No Excuse for Open Borders

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has a massive mission area. They're responsible for everything from breaching obstacles on the battlefield to building military bases and operating civil works projects like the dams on the Missouri River. Clearly, they've got plenty on their plate. So, why is the President trying to drag the Corps into defending his open-borders agenda?

In response to the complete failure of the Biden Administration to secure our southern border, Texas took matters into its own hands—deploying state law enforcement agents to the border, building the wall with state funds, and placing buoy barriers in the Rio Grande River. Instead of applauding Texas for doing its job, President Biden decided he needed to sue in order to stop them.

Citing the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act, the Biden Administration claimed that the buoys Texas placed in the Rio Grande were illegal. That's absolutely ludicrous. The Rivers and Harbors Act was written to keep our waterways navigable. It was never intended to enforce an open-border agenda. Needless to say, there are a couple problems here.

For starters, most of the Rio Grande isn't navigable (excluding a short stretch near the mouth of the river, which isn't in question here). In fact, the river is as low as eighteen inches deep in the area where the buoy barrier is. I'd like to see a barge that can navigate that.

The real crime here is President Biden's utter failure to secure our southern border. While pushing amnesty for illegal immigrants, the President has encouraged a massive wave of illegal immigration—with more than 6 million illegal border crossings since January 2021. It's completely overwhelmed our Border Patrol agents.

Law enforcement has seized 22,000 pounds of fentanyl at the border, enough to kill 4.9 BILLION people. That's a lot, but according to government estimates, we're only catching 5 to 10 percent of all the drugs trafficked across the southern border. It's not just the estimates though, we're seeing the impacts on our communities—not just near the border, but all over the country.

Enough is enough. We need to secure our border and stop the flow of deadly fentanyl into our country. To do that, we have to finish the wall and start enforcing our immigration laws again. The Biden Administration also needs to drop this ridiculous lawsuit and start working with states to secure the border instead of fighting them.