There is an enormous crisis on America's southern border, and that crisis is destabilizing

American democracy, because the American people demand that the United States of America

maintain its sovereignty.

And though this is not understood in Washington, D.C., this point is perfectly clear to the mind

of most Americans. A nation that does not have control of its border is not a nation.

It cannot maintain its sovereignty if it does not have control over who is and who is not in the country.

The scenes at the southern border border apocalyptic as they're relayed and played on national television

by the likes of Fox News and others. Now before going further, let's watch a snarling

Lindsey Graham pleading on Fox News for the governor of Texas to send thousands and thousands

and thousands of illegal immigrants out into the country to states with Democratic senators.

What Lindsey Graham is arguing here for is a policy of punishment inflicted by the

governor of a red state on blue state senators. Now, as a practical matter, what the snarling senator

from South Carolina is advocating, is a type of cold,

or perhaps better yet, lukewarm civil war. The period that prefaces violence, where we build contempt,

where government dehumanizes human beings, where Americans are pitted against

one another, where violence teeters just outside the boundary incited by rhetoric, but not yet

executed by the gun.

Let's watch Lindsey Graham.

I'm not going to give money to foreign countries until we secure our own border.

Ten Democratic senators wrote a letter opposing efforts to provide border security,

opposing policy changes that would secure our border.

Governor Abbott, if you're watching

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