The Biden tent community
Every president has a legacy for better or worse. It may be that President Biden’s is being erected right now with tent poles across the country. Little encampments built for illegal immigrants pouring across the southern border are popping up like weeds through the sidewalk. We should name them what they really are, Bidenvilles.
Tent cities are opening across New York, a new feature in our urban landscape, but not one without historical precedent.
In the 1930s, as the Great Depression sank Americans' bank accounts and spirits, shanty towns were assembled far and wide to accommodate the victims of the economic disaster. And the people of that time had the good sense to put the blame right where it belonged, on their government, specifically former President Herbert Hoover.
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Hoovervilles became a symbol not just of government failure, but of popular resistance to an incompetent, elite class that crashed the markets and all-but destroyed the country. Sound familiar?
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The president can’t even be bothered to visit the southern border, nor can his appointed border czar, Vice President Kamala Harris. They’ve ignored it for almost two years, but when a mere busload of migrants arrived in Martha’s Vineyard, it was suddenly a national emergency. Of course, the heroic citizens of the Vineyard didn’t actually house the migrants, they evicted them to an army base as soon as possible.
The migrants are coming north now, sometimes by secretive federal flights, sometimes by frustrated border governors and sometimes by their own devices. Now, sanctuary cities like New York have an obligation to house them; in many cases, Bidenvilles are the only and best option.
Even Democrats like New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul have criticized Biden’s inaction. But you do have to wonder what they thought being a sanctuary city actually meant if not housing migrants. It's like inviting people to a long-distance wedding under the assumption they can’t come, and you just get gifts in the mail. Except they are coming. A lot of them. So where do we put them?
Bidenvilles.
There didn’t have to be Bidenvilles. For four years the Trump administration brought to bear policies like "remain in Mexico" and barrier construction and was stemming the tide. Most importantly these measures sent a message that you can’t just mosey on into America, you might not get in. The Biden administration, despite its occasional whispering that migrants shouldn’t come, shows by its actions and inactions a huge open door.
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Biden's border policies are a disgrace and worthy of his impeachment. We will need a red wave election to make that happen.
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