Trump's border ground game is off to a fast start. To guarantee change Congress must do 3 things

The trees felled for Trump's blitz of directives shouldn't obscure the forest, which is a clash of two ideologies.

On the right is the perspective championed by Trump, which holds that sovereign nations with secure borders decide who enters their countries, and on what terms.

Trump's ground game makes sense with that big picture in mind. It's two-fold: undo the policies that drew illegal migrants in, and ramp up the moribund process of removing those already here.

Americans saw the results, and a majority voted for Trump to secure the border and enforce immigration laws. What he's implementing now is a strategy along multiple lines of effort to turn off the magnet attracting illegal migrants, stop funding the influx, and ramp up enforcement.

In a nutshell, the aim is to deter, detain, and (if so ordered) deport illegal migrants, rather than process them in and punt them into an endless legal process quagmire.

In his Monday executive actions, Trump declared an invasion at the southern border-and an emergency, for good measure. He called Mexican cartels terrorists and called for "maximum" vetting for visa applicants. He ordered wall-building restarted. He ended the parole programs Biden used to bring in 75,000 off-the-books inadmissible aliens every month.

1. At the very least, they should aim to cap immigration parole so it can never again be perverted to bypass our refugee process. To meet the detention requirement of existing law, plus the new Laken Riley Act, they should fund more beds for illegal aliens during their court process.

3. Congress could amend the laws that incentivize smuggling children into the U.S. and then require states to educate them. They could also cut illegal aliens off from federal welfare.