Immigration; weaponized immigration

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.oann.com/newsroom/sweden-offering-migrants-34k-to-leave-european-nation/

[ccp]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/19/congressional-report-over-85-of-migrants-arriving-at-southern-border-released-into-u-s-as-biden-harris-slash-detention-space/

They forget to say/add :


We are releasing them into the US more than anyone in history

[Body-by-Guinness]

A law firm that has represented Hillary "let's jail people who traffic in disinformation, first amendment be damned" Clinton has issued a report detailing the take over of a Colorado apartment complex by a Venezuelan Gang. Their findings are incredibly shocking.

Imagine being an apartment dweller contending with the results of a federal government that habitually fails to enforce immigration laws, fails to keep people detained when arrested for violation of those laws and other laws, that apparently imports citizens of Venezuela and other countries en masse that then partake of criminal activity, and that leaves these low income renters to deal with the predations of this gang. Bet they feel great when filing their federal tax returns.

The current administration has failed to install more than ten charging stations despite throwing billions at that folly, it has failed to connect a single underserved person, let alone community, to high speed internet despite tens of billions more thrown at that boondoggle, yet it does a really good job of tossing millions or more at NGOs that, by means not much understood, assists people here illegally, with some of that group banding together to prey on the powerless.

No doubt our non-Border Czar had nothing to do with this mess:

https://bigleaguepolitics.substack.com/p/report-from-colorado-law-firm-claims?r=2k0c5&fbclid=IwY2xjawFac61leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVSDvykRJQaPQI_sfl0LcZVErnmGHLUzVfzJfReP4g6h07UTvHGQfqidXA_aem_30fxvlVaVuR4iiSe6or9bw&triedRedirect=true

At least we can sleep easy knowing that, should the current administration get another four years, this awful set of circumstances will be directly dealt with on "day one," perhaps just after it pushes for fracking in swing state PA, and ceases its underhanded attempts to eliminate second amendment protections by extra-constitutional means....

[Crafty_Dog]

(1) MURPHY INTRODUCES NEW IMMIGRANT VISA BILL: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) the Witness Assistance and Criminal Accountability Act yesterday, which would create a new W visa category for illegal immigrants who cooperate with law enforcement after witnessing a crime.
The W visa would work similarly to the U visa for illegal immigrants who are a victim of a crime.
Why It Matters: The House left for recess yesterday and will have only five legislative work weeks when Congress returns in mid-November, leaving this bill unlikely to pass before 2025. If Harris wins and Democrats flip the House, the bill will likely pass. A potential Harris administration and Democrats are also likely to look at other ways to expand amnesty for illegal immigrants, including new visa categories and parole programs. – R.C.

[ccp]

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/09/29/minneapolis-swears-first-non-u-s-citizen-police-officer/

[DougMacG]

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/09/29/minneapolis-swears-first-non-u-s-citizen-police-officer/

They can't figure out why they're having recruiting problems, while the governor leaves them out to die and blames them.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-police-department-officer-shortage-chief-brian-ohara/

[Body-by-Guinness]

Illegal immigration rates from Obama through Biden, broken down by single immigrants to families to children only:

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1841307528409563238?s=61

[Body-by-Guinness]

… is growing explosively:

https://www.thefp.com/p/inside-americas-fastest-growing-criminal

[Body-by-Guinness]

CLOSING THE BORDER TO TERRORISTS: COOPERATION BETWEEN MEXICAN CARTELS AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Tue, 10/22/2024 - 8:19pm

Closing the Border to Terrorists: Cooperation between Mexican Cartels and International Terrorist Organizations

By Andrew Byers and Kelsey Warner

In July 2024, three Palestinians and a Turk, all with possible connections to terrorist organizations, were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents while attempting to illegally cross the Southwest border from Mexico into the San Diego area.[1] One of the two Jordanians who attempted to breach the USMC Marine Corps Base at Quantico in May 2024 was confirmed to have crossed the Southwest border illegally before being detained and then released into the United States.[2] Eight Tajiks with ties to the Islamic State-Khorasan Branch (ISIS-K) were found to have crossed illegally into the United States via the Southwest border at various points in 2023 before being released into the United States.[3]  These are just a handful of the most recent incidents involving potential international terrorism-affiliated individuals entering the United States via the Southwest border in the past several years,[4] all facilitated by the Mexican cartels that control the flow of human trafficking across the border.

A growing number of potential terrorists have entered the United States illegally via the Southwest border in recent years. While we can document several important recent cases, we do not yet understand the full scope of the problem because of the large number of “gotaways,” illegal aliens who are known to have entered the United States, typically between ports of entry, but who do not have encounters with U.S. law enforcement officials, so their identities remain unknown and they are never vetted. The vast majority of such gotaways are, of course, economic migrants unaffiliated with international terror organizations. But the number of bad actors blending into this large pool of gotaways remains unknown and unknowable.

If the United States wants to address the problem of individuals with international terrorism ties entering the United States via the Southwest border, it will have to target the Mexican cartels, which control the flow of illegal entries into the United States. While these organizations are run primarily by businessmen driven by profit motives, well-financed terror organizations have the resources to secure entry to the United States from the cartels. The application of additional pressure on the cartels to cut off the flow of terror-affiliated illegal aliens will change the cartels’ incentives and should have some effect.

The Scope of the Problem

In December 2023, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that the number of warning signs of possible terror attacks inside the United States has increased dramatically since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas inside Israel. “What I would say that is unique about the environment that we're in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now, I've never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.”[5] This is troubling, to say the least, and suggests that much more must be done to head off the possibility of one or more major terrorist attacks inside the homeland.

The recent re-arrest of eight Tajiks with possible ties to ISIS-K inside the United States is a case study in both the potential problem—terrorists entering the United States via the Southwest border—and how current U.S. government policies exacerbate or fail to correct the problem. While most of ISIS-K’s attacks have taken place inside Afghanistan and Pakistan (including the 2021 Kabul airport attack that killed thirteen U.S. servicemembers), ISIS-K has also staged attacks inside Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. Most recently, in March 2024, four ISIS-K operatives, all ethnic Tajiks, attacked a Russian concert hall that killed close to 150 civilians. This recent out-of-area attack is highly worrisome because it suggests larger aspirations for ISIS-K, providing the context for why the recent arrests of eight ethnic Tajiks said to have connections to ISIS-K inside the United States are so concerning. The eight entered the United States illegally, coming across the Southwest border at various times in 2023. Of the eight Tajik nationals, three used the CBP One phone application to schedule an appointment at a port of entry, four were initially encountered by CBP while crossing the border between ports of entry, and one arrived at a port of entry without scheduling a CBP One app appointment.[6] After they were taken into custody by CBP, they were nominally “vetted” and subsequently released inside the United States with notices to appear before a U.S. immigration court at a later date.[7] Only later were they re-arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia after the individuals in question had scattered. This particular group of Tajiks is said to have ties with a larger ISIS-K cell operating in Central Europe, but it remains unclear if this was an ISIS-K operational cell being sent to conduct one or more attacks within the United States.[8]

The Tajik case is not isolated. This comes on the heels of an April 2024 arrest of an Uzbek national with ISIS-K ties who had been living illegally inside the United States for two years in Baltimore.[9] In February 2024, a Columbian man who was a positive match for membership in a terrorist organization (name of organization has not been publicly released) was detained by the Texas Department of Public Safety and turned over to CBP when he crossed into the United States via Eagle Pass area just a few days before a visit to the area by former President Donald Trump.[10] In August 2023, more than a dozen Uzbeks were detained on the Southwest border, having been infiltrated into the United States by a human smuggler with ties to ISIS.[11] Astonishingly, this case did not result in any detentions, since no derogatory information on the Uzbeks was immediately found. The Uzbeks all requested asylum and were then released into the United States and provided with court dates for their asylum hearings. It was only after the Uzbeks were released into the United States that the FBI learned that their travel had been facilitated in part by an individual with ties to ISIS. Despite the fact that there was no known immediate attack plot involving the Uzbeks and the ISIS-linked smuggler was not believed to be a formal member of ISIS but rather had “personal sympathies” with ISIS, according to U.S., government officials, this was an alarming case of potentially very dangerous human trafficking. Over 400 Central Asians are believed to have entered the United States via this ISIS-connected human trafficking operation.[12] While some 150 of the Central Asians who entered the United States via this smuggling network have now been arrested, at least fifty of them have not been relocated.

The number of individuals attempting to illegally enter the United States who are present in the Terrorist Screening Data Set (TSDS) has increased dramatically in the last few years. CBP reports that in FY2023, there were 80 such encounters on the Southwest border and 484 such encounters on the Northern border at land ports of entry.[13] In FY2024 (Year-to-Date), there were 46 such encounters on the Southwest border and 321 on the Northern border. There were many more such encounters between ports of entry. In FY2023, there were 169 such encounters on the Southwest border and 3 on the Northern border. In FY2024 (Year-to-Date), there have been 100 on the Southwest border and 2 on the Northern border. This is not to suggest that in each case the individual in question is a known terrorist, but in each case there is enough potentially derogatory information about the individual to further screen them. The total number of potential terrorists attempting to enter the United States is unknown, because since 2021 there have been at least 1.7 million gotaways at the Southwest border (illegal entrants detected but not detained).[14] Then-U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified in March 2023 that the total number of gotaways was likely 10-20 percent higher than the publicly reported numbers.[15] We simply cannot know how many of these two million gotaways were also present in the TSDS.

Congressional oversight recently forced CBP to admit that at least 99 individuals from the TSDS encounters on the Southwest border from FY2021-23 were released into the U.S. homeland and at least 34 additional TSDS individuals remain in DHS custody and have not yet been deported.[16] These individuals represent nationals from 36 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.[17] Of these 99, immigration judges granted bond to at least 27; four more were granted asylum inside the United States, and at least two more had their cases terminated by immigration judges.[18] In at least one case, a potential terrorist was granted bond after the immigration judge was never told by CBP that the individual was a potential national security threat. The Chief Immigration Judge admitted to a Congressional committee that only 5% of immigration judges have a Top Secret clearance, and that because of this, she “imagine[d] there may be” gaps in the information that DHS shares with immigration judges about the potential national security risks posed by such individuals.[19]

While we see news of isolated cases of watchlist-associated individuals crossing the border, Mexican cartels have a hand in everything that moves through the areas under their control, drugs, contraband, and people alike. In 2021 alone, the most recent year for which data are available, the Mexican cartels are estimated to have made $13 billion from human trafficking across the Southwest border.[20] CBP chief of the Tucson Sector recently testified before Congress that, “…if someone’s being smuggled, they’re using a criminal organization….that has changed significantly, when I started…in ’95, people could just get to the border and cross on their own….now nobody crosses without paying the cartels. …the cartels…determine when people cross…how many people cross at a time, all of that.”[21] Other senior CBP officials have likewise testified that anyone attempting to cross the Southwest border without the cooperation of the cartels—and, most importantly, paying the cartels—is beaten or killed by the cartels.[22] Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot recently noted that, “The cartels don’t have to invest a penny in any of the human smuggling. Their product is walking up to them and paying them to cross, so the cartels control every bit of what’s going on. Same with over in Baja. So it’s more of a human product and it’s cheap and easy for them. They just tell‘em when to cross.”[23]

Policy Recommendations

A number of obvious and immediate policy recommendations naturally flow from the above analysis. All require significant political will to implement and require acknowledging that there is a major problem underway. The good news is that there are some remedies that can begin to help cut off the flow of individuals with links to international terrorist organizations. If terrorists want to enter the United States badly enough, some will find ways to get inside the United States no matter what policy changes are implemented. The key is to raise the costs for illegal entry and deter at least some terror organizations from dispatching operatives because of the increased likelihood of getting caught.

One common refrain is that Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations should be designated as terrorist organizations. This would not necessarily increase U.S. legal authority to deal with the problem, however. As Brian Jenkins noted, “Ironically, the USA Patriot Act, passed in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, allowed investigators dealing with terrorism ‘to use the tools that were already available to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking.’”[24] While potentially satisfying, doing so would not change much. More specific policy solutions are needed.

First, the United States must apply additional pressure on the Mexican cartels to cut off the flow of terror-affiliated illegal entrants. This pressure should take the form of additional focusing of law enforcement resources, as well as military and intelligence community support for CBP and state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies on the border. In part, this could take the form of cooperative training exercises between U.S. and Mexican forces that would give Mexican law enforcement organizations additional resources while simultaneously allowing the United States deeper and more frequent access to vet their Mexican partners. The United States could also create a formalized, identity-protected channel of communication for Mexican law enforcement personnel to report terrorism concerns. This channel could be supported by additional counterterrorism training.

Second, the United States should cease using a kingpin strategy and head-hunting tactics, which target cartel leaders, which only serve to further destabilize the local cartel presence and spur further violence. As one study found, such an approach failed to “tackl[e] underlying issues like corruption, collusion, impunity, and a lack of economic opportunities,” and ended up doubling the local homicide rates where such a strategy was employed.[25] Another study found that homicide rates increase by 80% in a municipality in which a cartel leader is captured, and these effects persist for at least one year; neighboring municipalities suffer a 30% increase in homicides, with effects lasting at least six months.[26] The case study of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is one such cautionary tale. El Chapo was arrested in 2014, re-arrested in 2016, and extradited to the United States in 2017. This resulted in the creation of a power vacuum within the Sinaloa Cartel, which immediately resulted in massively increased violence as various Sinaloa factions jockeyed for influence. Cartel violence peaked in 2018, with 33,341 homicides that year, though Mexico’s murder rate has only diminished slightly since then.[27] While the removal of El Chapo from power initially seemed to be a success, it soon became clear that this was a Pyrrhic victory at best. New approaches that address underlying sources of violence, poor governance, and poverty while simultaneously depriving cartels of resources are needed.

Third, the United States should employ a combination of carrots and sticks against the Mexican government to pressure it to assist in combating the cartels. This would be a combination of punitive measures against Mexican law enforcement when they fail to stop crossings as well as providing additional resources and training to help them perform their jobs better. Note that giving the Mexican government increased access to U.S. vetting procedures may make them better at assisting the cartels in evading our security efforts but is probably necessary.

Lastly, in response to the recent reporting of at least 99 detained watchlisters being allowed into the United States, the U.S. federal government should make detention and automatic deportation the rule for all detained illegal aliens with derogatory data on the TSDS watchlist, rather than allowing immigration judges to grant bonds or asylum status, both of which permit release of these individuals into the United States with minimal to no oversight. This change may require congressional support but should be a nonpartisan issue. If such a new blanket policy is not politically feasible, all immigration judges should go through the process of receiving Top Secret security clearances so that they can be given information about the national security risks posed by detained watchlisters by CBP and other intelligence community officials. CBP should create a formalized process for its personnel with first-hand interactions with those on the list to refer them for further questioning by U.S. intelligence agencies before the detainees receive further processing. Illegal aliens with derogatory information on the TSDS watchlist should have their cases reviewed by immigration judges with the proper security clearances to review all information pertaining to the individuals.

 
[1] Mathilda Heller, “Palestinian migrants with possible terror ties detained by San Diego border agents,” The Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2024, https://www.jpost.com/international/article-812321.

[2] Greg Wehner and Bill Melugin, “ICE confirms Jordanians who attempted to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico were both in US illegally,” Fox News, May 23, 2024, https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-confirms-jordanians-attempted-breach-marine-corps-base-quantico-both-us-illegally.

[3] Caitlin Yikek, “Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack,” CBS News, June 14, 2024, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/.

[4] Andrew Byers, “Where Do We Stand with Al-Qaeda and ISIS? International Salafi Networks in 2024,” Small Wars Journal, July 16, 2024, https://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/where-do-we-stand-al-qaeda-and-isis-international-salafi-networks-2024.

[5] Chris Pandolfo, “FBI director warns of unprecedented terror threats since Oct. 7: 'Lights blinking everywhere,'” Fox News, December 5, 2023, https://www.fox9.com/news/fbi-director-warns-of-unprecedented-terror-threats-since-oct-7-lights-blinking-everywhere.

[6] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[7] Caitlin Yikek, “Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack,” CBS News, June 14, 2024, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/.

[8] Julia Ainsley, Tom Winter, Andrew Blankstein and Antonio Planas, “8 suspected terrorists with possible ISIS ties arrested in New York, L.A. and Philadelphia, sources say,” NBC News, June 11, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8-suspected-terrorists-possible-isis-ties-arrested-new-york-l-philadel-rcna156635.

[9] Julia Ainsley, “Migrant with alleged ISIS ties was living in the U.S. for more than two years, officials say,” NBC News, May 1, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-alleged-isis-ties-living-us-two-years-officials-say-rcna150281.

[10] Ali Bradley and Jorge Ventura, “Colombian man on terror watchlist arrested at Eagle Pass,” NewsNation, March 6, 2024, https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/colombian-terror-watchlist-crossing-border/.

[11] Katie Bo Lillis, Evan Perez, Priscilla Alvarez, and Natasha Bertrand, “Exclusive: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government,” CNN, August 30, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/migrants-us-southern-border-smuggler-isis-ties/index.html.

[12] Julia Ainsley and Tom Winter, “DHS identifies over 400 migrants brought to the U.S. by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network,” NBC News, June 25, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/dhs-identifies-400-migrants-brought-us-isis-linked-human-smuggling-rcna158777.

[13] FY23 and FY24 numbers are drawn from U.S. CBP Enforcement Statistics, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics. FY2024 year-to-date data last checked on October 14, 2024.

[14] “Border Sector Chiefs Confirm Operational Impacts of Border Chaos: Increased Gotaways, Closed Checkpoints, and Empowered Cartels,” December 20, 2023, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/20/border-sector-chiefs-confirm-operational-impacts-of-border-chaos-increased-gotaways-closed-checkpoints-and-empowered-cartels/.

[15] “Homeland Security Committee Republicans Confirm the Cause of This Unprecedented Border Crisis: Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,” March 16, 2023, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/03/16/homeland-security-committee-republicans-confirm-the-cause-of-this-unprecedented-border-crisis-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas/.

[16] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[17] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[18] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[19] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[20] Committee on Homeland Security, “Chairman Green: ‘Every Dollar the Cartels Rake in Comes at the Cost of an American Life or Livelihood,’” July 19, 2023, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/07/19/chairman-green-every-dollar-the-cartels-rake-in-comes-at-the-cost-of-an-american-life-or-livelihood/.

[21] Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin, Tucson Sector, December 14, 2023 Testimony, Committee on Homeland Security, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/14/now-nobody-crosses-without-paying-senior-border-patrol-agents-describe-unprecedented-cartel-control-at-southwest-border/.

[22] “’Now Nobody Crosses Without Paying’: Senior Border Patrol Agents Describe Unprecedented Cartel Control at Southwest Border,” December 14, 2023 Testimony, Committee on Homeland Security, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/14/now-nobody-crosses-without-paying-senior-border-patrol-agents-describe-unprecedented-cartel-control-at-southwest-border/.

[23] “Yuma County Sheriff provides perspective on immigrant surge,” KAWC Colorado River Public Media, May 24, 2024, https://www.kawc.org/news/2022-05-24/yuma-county-sheriff-wilmot-pleased-with-continuance-of-migrant-border-policy.

[24] Brian Jenkins, “Should Mexico’s Drug Cartels Be Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations?” RAND, March 22, 2023, https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/03/should-mexicos-drug-cartels-be-designated-foreign-terrorist.html.

[25] Jane Esberg, “Why Mexico’s Kingpin Strategy Failed: Targeting Leaders Led to More Criminal Groups and More Violence, Modern War Institute at West Point, June 9, 2022, https://mwi.westpoint.edu/why-mexicos-kingpin-strategy-failed-targeting-leaders-led-to-more-criminal-groups-and-more-violence/.

[26] Jason M. Lindo and María Padilla-Romo, “Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War,” Cato Institute, July 29, 2015, https://www.cato.org/research-briefs-economic-policy/kingpin-approaches-fighting-crime-community-violence-evidence.

[27] Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations, “Criminal Violence in Mexico,” October 9, 2024, https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/criminal-violence-mexico.

About the Author(s)
Kelsey Warner
Kelsey Warner is a former intelligence operations specialist for the Department of Homeland Security who focused on transnational organized crime and cybersecurity threats.


Andrew Byers
Andrew Byers is a non-resident fellow at the Texas A&M University’s Albritton Center for Grand Strategy and a former history professor at Duke University

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/closing-border-terrorists-cooperation-between-mexican-cartels-and-international-terrorist

[Body-by-Guinness]

2nd post. 4000 “migrants” headed our way in the hope of crossing illegally before a Trump inauguration or a Biden/Harris border backpedal:

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/2000-migrant-caravan-departs-southern-mexico-for-the-us-weeks-before-election/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

[Crafty_Dog]

https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1136,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/167/797/134/original/5c9d6dda6ff19e6b.jpg

[ccp]

But immigration is Portugals strength 

[Crafty_Dog]

For a while we sort of assumed problematic immigration and problematic Islam were one and the same, but in point of fact, that has become rather imprecise.  Therefore I have added Michael Yon's term "weaponized immigration" to the Subject line of this thread.

[Body-by-Guinness]

And you and I pay for it. Likely be curious to discover if these folks were resettled in demographically handy spots and if they were set up to vote:

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1850586782271680676?s=61

[Body-by-Guinness]

Erik Prince states there’s an element of the RICO statutes that makes aiding illegal immigration a RICO offense:

ErikDPrince

@realErikDPrince
The next Attorney General must  go after all the heads of NGOs who facilitated invasion of 15 million illegals with this law. Bankrupt these NGOs in fines and penalties. Consequences matter. Facilitating an invasion of America is criminal treason.

https://x.com/realErikDPrince/status/1855393852489658798

My take: full speed ahead. I particularly want to see the names of leaders and boards of these NGOs, trace what percentage of funding was devoted to importing and supporting illegals, how much went to payroll, and what portion is difficult to account for, particularly if any got kicked upward/elsewhere.

[Crafty_Dog]

Emotionally I like it.  Not sure how it would play out politically though-- but I am willing to be persuaded.

[Body-by-Guinness]

Emotionally I like it.  Not sure how it would play out politically though-- but I am willing to be persuaded.

Trump will have to be smart about it. ID, say, a truly cretinous NGO and go at them hard, the invite others to speak with the “truth and reconciliation” committee he has stated he’s setting up. Get a couple to cop to their acts, then stand back as the dam breaks.

[Crafty_Dog]

This is not the thread for it, but another something for us to dial in on is the way NGOs are financed by the Blob.   Going after them will trigger truly fierce resistance.

[ccp]

"the Blob"

I don't see the connection to the 1958 Steve McQueen movie.

??

[Crafty_Dog]

Another name for the uniparty and its remoras in our nation's capitol.

[Crafty_Dog]

Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise
He has a mandate on the border and to deport criminals. But more than that could get ugly fast.
By The Editorial Board
Nov. 11, 2024 5:55 pm ET

Donald Trump won a second term in the White House by pledging to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, and that includes sending a clear deterrent message to migrants before he’s sworn in again on Jan. 20. Last week a caravan of about 3,000 people set out toward the U.S. from near the Guatemala border, according to Reuters, but many of them dispersed after Mr. Trump’s victory.


Mr. Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, his former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has agreed to be his new border czar. Mr. Homan will be “in charge of our Nation’s Borders,” plus “all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. Media leaks Monday said Stephen Miller, who advised Mr. Trump on immigration policy in the first term, is likely to be White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

In short order, Mr. Trump will move to reinstate the border policies of his first term, such as Remain in Mexico, which seemed to work. Under that deal, migrants claiming asylum in the U.S. were sent back to Mexico while their cases were pending, which might take months or more. The idea was to break the incentives to game the system. Given the backlog of asylum cases, letting migrants into the U.S. while they wait is an enticement to come.

The political rub may be Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to conduct “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” How it goes depends on what Mr. Trump means. Speaking Monday on Fox News, Mr. Homan said the priority will be “public-safety threats and national-security threats,” as well as migrants who “had due process” and “their federal judge said ‘you must go home,’ and they didn’t.”

Good to hear, and add what Mr. Homan told “60 Minutes” last month. “It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods,” he said. “It’s not going to be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ridiculous.”

Instead he said Mr. Trump’s plan would involve “targeted arrests,” and eventually “worksite enforcement operations.” If officers making an arrest also find an undocumented grandma in the house, will they detain her? “It depends,” Mr. Homan said. “Let the judge decide.”

Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers, including Mr. Miller, have talked about mass deportation in sweeping terms. But enforcement priorities are up to the President, and Mr. Trump has suggested he isn’t interested in illegal grandmothers.

When he visited the Journal recently, we asked about aliens who have been here for years, who might have U.S. citizen spouses and children. His response was that he wanted to help them.

“We have a lot of good people in this country, and we have to do something about it,” Mr. Trump said. “This has been going on for a long time. It’s a complicated subject.” He declined to specify whom he’d deport: “I don’t want to go too much into clarification, because the nicer I become, the more people that come over illegally.” Yet after stringent talk about deterrence, he ended with nuance: “There are some human questions that get in the way of being perfect, and we have to have the heart, too.”

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The public backs him on securing the border and reducing the burden that migrants have put on cities across the country. But as Mr. Trump appears to realize, support will ebb if the public sees crying children as their parents are deported, or reads stories of long-settled families broken up and “dreamers” brought here illegally as children deported to countries that they no longer remember.

Even as Mr. Biden’s failures turned the public against immigration, Gallup this summer said 81% of Americans want a path to citizenship for those “brought to the U.S. illegally as children.” That included 64% of Republicans.

Mr. Trump can do much on immigration by executive action, but a durable solution needs legislation. Maybe Democrats, after the electoral haymaker they got last week, will be willing to compromise more than they have in the past. Mr. Trump missed a chance for a bipartisan deal in 2018 to permanently change the border incentives on asylum and more. He’ll have a narrow window again next year, if he’s willing and has the heart.

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" but a durable solution needs legislation. Maybe Democrats, after the electoral haymaker they got last week, will be willing to compromise more than they have in the past. Mr. Trump missed a chance for a bipartisan deal in 2018 to permanently change the border incentives on asylum and more. He’ll have a narrow window again next year, if he’s willing and has the heart."

so typical of WSJ

 

yes I know the crying babies etc.....

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badass  :

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/11/trump-picks-tom-homan-to-oversee-border-security-deportations/

 

Compare him to that no good lying piece of "garbage"  Myorkas who must be on the list of investigations for breaking and subverting American law.

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Homan is a GREAT choice!

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Coulter => fangirl -> never Trumper => fangirl:

https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2024/11/13/columnistsanncoulter20241113trumps-magnificent-beginning-n2647750

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https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/18/ny-times-admits-migration-skews-nations-economy-politics/