Crossing the border illegally is a crime; it can be prosecuted as a felony.
A nation without borders cannot claim to be a country, for if there is no boundary or dividing line that separates a People from the rest of the world, the country and its exclusive claim to particular rights and privileges loses all its meaning.
When Leftist agitators, aided and abetted by their Democratic Party leaders, scream “no person is illegal,” they are engaging in one of the most destructive, anti-civilizational and Marxist chants imaginable.
To deny borders is to deny citizenship, which in turns means a denial of the constitutional order and a denial of the United States of America.
The Constitution begins with its famous preamble, “We the People,” not “Citizens of the World.” Implicit in every attack on border security measures is an attack on the constitutional liberties we all should hold dear.
In Minneapolis, we have observed a breakdown of civilization in real-time. We have also observed what happens to a society when the anti-civilization forces that would bring it to heel are allowed to run rampant throughout a city.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey embodied these tendencies on overdrive.
Neither one cares about the country because they have unleashed chaos on a nationwide law enforcement operation intended to restore the rule of law, beginning with the reestablishment of the basic principle of citizenship.
Immigration control is a two-part exercise. The first part requires securing the border from outside invaders, which the Trump administration has done with resounding success over the past year. This is no small achievement.
It is made all the more remarkable by the fact that over the preceding four-year time period, upwards of 20 million illegal aliens, from origins all over the world, flooded into the country with near impunity.
The border was so porous that caravans of illegal aliens, including a sizable number of human traffickers, drug cartels, terrorists, and repeat felony offenders, were able to penetrate the American homeland, and do so without worry that they would be tracked down, charged, and prosecuted by the justice system.
This was because the Biden regime established a de facto lawless or anarchic state of affairs; criminals, and particularly illegal aliens, were given blanket immunity because of the near-term political advantages such a policy gave them.
Aside from dead voters, illegal aliens and their kin represented a constituency that topped the list for reliable Democratic voters. But more fundamentally, the idea of citizenship was a moral affront to the Democratic sensibility.
Citizenship implies nations, which in turn implies borders. The concept of borders, of course, became anathema to liberals at some point over the last ten or fifteen years or so, finally rising to become the default position of the mainstream Democratic Party in the Biden era.
It is this borderless ethos, paired with a lionization of the criminal, that continues to drive the ideologies and, derivative of that, political decisions of Tim Walz and Jacob Frey. It explains each of their respective actions in Minneapolis.
They have agitated a standoff with ICE and Border Patrol agents because they view these agencies as the enemy.
This subversive worldview has been supported by Democrats in Congress, like Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, who are now threatening to withhold DHS (ICE) appropriations in the upcoming spending bill as long as the border security agencies continue to function in their current forms. The question few have asked is: what is the alternative?
Under the Department of Homeland Security, there are three separate agencies dedicated to mass deportations and border security: ICE, Border Patrol, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigrant Services.
The fact that three such agencies exist, more or less committed to the same assignment, speaks to the importance of border security operations for America’s overall national security.
It also, more broadly, speaks to a deeper commitment to the philosophy of citizenship, and the attendant requirement of strong borders in order to fully confer to Americans the fruits of their civilizational birthright.
For Democrats, however, all these things are immoral. They would prefer ICE be abolish, DHS be defunded, and Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller be impeached.
But America can only remain a special place in the larger world if it has a benchmark by which to distinguish itself from the rest of the world.
That benchmark then requires borders, and the policies of border control enforcement that makes nationhood persist.
Deportations may be an ugly policy for television, but it is an absolutely essential prerequisite for the preservation of civic identity.
Sometimes – more often than not – the more uncontroversial policies are the essential policies that keep a nation safeguarded, its freedoms preserved, and justice intact.
ICE and CBP may be the names of the operations, but what they represent are necessary measures that all proper nations have in order to keep the very notion of sovereignty alive.
If a nation forgets what those harsher truths entail from a policy perspective, as we have most recently observed under Biden, an administration that systematically neutered DHS deportation operations, the outcome is disastrous.
Disaster will always be the end result of such policies. Let us, as a conservative movement, not repeat those same mistakes, and continue to support ICE and CBP until the 20 million illegal aliens, who broke the law to enter the United States, are returned to their native lands – never to be seen or heard from again.
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