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

Keith Preston

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]

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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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