Blocking For the Home Team 2: Documents the MSM Doesn't Want You To Read

One of the things the Left is particularly adept at is changing the subject, deflecting any serious discussion of the subject at hand — in this case, the very real, post-9/11 national-security dangers of “immigration” across our southern borders — both by demonizing its opponents as “racist” and ignoring the substance of the argument in favor of tear-jerking, or heartwarming (depending on necessity) tales of “just want to work” folks.

And the Right falls for it every time. So fearful are they of being called you-know-what that conservatives reflexively concede the Left’s positions and only then try to argue — at which point, of course, the discussion is already lost. The Left’s trained seals and pet poodles in the media enforce this intellectual conformity by framing the polite boundaries of the discussion and ruling off-limits any outside-the-narrative attempts to actually engage in real debate.

Example A: This report by the House Committee on Homeland Security from 2006, when the Republicans still controlled Congress, “A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat on the Southern Border.” Despite President Obama’s recent assurances that all is well in the lands along the Rio Grande, it’s hard to read this and not weep:

During 2005, Border Patrol apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens; of those 165,000 were from countries other than Mexico. Of the non-Mexican aliens, approximately 650 were from special interest countries.

For further reference, here’s a breakdown from Florence, Ariz., from this past April. In addition to Mexicans, there are folks from Iran, Fiji, Cuba, Bosnia, Iraq, Jordan, Ukraine, Yemen and even Ireland. The moral of the story: why go through the hassle of a visa and airport scrutiny when you can waltz across the porous southern border? And why isn’t the MSM down there every day, reporting on this stealth invasion?