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Laken Riley and the Failure of America’s Border-Control System

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025
Aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our country have secured its independence by the establishment of a Constitution and form of government for our nation, calculated to prevent as well as to correct abuse.
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Washington Tammany Society [1809]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 30, 2025
Laken Riley and the Failure of America’s Border-Control System
The just-enacted Laken Riley Act goes a long way toward demonstrating the failure of America’s decades-old border-control system and the manifest refusal of border-control advocates to accept personal responsibility for the failure of their own system….
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