Townhall's loyal readers know that the U.S.-Mexico border has been a full-blown crisis on multiple fronts since President Joe Biden's open-border policies were implemented. It's a border crisis, a public health crisis, a national security crisis, and a humanitarian crisis. For most of Biden's friends in the mainstream media who take their cues from the White House podium, however, it was never that big of a problem. It was "irregular migration" or some other sanitized version of reality. But now, even CNN's reporters have no choice but to share the truth of life along the border for Americans.
Here's what CNN unsurprisingly found when its reporters talked with Americans ignored by the Biden administration:
“This country was built on immigration. I’m fine with that,” [Brian] Silvas said. “But not like this. This is ridiculous.”
Two years ago, Silvas bought 78-acres of land on the Southern California border with Mexico, about 75 miles east of San Diego. His land is marked by hills and large boulders. The border wall ends a few feet into his property, leaving only the rocky desert terrain and a modest razor wire fence as a barrier.
“If I had the money, I would build my own wall right here!” Silvas said.
Instead, he witnesses dozens, if not hundreds, of migrants crossing onto his land each day. An influx he says that has worsened since the expiration in May of Title 42, a pandemic-era public health measure that allowed authorities to turn away migrants at the border.
“Sometimes there are huge groups of men and women, and I don’t want them through here,” Silvas said.
Seems like everyone other than Biden knows the border crisis could be addressed with a wall...
CNN also talked with a couple — both immigrants, one from Mexico, one from what used to be Yugoslavia — who have more than illegal immigrant passers-by:
About five miles east of Silvas’ property, along the same southern border, Jerry and Maria Shuster are experiencing a similar crisis. Except the migrants who cross there are not just passing through their land – they’re also camping out. Tents, discarded clothes and trash are scattered across parts of their 17-acre property. There are several campfires burning at night as the migrants try to keep warm in the near freezing temperatures, as they make their way to various gathering spots along the US side and await officials with the US Customs and Border Protection.
“(My trees) are all gone. They chop them up and put them in the fire,” said Jerry Shuster, who alleges one group of migrants broke a wood fence on his property to fuel their fire.
The Shusters have lived in Jacumba Hot Springs for more than 40 years. Jerry emigrated from the former Yugoslavia. Maria is from Mexico.
“The government should do something (to) stop this illegal immigration,” Maria Shuster said. “Stop it because (the migrants aren’t) helping us; they’re destroying us.”
