"Every town is a border town," as Republicans have begun saying to demonstrate the severity of Biden's border crisis.
Even bluer-than-blue Democratic mayors are demanding something be done about the border because they can't handle the sheer number of migrants being sent to the "sanctuary cities," as they proudly used to call themselves.
While we can laugh at them being forced to live up to their own ideal, we cannot forget that real people are suffering as a result of this border crisis, even indirectly.
We saw how James Madison High School in New York City is forcing its students to go digital so the campus can house migrants, and the government all but subsidizes them squatting there or in fancy hotels.
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Veterans Affairs is supposedly being forced to take up work for illegals as well, taking away resources from those who served.
And that's not even taking into consideration the sheer level of crime a wide-open border is enabling, whether it be the cartels making millions of dollars a day trafficking people across the border, the crimes committed by illegals themselves, or the fact that 100,000 Americans are dying from fentanyl every year, which has undoubtedly been enabled by smuggling from Mexico.
Taking all those numbers into consideration, it seems as though no American has been immune from the effects of the border crisis in some way, shape, or form.
I can count myself lucky among those who are outraged by the border crisis, not because of those reasons but because of the sheer injustice of it all.
As you may already know, my wife is Peruvian, and she still currently resides there. She and I are working on getting her back to the United States on a spousal visa so that we can have a life together.
While our research has indicated our case will hopefully take less than a year, one problem we are concerned about is that we met while she was previously visiting the US, and got stuck here when COVID hit in March 2020.
My wife could not secure a repatriation flight back to Peru, and she was forced to overstay her visa until December 2020, when she was able to return to her country. The penalty for overstaying a visa is a three-year restriction from entering the United States, and we waited like law-abiding citizens (aside from a little personal drama).
Meanwhile, an illegal immigrant who was deported four times before was allowed to re-enter and run over a mother and her son while drunk driving. At the same time, Lord knows how many other criminals, terrorists, spies, and other ne'er-do-wells waltz across the border, are given a work permit, and told to show up for a court hearing a few years from now, without any kind of background check or follow-up monitoring.
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How many other people just like my wife are trying to come here the right way, working hard to gather evidence of legitimate relationships, and being forced to wait for months, if not years, and still could potentially be denied the right to enter?
Enough for people in Staten Island to protest in September, a number of whom were legal immigrants.
Like I said, my outrage is not as severe as someone who was victimized by migrant crime or knew someone who was, but when everyone can have a personal reason to be outraged, every town in America really is a border town.
