The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and consolidated several agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, into the newly formed ICE. This is Federal law. Can Congress change this law? Of course it can…but it won’t. Just like it won’t change immigration laws. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 and our current immigration laws go hand in hand. The Act tightened immigration policies in order to never repeat what happened on 9/11.

We forgot that the people who overstayed their visa twenty-four years ago were able to manipulate our systems in order to carry out the worst terror attack ever on our own soil. Twenty-four years is enough time for a whole generation of Americans to not understand the horror of that day.

Our federal government is responsible for our homeland security. It had egg on its face when security systems before 9/11 were so lax that the communication between the agencies failed to identify abuse by a terrorist threat. Foreign individuals conspired and organized the attack on 9/11 by accessing the means necessary to infiltrate airport security, flight training, and flight crew access…The tight measures we now experience to travel by plane continue to this day because of it. The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, passed by the 107th Congress and signed on November 19, 2001, established the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

In 2021 the new Administration under President Biden redirected Border Patrol duties to handle the influx of immigrants that were crossing the border into the United States from every possible unsecured access point. It doesn’t matter how the news media spins the narrative…The border was porous and the number of crossers were extremely high to the point where Border Patrol were acting as processors and not enforcers. Catch and release had to be used because there was no way to build enough containment facilities for the large numbers crossing each day. And while Border Patrol was acting as an intake agent it is certainly clear that they were not acting to find those illegal migrants who were crossing undetected.

The undetected illegal immigrants who crossed our border are the problem and there are many!! They could be the worst of the worst and DHS would not even know that they are in our country. These worst of the worst can conspire to commit another terrorist attack. Thankfully the current Administration has not forgotten what took place on 9/11. Our State Department will use every lever within their authority to find and control any threat to the American people.

Yet many in the Democratic leadership announce wholeheartedly that our ICE agents are out of control and must be stopped. Stopped by whom? Ideological radicals and anarchists roaming wildly wherever federal agents are doing their work? We have already seen guns being used against our ICE agents. This behavior is what is out of control, and it could get worse. We must not forget how radical ideologies beget terror. Never again is now!