There is No Better Use for Our Military than Guarding Our Own Border

This is akin to a “Gaza moment” for our border. Thankfully, with Operation Faithful Patriot and the deployment of 5,200 troops, the president appears to be taking it as seriously as the Israelis take their border.

Evidently, our political class believes that the U.S. military was created solely for urban renewal and social work projects in Kabul, Baghdad, Raqqa, and Mogadishu, but not for the purpose of protecting our border. In fact, that is almost the only role of our military that our Founders envisioned. It is the one military deployment that the president can order unilaterally without a congressional declaration of war, because it is purely defensive. The president is right to deploy soldiers, because the time has come to treat our own border with as much respect and care as we would other countries’ borders.

Yesterday, President Trump announced before the world that we are indeed a sovereign nation and will finally treat our border – the national private property of all the citizenry – with the respect it deserves. There are already several thousand troops down at the border, and he intends to increase the numbers. It’s about time. We don’t want to spend $700 billion per year on the military so that it can referee Islamic tribal wars or nation-build overseas. Our first priority needs to be our own border.

What about the Border Patrol, you might ask?

How open-border policies creating caravans endanger our national security

Here’s the reality. If one believes we need to deploy our military around the world, then our need for them on our border is that much greater. Some 72,000 people died here last year from drugs, most of them due to heroin, cocaine, and meth laced with fentanyl brought in by the drug cartels. How is it brought in? Through military-style operations of the cartels, which strategically throw the bogus asylum seekers into the arms of the border agents and then send in the drugs, gangs, and special interest aliens through the gaps created by the diversion.

Brandon Judd, president of the Border Patrol Council, active-duty agent, and former instructor at the Border Patrol Academy, explained it to me as follows:

In the past, criminal cartels have exploited the caravans by forcing individuals in the caravans to cross the border illegally, thereby forcing the Border Patrol to use resources to take the individuals into custody. This depletes our resources because it takes agents out of the field for processing. Taking agents out of the field creates artificial gaps in our coverage and allows cartels to smuggle [in] their higher-value contraband, such as opioids and criminal aliens or persons from special-interest countries, through the gaps.

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