Merry Christmas and watch out for all those illegal immigrant rapists and murders Trump is talking about. 

BTW, what changed suddenly to make illegal immigrants America's !# National Security threat in 2018?

Up until trump first campaigned about "the Wall" no one was worried about illegal immigrants being National Security threat.  What made illegal immigrants a top National Security threat?

"Terrorist Infiltration Threat at the Southwest Border"
The national security gap in America’s immigration enforcement debate

By Todd Bensman on August 13, 2018

https://cis.org/Report/Terrorist-Infiltration-Threat-Southwest-Border

"On June 24, 2016 — during the waning days of President Barack Obama's administration — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson sent a three-page memorandum to 10 top law enforcement chiefs responsible for border security.1 The subject line referenced a terrorism threat at the nation's land borders that had been scarcely acknowledged by the Obama administration during its previous seven years. So far, it also has evaded much mention in national debate over Trump administration immigration policy."

So it appears the Obama administration ignored the trends toward an immigrant problem.

"No illegal border crosser has committed a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, to date. A Somali asylum-seeker who crossed the Mexican border to California in 2011 did allegedly commit an ISIS-inspired attack in Canada, wounding five people in 2017, and numerous SIAs with terrorism connections reportedly have been apprehended at the southern border, to include individuals said to be linked to designated terrorist organizations in Somalia, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and Bangladesh.2"

There is a perceived threat of infiltration of terrorists at the southern border.  Terrorists were not Trump's main concern in his campaign and his desire to build a Wall.  Someone told him later to start talking about "Middle Easterners" in the caravan  lol!

However, terror attacks in Europe are a basis for fear about terrorists sneaking across our southern border.  To me, however, this sneaking is a small threat compare to internal, domestic terrorist threats from White Nationalists and Neo Nazis.

"Conclusion
Former Secretary Johnson's 2016 directive for a more integrated, whole-of-government approach to the SIA terrorism threat at the Southwest Border, relative to whatever efforts were already underway, did not occur in a vacuum. At the time, he and other national security leaders would have been aware that in 2015-2016 (and through 2017 to present), attacks by ISIS terrorist operatives, sympathizers, and returning fighters were afflicting European allies.38"

So Europe saw some terrorists.

"If foreign-based terrorists observed success in this use of migration travel tactics to reach European targets, perhaps they and U.S. homeland security leaders like Secretary Johnson discerned a similar prospect they could reach the U.S.-Mexico border in the same manner."

My opinion is that the southern border might be a place for terrorists, but extremely unlikely given how we process asylum seekers.  Congress needs to do their job and pass a law and fix the risk issue if deemed real and probable.

"Obvious differences do exist between smuggling to Europe and to the U.S. border. Distances to the U.S. border are greater and the costs therefore higher. Those two factors would surely result in far fewer than the camouflaging millions who marched toward Europe starting in 2015."

Assess the threat intelligently, without Trump interference since he is a dunce, and pass the best law we can, SOON!