At least he doesn’t think the kids should suffer
by digby
Beck the apostate. He just doesn’t hate quite enough for the faithful:
“I’ve never taken a position more deadly to my career than this — and I have never, ever taken a position that is more right than this,” an emotional Beck said Tuesday on his show on TheBlaze TV.
“Everybody is telling me I’m seeing subscriptions down; I’m seeing Mercury One donations down,” he added. “I’m getting violent emails from people who say, you know, I’ve ‘betrayed the Republic.’ Whatever.”
Beck said he planned on going down to McAllen, Texas on July 19 with a tractor-trailer loaded with teddy bears, soccer balls, and hot meals for some 3,000 undocumented immigrants he repeatedly referred to as “illegals.” He said he’d be joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who has argued that President Barack Obama allowed migrants to flood the border in order to increase the share of Democratic voters in future elections.
The conservative commentator also asked viewers to consider donating to Mercury One, his charity, arguing that sending aid to the migrants wasn’t a political move.
“Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire,” Beck said of immigrant families. “And while we continue to put pressure on Washington and change its course of lawlessness, we must also help. It is not either/or. It is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts.”
It’s interesting that despite his clear objection to the policy of allowing these child refugees from Central America seek asylum in the US — he calls them “illegals” — he’s being lambasted for treating them with human kindness of any kind. Even bringing children supplies of food is engendering violent emails. I don’t think you need to know much more than that to understand what’s really driving this insane hysteria from the right.
By the way, we could use the money we currently spend keeping non-violent drug offenders behind bars to take care of these kids. We could divert funds from some useless military hardware. There are lots of places to find the money to take care of child refugees. We just don’t want to.
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