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Q4 2026
Life Securing the Southern Border
Join us for the next Liberty Forum Book Club. Whether you see enforcement as the precondition of a free society or a growing risk to civil liberties, the underlying question is the same: what does government owe its citizens, and what may it do to deliver it? This quarter's author traded Army Ranger deployments for search-and-rescue missions with Border Patrol's elite BORTAC and BORSTAR units.
This quarter’s reading:
Borderline: Defending the Home Front by Vincent Vargas (2024)
Vargas recounts search-and-rescue missions, tactical operations with BORTAC, and the daily reality of an agency he says is misunderstood by both the media and Washington.
Discussion Questions
Border enforcement is a core function of limited government. Where does that function end and overreach begin, for example with interior checkpoints or surveillance towers?
Cartels and smugglers profit from migrants who are often their victims. Can a liberty-minded policy be tough on the traffickers and humane toward the people they exploit?
Vargas says defending the border felt like a continuation of his wartime service overseas. Do you agree?
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