BTW - one minor irony? Colombia is one of the few countries on earth that we had a positive balance of trade with. One of the few nations in the world that had opened up their economy to us more than we brought in from them. - albaby

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An irony for sure but this is not about trade at all other than as a tool to use in the higher order objective to establish operational control over our borders with an emphasis on the South in this case. However I am sure our partners to the North learned just how serious we are about establishing and enforcing border security for our sovereign nation.

The mind of BHM, I stalled on the above as I was about to hit Send when I thought, "Should I use the word "establishing" or the word "re-establishing"? I thought about it for longer than you might think and finally decided to add this after thought to perhaps stimulate some interesting conversation.

Which word really begs the question, did we ever at any time in our history have border security? I don't think we ever have and stuck with the word "establishing". We may have never had it but nevertheless, we need it now. We must adapt to the realities of present times which now demand among other things, secure borders.