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JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS‚ Calif.—Mike Syzdek joined the Border Patrol in 1976. He says he “always liked the idea of law enforcement” and wanted the job security the Border Patrol offered.   At 57‚ after 31 years of serving at the Campo Border Patrol Station in San Diego County‚ Syzdek retired in 2007. He loved his job during those three decades‚ but today‚ he says he wonders what all his hard work was for.   It was common for him to work an 11-hour day because his team was small‚ the former agent says‚ adding that he does not know how many graduations and family functions he missed‚ but those “sacrifices” were “all for nothing‚” he told The Daily Signal during a recent ride-along through the area he used to patrol.  “I think of all the agents‚ myself included‚ who were injured on the job and agents who were killed … only to find out that everything was for nothing‚” Syzdek said.   “Over the course of my 31 years in Border Patrol‚ I caught‚ you know‚ tens of thousands of aliens‚” he said. “I caught 20‚000‚ let’s say‚ I kept them out of here. But they’ve let 10 million in … so‚ everything that I worked for my entire career was for nothing‚” he added. “And the only thing I feel good about is the many‚ many drug loads I busted and people I sent to prison and got the drugs off the streets.”   When he looks at the current situation at the southern border‚ Syzdek says‚ “it’s just heartbreaking that we have laws on the books and an agency to enforce the laws‚ and nobody’s doing it.”  Illegal crossings into the U.S. along California’s border with Mexico are not new. Established smuggling routes‚ more desirable terrain‚ and Tijuana’s proximity to San Diego‚ one of nine sectors along the southern border‚ have long made the sector a desirable crossing location. Border walls and border security policies worked to drive illegal immigration numbers down significantly in the sector from 2010 to 2020.   The Border Patrol encountered 53‚282 illegal aliens between ports of entry in the San Diego Sector in fiscal year 2020‚ the last full year of President Donald Trump’s presidency. In fiscal year 2021‚ encounters in the San Diego Sector nearly tripled‚ rising to 142‚459.  Since Joe Biden became president‚ U.S. Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 9 million illegal aliens on America’s borders and at ports of entry. That doesn’t include 1.7 million “known gotaways.”  Syzdek says he and the men he served alongside “never imagined in our wildest imagination that our country‚ that we all worked so hard to defend for those many years that we were in‚ would have open borders.”  On today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast‚” Virginia Allen and Simon Hankinson‚ senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center‚ discuss their recent trip to the southern border in San Diego County and what they learned from their ride-along with Syzdek. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Listen to the podcast below:   The post ‘All for Nothing’: Ex-Border Patrol Agent Laments 31 Years of Service Undone by Open Borders appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In 1984‚ women began asking the questions: “Where have all the good men gone‚ / And where are all the gods? / Where’s the streetwise Hercules / To fight the rising odds?” Thank you‚ chart-topping singer Bonnie Tyler‚ for your musical inspiration! Tyler’s song “Holding Out for a Hero” first hit a nerve back in 1984 in the movie “Footloose.” And it continues to hit a nerve today as we find ourselves in what many call “a boy crisis.” Brenda Hafera‚ a frequent guest on the “Problematic Women” podcast‚ says this crisis manifests as men and boys are “struggling mentally‚ physically‚ academically‚ economically‚ and spiritually because of the absence of fathers‚ the failures of our education system and policies‚ and changes in both the job market and our culture.”  As employment and IQ rates for men fell in recent years‚ suicide rates increased.  The crisis being experienced by men “is the result of decades of harmful ideas‚ policies‚ and even technologies‚” Hafera‚ assistant director and senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation’s Simon Center for American Studies‚ writes in a recent report. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.) “These elements have often exacerbated each other‚” Hafera writes‚ adding that “because the state of men helps to shape the state of society‚ the boy crisis is at once a driver and symptom of fundamental societal ills.”  the surface‚ the solution to the problem is simple: good fathers! Hafera is among many scholars who argue that a direct correlation exists between boys and men who have a present‚ loving father in their lives and rates of success and achievement. Hafera points to research on the importance of fathers‚ citing the book “The Boy Crisis” by Warren Farrell and John Gray.  “Whether or not dad is present impacts school achievement‚ verbal intelligence and quantitative abilities‚ school dropouts‚ employment‚ suicide‚ drugs‚ homelessness‚ bullying‚ victimization‚ violent crime‚ rape‚ poverty and mobility‚ hypertension‚ trust‚ and empathy‚” Hafera writes.  Of course‚ establishing loving fathers in homes across America is more difficult in practice. So how can this be done? What are the real solutions to the modern-day crisis of men? “The solutions to the boy crisis will be far-reaching and multitudinous‚” Hafera says‚ “including policies that may not immediately seem obviously relevant to the boy crisis.” Among them: Promoting school choice and classical and civic education. Disrupting the accreditation monopoly. Reforming colleges and universities. Increasing vocational and apprenticeship programs. Invigorating mentorship and single-sex activities and spaces. Renewing positive media portrayals and societal respect for men and fatherhood. Establishing and revisiting age-appropriate curtailments on technologies‚ drug policies‚ welfare and disability regulations‚ and family law. Hafera joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to discuss how these solutions can begin to address the “boy crisis” and what role we as women have to play.  Listen to the podcast below: Read Hafera’s full report on “the boy crisis” here. The post ‘Where Have All the Good Men Gone?’ Solutions to the ‘Boy Crisis’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.