Can Border Security Be Restored?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns illegal immigration. The Biden administration erased the border for all intents and purposes and allowed somewhere between 10 million and 12 million illegal immigrants.

According to Victor Davis Hanson, at least 55 million people living inside the United States were born in a foreign nation – about 16 percent of the people living within the borders of the United States. In addition to the substantial number of foreign-born people living here, there has not been enough “assimilation, integration, [and] civic education.” Hanson then listed several tasks that must be accomplished immediately after Donald Trump is inaugurated. 

·         We need to stop “catch and release.”

·         We need to make entrants, legal entrants, go back to their country if they’re applying for refugee status.

·         We’ve got to finish the walls.

·         Whatever your status is, if you are sending money back to a foreign country from the United States that is singled out as a source of illegal immigration … then the United States government should put a 10% to 20% or 30% tax on all the remittances … around $20 billion.

·         Look at the countries that are the source of illegal immigration in terms of security…. Why would we let them send people here that we have no background checks, have not adjudicated their status? So, we should have a travel ban, an immediate deportation, and immediate consequences for the mother country that knowingly sends these people here.

·         Look at anchor babies. The 14^th Amendment didn’t really ever say … that if you’re born in the United States, then you’re an automatic citizen. It says if you’re born in the United States, and not subject to the laws of another country. All the people coming, in some sense, are subject to the laws of another country.

·         Redefine [citizen status] either through legislation or renewed attempts in the courts.

·         Put a 10-, 20-year ban on people who have been detained here illegally and stop them from applying for a green card or legal readmissions for 20 years.

·         Announce sometime in February: “We want all of you to know, all 12 million who came here during the Biden administration, to take the first iteration of cohort, you have 30 days to go back. If you do not go back to your country, and you are detained, arrested here in the United States, you will be deported, but you will not be given any chance to get a green card for 10 to 20 years,” depending on how the courts or legislation adjudicates it.

·         Look at how we deport people. [For] the first 500,000 who have committed a crime, it will be no problem. There’s unanimous consent, [and] they should be deported immediately.

·         The next iteration, the 1.5 [million], 1.7 million people who have already gone through the system, they’ve been adjudicated, they failed to show up for the court hearings. Or they left detention when they were facing deportation. Those would be the next group that would face deportation.

·         The third group of people… from terrorist countries or terrorist-supporting countries, no one is going to sympathize with their [residence] here.

·         The fourth group is a little trickier, but I think we could pretty easily find hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of able-bodied residents who are on public assistance and who have not been here five years. If you haven’t been here five years, you came during the Biden open-borders era. You were on welfare of some sort, and you’re able to work. You should go back home.

·         That would leave a large group of people who have been here five years. They’ve never committed a crime. They’re not on public assistance. And they want to get a green card, not citizenship, a green card.

Hanson ends with the following: After deporting the worst offenders [10 to 12 million], then we could work “in a bipartisan fashion” to “work out a system for the law-abiding, the productive, and the long-residing American residents and allow them to pay a fine to recapture legality and stay in the United States.”

Even though it will “be a tough road to restore border security,” Hanson believes that with Republicans controlling the White House, the Senate, and the House that it is “absolutely possible” to “quickly” “restore border security.”