Both major political parties have used America’s border as a political football designed to protect the interests of big-monied donors.
The failure to secure our border is intentional, stemming from a deep desire among various industries to attain cheap labor at the expense of U.S. national security, safe communities, American wages, and a sensible immigration system that serves the interests of citizens.
A secure border must be followed by a reformed immigration system that preserves tight labor markets for low-skilled workers and ensures that limited high-skilled visas fill real needs in our economy, not the wants of big tech companies or agricultural conglomerates.
Primer: The Shameful Scandal of Biden’s Missing Illegal Alien Children
The Biden administration’s non-enforcement of the law, gutting of vetting processes, and evisceration of safeguards were all conscious choices that lost track of hundreds of thousands of children, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation, trafficking, and forced labor.
Policy Brief: Nongovernment Organizations’ Complicity in Human Trafficking and the Southern Border Invasion
As this report shows, many NGOs facilitating migration across the southern border, contributing to the abuse of our asylum system, and even incentivizing human trafficking and smuggling by the cartels receive a majority of their funding from the government, with some obtaining well over 90 percent of their annual revenue from U.S. taxpayers.
Primer: U.S. Deportations—Executive Power
The executive branch has been given broad authority to enforce immigration law and conduct mass deportations. These authorities come from historical precedent, the U.S. Constitution, and statutes passed by Congress. The president of the United States can use every mechanism of power available to facilitate the removal of those who are present in the United States illegally.
Primer: Ending Birthright Citizenship Is Imperative for Preserving the United States
Whether birthright citizenship is curbed through executive action, statutory reforms, an additional constitutional change, or some combination thereof, it must be addressed because the current flawed interpretation of the policy undermines both the spirit and purpose of citizenship.