And then there are the ones who weren’t caught. What could possibly go wrong? Celebrate diversity!
“Record Number of Suspected Terrorists Crossed the U.S.-Mexico Border,” by Todd Bensman, Newsweek, October 28, 2022:
…Final fiscal year 2022 numbers show Border Patrol apprehended a whopping 98 watch-listed terrorists at the southern border, six times the record 15 caught there in 2021 (three were caught in 2020 and none in 2019). That’s also five times the number it took to carry out the 9/11 attacks that took America to war in overseas theaters for 20 years.
For even more perspective, my 2021 book America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, quoted intelligence officials saying that American authorities caught about 100 on the FBI watch list between 2012 and 2017. That included individuals still en route and south of the border. The 98 ensnared in just fiscal year 2022 had all reached the border.
All of this puts a sharp national security edge on Biden’s mass migration border crisis, the greatest in U.S. history by any measure. Biden’s first year broke all prior Border Patrol apprehension records dating to when the government began keeping them in 1960, at more than 1.7 million. Fiscal year 2022 came in at just under 2.4 million apprehensions. None of these apprehensions include the estimated two million who were not detained.
People are pouring in at the simply incredible average rate of 200,000 every month, with no end in sight.
The apprehension of even one such person is bad news, even though some might consider it a relief that all 98 of these watch-listed suspected terrorists wound up in government custody, in addition to the 16 from Biden’s first year, for a total of 114. But as when commercial fisheries take random net samples to estimate total numbers of a particular fish species in the water, the apprehension of 114 tells us that a lot more suspected terrorists are in the drink now.
According to former acting ICE Commissioner Mark Morgan, in fiscal years 2021 and 2022, an estimated one million illegal border crossers made their way into the American interior undetected—known in official Border Patrol nomenclature as “got-aways.” These are illegal border crossers seen on video surveillance or discovered through foot prints in sand but never caught. To this figure, Morgan adds another one million “unknown” presumed got-aways the Department of Homeland Security calculates as strictly internal official duty.
What this means for Homeland Security is that it must assume that more than the 114 probably got into America undetected.
Long stretches of the southern border, especially in Texas and Arizona, broke open and millions poured through, including criminal aliens and, yes, Islamist terrorists. Additionally, the 114 detained suspects demonstrate that people involved in terrorism are well aware the southern border is now a great way to get in, and they’re going for it….
Dave says
Seizures of fentanyl have also spiked, along with the directly related overdose deaths of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens. The absence of an immigration policy and crippling of the border service means that the Joe Biden now has all those deaths on his hands, so much so that he would be charged with negligent homicide if he didn’t also control the Trump obsessed Justice Department.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Dave.
Opioids – now primarily fentanyl originating in China and entering the United States from Mexico – is killing about 300 people a day in the United States.
Which is up sharply with the Biden regime.
Biden and his co-conspirators have blood on their hands…
Keith O says
Turn the entire border into a free fire zone and put in the mine fields.
That will be the only way the flood of terrorists, drugs, criminals and illegal immigrants will be stopped.
GreekEmpress says
We had another day last week where Border Patrol were chasing “gottaways” through neighborhoods—one episode two blocks from our house. One neighborhood made numerous calls regarding illegal crossers in camo gear and with large backpacks. Very unnerving as agents have told us that they are only here when they are chasing the dangerous drug and gun runners and human traffickers. Otherwise they are on the border processing the migrants and transporting them. Add in the threat of jihadis possibly in the mix, and it’s mind boggling.
If our state elections go the wrong way, it will only get worse. Definitely heading north if that happens. Already making household updates and repairs just in case we want to put the house up for sale quickly.
keith j says
Our nation is under assault and being attacked by Islamic terrorists.
Fitna says
What a crazy world we live in…200k crossing every month, completely undeterred. This is a true invasion, expect rape/murder and other crimes to skyrocket.
The Democrats are going to turn the lower half into a larger Mexico. Only the military can stop this now if they wanted to, Congress obviously doesn’t give a damn.
Meanwhile Muslim terrorists are streaming in along with them so expect terrorist attacks in the mix as well. Just insanity.
If the invaders get the right to vote, they’ll destroy America, it’ll turn into a banana republic like some of those South American nations where drug lords are in charge.
At least the US has around 330 million people. If enough of them are armed and want to push the invaders out, it’s possible to do, esp. if the states/govt’s break down.
It’ll be interesting to see who becomes the next Potus…given that they abolished Roe (at the national level) that dirty trick has pissed off millions of people who might keep the Democrats in power, which means a weaker US for years to come.
I don’t think a Republican can win another presidential election for the foreseeable future.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“I don’t think a Republican can win another presidential election for the foreseeable future.”
If elections are “free and fair enough” in 2024, a MAGA Republican could definitely win.
But only “if”…
Walter Sieruk says
That “No secure border policy” of Joe Biden and his leftist’s political comrades are totally disaster for many reasons.
It was discovered that twenty – three Muslim terrorists just captured crossing the Mexican/US border that really be a wake up call. Before that a jihadist who was captured who had originally come from Saudi Arabia, earlier yet two Iranian jihad operatives had also been captured.
First, there are also those jihadists of ISIS al Qaeda and other similar jihadist terrorists may now more easily infiltrate into America and there is drastic rise in drug cartel trafficking.
Second, in opens the door in an “invitation for malicious violent criminal gangs enter America through the US/ Mexican “border.” As the murderers’ rapists and drug dealing heinous gangster who a call themselves MS- 13. Likewise, now heinous rise in the drug cartel trade because of porous borders.
Third, because the criminals now entering America because of Biden’s porous border policy there is also a terrible increase of murderous violence and vast destruction in America cities.
Forth, there is the drastic and deadly increase and of the coronaviruses by migrants South of the US/ Mexican “border.” So much evil is now infesting the USA, “thanks” to Joe Biden.
The coronavirus will rise, and so will the death rate have a drastic increase in the USA because of the COVID -19 positive migrants who have entered America though the open-door policy of Joe Biden.
In conclusion, Biden will have the blood of many good, decent American citizens across the United States on his wicked vile hands.
Walter Sieruk says
The subversive, un- American impostor “president “ Joe Biden got into the White House Oval Office and ruined everything and likewise wrecked all the good that was accomplished.
Secure strong borders was a great achievement of President Trump. The tragic reality is that dangerous
Furthermore President Trump understands the need for a good strong US/Mexican border control, likewise he cares.
In contrast, feeble-minded Joe Biden doesn’t understand this need. Or Biden does understand and just doesn’t care or he understands and is intentionally attempting to harm America. In any case Biden is dangerous.
For porous borders Mexico has enabled Iranian jihad operatives as well as jihadists of other like-minded Islamic terror entities to infiltrate into the United States. Furthermore, illegal immigration from Mexico is dangerous because of crime by gangs of hooligans who enter the US through pours borders with Mexico. As for example, the gang of thugs called MS-13 who originated in El Salvador the come into America through Mexico. Those gangsters commit crimes as murders, rapes, drug dealing. They are also known, for a price, to smuggle jihadists of Al Qaeda in America.
In addition, to all this, with illegal immigration also comes higher welfare cost and an increased chances of the spread of contagious diseases, such as coronavirus.
Furthermore, with more illegal come more environmental degradation and more urban sprawl. Therefore, there is a great need for a good for a good border control system with a strong tall wall that’s patrolled by armed American military soldiers who may be allowed to use their guns if they deem it necessary. Along with a good filtering system to let in to the United States only good decent hard working people with visas and not and not gangsters and jihadists.
In conclusion all the above may be summed up by the wisdom found in the words of Ronald Reagan when he as, so well, stated “A nation without borders is not a nation.”