Children play in the makeshift shelter camps for Central American migrants while awaiting the US authorities to allow them to enter to begin their process of asylum into the country, on March 26, 2021 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo by Francisco Vega/Getty Images)
I typically don’t answer phone calls from unrecognized numbers and thought twice one night last week when a local, but unidentified number, popped up — until I noted it was tagged, ‘robocall.’
In an election cycle, you can’t be sure which politicians are calling, so I picked up to hear Tennessee’s senior senator in a cheerful recording: “Hey there! This is Sen. Marsha Blackburn. Today, I’m hosting a live telephone town hall . . . we’re going to talk about the crisis at the southern border, rising inflation and threats we face from America’s adversaries.”
Did I want to click one to participate? Oh, you bet I did.
The majority of the callers wanted to ask questions about security at the U.S.-Mexico border; they weren’t what I would have asked, but there’s no shame in asking.