Funny how a wide-open border policy sends a big beaming signal to the whole wide world that your border is, you know, wide open:

An alleged ISIS operative in the U.S. was plotting to kill George W. Bush, going so far as to travel to Dallas in November to take video around the former president's home and recruiting help from a team of compatriots he hoped to smuggle into the country over the Mexican border, according to an FBI search-warrant application filed March 23 and unsealed this week in the Southern District of Ohio.

The FBI said it uncovered the scheme through the work of two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter's account on the Meta-owned WhatsApp messaging platform. The alleged ISIS operative, based in Columbus, Ohio, said he wanted to assassinate Bush because he felt the former president was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the country after the 2003 U.S. military invasion, according to the warrant.

You know, maybe this is just sort of fanciful or unrealistic, but it seems to me that—and stop me if this sounds nuts—Joe Biden's much more lenient and relaxed approach to border security is maybe a serious national security risk?

Let's be fair, though, and point out that even the allegedly hawkish presidency of Donald Trump wasn't without its shortcomings:

The alleged plot organizer had been in the U.S. since 2020 and had an asylum application pending, according to the FBI's search-warrant application.

Ahhh.

This is probably a fine time for a total reorientation of U.S. border policy.

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