Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
America used to regard its southern border as sacrosanct and vulnerable, requiring constant vigilance and occasional action to secure. And how is President Joe Biden handling his sworn presidential duty to defend the states of the Union from invasion?
Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal government to the state governments that were being asked to surrender aspects of their sovereignty to form our new Union.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” reads Article IV, “and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”
Late in the War of 1812, U.S. forces held Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor through a nightlong attack but failed to stop an invading British army at Bladensburg, which marched on to Washington and burned the Capitol and White House.
To repel a British invasion and the capture of New Orleans, and a blockading of the Mississippi, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson mustered a defending army that almost annihilated the invading British force.
Half a decade later, President James Monroe sent Jackson to halt the raids of marauding Indians out of Spanish Florida into Georgia.
Jackson stormed into Florida, crushed the Indian tribes, sent the Spanish governor packing to Cuba and hanged two British subjects for collaborating with the enemy.
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams persuaded the Spanish to cede the “derelict province” they could not control — or Jackson might return, and we might just take it.
Madrid got the message. We got Florida.
When Pancho Villa sent a raiding party across the U.S. border in 1916 and killed Americans in Columbus, New Mexico, President Woodrow Wilson sent Gen. John Pershing and an army that grew to 12,000 into Mexico to run him down.
In 1954, after a million Mexicans had crossed over into the United States, President Dwight Eisenhower sent Gen. Joseph Swing to send them back. In the vernacular of the time, the mission was named Operation Wetback.
Mission accomplished. Problem solved. And the point:
America used to regard its southern border as sacrosanct and vulnerable, requiring constant vigilance and occasional action to secure.
And how is President Joe Biden handling his sworn presidential duty to defend the states of the Union from invasion?
This June, 188,800 illegals crossed into the United States — a rate of more than 6,000 a day. Nearly a million have arrived in the six months since Biden swore an oath to defend the Constitution that obligates him to protect the states against invasion.
As for “getaways,” migrants who enter illegally but evade contact with the Border Patrol and other U.S. authorities and then vanish into our midst, their numbers have been running at about 30,000 a month.
If the present rate of illegal entries continues, Biden, by the end of his first year as President, will have failed to stop perhaps 2 million illegal aliens from having breached our southern border.
Biden is conducting the border policy of a failed state.
And U.S. immigration policy is being set by people from Third World nations who can find their way to the Rio Grande.
Why cannot we stop this invasion?
Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned to take charge of this task, but she redefined her mission as discovering what makes people leave their home countries and trek across Mexico — to come and live here.
Good question: Why are people from developing nations leaving their home countries and crossing Mexico to get into the USA?
After all, our academic, cultural and political elites have told the world that America is a place of “systemic racism,” created by white supremacists, for the benefit of peoples of white privilege, where ethnic minorities remain oppressed.
Why would such a country, of all 193 nations in the U.N., be, far and away, the first choice of peoples migrating from the Global South?
Could it be that people from developing nations are not so ignorant as to believe this anti-American progressive propaganda?
They know America is free and full of opportunity. That even the poor here have access to 12 years of free education for their kids. That they will find better health care in America than they can find at home. That there are programs here to battle poverty, hunger and homelessness.
But from the standpoint of the nation to which they are coming, the illegal migrant millions present real problems. They consume far more in benefits than they pay in taxes. They are dead weight on the welfare state.
“Biden is in a vise on border,” said The Washington Post Sunday headline, over a story describing the president’s border problem.
But the only way Biden can have a political crisis on the border is if he is seen as failing in his duty to defend the states against invasion.
Why is he failing? Either he can’t do what is needed to be done, or he won’t do it.
America’s border paralysis is induced by liberal ideology.
The left does not want the illegals coming here. “Do not come!” was the message Harris gave the Guatemalans. But when it comes to the necessary toughness to stop the invasion, they recoil.
Joe Biden is no Eisenhower, no Wilson, no Quincy Adams and certainly no Andrew Jackson.
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Why can’t Biden stop this invasion? Simple. He doesn’t want to.
It’s the same up here in Canada. Trudeau and his globalist handlers want everyone except Canadians in Canada.
Yup. Biden’s handlers want to swamp white Americans with colored people*. Buchanan is clearly senile.
* I am starting a new organization called the Society for the Elimination of Cumbersome Circumlocutions. I am also thinking of running for president on the Paleocon Luddite ticket. My VP will be either Drunk Uncle or Grandpa Simpson.
“They know America is free and full of opportunity.”
– Pat Buchanan
Used to be, Pat. That’s how it used to be: “free” and full of opportunity. Now it’s in its death throes allowing the carcass to be cleaned before final processing. Still, for people coming from veritable festering shitholes it is an improvement. Especially for those skilled enough to enlist in the Free Shit Army.
The goal is to have uneducated, dependent brown hordes flood the country. They will then immediately be entitled to benefits and voting rights. The goal is permanent majority for the democommies by a weak and subservient population.
None of this is accidental. The elites would rather rule over the ashes of civilization than have the unwashed masses dare retain individual rights.
Mostly they want to exterminate White people.
They don’t care about brown people or politics, just eliminating whites and Christians.
There is no longer a United States as it used to be conceived, so there is no use for a southern border. Gone but not yet missed or forgotten. It will soon be both
Hell, he* is funding the invasion.
* his handlers.
Government assisted illegal immigration, ship to states to tilt voting demographics.
No one ever mentions the Black market economy this creates, Both D/R know it,cheap cash labor, no taxes,
businesses running two sets of books, lots of guilty parties. Seen it first hand her in the West, farmers, ranchers yes cherished traditional ‘R’ voters. In urban setting, landscape,construction, house keepers etc. America’s dirty secret….
throw in there sex traffickers, human traffickers, crime, drugs….Both political parties know this..