It’s simple, and any sane person understands.

A national border is not a line on a map. A border is a door – a door to your nation. Your nation is your home in the broadest sense, especially if you follow the laws of your state and country.

The door to your home, in common sense terms, means that you – the owner whose loved ones and property deserve protection – means that you can determine who or what enters your home.

Suddenly a Venezuelan thug armed with a rifle knocks on your door? And you live in Colorado? Or San Antonio?

ALL RIGHT. The point is obvious. A well protected border – with police, walls, barbed wire, national leaders demanding national policies prohibiting and penalizing illegal entry – these are fundamental elements of national human security and common sense.

Think of it as national security at the security level in the face and you suddenly see the genius of the Second Amendment.

The geniuses who wrote the U.S. Constitution understood defense on its face. In the 21st century, chatterboxes focus on guns. But the Second Amendment is about personal and home defense.

When the thugs knock on the door, come through the door, you can submit or resist. The second amendment says you can resist with weapons.

But common sense says much better if the thugs never entered the United States.

Alas, a lot of thugs entered.

Demon January 5, 2024, annual column on the strategic challenges facing the United States, Challenge No. 6: America’s Southern Front. In 2023, “troubled states” (states immersed in lawless violence that spills over political boundaries or states unable to control their own borders) were challenge number two. America’s southern border crisis has created a hybrid war front: California, Arizona, New Mexico. and Texas are a frontline of hybrid warfare.

Yes. The Southern Front was evident in late 2021, but undeniable in 2023. Here’s why: In fiscal year 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 736 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs in bureaucratic parlance) on lists of terrorist surveillance along the southern and northern borders of the United States. Fact: There have been 1.7 million illegal alien escapes. If two or three out of 1,000 fugitives are KSTs, that’s 3,000 to 5,000 violent enemies infiltrating America’s home front.

Five thousand violent enemies are equivalent to an enemy combat brigade.

Or it could be if a foreign adversary (“adversary” being a bureaucrat and liberal media lingo for enemy) paid and ran them.

Am I drawing a mass terrorist attack on the home front?

Yes.

This is a legitimate national security concern, and most mature American citizens understand it in their gut.

Stopping it requires aggressive deterrence – from smart, courageous leaders.

Why are we facing this threat? In January 2021, Biden reversed dozens of Trump-era executive decisions – and the tsunami began. Biden’s policy reversals have allowed more than 12 million illegal aliens to enter the United States — by some estimates, more than 20 million. The president does not need congressional legislation to defend the border. As commander in chief, he has the executive authority to order strict enforcement of U.S. laws on immigration, anti-smuggling, anti-drugs, terrorism, and more.

A strong national defense requires a strong economy – to finance it. Illegal aliens carry enormous economic costs. They are undermining the social safety net created to help American citizens in need. They also drive down wages. It’s no wonder that America’s blue-collar workers reject the results of the Biden administration’s border policy.

Illegal immigration is criminal immigration.

As of spring 2024, every major U.S. national poll I analyzed ranked border security — that is, lawless insecurity along the southern and northern borders of the continental 48 states — as the top national issue. #1 for American voters. Inflation and economic decline could exceed that figure in October 2024, but polls tell me that Americans have understood that protecting America’s land borders is a critical matter of national defense.

Austin Bay is a syndicated columnist and author.

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