That was my response recently on X to a post asking whether people support a bill President Trump is backing that would ban any future U.S. president from reopening the border.
"Are you in favor of this?" the post asked.
The post was referring to something called the No Invasion of our Country Act. At the moment, though, no such bill actually exists. The closest thing that has been introduced in Congress and moved forward is the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act (H.R. 9199/H.R. 9773), sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). That legislation would permanently write President Trump's current border executive actions into statute.
The Chip Roy bill wouldn't make it impossible for a future president to reopen the border. It would just make it a lot harder.
I think that's a step in the right direction. We all know what tends to happen to executive orders. A new president comes in and reverses them, rewrites them, or scraps them entirely. Turning these policies into law wouldn't lock them in forever, but it would make them stickier and more difficult to undo.
Of course, whether any of this actually passes and becomes law is a real question. Plenty of bills get introduced and just sit there. The SAVE America Act comes to mind. So does the recurring argument over daylight saving time. Sponsoring something and getting it across the finish line are two different things.
And of course, we're right up against the midterms and we don't even know which side will be in power on the other end of them.
Still, regardless of what happens with the Chip Roy bill—or even if the proposed No Invasion of our Country Act eventually becomes real—it strikes me as common sense legislation. And I suspect most Americans would support it.
Despite the fights in Congress or sentiments portrayed in the mainstream media, on Main Street, I think a lot of Democrats weren't particularly happy with former President Biden's border policies. For one thing, secure borders used to be a fairly mainstream Democratic position. Then Trump made it a central issue on the Republican side, and the party itself largely flipped to the opposite extreme.
The party. Not the voters.
The basic question posed here is hard to avoid. How do we maintain our sovereignty and protect our citizens if the border is wide open? An open border means anyone can come in—including people who mean us harm. If we don't enforce the border, we have no real idea who's entering the country, where they are, or what their intentions are.
That's dangerous. It puts every American at greater risk. We've seen enough stories of illegal immigrants committing serious crimes that most people are already familiar with them, whatever their broader views on immigration happen to be.
What should be clear by now is that we cannot afford to repeat a policy shift as reckless as the one under Biden. Even for those who object to how Trump has enforced the border—whether through ICE raids or the accompanying media firestorm—the reality is straightforward.
Had Trump's first term policies stayed in place, the crisis would never have escalated to the point where a second term required such forceful action.
The problem would have remained largely contained instead of becoming an emergency that demanded aggressive correction.
A bill like the one Chip Roy sponsored is designed to prevent that exact mistake from happening again. The most basic responsibility of the federal government is to maintain our sovereignty and protect the people living inside our borders. There is no version of events in which locking in stronger border rules stops making sense or becomes unnecessary.
Yes. I support the action. Everyone should. Because, once again, it's just common sense.
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