Ending mass migration is a top priority of President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy. “Who a country admits into its borders,” he said, “in what numbers and from where — will inevitably define the future of that nation.”
America’s Strategy states that the U.S. must protect the country from invasion, “not just from unchecked migration but from cross-border threats such as terrorism, drugs, espionage, and human trafficking.”
Another priority of America’s Strategy, “is to secure the God-given natural rights of American citizens.” Government must never be allowed to infringe these rights.
“Regarding countries that share, or say they share, these principles,” said the President, “the United States will advocate strongly that they be upheld in letter and spirit. We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.”
America’s Strategy also strongly affirms that the days of the United States propping up the entire world order are over. President Trump has set a new global standard with the Hague Commitment, which pledges NATO countries to spend 5 percent of their gross domestic product on defense and which our NATO allies have endorsed and must now meet.
Another priority for America’s Strategy is realignment through peace. Seeking peace deals at the President’s direction, even in regions and countries peripheral to U.S. immediate core interests, is an effective way to increase stability, strengthen America’s global influence, realign countries and regions toward its interests, and open new markets. The resources required boil down to presidential diplomacy. The dividends - an end to longstanding conflicts, lives saved, new friends made - can vastly outweigh the relatively minor costs of time and attention.
Economic security is fundamental to American national security. It includes rebalancing U.S. trade relations. The Strategy declares that the United States will prioritize rebalancing its trade relations, reducing trade deficits, opposing barriers to American exports, and ending dumping and other anti-competitive practices that hurt American industries and workers.
The U.S. seeks fair, reciprocal trade deals with nations that want to trade with us on a basis of mutual benefit and respect. But U.S. priorities must and will be America’s own workers, American industry, and America’s national security.
Other priorities include reindustrialization of the U.S, including reviving America’s defense industrial base; restoring American energy dominance in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear and reshoring the necessary key energy components and preserving and growing America’s financial sector dominance.
“In our every principle and action,” said President Trump, “America and Americans must always come first.”
