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When I was studying to become a nurse in the late 1960s, I learned that the most important value in patient care, for both nurses and doctors, is safety.\u00a0\u00a0Not curing, which is hoped for but often impossible, and not even empathy, although a high priority.\u00a0\u00a0That is because the patient who falls out of bed or is given the wrong dose of medicine or whose grievance is ignored or \u2014 yikes!\u00a0this just happened in Nashville \u2014 may pay with nothing less than his life.<\/p>

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As a mother of three, I already knew this.\u00a0\u00a0All the love and support and education in the world meant nothing in comparison to keeping my young children safe \u2014 away from unprotected electrical outlets, sharp table corners, a hot stove, automobile traffic, people with contagious diseases, and of course bad values.<\/p>\n

I never forgot this lesson: safety first, a value that applies as well \u2014 first and foremost and above all others \u2014 to our country.<\/p>\n

Among the most blatant of unsafe conditions is a home without locks on the doors and windows or, today, that lacks some kind of alarm or alert system.\u00a0\u00a0Does even one person you know or have ever known in your entire life live in a home, apartment, condo, or co-op with no locks on its doors or windows?\u00a0\u00a0An honest answer would be a thundering \u201cno!\u201d<\/p>\n

That is because we live in a world where there are people who are seriously mentally disturbed and criminals too numerous to mention whose raison <\/em>d\u2019\u00eatre <\/em>is to rob you of your possessions and often rape you or torture you or kill you in the process.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me?\u00a0\u00a0According to\u00a0OpenCrime.us, over a million violent crimes were committed in America in 2025 alone!<\/p>\n

We All Saw This with Our Own Eyes<\/h1>\n

Everyone in America, in fact everyone in the world, witnessed this in living color under the faux Biden regime, when 11 million unvetted illegal aliens \u2014 during the faux COVID pandemic, no less \u2014 were welcomed with open arms into our country.\u00a0\u00a0While the powers that be, meaning the so-called medical experts, were keeping us six feet apart and masked and shutting down schools and businesses and even military units, they were opening their arms not only to sex-traffickers, drug-traffickers, communists, jihadists, and career criminals, et al., but also to the de facto<\/em> implementation of\u00a0the Cloward-Piven strategy\u00a0from the 1960s,\u00a0the leftist goal of which was and is \u201cto facilitate a political crisis by overloading the system with crushing welfare costs, forcing the creation of a system of a\u00a0guaranteed minimum income,\u201d\u00a0and \u201credistributing income through the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, to actualize their longtime goal and ongoing fetish for communism by bringing about the collapse \u2014 actually the destruction \u2014 of the capitalist system by bankrupting it from overwhelming welfare expenditures.\u00a0\u00a0And that is what we witnessed as massive numbers of illegal aliens were put up in posh digs like the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City (and other fancy venues), and promptly provided with cash stipends, cell phones, free medical care and food, and top-flight education for their children.<\/p>\n

It is also relevant to mention that our porous borders accounted for a reported case of bubonic plague in Oregon (attributed to a cat…yeah, right!), the resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City, and an epidemic of measles in 14 states.<\/p>\n

All because of the Biden regime\u2019s abject neglect of \u2014 indeed, contempt for \u2014 the most important thing our elected officials are charged with protecting: our safety!\u00a0\u00a0Not our happiness, not our well-being, not our employment status, not our relationships, not our mental or physical health, not our entertainment, but our safety!<\/p>\n

Not Everyone Agrees<\/h1>\n

There are quite a few people who have a soft spot for illegal aliens and a collective blind spot for the huge spike in crime, including murders and child abduction, that has been reported across the country.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, as reported by Julio Rosas, at the recent Democratic National Committee\u2019s meeting, Democrats\u00a0uniformly pledged their allegiance to open borders, and of course the complete abolition of the\u00a0U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u00a0and all the mean people who work for ICE.<\/p>\n

Additionally, writes Rosas, \u201cthe resolution calls for restricting the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s funding until workplace raids, mass roundups, arrests at courthouses and check-ins, enforcement actions near schools and houses of worship are no longer carried out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did you ever notice that when Democrats \u2014 i.e., liberals, leftists, progressives \u2014 speak about the tsunami of foreigners who have flooded into our country, they always \u2014 100 percent of the time \u2014 omit the word \u201cillegal\u201d?<\/p>\n

Makes sense when you think about it.\u00a0\u00a0These are the people who embraced and applauded and supported and sent millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter and Antifa when those seditious, anarchic groups were rampaging across the nation, committing widespread arson, hurling (planted) bricks through businesses, sending dozens of people to intensive care units, and causing a significant number of deaths in their leftwing anti-capitalism and anti-American path.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake about it: Destroying ICE and its agents is among the major issues Democrats will run on in the midterms and will implement immediately if they gain the majority.<\/p>\n

They Have Allies<\/h1>\n

In keeping with the oh, so compassionate bleeding hearts in the Democrat party, we have state assemblywoman Emily Gallagher (D-N.Y.), a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who has gone public with her belief \u2014 not a theory, but a belief \u2014 that it is\u00a0perfectly fine for a person to shoplift \u2014 i.e., steal \u2014 if he has a \u201cbiological need\u201d \u2014 like for toothpaste and soap.\u00a0\u00a0She even suggested that shoplifting should be legalized!<\/p>

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And surprise, surprise!\u00a0\u00a0In keeping with her party\u2019s passionate embrace of Jew- and Israel-hatred, in 2024, Gallagher \u201cattended an anti-Israel phone bank sponsored by\u00a0the\u00a0New Jersey chapter of American Muslims for Palestine,\u00a0whose leaders have espoused vile antisemitic rhetoric and are\u00a0under investigation by Virginia\u2019s attorney general\u00a0for potentially funding terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

With allies like this, who needs enemies?<\/p>\n

What Does Safety Look Like?<\/h1>\n

That is why in President Trump\u2019s first acts when taking office in his second term, he immediately moved to close our wide-open southern border and to deport the multi-millions of illegal aliens whom the liberals\/leftists\/progressives among us welcomed in with open arms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a nation of immigrants,\u201d they opine.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cImmigrants built our country,\u201d they say to scold critics.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDeporting our immigrants is not who we are!\u201d they bleat endlessly.<\/p>\n

Again, the word they always omit when pleading their bleeding-heart case is \u201cillegal\u201d!<\/p>\n

But President Trump, ever the empiricist, knew the exorbitant costs in dollars and in crime that this tsunami of illegal aliens brought.<\/p>\n

According to writer Jasmine Baehr, the Trump border crackdown against drug cartels and arrests of convicted fentanyl-traffickers has led to a drop in synthetic opioid deaths from 48,913 to 38,084, while, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),\u00a0total drug overdose deaths fell 14 percent, and fentanyl deaths plunged 22 percent.\u00a0\u00a0Total drug overdose deaths also\u00a0fell 14 percent\u00a0during the same period, from 81,313 to 69,973.<\/p>\n

In addition, the president signed legislation that strengthens criminal penalties for fentanyl \u2014 which he calls \u201ca weapon of mass destruction\u201d \u2014 and his administration\u00a0has arrested more than 10,000 suspected gang members\u00a0and foreign nationals who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said had prior fentanyl-related convictions.<\/p>\n

Ask the thousands upon thousands of parents who have lost their children to this vicious drug how grateful they are for the president\u2019s enhanced border security and for saving other parents the lifetime grief they themselves are experiencing.<\/p>\n

This is not to omit, as journalist and TV correspondent Sharyl Attkisson\u00a0documents, that President Trump has delivered the largest drop in violent crime in American history!\u00a0\u00a0This includes:<\/p>\n