Most Americans are far more concerned with our nation’s borders, particularly the southern one, than they are with the territorial integrity of Ukraine. From Patrick J. Buchanan at buchanan.org:
Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allowing millions of migrants to enter the country illegally across our Southern border.
“The most important border … for us is not Ukraine’s border but America’s border,” thundered Trump.
“Before Joe Biden sends any troops to defend a border in Europe, he should be sending troops to defend our border right here in Texas.”
Thus did Trump not only frame a compelling issue for the fall election; he has framed an issue that touches on one of the great and deepening divides of our time.
Which matters more — the defense of our country from an invasion of migrants from the Third World, or the defense of the borders of distant nations that have little or nothing to do with the security or survival of the United States?
Why should who rules the Russified Donbas be America’s concern?
This “border issue” feeds into other Republican issues.
For the border crossers seen on national TV appear to be mostly young men, who will likely contribute to the crime crisis of shootings and killings plaguing America’s cities.
Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico.
