Border Security

Our southern border is being overrun, and there’s no polite way to say it. Every day, Americans pay the price through gang violence, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and child exploitation. No nation can survive without secure borders. We must secure our border and make sure American citizens come first before spending taxpayer resources on illegal immigration.

I’m firm and unapologetic on this issue: we must finish the border wall, shut down illegal crossings, and hire and equip enough Border Patrol agents to enforce our laws effectively. We also need to update and expand processing facilities so that every individual entering our country is properly vetted and, when necessary, safely returned to their country of origin, not released into American communities.

Just as importantly, we must protect children by ensuring they are reunited with their actual parents or legal guardians, not handed over to strangers or traffickers under the failed systems of today.

At the same time, we must recognize that America has always been a nation of immigrants who came here seeking freedom and opportunity, LEGALLY. It’s time to reform our immigration system to make it safer, faster, and fairer for those who follow the law, respect our borders, and want to become proud American citizens. Legal immigration should strengthen our nation, not undermine it.

Our Founders believed in protecting our sovereignty. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 25, “A nation without borders and the means of defending them is no nation at all.” The Anti-Federalists warned just as clearly that when government “abandons its duty to protect its citizens, liberty soon falls.”

I believe in both, a strong border and a fair path to citizenship for those who honor our laws and embrace our values. We can protect our homeland while still welcoming those who want to build the American Dream the right way.

Article IV, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.