I have grown frustratingly weary with the incessant diatribe and inane rhetoric of the Left and some Republicans that the border situation is a manufactured crisis and not worthy of our time to consider. They are wrong! Ronald Reagan said, “A country that cannot control its borders is not a country.” I keep hearing the argument that we are all citizens of the world and therefore borders are immoral. I disagree on so many levels it would take a very thick journal of thousands of pages to enumerate my reasons. I will exercise restraint and not make that attempt, for even if I did, I would miss some poignant points.

Our Border Patrol and ICE Agents continually sound the warning that our border situation is critical and dangerous. The commissioner for the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs, Kevin K. McAleenan declared to an audience in El Paso, Texas that our…