Borderline
By Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Updated 4:36 AM CDT, Wed May 14, 2025
This week in Monitoring Matters, we look at all the money flowing through the border, namely out of our pockets and toward the border.
That’s right, President Trump’s recently released discretionary budget has no room for science, art, or education, but a blank check for so called border security enforcement. Towards which end the administration has called for 20,000 new ICE agents who, according to current events, don’t answer to the courts.
To say the situation at the border is overstated to a comical degree is treading old ground. It’s been a political football for longer than I’ve been alive, but you’d assume that kind of rhetoric would get less traction down closer to the border where the narrative falls apart under any sort of scrutiny.
That would require the truth to be protected, however, and as we can see that’s no longer in the budget. Foreign hackers having a field day with American cyber infrastructure while the CISA is being mothballed may be the gravest security threat our nation currently faces. We’ve seen the damage that can occur when even small disruptions hit vital systems like healthcare.
I shudder to think of the consequences down the line, the worst is certainly yet to come, but at least we’ve managed to deport those truly dangerous illegal immigrants in the name of safety and security, right?
Cartel family members on the gold pass excluded, I guess.
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