WHERE DO CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY STAND?

       A few months ago, we posed a question to Christian Conservatives which got no answers other than from one who agreed with the point we were making. The article then concerned the policy of some State Governors---most notably Texas Governor Greg Abbott---of loading legal immigrants onto chartered buses, deporting them hundreds or thousands of miles with no provisions, and then dumping them with no notice onto other cities' streets. It seems too that these cities are being chosen specifically for the problems that a sudden influx of refugees would cause; for example New York---which has a shortage of available shelter-space; or Martha's Vineyard, which is a small town of about 15,000 people. 

    The case we cited then was about immigrants being dumped in Philadelphia. With no provisions and no notice for the City to prepare, dozens of people who spoke little to no English were left in the November Winter weather in a high-crime area at 6 AM---three hours before government offices typically even open--- two days before Thanksgiving. Since then, Abbott has managed to exceed even this brutality by dumping hundreds in the sub-freezing snow of Denver; and even on Kamala Harris' front lawn on Christmas. Earlier this month, a toddler died of unknown causes on a bus en route to Chicago. 

    However, Abbott's managed to crown all of his crimes by busing people to Los Angeles. He's up to ten busloads now, but the last two deserve especial mention. The ninth shipment of human cargo was timed to arrive as the well-publicized hurricane struck the city with high winds, flooding, and heavy rains. As the City--- which like New York has a severe housing shortage---began to clean up, a tenth bus arrived with 39 refugees, 21 of whom were children. 

   Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said: “It is evil to endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants by sending a bus with families and toddlers on board to a city that at the time was under an unprecedented tropical storm warning, As I stood with state and local leaders warning Angelenos to stay safe and brace themselves for the worst of the coming storm, the Governor of Texas sent families and toddlers straight for us on a path through extreme weather conditions. If anybody understands the danger of hurricanes and thunderstorms, it’s the Governor of Texas – who has to deal with this threat on an annual basis. This is a despicable act beyond politics."

    So, I think that it's not out of place to ask again: would any Conservative who prates ad nauseum about Christian values care to defend Abbott's treatment of these migrants (most of whom BTW came from predominately Christian nations themselves) on anything like Christian grounds? 

     From a political standpoint, if what Abbott is doing was being done in any other country than the exceptional United States, it would be called what it actually is: Ethnic Cleansing. Abbott's bosses in the Bush Machine exempted US officials (for obvious reasons) from being indicted for crimes like that internationally, though they freely employ it against other world leaders on the flimsiest of pretexts. However, this doesn't preclude Congress from convening a Tribunal; and here we have a far more egregious abuse of power and blatant disregard for human rights than the ridiculous 'Jan 6th Insurrection' farce. 

    The leadership of the Republican Party needs to deal with this. They either need to come up with a moral justification for it, or bring Abbott and his cohorts before a Senate Tribunal on charges of Crimes Against Humanity. They can't have it both ways. It's likely that they'll do nothing, though, as their disregard for human life seems to extend to even so-called 'Moderates.' 

   Of course, I think that we all realize by now that the Republican Party is simply Controlled Opposition---which is probably the reason why the Democrats likewise have taken no action to stop these deportations and likely won't. They cynically understand that the more that so-called 'Conservatives' behave like Nazi barbarians, the better the Left looks to its constituents. Immigrants are much like the native-born in this respect: both groups are simply considered expendable pawns by the so-called 'Elite'; useful tools to be pitted against one another for purposes of political theater.