Another perceived tragedy, another opportunity for the mainstream media to play at gonzo journalism, mostly in an attempt to discredit the current administration.
So it shouldn’t be surprising to find out that the journalists carrying the liberal water have been telling us all about the Maryland father and not about the MS 13 gang member, who coincidently are one and the same.
If you’ve been following the story, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was swept up in an ICE raid, and lawyers and media personnel all claim that he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was not a gang member, was a good man who loved puppies and flowers and was just a good old fashioned family man.
The media’s mischaracterization of the situation, instead of, say, reporting the straight facts, is just one of the many problems with this issue.
I wrote recently about the shift in the never-ending lawfare against President Trump, and this case in particular serves as a less-than-shiny example of that. The original judge in the case, who not only ordered Garcia’s return but ordered two planes of deportees to turn around in mid-flight and come back to the U.S.
This case (as well as others) has wended its way through the courts, and the administration has pretty much been hampered at every turn, even though there are filings that show Garcia is actually a gang member, has ties to human trafficking, but first and foremost had entered the country illegally. In my book, that makes him all the more deserving of being deported, but, as is said in many liberal circles, never let a good tragedy go to waste.
It’s uncertain when the courts and the executive branch will come to terms on this, but it is increasingly sad that the courts are being used as a weapon to enforce policy not necessarily that of the current leadership.
While this is happening, tax dollars are being wasted in the form of protests, but most egregiously by a sitting senator who flew — on the country’s dime — to El Salvador to attempt to negotiate Garcia’s return with the government of El Salvador.
He was refused, and even barred from seeing the president of the country, and was told that even speaking to the now-incarcerated Garcia was problematic since visits are supposed to be scheduled very far in advance. Later, though, he was granted a visit, showing his true allegiance is not to the people who elected him but to his ideology.
To my mind, though, it seems seditious to flout the work of the government for a grandstanding scheme, especially when those same people were uninterested in following the law — leaving the borders of the country wide open without even so much as a revolving door to stem the flow of illegal crossings.
The cost to the country in just this fight alone will probably be immeasurable in dollars, in trust, and especially in our spirit.
Doing the right thing, while seemingly subjective, is a simple matter for people: follow the law, find common ground, and protect your people and your sovereignty. Remember also that if change is necessary, as Joe Pesci said in “Harvard Man,” remember that the Founding Fathers may have been pompous, but they realized they didn’t know everything and left the mechanisms for change.
Tony Farkas is editor of the Trinity County News-Standard and the San Jacinto News-Times. He can be reached at tony@polkcountypublishing.com.
