If today’s Congressional Democrats were around on Dec. 7, 1941, I wonder if they would have voted against declaring war on Imperial Japan—the nation that attacked the American Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing 2,403 Americans.

Does that sound like an outrageous question? At first glance, yes, it does. But then I think of how Democrats, in their obsessive and fanatic hatred of Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, are responding to the U.S. military’s obliteration of some 22 narco-terrorist drug boats (and one submarine) in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean since combat operations began in September.

Even though the U.S. has declared drug and human smuggling cartels such as Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel, and MS-13 terrorist organizations, demented Democrats in Congress have asserted that destroying the drug-laden boats and the terrorists piloting them is an illegal use of the American military and must be stopped.

In other words, they think the deaths of some 400,000 Americans during the four years of the Biden administration to the fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine that narco-terrorists are smuggling into our country is less important than preventing the Trump administration’s efforts to interdict the high-speed drug boats that are bringing their deadly cargo to America’s shores.

So unhinged are Democrats by the Trump administration’s successful war on these narco-terrorists that they are now deceitfully referring to the 87 or so drug smugglers killed on the high seas as “fishermen” and “shipwrecked sailors.”

My question is simply this: Why? Why are Democrats more concerned about the well-being of the scumbag gang members and terrorists taken out by U.S. drone strikes than they are about the hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned by these reprobates?

I can’t imagine that these deranged Democrats don’t care about the thousands of Americans who are dying each year from the smuggling activities of the drug cartels.

So, even though these Democrats ostensibly are concerned about the legality of the military strikes on the swarms of drug boats bringing their deadly cargo north to our shores, the honest answer is the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) infecting Democrat brains.

Whatever Donald Trump does, it MUST be opposed or stopped by Democrats. As President Trump has himself said, if he were to discover a cure for cancer, Democrats would demand to know why it took him so long.

If Trump brings the 4-year-long Ukraine-Russia war to a close, Democrats will say he should have stopped it sooner.

If he manages to drop inflation to less than 2 percent, increase job and wage growth, and improve affordability for all Americans, in a prime example of bias by omission, Democrats and their mainstream media collaborators will refuse to recognize any of it.

In other words, Democrats are happy to see the nation fail and hundreds of thousands more Americans perish from poisonous fentanyl, rather than help and support the man in the White House whom they loathe.

We know what Democrats oppose, but what are they for?

How about this list:

• Men playing in women’s sports
• Keeping criminal illegal aliens in our country
• “Gender affirming care,” aka the genital mutilation of children
• Open borders
• The war in Ukraine
• Narco-Terrorists
• Anti-Israel protestors

So far, I haven’t heard any Democrats in Congress say they oppose any of those items.

Instead, Democrat mayors, governors, and members of Congress are telling those who entered our country illegally to resist arrest and detention by ICE, Border Patrol, Homeland Security, and other federal agents. Some are going so far as to encourage violence.

They are comparing federal agents to Nazi Gestapo operatives—an insulting appraisal of the men and women who are doing nothing more than enforcing immigration laws enacted by Congress.

Even worse, they continually refer to those who have invaded the United States unlawfully as “immigrants,” conveniently leaving off the “illegal” appellation.

Americans have traditionally welcomed those who enter our country legally.

In fact, an estimated 40% of Americans today are descended from the 12 million immigrants who passed legally through the Ellis Island federal immigration station during its six decades of operation (1892-1954).

Compare those who legally entered via Ellis Island over a 60-year period with the 10-12 million who surged illegally over Biden’s open borders during his four years in office.

The immigration process at Ellis Island began with a staged screening designed to quickly admit healthy, admissible arrivals and detain or exclude those who failed medical, legal, or financial requirements.

Public Health Service doctors watched each person for signs of illness or disability, used chalk marks on clothing to flag suspected conditions (e.g., eyes, mental state), and sent flagged individuals to secondary medical exams, including the eye test for trachoma.

Immigrants answered distinct questions (name, origin, destination, funds, occupation, and after 1917, literacy) before immigration inspectors verified admissibility under federal laws. Those excluded included those likely to become a public charge, those with certain diseases, anarchists, illiterates, and those subject to national‑origins quotas.

The majority were admitted within hours; others were detained for medical treatment, financial sponsorship, or legal hearings before a Board of Special Inquiry. A small percentage—roughly 2%—were excluded and returned at the steamship line’s expense.

Those admitted could exchange currency, buy train tickets, meet relatives, or receive aid from immigrant aid societies on site before traveling onward in the U.S.

Unlike today, there were few, if any, social or financial safety nets for those legally entering the United States.

Today, those who enter illegally can take advantage of the nation’s welfare system, free health care (in some states), and free housing.

My maternal great-grandparents entered the United States legally through Ellis Island from their native Denmark. They had none of the advantages accorded today to the millions who have illegally invaded America.

I guess they had one advantage. After they arrived in the United States, they didn’t have to worry about being deported for breaking our immigration laws.

Instead, through hard work, they thrived and prospered as successful Kansas farmers.

A far cry from the thousands of Somali miscreants who have stolen billions of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota and millions of other illegal migrants who expect to live and thrive at the public trough.

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