Why I woke up, it's so angry that the anti-borders are on the left

With President Donald Trump running his immigration agenda, supporters of lawless border policy find it difficult to raise consistent opposition.

Last year, anti-borders activists saw their moves firmly rejected by the American people as Trump was overwhelmingly re-elected on a promise to restore American sovereignty, law and order. Since taking office, he has done exactly what the Americans have given him the duty to do, driving illegal border crossings to historic lows and effectively ending the border crisis that has plagued the country for the past four years. Anti-borders activists understand that the administration's successful efforts to secure borders will remain largely mothers, and will likely be in a political position that will not accept defending more illegal crossings.

Last year, activists and politicians promoted the border bill as a panacea for the illegal immigration crisis, denounced Trump at the time, robbed the bill, and ultimately continued the crisis. Then, in the first two months of his inauguration, there was one additional part of the Border Patrol Act, which required Trump to end the border crisis and expose the cynicism and fakeless of those who had vowed to new acts in Congress.

As the Trump administration has restored full control of its borders, it has focused much of its focus on internal enforcement, and anti-borders activists are trying to use it as an opportunity to exacerbate the public with Trump's immigration policies.

During the success of his 2024 campaign, Trump vowed to be reinforced deportation to remove millions of illegal aliens currently resident in the United States. The president has vowed to target the removal of violent criminals and gang members. That's exactly what he does. More recently, the administration invoked the alien enemy laws of 1798 to eliminate members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gangster who terrorized American cities and communities in recent years.

The administration has reached an agreement with the Salvadoran government to bring these illegal aliens to avoid incommunity between the Venezuelan government. In response, the left borders responded with hysterical reminiscent of their approach to Trump's first term. They have assumed a lack of legitimate procedures for suspected gang members, and pointed out that the administration would require that efforts be abandoned to remove violent criminals from the country.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has argued that “democracy is at risk” because of Trump's deportation policy. Anti-border think tank activists and left-wing social media influencers have tried to argue that the Tren de Aragua gangbangers are not actually terrorists, denounced efforts to remove these violent gang members as “evil,” and compared members of the regime to the Nazis.

Anti-borders activists showed similar hysteria during Trump's first term, and were successful to some extent, particularly when they came to oppose the president's travel ban and so-called “family separation” policy. It is unlikely that moral panic strategies will work again for a variety of reasons. The accusations of racism and cruelty simply lack the power that the left has overestimated the card and that once gave Trump's historic election success with Hispanic Americans.

Trump was elected by a coalition of Americans of many different races, religions and beliefs who simply wanted sovereignty and security to their country after four years of innocence. Illegal foreigners are not races or ethnicities, but rather gatherings of people who violate our laws and are subject to proper enforcement. Americans voted for Trump because they wanted to see these laws in place, especially against violent criminals that threaten public safety and national security. In fact, a recently released poll from Rasmussen shows that almost two-thirds of Americans have approved the president's efforts to expel Venezuelan gang members.

The main reason these tactics from the anti-boundary movement are not working is that Americans have experienced the consequences of what these activists actually look like, and the fear and trauma that their ideas create. The Biden administration's lawless policy has led to a record number of Americans dying from fentanyl overdose, murder of innocent Americans and an explosion of sex trafficking of immigrant girls at the border. The death and destruction brought about by the previous administration's immigration policies gave Trump a mandate to not only improve border security, but also direct the country towards a more American-first immigration policy.

The administration could make some mistakes in implementing it along the way. After all, management is not perfect. But even if this happens, it is hard to imagine the swarm of support that emerges for the return to lawless policies of the past four years.

This is why the anti-borders movement is so upset right now. They held power for four years to implement their policies, and they believed that Americans would view them as enlightened and caring leaders and would accept their desire for open borders and massive pardons of illegals. Instead, their ideology was firmly rejected, and their political projects were permanently discredited.

The reason they awaken is that the anti-borders can't settle on their opposition to Trump is because they can't bring themselves to abandon policies that don't work. So, all they did is kick and scream as the president hopes he will fail, while carrying out his mission to restore America's safety, security and sovereignty, and that Americans will in some way gging for their leadership. This is a dream, and even the most radical anti-border activists may understand their worldviews are fundamentally anti-American, so even the most radical anti-border activists may understand them.

Americans never accept movements that reject timeless ideals such as states, borders, and sovereignty. The anti-borders movement is defeated thoroughly at the ballot box and in an effort to hamper the president's agenda.

Dale L. Wilcox is the executive director and general counsel at the Institute of Immigration Reform Law, a public interest law firm that works to defend the rights and interests of Americans from the negative effects of mass immigration.