If hundreds of thousands of illegals are still pouring across the former U.S.-Mexican frontier, but the media no longer covers it, are they here at all?:
But after a brief lull, the surge of undocumented families passing through a temporary shelter set up by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley seems to be rising again. The spotlight may have turned away, but if the sense of crisis is gone, the people have not stopped coming.
“The numbers increased a lot this past month, almost to 100 every day [last week],” said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. “We have seen some that have already been caught and tried again. They have hope that they have a chance at a better life here.” [emphasis added]
Now what could have happened within the past month to encourage even more enormous influxes of illegals? Hmmmmm....
After Christmas, she said, the charity will begin searching for a facility to turn what began as a temporary shelter into a permanent offering.
Ominously metaphorical, that.
Pimentel oversees the volunteer effort providing short-term shelter to some of the thousands of women and children who have trekked to Texas from Central America. About 52,300 families surrendered to the U.S. Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley during the 2014 fiscal year, an increase of more than 500% over 2013. About 50,000 unaccompanied children were caught or surrendered to border agents in the Valley in fiscal year 2014.
I'm reminded of a particular Calvin & Hobbes cartoon, Calvin and his dad are driving somewhere and they go over a bridge. Calvin asks his dad how they know how much weight the bridge can withstand. His dad replies, "They drive bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it collapses; then they weight the last truck and rebuild the bridge,"
The difference is, once America collapses, there'll be nobody either willing or able to rebuild it.
But we know who will still be ruling it, don't we....?
....and why.
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