I don’t want Democrat (or Republican) politicians to visit the Southern border.

I keep seeing conservatives online complaining that Democrat politicians are visiting Ukraine, but are not spending any time at the US Southern border. Why is this? Why are conservatives so fixated on making sure Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and AOC travel to the Southern border? Are they going to get there and suddenly realize the error of their ways, become border hawks and start allocating funds for increased border security and wall building? More likely is that they’ll do what they’ve done every single time they go there. They’ll have some photo ops and lament that we white Americans are being so so mean to these innocent “migrants” and they’ll use the opportunity to ask for more money and more benefits for illegals, thereby drawing even more of them to our nonexistent border.

Here is a hint to conservatives: Stop whining that the Democrats (and Republicans) aren’t visiting the border. We don’t need politicians to get their photo ops on the border. We don’t need them meeting with the border patrol. We don’t need them to see the problems down there because they don’t see them as problems. They see opportunities to make money for themselves, collect votes, get cheap labor, enlarge the welfare state, advance socialism, ruin the country and replace white people. I don’t want them going there. Every time they do, they find ways to make it worse.

You know who we need on the border? The US military. And I don’t mean in some weak ass “support and assistance” role to the Border Patrol. I mean we need DMZ style border security. Don’t say we can’t do it. We have been doing it for decades in Korea. I spent a year going back and forth between the US Special Ops Command in Seoul, the 2ID Division HQ in Uijeongbu and the Joint Security Area at the DMZ. I know we can secure a border. The Navy, Marines and Coast Guard can easily handle our coastline, the Army and Air Force can handle the land border. We have drones, satellites, helicopters, sensors, and yes, fences, walls and concertina wire. We have one division that helps secure the DMZ. The Army has ten active duty divisions and numerous other standalone brigades. We also have Army Reserve and Army and Air National Guard units that need a place to conduct their yearly two week training exercises. We have an armor division in El Paso at Fort Bliss and a Cavalry division in Killeen at Fort Hood.

Spare me the detail nitpicking, the conservatives always come at me with minute reasons why using the military to secure the border isn’t doable. That’s freaking absurd. It’s literally the purpose that militaries exist in the first place. It’s supposed to be their primary job. If they only had ONE job, that’s what it would be. We can project the might of our military abroad so fast and in such overwhelming numbers to fight stupid, useless wars against people who are better armed than then people flooding our border, so I know we can reel some of that power in and place it where we need it the most.

Imagine a military that defends it’s actual border. Wouldn’t that be a sight to see?