By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — A video showing Joe Biden walking to the stage at the Air Force Academy before he tumbled there on June 1 is a reminder of the powerful cocoon surrounding Biden and probably reinforcing his notions of his invincibility, despite his weaknesses visible to all.
Biden walked along a line of cadets at attention saluting him as the presidential hymn Hail to the Chief played for the graduation crowd in Colorado. It was another day’s repetition of the public glory for himself that he had dreamed of attaining for decades, by whatever means possible.
And think of the intricate network of planners and facilitators buzzing daily to enable Biden to go wherever and do whatever he wants — even while he exposes his frailties and often retreats to the privacy of his Delaware mansions where he can receive whatever medical help needed to keep him at least semi-active despite his frequent naps at the White House.
The public honor and networking for a president go along with being commander-in-chief. However, that amounts to stolen valor when the bad Catholic occupant of that office clearly is neither physically, mentally, nor morally competent. Rather than kowtow to him, the Secret Service and military on hand should help usher Biden into forced retirement — for everyone’s safety.
Just a few days after the Air Force Academy, two presidential candidates, one Democrat and one Republican, made separate trips to Arizona, the border state just southwest of Colorado, that Biden trembles against visiting if it were to expose his intentional criminal neglect of national security and sovereignty.
He threw open the border for whatever globalist expansionism and unfair voting advantages he thought he could get from funneling in those unauthorized to be here.
The two presidential candidates visited opposite sides of southern Arizona to lament some serious consequences virtually unnoted in national coverage. Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Yuma, in the southwestern corner of the Grand Canyon State, while Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis went to Sierra Vista, in southeastern Arizona’s Cochise County.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates, announced he wouldn’t run for another term. Gates had helped supervise last November’s general election where populous Phoenix is the county seat, surrounded by its populous suburbs, and determined statewide outcomes.
In that election, some open-borders Democrats were said to have defeated border-protecting Republicans.
Gates quickly had denounced as “a catastrophe” these GOP major statewide candidates who won their primaries last August and had been endorsed by Donald Trump. They supposedly were defeated in the general election, including Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, who was said to have lost to left-wing, open-borders Democrat Katie Hobbs. Hobbs mirrors Biden’s damaging policies.
Early on August 5, 2022, KTAR Radio (92.3 FM) posted its story headlined, “GOP Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates: Party may need to lose to ‘find itself again’.”
The KTAR story said, in part: “Gates told Politico on Wednesday [August 3] the election was a ‘catastrophe for the Arizona Republican Party’ and democracy itself as candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who continue to push his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, led or won in all primary races.”
KTAR added Gates saying: “These folks continue to push this story and that is corrosive to our democracy. There’s no basis for it. And what it is doing is sewing [sic] doubt in our democracy.”
The radio story reported Gates’ lament to Politico that “he doesn’t think Democrats are strong enough to cause a ‘humiliation at the ballot box’ for the Republican Party.”
When Gates announced he wouldn’t run for the supervisor seat again, KTAR posted on June 1 that he “said he plans ‘to pursue other interests and opportunities. . . . As this chapter comes to an end, I rest well knowing that I led with integrity, compassion, and dignity’.”
In showing concern over border chaos, Kennedy isn’t a conservative but a reminder of what a liberal Democrat stood for not so long ago, before his party’s far-left activists dragged it virtually off the face of the Earth. He was an environmental lawyer who strongly broke from the conventional wisdom that vaccine mandates and compulsion were required to oppose the COVID virus.
In a video in early June in Yuma that Kennedy said was made about 2 a.m., he speaks in front of an incomplete wall under a black sky with a line of border-crossers moving along behind him who, he said, were from Africa, Peru, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, India, China, Tibet, and Nepal.
Their origins indicate that indeed Biden has made the U.S. the doormat for every unauthorized person around the globe who manages to get here.
In a June 6 tweet, Kennedy said, “You have to see it with your own eyes.”
Right there in Yuma, Kennedy said, people from 117 nations crossed in the last couple of years. And a total of seven million illegally into the U.S. in three years. His description showed that Biden uses the Border Patrol as a processing agent just to get the crossers distributed around the U.S. and then be forgotten.
He said they’re put on buses to a station where the Border Patrol processes them and, after four or five days, releases them on their own recognizance into the U.S. “and most of them are never seen or heard from again.”
Kennedy said they tell stories “that are absolutely heartbreaking. This is a humanitarian crisis, because of the understanding across the globe that we now have an open border here. There are people being drawn here. They’re being abused,” he said, and have “horrific, terrible, terrible stories. And this is not a good thing for our country. It’s not a good thing for these people. It is unsustainable.”
One of the first actions of Arizona’s new open-borders governor, Democrat Hobbs, was to order the removal of large metal shipping containers in the Yuma area that her term-limited predecessor, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, had installed to fill some gaps in the border wall.
The Washington Examiner said in a June 7 report that in an interview, Kennedy said “he was seriously concerned with the impact the constant influx of illegal immigrants has had on farmers in the region. The Yuma area supplies 90 percent of all green leafy vegetables in the U.S. between November and April, but its supply could be compromised because of the foot traffic through fields and irrigation systems.
“In addition, Kennedy said some people have urinated and defecated in the canals, which had a negative impact on the agricultural community,” the Examiner reported. “‘Last year, one of their neighbors had to plow under 88 acres of broccoli and personally absorb the $10K per-acre cost after migrants tainted irrigation water,’ Kennedy said in an interview published by the Daily Mail,” a major London-based newspaper.
The Daily Mail quoted Kennedy: “Yuma County provides 90 percent of the green leafy vegetables, like iceberg lettuce, arugula, spinach and broccoli, to American tables between November and April. The tsunami of migrants walking across farm fields and defecating in irrigation canals threatens the safety of that food supply.”
The London newspaper, which noted that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris avoid the border, published a photo of Kennedy with Yuma County’s Republican sheriff, Leon Wilmot, and a photo of Kennedy with some local farmers.
A June 7 report at the NewsNation site said Kennedy said he talked to a local hospital administrator whose facility spent $23 million last year that was unreimbursed for immigrant treatment.
The NewsNation report also said Kennedy cited cartel gangs as getting rich off the border. It said, “Kennedy said the problems at the border could have been prevented, as infrastructure meant to keep people from crossing the border was destroyed. ‘At that point, it became a business proposition for the cartels,’ Kennedy said. ‘It’s become a multibillion-dollar business every month, smuggling people across’.”
Those without resources after their long trips and expensive bribes they may have paid will often turn to tax-paid assistance. And, in gratitude for the Democrat president who waved them in, may ask how they can sign up to boost the continuation of his open-borders rulership.
A separate June 7 story by Washington Examiner border-beat journalist Anna Giaritelli reported that Florida’s DeSantis “visited Arizona and touted a new multistate initiative for Florida law enforcement to train police and sheriff’s departments in how to combat human smuggling and drug trafficking. . . .
“‘Over the last few years, we’ve all become border sheriffs,’ said Sheriff Corey Helton of Lea County, N.M, who attended the meeting with DeSantis. ‘To have you on board, I greatly appreciate it’,” the Examiner reported, adding a comment by another sheriff who joined DeSantis in southeastern Arizona:
“‘In Florida, we could sit back and say, “Well, we’ll fight this in our back yard.” But instead we say, “Let’s fight it on the front. Let’s join together, let’s be united”,’ added Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard County, Fla. ‘Gov. DeSantis asked us to put our resources in, to put our money where our mouth is. He’s done that’.”
Tucson television station Channel 9, KGUN, reported that DeSantis visited Cochise College’s Sierra Vista campus for a roundtable on border security with law-enforcement officials who also included Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, Cochise County Republican Sheriff Mark Dannels, and Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Fla.
An Associated Press story posted June 7 said “DeSantis pledged to crack down on ‘bogus asylum claims’ from people who want to move to the U.S. for economic reasons. He said he is ‘sympathetic’ to people legitimately facing political persecution, but the U.S. could deny asylum claims from people who traveled through other safe countries to get here.”
Tucson is about 75 miles by car northwest of Sierra Vista. The famous Arizona gunfight town of Tombstone is about 19 miles northeast of Sierra Vista.
A news release from DeSantis’ office quoted Florida Attorney General Moody: “Florida is leading the charge to stop the chaos at the southwest border and force Biden to follow public-safety immigration laws.
“We continue to beat Biden in federal court over his unlawful mass-release policies, our law-enforcement officers are helping their brethren in law enforcement fight the proliferation in crime caused by the broken border, and our great governor is strengthening state laws to further protect Florida from the public-safety threats and financial strain caused by the unprecedented illegal immigration that the federal government is facilitating,” Moody said.
The news release also quoted Florida Sheriff Judd: “I can’t imagine what the people who live on the border are going through, because I do know what’s going on through the rest of the country while our president and the administration stands silent and allows the people of this country to be victimized. That is simply unacceptable.
“When people are safe and they feel safe, they thrive,” Judd said. “And our great state does tremendous. But we need to do that across the United States of America,” Judd said.
Arizona Democratic Cong. Raul Grijalva, a left-wing radical, tweeted, “@GovRonDeSantis is taking a break from fighting with Mickey [Mouse], banning books, and demonizing LGBTQ kids to pander to the same old race-baiting, anti-immigrant, extremist politicians and officials in southern Arizona. DeSantis’ hate and fearmongering aren’t welcome here.”
A Contrast To Trump
Columnist Betsy McCaughey, a former Republican lieutenant governor of New York, posted at the New York Post on June 6 about vicious young gangsters who march north unvetted across Biden’s open border. It was headlined, “Killer MS-13 gangsters are being bused into our communities as ‘minors’.”
McCaughey mentioned a few of their murder victims, including Kayla Hamilton, 20, who “was raped, stabbed, and bludgeoned to death in July 2022. Maryland police arrested a 16-year-old MS-13 member. He had entered the United States three months earlier as an unaccompanied minor and been given a Biden-style warm welcome.
“Had Border Patrol vetted him, it would have learned he’d been arrested in El Salvador for ‘illicit association’ with MS-13,” McCaughey wrote.
She contrasted Biden’s weakness with the border policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and cited a Trump State of the Union speech denouncing MS-13 who “slaughtered two girls” from a Suffolk County, N.Y., high school.
“One week ago,” McCaughey added, “an MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty in Suffolk County to luring an 18-year-old to a baseball field where he and other gang members beat the kid to death with a baseball bat and chopped him to bits with a machete.”
She wrote: “Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who served under President Donald Trump and then Biden until August 2021, testified [to Congress] that the Biden administration is ‘laser-focused on expediting the processing and flow of migrants into the U.S.’ and ‘refused to accept the significant vulnerability this creates’.”
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