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We need to get Israel aid. We need to get Ukraine aid. We need to secure the southern border. These are all pressing national security needs. They are of equal importance to America.<\/p>\n
If we send the wrong sort of aid to Israel or Ukraine it will not help them win. If we don\u2019t build the 900 miles of fence where it is needed on the 2000 miles of southern border, Americans will continue to die from fentynal, more millions will walk across \u2018UN encountered,\u2019 along with the 8 million who have been \u2018encountered\u2019 in the three years of the Biden Border Era. The Wall isn\u2019t one of five things that need doing. It is the first thing that must be done if the other things that need to be done are going to work.<\/p>\n
The Wall is a necessary but not sufficient national security measure. To repeat: It is the first thing that must be done. Other things are useful \u2014more Border Patrol, more return flights, more detention facilities, more Administrative Law Judges and changes to the actual asylum and refugee law. All of it.<\/p>\n
But none of it matters without the Wall. The Wall is the \u2018signal\u2019 amid the noise. It actually gets the message to the endless column of millions trudging north. That message is \u2018Closed save by appointment.\u2019<\/p>\n
This is not a hardliner position. It is the moderate position. Most \u2018moderates\u2019 on immigration reform including me are people who want to care for the stranger when they get here. Most of us are aware that only a small percentage of the millions crossing illegally are undoubtedly dangerous, but they are dangerous indeed, and those who engage in human smuggling are depraved while possible terrorists should be understood as 10\/7 types. We moderates are also concerned with innocents caught up in this river of misery that has to be damed before those on this side of the order can\u2019t be helped.<\/p>\n
If Democrats say \u2018No\u2019 to the Wall, then it is no, and the GOP walks away from the talks, explains why, and campaigns on the Wall.<\/p>\n
All three of the remaining possible GOP presidential nominees want the Wall. The Senate candidates the GOP needs to win the 2024 elections and thus the 2025 majority all want the Wall. Only a handful of Senators and their staffs have persuaded themselves that the Wall isn\u2019t necessary. Wake up. It is necessary, and the 91 percent aren\u2019t wrong. They are your bosses.<\/p>\n
The supplemental without the Wall is far, far worse than a dead end. It\u2019s a cliff. We won\u2019t climb back up to a moment of clarity like this for decades, if ever. And the House GOP should never approve it anyway, and I doubt incumbent GOP senators who support it will in turn find themselves supported by 90 percent of the Party. Who is selling this? On what grounds?<\/p>\n
Please, Senate GOP, the momentum of a terrible ride is no reason to stay on the runaway train. Get off. Now. Walk away.<\/p>\n
Hugh Hewitt is one of the country\u2019s leading journalists of the center-right. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University\u2019s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990, and it is today syndicated to hundreds of stations and outlets across the country every Monday through Friday morning. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and this column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his forty years in broadcast, and this column previews the lead story that will drive his radio show today.<\/p>\n\n
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