Gov. Maura Healey ought to make a quiet trip to the southern border.

There, she could get a firsthand look at how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is dealing with the illegal immigrant invasion of the country.

It is an invasion that includes Massachusetts and threatens to wreck her administration, both financially and politically.

It would also give her an opportunity to begin putting some space between Joe Biden, who she blindly supports, and her.

Not only has Biden brought the country to its knees with his reckless decision to open the southern border to some 10 million mostly Spanish-speaking illegal immigrants, but he will bring down his supporters as well.

The danger for Healey is that if she waits for Biden to reverse his disastrous open orders policy, she will have to learn Spanish because that is what we all will be speaking.

What is happening, with Biden’s support, is the Reconquista, which is the unofficial pipedream of retaking of land wrested from Mexico following the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War.

As a result of the controversial war in which the U.S. invaded Mexico, the Mexican government recognized the cession of Texas and turned over to the expansionist U.S. some parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

The war and the result have always been a sore spot with Mexico and other countries south of the border.  A lot of Americans were also upset about the war.

But now it is payback time.

Without firing a shot, the Reconquista appears to be a roaring success.

Not only have the migrants inundated the land that Mexico previously called its own, but they have expanded to other cities and states across the country.

In most cases, upon their arrival, they have been granted generous welfare benefits like free housing, free food, free medical care, schooling transportation, security, and EBT cards that taxpayers are paying for.

The unchecked illegal immigrant invasion has also destabilized cities with increased crime, criminal gang activity, and smuggled fentanyl.

The immigration issue, once on the back burner, is now the most important issue facing the nation as Congress, governors, and mayors struggle for solutions. It had divided the political parties.

Generally, Republicans want to restore and expand on Trump’s secure border policy. At the same time, Democrats oppose any solution tied to Trump but are reluctant to hold Biden responsible for opening the borders.

What is even more potentially divisive is that illegal immigration is dividing the military as well.

While Democrat governors have kept their troops at home and looked on, Republican governors from across the country have sent state National Guard troops to Texas to help Gov. Greg Abbott ward off and control illegal crossings across the border.

Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, one of 13 Republican governors who met with Abbott at Eagle Pass a week ago, sent more of his National Guard members to Eagle Pass.

“If the Biden administration continues to fail the American people, we have no choice, no choice but to step in,” Kemp said. “We have a president that will not act.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already sent one thousand Florida Guard members to Texas and has promised to send more.

Other states with Republican governors who have sent National Guard troops to Texas include Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, Virginia, West Virginia and South Dakota.

Even New Hampshire Republican Gov. John Sununu got into the act. Sununu, one of the 13 Republican governors who met with Abbott at Eagle Pass, Texas a week ago, returned home to propose sending a handful of NH National Guard members to Eagle Pass.

That is in sharp contrast to neighboring Gov. Healey.

While Healey called out the Massachusetts National Guard to deal with the overflow of illegal immigrants, it was not for the soldiers to go to Texas but to stay home and provide welfare and social services for them.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.

The Roxbury rec center now an overflow shelter site. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)