If far-left utopian fantasies of open borders were once lusted over, the southern border crisis in Texas has all but obliterated their phantasmic appeal. People do not harmoniously, legally, and peacefully move freely between nations; they do so criminally, shrewdly, and by the millions. If he is victorious in 2024, Trump needs to finish what he started, and this time, rhetoric must meet reality.
When Trump announced the wall as a campaign promise to the New Hampshire primary in 2016, he stated, to a cheering crowd, “We’re going to have strong, incredible borders, and people are going to come into our country, but they’re going to come into our country legally. Were going to build a wall, it’s going to be built. Believe it or not.”
It was a unique proposal, but let’s not forget that he was touted as racist, imbecilic, and naive. It gave the mainstream media yet another reason to demonize Trump too. The global opinion of the wall was not favourable either. A Pew Research Centre poll found that in 18 countries, Trump’s border wall policy was the most disapproving of all his policies.
Do sovereign nations not reserve the right to construct sovereign borders?
To the delight of many, by the end of his first administration, only 54 miles of the wall had been constructed, and we all know what happened next. In a 2020 election result embroiled in controversy, Trump ‘lost’, Biden won, and the new administration ‘opened the gates of hell’ by allowing the southern border to be opened.
Now that what was deemed crazy is sorely needed, the irony of the situation is painfully obvious too. Only in Trump’s absence do we realise that a wall and secure border are necessary. Is it racist now to want to build a wall in the name of protecting national borders? Under President Joe Biden’s open border policies, six million illegal immigrants have been detained at the border since he took office, and two million have been released into the U.S. In the 2023 fiscal year alone, over 2.5 million illegal immigrants enter the southern border illegally.
If re-elected, Trump needs to finish what he started, and if he doesn’t, U.S. sovereignty will crumble.
And the architect of the crisis? The Department of Homeland Security head, “Alejandro Mayorkas,” has been accused of “dereliction of duty,” according to the House Committee on Homeland Security report. Under Mayorkas, almost four million illegal Mexican immigrants have come to the U.S. And many drug cartels, drug traffickers, human traffickers, and terrorist suspects have crossed the border with glee.
The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security offered a scathing indictment of Biden’s catch-and-release policy. Wanting to find alternatives to mandatory detention, the Department of Homeland Security 2021 memo sought to seek ‘alternatives to detention’ so as to not worsen overcrowding in detention centres. Instead of overcrowding detention centres, Biden’s administration thought it would be a wise idea to overcrowd the United States with millions of illegal aliens.
The catch and release policy means that border agents temporarily apprehend illegal border crossers; they are then granted an NTA (Notice to Appear) and then released within the U.S. with a specified court date. The NTA listed an appearance in court and then released the alien. Under this policy, border officers released ‘76% of the 1.3 million illegal crossers’.
But it’s not that simple, thousands of illegal immigrants have entered undocumented, not shown up for court dates, and claimed addresses were false or blank.
The report of the Inspector General stated:
177,000 migrant records were either missing, invalid for delivery, or not legitimate residential locations.
During our audit period, from March 2021 through August 2022, USBP released more than 430,000 migrants using NTAs.
Additionally, 29 percent (32,092 of 111,990) of migrants released using prosecutorial discretion did not report to ICE within 60 days, as required by their release terms.
More than 54,000 people entered in March 2021 through address records in August 2022. 25 of these, 6 percent, or 54,663, were blank. records contained no address, and most records without addresses (more than 54,000) were blank.
An open border has opened Pandora’s box, and only now do Americans realise the need for a secure border and the purpose of a wall. That’s not to say that the wall will solve everything. The problem is already more complex now as criminal networks, drug traffickers, and terror groups have freely entered the U.S., and both law enforcement and the military will be needed to solve this increasingly complex puzzle.
Crime will rise as more illegal immigrants flood the southern border. According to a 2021 Department of Justice report, in 2018, 64% of federal arrests were made on non-U.S. citizens, when they only consisted of 7% of the population at that time. We can only imagine how drastically this figure has increased under Biden.
We do know that 361 terror suspects have been detained while trying to cross the southern border. The question is: how many hundreds or thousands of sex traffickers, human traffickers, drug cartels, fentanyl traffickers, gang members, and other terrorists have crossed the border undocumented as ghosts and disappeared into the dark of the night?
Already, Texas is facing an uphill battle as it deals with the fentanyl epidemic.
There has been a 600% increase in fentanyl deaths in Texas between 2016 and 2022 as the drug continues to be smuggled in through the border.
But disaster presents opportunity. Biden will go down as the most treasonous, corrupt, senile, and incompetent U.S. president that ever was. Trump has the opportunity to finally finish the wall, deport millions of illegal immigrants, and restore American sovereignty at the southern border. He must finish what he started. Finishing the wall will instantly become an important symbol of national territory. If borders symbolise anything, it’s dominion over a territory. The Chinese built the Great Wall of China to keep invaders out. The Roman emperor Hadrian built Hadrian’s wall to keep the barbarians out, and the walls of Constantinople were a fortress that defined the empire from the abyss.
However, it will be no easy task. If re-elected, Trump must also find a solution to the already two million illegal immigrants and either deport them or find a way to process each and every one before deciding what to do. Illegal immigration has tragically become the norm under Biden, and Trump will be tasked with reversing the seemingly irreversible. It’s not as though the two million plus illegal aliens will leave willingly, and Trump must overhaul U.S. border protection and use federal law enforcement to address this effectively. The wall is no longer a preferred option, it’s a necessity, and Trump must see it brought to fruition.
