“Border security is national security—there is no difference—and the crisis on our southwest border puts our national security at risk,” said former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost.
There is a saying in Washington, D.C., about lobbying, and it goes like this: Sometimes the best action is no action. That statement means a few different things, but the most pertinent message in that statement is about lobbying—lobbying to prevent action from being taken.
The crisis at our southern border is a destructive and debilitating crisis that has developed into a nightmare. This nightmare has occurred from a lack of action. The wrong people have been put in the wrong job, and U.S. border states, as well as numerous cities, have been left to deal with the crisis.
The only concrete decision we’ve seen from the Biden administration recently has been a lawsuit against the State of Texas, claiming marine barriers placed in the Rio Grande River to prevent illegal river crossings are deterrents that prevent river navigation.
The Department of Justice has also sued SpaceX because they “hired only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents from Sept. 2018 to Sept. 2020.”
It is clear to see, then, that those at the very top are choosing to allow chaos to continue.
For years and years, border crossings have surged—there were nearly 2.4 million encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022—and some estimates peg the total number of illegal migrants that have come into America during the Biden administration at 5.5 million.
Similar to the homeless industry in America, in the sense that the problem never seems to be addressed, while attracting more and more funding each year, there are a lot of businesses that make money off the border crisis. Nongovernmental organizations and immigration nonprofits, some of which receive funding from the U.S. government, lobby to keep the borders open in the name of human rights, simultaneously ensuring that the money continues to come in.
In other words, some nonprofit executives make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while chipping away at our nation’s very foundation.
The vast majority of migrants over the past three years have come from Central America and South America. They line up to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to smugglers, and entire families often undertake the dangerous voyage to America.
These smugglers are called “coyotes” and the concept of a coyote is over 100 years old.
The U.S Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924 created a surge in illegal migration, largely to avoid literacy tests and medical exams. Thousands of Mexican migrants crossed the Rio Bravo illegally to enter America with the help of coyotes.
This cottage industry was even reported to Congress as “illegal introduction into the United States of Mexican aliens on a wholesale scale by means of organized efforts.”
In fact, during the 1920s, Ciudad Juarez was a known hub for coyotes. It still is to this day.
This is a billion-dollar business, and the economics are so significant that revenues are sloshing over to American households, some who take side jobs as lookouts, tipping off coyotes, and helping with logistics.
I would like to believe everyone coming to America is doing so because they love America and they want a chance to build a better life. Truth is, that’s nearly impossible to quantify when we have open borders.
A recent story in the New York Post reported: “The FBI is scrambling to find more than a dozen Uzbek nationals in the U.S. after intelligence officers discovered they traveled to the southern border with the help of a smuggler who has ties to ISIS.”
This sort of scenario happens all the time; we just fail to hear about it.
