President Trump has delivered the most secure border in American history. In March 2026, southwest border crossings remained at historic lows for the eleventh straight month. There have been zero releases of illegal immigrants into the interior. Apprehensions are at levels not seen in over three decades. Ninety-five percent lower per day than under President Biden and the daily average in March was less than a single hour’s worth at the Biden peak. CBP has seized 24 percent more drugs this fiscal year than in the same period of 2024, and 19 percent more than the four-year average. Roughly three million illegal aliens have already left the country, including 2.2 million self-deportations, while 145,000 of the 500,000 unaccompanied children lost under Biden have been located. Crime is falling too: homicides dropped 21 percent in 2025 across 35 major cities, reaching the lowest rate since 1900.
Americans overwhelmingly support these results. Polls show 73 percent believe entering the country illegally is a crime, 61 percent support deportation of illegal aliens, 73 percent want criminal illegal aliens removed, including independents and even half of Democrats back cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE.
Yet Democrats remain fiercely opposed to every element of this success. They fought Trump’s border policies, presided over record crossings and drug deaths, and now denounce the enforcement measures producing these gains. At the same time, they oppose the SAVE Act, the commonsense requirement for proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote. The United States is one of the few developed democracies without federal voter ID; more than 176 other countries require it.
Here in Mississippi, we have taken the opposite path. Our state has required photo voter ID for years a measure Mississippi voters themselves approved and this very legislative session the Legislature passed, and Governor Reeves signed, the SHIELD Act (Safeguard Honest Integrity in Elections for Lasting Democracy Act). The new law adds citizenship verification through the federal SAVE database during registration and mandates annual audits of voter rolls to guarantee only American citizens are voting.
Meanwhile, Democrats aggressively push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). As of April 15, 2026, the compact has been enacted in 18 blue states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and D.C. totaling 222 electoral votes. Once it reaches 270, those states would ignore their own voters and award all their electors to the national popular-vote winner, effectively abolishing the Electoral College by state-level authorization and circumventing the constitutional design that protects smaller states like Mississippi.
Connect the dots: open borders flood the country with millions of non-citizens (and their U.S.-born children who become automatic citizens). Opposition to the SAVE Act and voter ID keeps citizenship and eligibility unverifiable at the ballot box. The NPVIC guarantees that even if these new demographics don’t flip enough swing states, the sheer volume in blue urban strongholds can deliver the national popular vote and hand Democrats the White House anyway. It is not three separate policy positions. It is one strategy: change the electorate, dilute the safeguards that protect it, and rewrite the rules so the new electorate decides elections regardless of what current American citizens want in the states where they live.
Democrats can wrap their agenda in the language of compassion and “democracy,” but the numbers, the legislation they oppose or block, and the constitutional workaround they champion tell a different story. They are betting that demographic transformation plus weakened election integrity plus an end-run around the Electoral College will lock in permanent power. President Trump is showing the right way forward with secure borders and fighting for strong election integrity at home. Americans who still believe sovereignty, citizenship, and constitutional order matter have every right to call that strategy exactly what it is.
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