Bob Brooks was not doing soft takes when he warned that we’re back to a time of lawlessness at our own doorstep; hardworking Americans see the rot of drugs, gangs, and corruption spilling into our towns. While career bureaucrats in Washington shrug and tinker with policies, foreign predators — both drug cartels and authoritarian regimes — move in on the chaos. It’s long past time we stop pretending this is a political debate and treat it as an assault on our sovereignty and families.
The numbers are not a myth or an abstraction — encounters of Chinese nationals at our borders exploded in recent years, signaling not just migration but potential national-security vectors and a lucrative network feeding criminal enterprises. Congressional factsheets and border statistics show a dramatic surge that should sober every American who cares about safety and law. This isn’t vague fearmongering; it’s empirical evidence that Washington’s permissiveness has costs our communities pay for in funerals and ruined lives.
Meanwhile, federal investigators have uncovered something that should chill every patriot: sophisticated, transnational money-laundering rings linking Chinese underground banking to Mexico’s cartels — a pipeline that turns fentanyl profits into usable cash and then back into the hands of the very criminals murdering our kids. The Justice Department’s Operation Fortune Runner exposed a multi-million-dollar scheme and indictments that make it clear this crisis is organized and international in scope. If we don’t choke off the money, we will never choke off the poison.
Don’t be naive about the supply chain: Chinese precursor chemicals and manufactured fentanyl have become the linchpin for cartels’ industrial-scale destruction of American communities, produced in labs and shipped across borders for lethal distribution. Independent analysts and reporting show how the demand for dollars and the trafficking of chemicals have become entangled in global networks that exploit our weak spots. The evidence is on the table — this is a strategic problem requiring strategic responses, not more platitudes from the coastal elite.
The political class can posture, but real action means shutting down money-laundering corridors, cutting off chemical supplies, reversing catch-and-release policies, and treating these illegal crossings as the national-security crises they are. Even when the administration has moved to deport some migrants and run removal flights, the scale of the problem shows those intermittent actions are far too little and come far too late. We need relentless enforcement, aggressive sanctions, and an ironclad commitment to homeland security — no excuses, no caveats.
Patriots don’t wring their hands — they act. Reestablishing America’s authority in the Western Hemisphere means partnering with honest allies, crushing cartel networks, and holding Beijing accountable for the role its illicit actors play in our epidemic of addiction. Stand with law enforcement, demand that our leaders stop apologizing and start fighting, and remember that peace and prosperity follow strength — not the hollow promises of bureaucrats asleep at the wheel.
