Hardening the Southern Border (The Status Quo Has Changed), by Michael Swartz

Leave it to a former Biden official with the DEA to tell it like it is: “Politics aside, Trump is not [bleeping] around with this stuff.”

President Donald Trump ran on a promise to secure the southern border, and so far his track record of keeping big promises has been fairly spot-on: new tariffs to throttle China and promote investment in our industry and the process of needed government pruning by the Department of Government Efficiency being two of many key points. Yet the challenge of securing the southern border from the influx of both illegal aliens and illicit drugs isn’t dealt with as easily as setting tariff rates or hiring a business genius who knows the wunderkind youth to call for power IT services.

But the genius of Trump 47.0 is in the careful pre-planning so he could hit the ground running. Before he had even taken office — in fact, barely three weeks after he won the election — Trump was already getting the new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to agree to work with him on stopping migration through Mexico. It was the establishment of that relationship that set up the cooperation Trump is now receiving in conducting surveillance of cartel strongholds across the border. According to the Associated Press in February, Sheinbaum was the one requesting the help. …

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