While President Trump's America First agenda gains momentum in his second term, a critical question emerges: Why is the United States still hemorrhaging billions in foreign conflicts when we're literally neighbors with what amounts to a failed narco-state?
The brutal reality is undeniable. Mexico has become a playground for cartels that control vast territories, traffic deadly fentanyl into American communities, and facilitate the largest illegal immigration crisis in our nation's history. Yet somehow, the Washington establishment has spent decades obsessing over Middle Eastern quagmires while ignoring the clear and present danger on our doorstep.
The Numbers Don't Lie
Consider the horrific statistics: Over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, with fentanyl—primarily smuggled through our southern border—being the leading killer of Americans aged 18-45. Meanwhile, we've spent trillions trying to nation-build in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria with little to show for it except coffins and debt.
"We're watching American communities get destroyed by cartel poison while our leaders worry more about Ukraine's borders than our own," said one border security expert who requested anonymity. "It's insanity."
"The single greatest threat to American families isn't happening in some desert halfway around the world—it's happening in our own backyard."
The Trump administration's focus on mass deportations and border wall completion represents a long-overdue shift in priorities. But many Americans are asking why it took so long to recognize that securing our homeland should come before policing the globe.
America First Means America's Borders First
Every dollar spent on foreign wars is a dollar not invested in stopping the invasion of our own country. Every military asset deployed overseas is one less resource protecting American soil from cartel violence and human trafficking.
The solution isn't complicated: Finish the wall, deploy military assets to the border, and designate Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. It's time to treat the narco-state next door with the same seriousness we've given to far-off conflicts that don't threaten American families directly.
How many more Americans must die from fentanyl before our leaders finally prioritize the war being waged against us from Mexico?