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From Fox News: The Trump administration’s border security efforts will hit the ground running in 2025, having defeated “lawfare” in the courts and Republican opposition in Trump’s first term, a former top official predicts while telling Fox News Digital that he is “willing and ready” to be part of the effort to secure the border.
Mark Morgan was the acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner in the Trump administration and was a critical official in the construction of hundreds of miles of border wall and the implementation of policies like “Remain-in-Mexico.”
He said that the Trump administration would likely repeat the same strategies at the border that pushed a combination of consequences for illegal entry and deterrence from entering.
“More importantly, we’re not going to be just reactive. We want to actually try to prevent the flow of illegal immigration, we want to go after the cartels to prevent the drugs from, you know, making it to our border. The border should be our last line of defense. That’s the same methodology, same strategy that we used in the first Trump administration that led to the most secure border in our lifetime,” he said.
Morgan noted that, during Trump’s first term in office, he had to battle against opposition from Congress and was hit with a number of lawsuits. Now, Trump’s team is prepared.
“We already had a series, really a network of tools, authorities and policies in place that were already tested. We knew they worked. And equally important is they’d already gone through the continuum of lawfare,” Morgan explained.
“The foundation is already there. We’re just going to have to use it with a kind of a a good dose of whole-of-government steroids and just increase the magnitude of those operations,” he added.
As far as the border wall, Morgan noted that will be restarted much faster, as the designs and the contracts had already been established the first time.
And if President-elect Donald Trump calls, Morgan said, “I’m able, willing and ready, and I’d be absolutely thrilled to be part of the next administration to get this country back on track and specifically secure our borders.”
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