those in power want them to be. The globalists thrive on messy borders. Civilization depends on neat ones.
Hayes’s lecture was prompted by the situation at Bear Gulch, where—the public is told—US Border Patrol agents arrested two firefighters who were battling the Bear Gulch fire in the Olympic National Forest in Washington. The men are being held in a facility in Bellingham. This is a false narrative.
Here’s what actually happened: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducted a criminal investigation and, based on its findings, terminated contracts with two companies assisting in the firefighting efforts—ASI Arden Solutions Inc and Table Rock Forestry Inc.
Following that decision, BLM requested that Border Patrol verify the identities of forty-four crew members. Agents determined that two of them were in the US illegally, with one under a previous order of removal. Both individuals were arrested and transported to the Bellingham Station.
The arrests occurred during an ID check—not in the middle of active firefighting operations. By that point, the BLM had already ended the contracts for those crews, meaning they would have been removed from the operation regardless. The remaining forty-two crew members were dismissed from the site because their contracts had been voided, not because they were detained by Border Patrol.
It’s important to understand that propaganda narratives distort these events. One’s default should be that the mainstream media is lying. From there, determine what the true facts are. Being in the country illegally does not exempt anyone from legal consequences. Draping illegal aliens in heroism doesn’t provide immunity from the rule of law.
But Senator Patty Murray of Washington is pushing the propaganda line with gusto, even drawing parallels to immigrant service members. But if soldiers are in the country unlawfully, why should they be exempt from standard enforcement actions? Call the bluff. Stand for the rule of law. Illegal immigrants have to go.
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