Morning Jolt: Why America Needs a Secure Border

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

January 29 2024

On the menu today: Even with an Iranian drone strike killing U.S. soldiers in Jordan, expect immigration and border talk to dominate much of the week. Today, a quick walk-through of why controlling the border represents such a vital and basic duty of the American government, and why the Biden administration's past insistence that the border was secure was such self-evident nonsense. And then some cautionary notes about the current proposal on the table before Congress.

The Immigration Game

Let us first dispense with the absurd accusation that the United States of America is a xenophobic country or that it does not welcome immigrants. Every year since the millennium, between 703,000 and 1.2 million immigrants have been granted legal permanent residence, a process also known as getting a green card. Green-card holders are permitted to live and work in the country indefinitely, to ...

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