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Opinion: Disorder on the Southern border

Photo/Meridith Kohut/The New York Times / Some of the first migrants to be processed in Brownsville, Texas, after Title 42 expired walk from Matamoros, Mexico, across the international bridge to present themselves to U.S. immigration officials on May 12, 2023.
Photo/Meridith Kohut/The New York Times / Some of the first migrants to be processed in Brownsville, Texas, after Title 42 expired walk from Matamoros, Mexico, across the international bridge to present themselves to U.S. immigration officials on May 12, 2023. Photo/Meridith Kohut/The New York Times / Some of the first migrants to be processed in Brownsville, Texas, after Title 42 expired walk from Matamoros, Mexico, across the international bridge to present themselves to U.S. immigration officials on May 12, 2023.

By Ron Hart 4 min read

I fear that if aliens land in the USA and say, “Take me to your leader,” it will be very embarrassing for us.

I say this because, among many other things, our border policy is a disaster.

The illegal immigration debate never gets past vilifying those who want to control our borders as “inhumane animals.” Just because we think we need to have rules we enforce at our Southern border does not make us animals. Maybe being an animal is not such a bad thing. The difference between humans and animals is simple: Animals would never allow the dumbest among them to lead.

Title 42 was allowed to run out. It was a gimmick that said we could turn back illegals trying to cross the border because they could bring COVID with them.

The immigration game is played like this. They know they can come; they say they were tortured or are fleeing gangs or domestic violence, as they have been told to say. They are let in and given a court date four years out to come to some stooge immigration judge. Few ever show up to court. It is laughable.