Within just two weeks of launching a patriotism-themed join.ICE.gov website, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been flooded with over 100,000 applications to help the Trump administration enforce our nation’s immigration laws. This ICE recruitment boom is part of a larger pattern of interest in serving the nation, particularly among young men filling security, law enforcement, and military service roles. It is a welcome change from Joe Biden’s presidency, when few were inspired to serve their country.

The decline in federal law enforcement service under the last Democratic president is completely understandable. Less than a year into his term, Biden’s open borders policies created a crisis at the southern border with over 10,000 Haitians camping in squalid conditions under a bridge in Texas waiting to be processed into the country through Biden’s catch-and-release policies.