What Congress Can — and Must — Do about the Border Crisis

While this crisis might not be solved by any single Article I power alone, there is no excuse for not trying any of them.

Share this story

Asylum-seeking migrants cross the Rio Bravo River, the border between the United States and Mexico, to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 2, 2023.

Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

For over two years now, the most powerful nation in the history of the world has not had operational control of its southern border. Instead, the border is controlled primarily by a mix of cartels, Biden-administration bureaucrats stoking lawlessness and danger, and radical leftist organizations fulfilling his agenda by facilitating things on the ground.

The results have been tragic but predictable: tens of thousands of Americans dead from fentanyl; thousands of abused and dead migrants; richer and more-powerful cartels; a weaker Western Hemisphere with Mexico turning into a full-blown narco-terror state; a stronger China; and increased costs for American taxpayers — especially those in Texas and our sister border states.

CR

About the Author

Chip Roy

Chip Roy serves as the U.S. representative for Texas’s 21st congressional district.

Comments

Advertisement

Advertisement