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As recent events have demonstrated, the readiness and modernization of the United States’ defense capabilities are as important as ever. Keeping Americans safe and prioritizing American interests must always be a leading goal. Our open borders, paired with ongoing global unrest, not only threaten national security for the United States and our allies, they have serious implications for economic security around the world.

This was clearly evidenced on a recent trip I made with many of my colleagues to Eagle Pass, Texas, on our southern border. What I witnessed there was devastating. State and l...