Florida Conservative

For nearly ten years, the United States tolerated a level of civilian interference in immigration enforcement that would be unthinkable in any other domain of federal authority.

enee Good was not a passive civilian crushed by an indifferent state. She was a combatant in a low-grade, extra-legal sovereignty struggle between sanctuary municipalities and federal immigration enforcement.

The federal executive may answer with “security operations” that carefully avoid civil-war language, yet act as classic COIN: protecting key nodes, reasserting sovereignty over contested terrain, and using federal charges when local legal systems are unwilling or unable to act. U.S. Army/Marine Corps doctrine (FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5) provides a neutral vocabulary: secure the population, control key infrastructure, displace insurgent parallel governance, and restore legitimate ci

The Third Amendment was written to protect citizens from state-compelled hospitality to hostile forces. Today, that hostility is not physical but ideological. And its soldiers do not wear red—but are marked by their instrumentalization in service of a political agenda that seeks to dissolve the nation-state itself.