In 1916, after Pancho Villa’s deadly raid on Columbus, New Mexico, President Woodrow Wilson mobilized nearly 110,000 National Guard troops to the southern border. Their mission was clear: repel cross-border incursions, restore order, and secure the American homeland. Four decades later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower faced a different threat—a mass illegal migration crisis, following the...
Producers at CBS, CNN and MSNBC took the time to blur the faces of child rapists, murderers and other violent criminals whose details were posted on signs lining the lawn at the White House last week. But it was a telling win for the Trump administration—because the media’s narrative of “innocent” illegal immigrants being wronged...
For the past four years, as the Biden administration stepped aside while illegal immigrants surged through the U.S. southern border, it was Texas who stood in the gap to defend the nation’s sovereignty. Between 2021 and 2025, Texas taxpayers have paid billions to send Texas National Guard soldiers, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers,...
At a time when the Pentagon is finally waking up to the physical collapse of our armed forces, Texas has a unique opportunity to lead. In a March 12 directive, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sounded the alarm: Military standards have eroded dangerously. “Our adversaries are not growing weaker,” he wrote. “Our tasks are not growing...
In the past few years, the immigration debate has undergone a significant shift in Texas. What was once portrayed as a divisive partisan issue has increasingly become a point of consensus among Texans across the political spectrum. Recent polling from the University of Houston reveals what many of us have long sensed: Texans of all...
The Immigration and Nationality Act contains a powerful border enforcement tool known as the 287g program. It allows ICE “to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight.” Those functions include arresting, detaining, and deporting illegal aliens. Right now, to be...
For too long, Texas has been held hostage to the whims of federal immigration policy. When Washington decides to enforce our laws, Texans breathe easier. When it doesn’t, our communities suffer—bearing the costs of unchecked illegal immigration, cartel violence, and overwhelmed public services. This cycle of vulnerability must end. President Trump’s January 20th executive order...
Trump has taken an accurate measure of the Mexican regime. What remains is to put his vision into action. An extraordinary episode in the two centuries of Mexican-American relations unfolded on Feb. 27, as aircraft of the Mexican state flew northward to various locations across the United States. They carried within them 29 of the most-wanted Mexican-cartel...
Although President Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office brings renewed optimism for border security efforts, Texas legislators should still double down on their efforts in this regard and build upon the momentum from last session’s attempt at implementing a Texas “Engel List” for the sake of our sovereignty and economy. The Northern Triangle Enhanced...
Designating Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations is the first honest step Washington has taken on this issue in decades. On President Donald J. Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order designating human and drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). This week, the other shoe is expected to drop, as the State...
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...
The shock for the informed is not that Trump declared the Mexican state a narco-regime, but that it didn’t happen years ago. “The Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico,” announced the White House last month, buried in the official statement on US tariffs on that country’s goods. The declaration...