The New York Times and other national media organizations are working overtime to provide crisis management for the massive throngs of illegals and their supporters who have turned major American cities into war zones.
At first the media completely rejected the notion that thousands of people were clashing with police and looting stores. But it’s hard to advance that narrative when reporters in the field are getting hit with rubber bullets and news vans are being smashed the smithereens.
Then, they tried to convince the American people that the protests were small and peaceful. That flew out the window when the mob shut down major roadways and looted a sushi bar.
The media seems befuddled by it all – why are the American people siding with President Trump? Why aren’t the hard-working people of America defending the illegals?
I have a theory about that. It’s all about optics and messaging for the Democrats.
The American people became infuriated when they saw thousands of illegals marching through the streets of Los Angeles waving Mexican flags. That was bad enough.
But when the mob began desecrating the American flag, the American people became enraged. The illegals spit on Old Glory and set it ablaze. This sort of behavior has been happening across the nation. In Seattle the mob chanted, “Death to America” as they burned the red, white and blue.
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There was one particular image that truly defined what has been happened to our country. It shows a masked man on a dirt bike riding circles around a burning car while waving a Mexican flag.
“What is the correct term to describe foreign nationals, waving foreign flags, rioting and obstructing federal law enforcement attempting to expel illegal foreign invaders,” top Trump aide Stephen Miller wrote on X. “Look at all the foreign flags. Los Angeles is occupied territory.”
There’s no doubt that our borders have been breached and our nation has been occupied. That’s been discussed for the past decade on cable television. But Miller points out something that got me in trouble with the leftists back when I was a talking head at Fox News Channel.
I suggested in 2019 that not only had we been invaded, but we had also been occupied.
Most lawmaker estimate that there are 20 million illegals living in America. I contend that number is probably closer to 40 million.
For the sake of the argument, let’s say that 39 million of those illegals came here peacefully – to raise their families and find good jobs. But that still leaves about one million people who are here to cause mayhem – sleeper cells. That’s a lot of very dangerous people who are lurking in our cities waiting to be activated.
Former Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas said on CNN that “California was part of Mexico, all of the Southwest is Mexico.”
Is it possible that Democrats have allowed a standing army of some one million young men to breach out borders for the purpose of taking back territory for Mexico?
And that brings me back to the mob waving Mexican flags in the streets of Los Angeles. The optics have been disastrous. Consider the headlines:
- HuffPost: “There’s Growing Anger Over Mexican Flags Flown at LA Protests.”
- Newsweek: “How Mexican Flag Photos Are a Gift to Donald Trump”
- National Review: “The Mexican Flag is the Confederate Banner of the L.A. Riots”
The New York Times dismissed concerns in a story titled, “Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them.”
But The Times posited that the Mexican flag is a “symbol of defiance against Mr. Trump’s immigration policies or of solidarity with other Mexican Americans.”
“This week, those who kept waving them said that it was important to honor their heritage and not acquiesce to Mr. Trump, even while they recognized the potential political cost,” the newspaper reported. “They said that the flag to them was not un-American, that it represented their Chicano roots rather than a national allegiance.”
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Yet The New York Times had a very different opinion when they reported on an “Appeal to Heaven” flag that was raised outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito.
The newspaper called the Revolutionary War-era flag “provocative.” A banner that was taken into battle to birth our nation is scorned by The Times. Imagine that.
The riots in Los Angeles and Seattle and New York City should serve as a warning and a wakeup call for freedom-loving Americans. We’ve got a big problem.
When millions of Mexican young men waving the red, white and green breach our borders, they’re not coming to feast on the brisket at Buc-ee’s. They’re here to colonize.
Syndicated with permission from ToddStarnes.com – founded by best-selling author and journalist Todd Starnes. Starnes is the recipient of an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and the Associated Press Mark Twain Award for Storytelling.