Congressmen, Others, Set for Eagle Pass Visit
And a correction
Good morning, friends,
We need to start off with a correction— we had our days a little mixed up yesterday morning, when we were mentioning a major event scheduled for later that day in Eagle Pass.
Obviously, it’s actually happening today, Wednesday.
Don’t have a real excuse for the error, but we’ll blame New Year’s Eve, or something, and move on quickly.
Haven’t seen a guest list, but it looks like the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and roughly 60 other dignitaries— mostly Congressional Republicans— will be dropping in to Eagle Pass to see things for themselves.
Sadly, it looks like it’s already being set up to be cast as a political event.
Isn’t that weird? Someone’s made all the migrants disappear and stopped any new ones from showing up!
What on earth??
It’s so strange!
Longtime readers can probably detect our snarkiness and sarcasm here, because this sort of thing has been happening repeatedly for the duration of the crisis these last three years.
Every time Mayorkas or some other dignitary schedules a visit to any particular border crossing, authorities on both sides of the river somehow do whatever they need to do to clear the migrants out before the bosses show up.
AP Reporter Valerie Gonzalez, one of those from the RGV who we happen to think highly of, is one of the first we know of who covered an element of the process— reporting on Mexican military and law-enforcement sweeps through migrant camps in Reynosa and other locations, confiscating whatever necessaries they could to “encourage” migrants to abandon the camps and move on elsewhere.
It was very effective reporting and may have predated the creation of the Dispatch by several weeks or months. If not this particular story we linked to, then others predating it.
At the time, she was writing for the local daily in the RGV and has since gone on to work for the AP— a big promotion, any way you cut it.
We’ve heard from multiple US Border Patrol Agents who’ve conversed with their opposite numbers across the river who’ve also confirmed similar activities that have gone underreported elsewhere.
In this sense— far left and far right border hawks and activists can find common grounds for agreement— in a way, this is the fakest, most ridiculous, most manipulated border crisis ever. There are obviously major differences in how to resolve it, and any compromise is probably just going to upset both parties, but hopefully lawmakers will come away from their visit to Eagle Pass with renewed resolve to continue holding White House funding priorities hostage in exchange for something meaningful on the border. As fake as many aspects of the crisis seem— there’s nothing fake about the numbers of people coming here from all over the world— numbers that are only bound to increase with recent announcements that certain Central American governments will no longer require visas for certain nations, so long as travelers intend to travel right on through to Mexico, and presumably on to the US from there.
If we sound sort of doubtful, or skeptical about this upcoming event in Eagle Pass, it’s probably because a major part of us is. We’ve been reminded several times recently, that we just might be the biggest sucker and chump on the border— constantly falling for various lawmakers’ attempts at talking the talk, and then left confounded as they fail to even try walking the walk.
Governor Abbott gets plenty of criticism from people we respect, but at the end of the day, Gregg Abbott’s never toyed with our emotions the way some of these others have.
He’s been relatively honest about his goals and his aims, compared to some of these other jokers.
It may say more about us and the covert contracts we are laying on some of these tough-talking legislative hombres than it does anything else, but so be it.
That’s all for now— short and sweet.
As always, no one should mistake this newsletter for any kind of an official communication on behalf of Kinney County, even though we are employed there. It is produced without oversight, and any errors or other misdeeds are entirely our own.
Have a great morning and we’ll be back again tomorrow with our take on whatever happens in Eagle Pass.
Funny how mayors, governors and the Fed can make people disappear overnight. Must be magic.