Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown announced on Wednesday that she would not comply with President Donald Trump’s request to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border if asked to do so.

Trump issued a proclamation that same day calling on the defense secretary to “request use of National Guard personnel” to secure the border.

The president cited the flow of illicit drugs, MS-13 gang activity and illegal immigration as his reasons for the move.

“Our American way of life hinges on our ability as a Nation to adequately and effectively enforce our laws and protect our borders,” the memo stated. “A key and undeniable attribute of a sovereign nation is the ability to control who and what enters its territory.”

“The situation at the border has now reached a point of crisis,” it added. “The lawlessness that continues at our southern border is fundamentally incompatible with the safety, security, and sovereignty of the American people. My Administration has no choice but to act.”

Protecting her citizens from drugs and gangs apparently are not good enough reasons for Brown. The governor’s defiance came despite a report released last summer finding Oregon has the fourth highest teenage drug abuse rate and the sixth worst drug problem overall in the country!

“We have a massive problem,” Mark Kruger, captain of Portland Police Bureau’s drugs and vice division, told KATU. The 23 year-veteran added, “We’re seizing larger quantities of methamphetamine and heroin and cocaine in Portland, Oregon than we have historically ever seized.”

Brown responded directly to Trump with a pair of tweets indicating she has no intention of complying with his request, though there is no indication she’s even been asked.

“If @realDonaldTrump asks me to deploy Oregon Guard troops to the Mexico border, I’ll say no. As Commander of Oregon’s Guard, I’m deeply troubled by Trump’s plan to militarize our border,” she wrote.

“There’s been no outreach by the President or federal officials, and I have no intention of allowing Oregon’s guard troops to be used to distract from his troubles in Washington,” Brown said.

There’s been no outreach by the President or federal officials, and I have no intention of allowing Oregon’s guard troops to be used to distract from his troubles in Washington.

— Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) April 4, 2018

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters at the White House on Wednesday the details of the deployment are still being worked out, but made clear the administration was not federalizing the troops and governors retained control over their troops.

She gave no inkling non-border states would be asked to send soldiers to support the mission, so it looks like Brown is just grandstanding against Trump. She is up for re-election in 2018, after all.

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“I have spoken with all of the (border state) governors, and will be continuing these conversations,” Nielsen said. “It is very encouraging that some of them have already taken dramatic steps in their own states to confront illegal immigration and to strengthen that border security to prevent the criminal activity and the inflow of drugs.”

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that National Guard troops from his state are already deployed to the border.

GOP Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey supports the move.

Arizona welcomes the deployment of National Guard to the border. Washington has ignored this issue for too long and help is needed. For Arizona, it’s all about public safety.

— Doug Ducey (@dougducey) April 4, 2018

New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez stated that she “appreciates the administration’s efforts to bring states to the table as they go about taking steps to better secure our border.”

Meanwhile, California Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown is so far non-committal, the Sacramento Bee reported. Given that he has taken many opportunities to rail against Trump and tout California’s status as a sanctuary state, one can predict compliance may not be forthcoming.

NPR reported all the recent presidents including Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan have ordered National Guard troops to the border, citing drug smuggling and illegal immigration.

Oregon’s Gov. Brown, like her California counterpart, has been an outspoken critic of Trump.

Maybe Brown needs to care more about her charge of protecting her citizens and less about trying to score political points against Trump, if she truly wants to lead her state.

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This is what a huge step forward looks like.

Confronted with an illegal immigration invasion more than a decade ago as migrants from the Horn of Africa sought the benefits of living in a First World country while escaping the misery of Eritrea and Sudan, the Israeli government built a “wall” of security on its border with Egypt that’s worked wonders to dry up the numbers.

And if Israel’s immigration policy is a hot-button controversy in its domestic and international politics today, its biggest immigration problem is one Americans opposed to illegal immigration could only wish for.

Since embarking on its get-tough policy on illegal immigration that included the “wall” on the border and stepped up deportation measures, Israel has cut its illegal immigration population from about 65,000 at its peak less than a decade ago to about 37,000, according to CNN.

Those numbers might not seem a lot by American standards — maybe a couple of blocks in Los Angeles, or a Democrat voter registration drive on a good month — but Israel’s population is tiny compared to the United States.

Writing in Breitbart News in February, Israeli-American journalist Caroline Glick reported that there were only 2,766 illegal immigrants in all of Israel in 2006. That number tripled when more than 5,000 illegals entered the country from Eritrea and Sudan through the Egyptian border.

And more kept arriving, in numbers that would overwhelm even a much larger country.

As Glick wrote: “When you consider that in 2011, Israel’s total population stood at 7.7 million, that means that as a portion of its total population, Israel absorbed 95 times more illegal aliens that year than Spain did.”

And that’s when Israel decided on the “wall,” actually a fortified fence about 150 miles long that was completed in 2013.

“The results were dramatic. Illegal immigration fell immediately by 98 percent,” Glick wrote.

“In 2013, 123 African migrants entered the country. In 2017, no one arrived.”

For an American used to activists on both sides of the issue talking about illegal immigrants in the millions, the number “123” is almost laughable; the number “0” is impossible. But that’s what a “wall” meant for Israel.

Now, Israel’s immigration problems are far from solved. As Glick reported Monday on Breitbart News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced by a combination of domestic Israeli and international opponents to give up on a plan to remove most of the country’s remaining illegal immigrants from north Africa.

The deal is ominous for Netanyahu’s voters, she wrote, because it was a victory for the Israeli left, which, like the American left, considers opposition to illegal immigration to be racism.

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But it has also set the stage for a confrontation between Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset and the country’s judiciary which, according to Glick, has usurped “the right to abrogate laws that had been duly passed.”

That might sound familiar to American ears, which keeps hearing federal judges issue rulings against President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program for illegal immigrants.

Thanks to a combination of leftist forces that Glick described, Israel is far from out of the woods when it comes to dealing with its illegal alien population.

But thanks to the “wall” on Israel’s border with Egypt, that population stopped growing at an explosive rate, and now the country’s question is how it gets rid of the illegal aliens it has within its borders.

That’s a question American opponents of illegal immigration would love to be answering at this point, but it’s what a huge step forward looks like.

And it started with a “wall.”

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