“Turns Out, All We Needed Was a New President”
President Trump's recent address to Congress sparked a heated discussion about immigration, as he claimed that a new president was the key to securing the border. At our recent Spectrum Street Epistemology event, we explored immigration claims.
The discussion started with a simple question: "Should the United States increase legal immigration?" However, it quickly evolved into a complex exploration of issues such as foreign workers, birthright citizenship, and "voter importation”. (That is, democrats intentionally did not secure the border for the purpose of having foreign nationals come into the country who will then vote democratic.)
The voter importation claim led to a lively discussion about the Democrats' intentions and the potential consequences of their actions. Were Biden's open-border policies motivated by a desire to import voters for the 2024 election? Is there any actual evidence of this? President Trump's efforts to secure the border in his first few months in office were also scrutinized.
As the discussion progressed, some guests had a change of opinion. The question on everyone's mind was: What does the future hold for the border under a Trump administration? Will the president's approach to immigration yield results, or will it exacerbate the problem? One thing is certain – the immigration debate is far from over, and the outcome will have far-reaching consequences for the United States. As the nation grapples with this complex issue, this is clear: a nuanced and informed discussion is essential to finding a solution that balances security, compassion, and economic needs—and such discussions are vital to decrease political tensions.
I have always averred that every square inch of the United States should be private property*, right to the Canada and Mexico borders, with the owners free and responsible for securing the boundaries of their property with their firearms and entirely at their own expense, either solely by themselves, or combined with private sector security services under contract with them, and personally accountable to them. This would be in full accord with their private property rights and right to self-defense, including, of course, the Castle Doctrine. They would post signs on their land in English and Spanish, with pictograms for the illiterate, to inform what will happen to anyone who trespasses on their property.
*Eminent Domain and the 16 Amendment, which undermine private property rights, would need to be abolished, stricken from the US Constitution, with allodial titles replacing fee simple titles. The government would have to lease land from private owners who freely consent to lease it, with payments obtained voluntarily from those who freely consent to financially support it, an arrangement that would radically reduce the size, scope, and power of the government--and rightly so. This subject goes far beyond the scope of this article.
President Trump is absolutely right - all we needed was a new President. The numbers don’t lie: The number of illegal crossings into the US during the Biden/Harris February’s of 2021/2022/2023/2024 all came in at 100K-150K in each of those years. February 2025, the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency? 8,269. So, yes, all we needed was a new President. I will tell you that nearly EVERY Latino/a in the warehouse I work at (65% of total headcount) voted for Donald Trump last November. The common chatter at work among Hispanic Americans before the election went something like this: “We have to vote in big numbers so that the ‘mojados’ that the Democrats are registering at the border will not matter!” ‘Mojado’ is a derogatory term used by native Hispanics to describe illegal aliens. That said, whether true or not, everyone knows that registering illegals to vote for Democrats is not a big secret. There were excellent Election 2024 political cartoons showing just that: the DNC and their NGO’s registering illegals on the Mexican side of the border wall.