response to discusion below

john,

During the recent House Homeland Security hearing DHS Secretary Nielsen spoke of the current immigration situation on the southern border as not a manufactured crisis, but instead, declared the situation as truly an emergency in scope of concern; referring to the approximately one million undocumented immigrants predicted to be positioned at the U.S.-Mexican border by the end of the fiscal year. (Hesson, 2019)

In a very difficult interrogation-esque grilling by House Democrats, Secretary Nielsen defended ICE and CBP actions as merely following the letter of the law and called for considerably more border security measures, backed by decisive legislative action.

Her demand for legislative action could be interpreted by some as a clandestine push for the border wall proposition, although Secretary Nielson avoided any forthright protagonist position on its implementation. Albeit, it is quite hard to feasibility reason what other legislative measures could have an immediate impact other than building a protective barrier?

The crisis on the southern border has risen to the pinnacle of the DHS concern and has placed the department in a very partisanship position: seen as a pawn of the Trump administration by Democrats, and thus; the target for all the immensely, emotive-controversy surrounding the plight of immigrant families trying to seek solace across the U.S. border.

Besides the frayed emotions involved with separating immigrant children from their mothers, the fact remains that this humanitarian crisis is not going away, and its impact is causing monumental political acrimony not just surrounding the southern U.S. border dilemma, but also internationally, such as the citizens of the UK vote to disengage from its membership of the EU, primarily due to mass immigration fear-mongering. (DHS, 2018)

Some may dispute Secretary Nielsen opinion that it is not a manufactured crisis by pointing to the U.S. foreign policy in Central America during the Cold War as the culprit in the decades of destabilization resulting from civil wars throughout the region. Others may agree with her, pointing to Venezuela as a pertinent example of socialist, economic-mismanagement as the prime suspect in this era of mass economic migration.

Whatever one’s political persuasion, it appears that President Trump will not receive the unanimous backing of his party to finance his wall project, and certainly the Mexican government will gleefully sit with ensconced satisfaction at the senate’s bipartisan defeat of his wall bill. (Becker & Cowan, 2019)

The President’s veto to the decision may only be resolved at the echelon of the Supreme Court, which historically declines to intervene in the plenary powers which decree immigration matters as the fundamental distinction in constitutional sovereignty. Based on this constitutional decree, perhaps the wall project may find favor with the highest judicial realm? Although, it is most unlikely, as the SCOTUS rare decision to intervene against the plenary powers in the 2001 Zadvydas v. Davis immigration case, resulted in many illegal immigrants held on serious criminal charges being released back into U.S. society, with inevitable reoffending results.This decision has caused much controversy and moreover; it inspired the current administration’s principal rallying argument in tightening immigration controls. (Cornell, 2001)

As far the DHS is concerned, Secretary Nielson is correct in her assessment that the men and women who diligently patrol the southern border will continue, ever-vigilant of the vital position they play in maintaining domestic security despite the machinations of political intrigue.

The one issue of note within the border controversy that does not capture media attention, is the number of Special Interest Aliens (SIA) that have crossed the border undetected with the help of the Mexican Cartels. This class of individual is not in way an economic migrant and instead their sole agenda is to operate malice within the CONUS on behalf of their terrorist mandate. Hezbollah has in particular harnessed this method of illegal entry with many established U.S. Palestinian communities offering refuge; perhaps oblivious to their true intent. (Holton, 2019)