Militarize the Border? The Case for a US 'DMZ' — What Trump Should Say Tonight | 2/24/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

America has debated immigration for decades — but what if the real issue at the border isn’t immigration at all? In this episode, I explain why the U.S. border should be treated as a national defense perimeter, not a law-enforcement problem. We need soldiers, not cops, at the border. We need a buffer zone on the Mexican side, not on our side. The discussion explores cartel control, strategic deterrence, judicial interference, and what policies could fundamentally change security outcomes. In light of the CJNG takeover of Mexican cities, we need to ensure that we do not make the same mistakes as we did with the Global War on Terror. I also break down major themes that could reshape a State of the Union address if Trump were willing to change his economic message. Finally, I delve into how a new party built on fighting for landowners, farmers, and the forgotten consumer and worker against the transhumanist technocracy and surveillance state would crush both parties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.8	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.3	And welcome back fellow American Patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:14.3	for the issues that matter today on this fine Tuesday at CR podcast.
0:19.7	The Blaze, your host, Daniel Harwitz. What is the issue?
0:23.6	It is border security, but not the way border security has been thrown around for so many
0:29.8	decades. People think of border security as immigration control. We don't need a border
0:36.4	patrol for immigration. Okay. We should not have any illegal
0:42.7	immigration. And you see that once you make it clear that if you come here, you'll be removed,
0:48.6	well, then they don't come or, you know, very small numbers. Now, obviously, immigration is for the interior and we need ice and we need to do better
0:58.3	things with that.
0:59.7	But it is time to finally deal with the fact as we see the Holisco cartel, takeover parts of
1:05.8	Mexico, the violence there.
1:08.3	We need to understand they are controlling both sides of the border.
1:12.6	Our border is not more secure, unfortunately.
1:16.0	We have fewer people flowing over, which is good.
1:19.9	But that's only part of it.
1:21.8	Now is the time for Trump to take his one issue that he's perceived as being successful on and actually creating an
1:29.2	enduring victory by finally militarizing our border, treating it like a military DMZ zone
1:37.3	rather than a law enforcement operation for cops, which is what border patrol is.
1:43.6	So I want to get into what our border should look like, what's happening in Mexico, sending
1:49.6	special ops there, working with anti-cartel operations.
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