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State Department Designates Mexican Cartels as FTOs

The Trump Administration sees very clearly the true nature of the cartels’ increasing threat to our sovereignty and security. Among his first actions as President, Donald Trump signed an executive order designating Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Shortly after, the White House highlighted the cartel’s collusion with the Mexican Government and stated that “The...

February 13, 2025
Border Security

Securing the border: La Frontera Esta Cerrada

Texas can continue to safeguard its citizens—and its sovereignty, an appeals court has ruled. Last week the great State of Texas secured another victory in court. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas has the right to build its concertina-wire border barrier, and to continue to deter illegal immigration into Texas, without federal agents tampering...

December 3, 2024
Border Security

Fixing The Border Crisis Starts With Identifying Mexican Cartels As Terrorist Organizations

The border crisis is not primarily an immigration problem, it’s a cartel problem. The ongoing border crisis has raised an important question among policymakers and average citizens: Are we dealing with an immigration problem or a security problem? Each lens requires a different response. But the fact is, the border crisis is not primarily an...

October 18, 2024
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The Border Crisis is Now an Everytown Crisis

In New York City, police are now targeting the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua. According to the NYPD, the gang is now “actively recruiting gang members in migrant shelters where guns and drugs have been smuggled inside via food cartons.” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell says the border crisis is driving the...

October 2, 2024
Border Security

We Know the Price of Liberty, and We’re Willing to Pay It

I was playing hooky from second grade, home “sick” when it happened. The phone rang and my aunt, who was crying, demanded I put my grandma on the phone. She was bringing me a plate of pancakes when she turned the channel and dropped the plate, her eyes swelling as the glass smashed on the...

September 10, 2024
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These Wins for Texas are Wins for a Secure America

Texas secured three judicial victories in recent days—is this the start of a winning streak for national security? First, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the state’s buoy barrier could remain in the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass. In 2023, the state of Texas installed a 1,000-foot marine buoy...

August 2, 2024
Border Security

Illegal Aliens Breaching Military Bases: A Growing Terrorism Threat

Being born and raised along the Texas-Mexico border, I have firsthand experience of how the border crisis and the threat of domestic terrorism has heightened. After three years and more than 10 million illegal aliens, and after a growing increase in military base breaches, enough is enough. What more is it going to take for...

June 21, 2024
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Biden’s Border Executive Order Is Not Border Security

President Joe Biden is slated to sign an executive order today “to secure the border,” an action which he has failed to do since he came into office. Four years into the worst national security crisis the U.S. has faced since 9/11, the president now hints that he actually can do something to secure the...

June 4, 2024
Border Security

Sanctuary Cities Reveal Their Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy runs deep in D.C., especially when it comes to the border. Today during a Congressional budget hearing, we got to witness yet another example of leftist hypocrisy when Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood of Illinois talked about migrants going to sanctuary cities. Her issue was not the influx of migrants due to our open southern...

April 10, 2024
Border Security

House’s Border Bill is Vastly Superior to Senate’s

By now you’ve probably read about the disastrous Senate bill released in a late Sunday news dump. Unfortunately, while the American people beg the nation’s leaders to take responsibility for border security, the Senate has instead released 370 pages of lawless insanity. What’s even more infuriating after reading this pointless bill is knowing that the...

February 6, 2024
Border Security

Under Biden, We Don’t Know Who’s Coming Into the US

Pierre Lucard Emile, an illegal alien from Haiti, raped and beat a developmentally disabled person in Boston, according to prosecutors. Emile arrived at the port of entry in Brownsville, Texas “where he was deemed inadmissible and issued a notice to appear,” according to ICE. In 2023, Peruvian national Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria was charged with murder after being arrested...

January 29, 2024
Border Security

At the southern U.S. border, there’s less security and more lies

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its October 2023 monthly update and they did so earlier than usual. That is likely because this federal government is trying to take a victory lap, though the numbers prove that a victory is nowhere in sight. Actually, the Biden administration does tell you the truth, but they are...

November 16, 2023
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