The second prong to President Trump’s victory in 2020 would be the safety of Americans from terrorist attacks and from criminal illegal aliens who have entered the country across our southern border or over-stayed their visas. The problems resulting from the porous southern border are many fold.  Many of the drugs that are moved into this country come in that way, resulting in 2017 in 72,000 deaths and thousands more addicts whose lives and families are ruined.  Democrats argue that drugs are usually smuggled through legal border crossings in cars and trucks, not across the areas that President Trump wishes to close with walls. However, border guards confiscate drugs from those crossing the border elsewhere as well.  In 2017 they confiscated 1.7million pounds of drugs on their way to our children.

Beyond the problem of the drugs is the problem of the criminals including members of gangs and drug cartels who prey on the children of Hispanics living in this country.  Young children are forced into the gangs or threatened with death.  During his address from the Oval Office, President Trump told us that “In the last two year, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country and thousands more lives will be lost if we don’t act right now.”  He did not mention the 3,755 individuals who were apprehended attempting to cross the border in 2017 who were “known or suspected” terrorists.

The President has fought for two years to make our borders secure, resisted and defied at every turn by Democrats and left-leaning judges.  His attempt to keep people from entering the country from countries with failed governments where the identities and associations of immigrants could not be known was met with the cry of “Muslim Travel Ban!”  “Racist!” despite the fact that the ban only dealt with seven countries out of the 51 Muslim nations in the world and did not affect countries such as Great Britain and France which have large Muslim populations.  Eventually, the Supreme Court said what any intelligent and non-Democrat reading the Constitution would have said:  It is the President’s right and duty to bar entry into this country to anyone he deemed a danger to Americans.  

For much of these two years, the President has been struggling to get funding for a wall covering much of the southern border with Mexico. 396,579 people were caught attempting to sneak into the U.S. in 2018.  How many more succeeded is anyone’s guess, but there are about 12 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States.  President Trump’s offers to give permanent status and a path to citizenship to those children brought here illegaly by their parents and raised as Americans in return for funding for the wall has been repeatedly turned down.  In frustrated desperation, the President refused to fund the government until money for a wall was provided, effectively shutting down part of the government and furloughing some government workers and causing what the media gleefully calls “A Government Shutdown!”  The furloughed workers will get back pay (for not working) when the shutdown ends, but admittedly money is getting tight for most of them as the shutdown heads into day 31. Yet again, the President offered a compromise to the Democrats, and yet again Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned it down before even reading it!  

Speaker Pelosi called a wall “immoral,” but even Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer admitted that a wall that protects your loved ones is not immoral.  Other Democrats claim that a wall doesn’t work, but as a previous article of ours “Wall-eyed” shows, walls have, in fact, worked quite well all over the world including in some spots along our southern border.  Democrats were for some kind of barrier at the border until the President became for it.  Then, in their self-proclaimed position as “The Resistance,” they had to become against it.  Their hatred for this President and their desire to regain the White House and control of the Congress is so great that they will sacrifice all of us to see it happen.

The increasing number of Angel moms who children have been killed, often brutally murdered, by illegal aliens is sobering and frightening.  Kate Steinle was simply walking along a boardwalk with her father when she was shot. Young Hispanic girls have been raped and brutally murdered on their way home from school. A professional football player and his driver were run down and killed on I-70 in Indiana.  All died at the hands of illegal aliens.

 The Ohio Jobs and Justice PAC have begun a list of victims, only a few of whom I have listed here since space does not, obviously, allow me to list them all:

Pierce Corcoran, 22                                                                                              Officer Ronil Singh, 33                                                                                        Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox, 38                                                                                 Rocky P. Jones, 51                                                                        Robert Page, 76                                                                              Sabrina Starr, 21

Steven Marler, 38 

Neidy Roche, 39

Ann Farrin, 41

Justin James Dustin Lee, 14

Paul Robert Besaw, 36

Aron Hampton, 33

Amanda Ferguson Weyant, 38

Shirra Nicole Branum, 37

Blake Michael Zieto, 20

Mollie Tibbitts, 20

Chrishia Odette, 13

Carlos Wolff, 36

Sander Benjamin Cohen, 33

Sarah Rae-Ann Root, 21

Peter Hacking

Ellie Jean Bryant, 4

Grayson Hacking, 22 months

Shayley Estes, 22

Dominic Daniel Durden, 30

Edwin Jackson, 26

Grant Ronnebeck, 21

Kristopher William Eggle, 28

Terry Wendover, 45

Marilyn Pharis, 64

Kenneth Scott Marr, 18

Jamica Williams, 42

Michael Furlow, 49

Kaybrin Ingoldsby, 8

Halle Ingoldsby, 8

Officer Kevin Will, 38

Sergeant Brandon Mendoza, 32

LaDonna Brady, 45

Robin Shelhammer, 60

Barbara Shelhammer, 56

Whitney Meinke, 33

Baby Thorne, unborn

Brandy Lee Thorne, 22

Sergeant Corey Blake Wride, 44

Dennielle Shermock, 25

Joshua Wilkerson, 18

Eric Nathaniel Zepeda

Jamiel Shaw, 17

Jesse Benavides, 33

Emily Cortez, 7 week old baby

Sandra Landcaster’s unborn baby

Sviatlana Dranko, 30

Spencer Golvach, 25

Margaret Kostelnik, 60

Kate Steinle, 32

Bob Barry, Jr. 58

Michael Grubbs, 63

Jamie Oxendine, 43

Mary Ann Oxendine, 40

Shane Oxendine, 17

Parker Moore, 20

Amos Milburn Jones, 54

Naomi Mercury, 18

They include children, teachers, firemen, police officers, fathers, mothers and even the unborn.  But all are mourned and all could still be alive had those illegal aliens who killed them not been allowed to freely enter this country and stay here, uninhibited, even welcomed by Democrats.  

If the President continues to fight for the wall, if he finds a way, even without the intransient congressional Democrats to make it happen, he will make this country a safer place for all of us and will pave the way for a second term for himself.