The opinion article argues that President Trump should create a commission to investigate the Biden administration’s handling of the US south-west border. It says such an inquiry would preserve government records, establish how the crisis developed and publicly demonstrate what the author characterises as policy failures.

The author says the relevant period ran for 45 months, from January 2021 to January 2025, and claims that at least eight million foreign nationals entered through the south-west border. It contends that large quantities of government emails and records remain available for examination, although the supplied text does not set out the commission’s proposed powers or structure.