It’s about time that the federal government started taking the border mess seriously.
On Monday, newly-minted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the southern border, in company with border czar Tom “The Hammer” Homan, and as you might expect from a former combat soldier, he brought the thunder when talking to reporters.
Secretary Hegseth said:
“Border security is national security. Guys and gals of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries guarding other people’s borders. It’s about time we secure our own border. Tens of millions of people have poured across this border under Joe Biden’s administration unchecked. We have no idea who they are. We have no idea where they’re coming from. We have no idea what their intentions are. In many ways, under the Biden administration, and Tom (Homan) knows this better than anybody else, they were facilitated, their entry into this country. THAT STOPS NOW under President Trump and the Defense Department is proud to be a part of it. We have defended other places and other spaces. We will defend this line!”
This is a much more muscular border policy than that of the Biden administration. Of course, on the scale of muscular border policies, the Biden administration was in the “PeeWee Herman” range.