Border Security is Crucial for National Security

Gen Z Conservative ^ | 6/08/2019 | Gen Z

[WTanner1776]

With the migrant crisis reaching epic proportions, the issue of illegal immigration has been thrust back into the limelight. Due to the increasingly high-profile nature of this issue, I think it is an important one for the West to examine through criminal justice, national security, and economic lenses. As I discussed in a recent article about armed gang members on the border, the border is growing more dangerous and chaotic by the day. For that reason, border security is crucial for national security.

As Ronald Reagan once said, “a nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” History vindicates that statement. Take the Western Roman Empire, once it lost the ability to turn back the Goth migrants that were crossing its borders unopposed, it quickly fell, plunging western civilization into darkness for hundreds of years, as Dan Carlin excellently described in The End is Always Near. 1600 years later, the Western world is again faced with mass migration. Once again, we are learning the hard way that border security is crucial for national security.

[HighSierra5]

The fence will come tumbling down if we don’t put up a fight. I see very bad things coming.

[devane617]

America is over. Time to make a new plan. Where do we meet? Florida? Texas?

[SMARTY]

Border security is married to the economy, social stability AND national security... Liberals don’t get that