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Biden’s Border Crisis: The Ice Cream Truck in the Minefield
Congressman Mike Garcia | Posted: Jun 07, 2021 12:16 PM
Our current border policy under President Biden is akin to parking an ice cream truck in the middle of a minefield. We are literally enticing, if not begging, unaccompanied kids to put their lives on the line to come to the United States.
Recently, I took my second trip to the US-Mexico border, this time to El Paso, Texas, where the situation is dire. It was heartbreaking to see firsthand. And it’s getting worse. Calling it a “crisis” isn’t sufficient. And it’s certainly no ice cream truck.
But today, at our southern border, kids are walking through the minefield, traversing thousands of miles through the scorching desert, surviving cartels, rape, molestation and being dropped off of 20-foot walls in hopes of that “free candy.”
When they arrive, there is no treat waiting for them. Instead, the U.S. acts as a cardboard cutout of an ice cream truck with a music box. The Statue of Liberty, a mere mirage, now weeps over the horizon. The kids have been trafficked.
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