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Rove: US has abandoned border towns
« Reply #2900 on: October 13, 2023, 07:22:29 AM »
iden Has Abandoned Border Towns
New York and Chicago get federal help. Eagle Pass, Texas, and Yuma, Ariz., don’t.
By Karl Rove
Oct. 11, 2023 6:01 pm ET


Journal Editorial Report: A liberal group forms to stop a No Labels candidate. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark Kelly
Tom Perez and Kathy Hochul have each other on speed dial. He directs the White House Office of Intergovernmental Relations and is a former Democratic National Committee chairman; she is New York’s governor.

Politico reports they were brought together while “coordinating responses” to the influx of migrants New York has received since spring 2022. Mr. Perez said that Ms. Hochul is “working her tail off.” In response, she said “frequent conversations and his engagement” have “made a huge difference.”

Good for them. Yet far to the southwest, GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales is still waiting for the White House to phone local officials in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. The epicenter of the border crisis, it runs 823 miles along the Rio Grande, two-thirds of the Texas-Mexico border.

Bigger than Pennsylvania, the district contains most of the El Paso Border Patrol sector, all of the Big Bend and Del Rio sectors, and part of the Laredo sector. Of fiscal 2023’s 1,827,133 encounters—detentions of migrants for crossing the border illegally—so far, 790,734 occurred in those four sectors. That doesn’t yet count September’s encounters, and the total is on pace to be the largest in history.

Mr. Gonzales sees the financial and human cost in the communities along the border. Mayors and county officials complain about migrant housing, food and transportation needs. Law-enforcement officers talk about crimes committed by “getaways”—migrants who elude the Border Patrol. Community groups have exhausted their resources trying to meet ever-increasing demands for social services. Local hospitals are stuck with bills for care they’ve provided migrants dumped in emergency rooms. In Eagle Pass, Texas, there’s one small hospital with 101 beds. It gets hit with $100,000 a month in uncompensated migrant care that the federal government won’t reimburse.

Intrigued by reports of Mr. Perez’s New York outreach, Mr. Gonzales checked to see if the White House was calling mayors, sheriffs or county judges (the top executives in Texas counties) in his district. Most are Democrats. “They haven’t heard a word from Perez,” Mr. Golzales told me, “though they’re on the border and local resources have been depleted while cities thousands of miles away from the frontline of the crisis are getting attention from the White House.” It feels to Mr. Gonzales as if “Texas is being punished for this administration’s policy failures.”

Douglas Nicholls, mayor of Yuma, Ariz., once received calls from Mr. Perez’s predecessor as White House director of intergovernmental affairs, Julie Chávez Rodríguez. A granddaughter of Cesar Chávez and a native of Yuma, she at least paid attention to that part of the border. But since she left to run President Biden’s re-election, crickets. Yuma, population 99,246, had 168,269 encounters between Oct. 1, 2022, and Aug. 31, 2023, and its resources are stretched. Its only hospital had $26 million in uncompensated migrant services between November 2021 and December 2022, and the burden is growing.

Compare the challenges faced by big Northern cities with those of Southwestern border towns. Since spring 2022, New York City, with a population of 8.3 million, has received 118,000 migrants. Chicago, population 2.6 million, accepted around 15,000. The mayors of both cities and their states’ governors have complained bitterly about the burden this imposes.

Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas, combined population 63,433, saw 347,572 migrant encounters in the first 11 months of fiscal 2023, and no White House officials are working them like Mr. Perez is working New York and Illinois.

But Mr. Biden and his party are paying a political price for their indifference and ineptitude. A June 11 Pew Research poll found only 23% of Americans say the government deals with the border well while 47% believe illegal immigration is a very big problem. A Sept. 19 NBC News poll found voters believe the GOP handles immigration better than Democrats by 45% to 27%.

Mr. Gonzales argues that securing the border and restoring confidence starts with asylum reform. Those seeking asylum should have to prove they’re eligible and didn’t come through a safe third country, or else face swift deportation.

Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) would also end “catch and release.” In December 2020, the Border Patrol released into the U.S. 17 migrants who didn’t make asylum claims. Last December, it released 140,355. Detaining and quickly removing illegal aliens would discourage others from coming.

This is a serious political problem for Mr. Biden that a few more miles of border wall won’t solve. The president needs to ignore his party’s open-border wing and negotiate in good faith with Republicans on reforms in this year’s Homeland Security budget if he wants a chance at regaining voters’ trust on immigration—let alone helping those Southwestern border towns bearing the brunt of the crisis. Local leaders there are increasingly angry about the administration’s indifference to their plight. They want action.

Mr. Rove helped organize the political-action committee American Crossroads and is author of “The Triumph of William McKinley” (Simon & Schuster, 2015).

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Meanwhile, in Texas
« Reply #2901 on: October 15, 2023, 09:30:11 AM »

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Echoes of Chechnya
« Reply #2906 on: October 22, 2023, 09:01:02 AM »

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Various ways it could go down
« Reply #2907 on: October 23, 2023, 04:56:15 PM »
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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2909 on: October 31, 2023, 06:42:59 AM »
DR. ETIQUETTE 🤦‍♂️
@DrEtiquette
The Government of Venezuela provides Hezbollah operatives with full packages of false identity documents. Hundreds of thousands of middle aged men from  Venezuela have already entered the U.S. border. How many of them are Hezbollah operatives?

https://x.com/DrEtiquette/status/1719142397576200632?s=20


This would be hard to catch if we were trying to secure our border.  Impossible to catch when it's left wide open.

What happened to the idea of impeaching the officials who ordered the border unsecured?

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2910 on: October 31, 2023, 07:07:49 AM »
Impeachment and conviction has been pursued here at least , , ,

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2911 on: October 31, 2023, 07:23:14 AM »
More evidence of terrorists coming in:

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-apprehensions-terror-list/

"new figures show that apprehensions of people at the border who happen to be on the FBI’s terror watch list continue to tick up.
During fiscal year 2023, 169 people were flagged, with 98 in 2022 and 15 in 2021."


(Doug)  Don't we think those "terror watch list" numbers are tip of the iceberg?   Real numbers of people coming who pose real danger are likely what, 10 times that?

The point is, the people in charge either don't care or support the undermining of our security, and this gets covered in outlets mainstream voters don't see.


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Let them Eat Sandwiches!
« Reply #2913 on: October 31, 2023, 01:47:30 PM »
Border agents pulled off child trafficking, fentanyl cases to make meals for illegals:

https://x.com/heritage/status/1719408970350076346?s=61&t=L5uifCqWy8R8rhj_J8HNJw

ETA: Senator Kennedy asks some obvious questions of border officials with no answers forthcoming:

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1719407040655696250?s=20
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Coming Soon to a Homeland Near You
« Reply #2914 on: October 31, 2023, 04:56:47 PM »
2nd post:

Here’s some cheery thoughts. Keep your powder dry, folks:

@TonySeruga
This post will be attacked by the left, the marxists, the trolls, antifa, blm, even the intelligence community.

I'm a 39 year intelligence analyst, I and my team’s clients include the United States Government, British Government, Israeli Government, Saudi Arabia Government, NEOM, Microsoft, Dell Computers, GE, IBM, General Motors Corporation, The Scott Fetzer Corporation, Managing Dutch East India Company Archives for UNESCO , Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, Mastercard, Walmart, Northrop Grumman, Berkshire Hathaway, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, Standard Oil aka ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, et al.

Intelligence is NEVER perfect. It's a messy, messy business.

Rarely can I 'guarantee' the intelligence. Many times just releasing it in the wild can stop a false flag or genuine attack. But with as close to 100% confidence as possible, there WILL be multiple terrorist attacks in the U.S.

The attacks will come in waves for the next 14 months. Hundreds of thousands of CCP saboteurs trained to attack our electrical grid, poison our water supply, destroy our railways and main highway arteries, additionally at least a million, possibly two million terrorists are already here from Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, etc., etc., and they are extremely well funded and get this, the Biden Administration working with the UN has given them debit cards that are reloaded every month.

Below are links to 3 articles on Hezbollah Unit 910, a sleeper cell already in the U.S. awaiting the green light from Persia to launch attacks. This is just one group of hundreds here to destroy America.

Todd Bensman led counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division and its multi-agency fusion center, read his reports:

Part I of III Hezbollah’s ‘Unit 910’ in America: Recruitment, Targeting Jews, and a Building with a Doorman

toddbensman.com/part-i-of-iii-…

Part II of III Hezbollah’s ‘Unit 910’ in America: A Treasure Hunt for Fake Docs, Weapons, Explosives

toddbensman.com/part-ii-of-iii…

Part III: Hezbollah’s Clandestine Terror Wing in America: the Michigan Mystery

toddbensman.com/part-iii-hezbo…


https://x.com/tonyseruga/status/1719372334354850087?s=61&t=L5uifCqWy8R8rhj_J8HNJw

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On their way here
« Reply #2922 on: November 10, 2023, 03:58:53 PM »

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Jihadi on Watch List Kills Several
« Reply #2924 on: November 15, 2023, 05:31:46 PM »
To hell with “who will watch the watchers,” how bout who will watch the unwatched on the watch list? Some criminal intentional oblivious actions strongly implied here.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/15/news/gunman-who-killed-swat-cop-was-on-terror-watchlist-report/

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2925 on: November 15, 2023, 07:04:06 PM »
" To hell with “who will watch the watchers,” how bout who will watch the unwatched on the watch list?"

the only ones being watched are conservatives


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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2927 on: November 23, 2023, 12:44:11 PM »
but the government is assuring this was NOT a terrorist attack

Are terrorists Kiss fans - ?
  I never liked Kiss, their music is not good and they look ridiculous.  Yet seem to have made fortune
  One is an Israeli, I forget which one Stanley?
   strike that question.

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SERIOUS READ: AMcC: Hamas- made in the USA
« Reply #2928 on: November 25, 2023, 01:15:51 PM »
Hamas: Made in the U.S.A.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/hamas-made-in-the-u-s-a/?bypass_key=S2YxRFQ0K2dtOTFGWGRzczZkRWphUT09OjpNVE53V2xGTlRHbHBMMWh1YW5GelNHMUVMMjk1WnowOQ%3D%3D

Left: Mousa Abu Marzook in 1999. Right: Pro-Palestinian students take part in a protest at Columbia University in New York City, October 12, 2023. (Khaled Al Hariri, Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
November 25, 2023 6:30 AM

Antisemitic terror has deep, surprising roots in American soil.

After the jihadist barbarities of October 7, Israel responded with aerial bombardments of Hamas havens in Gaza, in preparation for the now-ongoing ground invasion. As the bombs fell, Hamas heavyweight Mousa Abu Marzook was asked about the elaborate network of tunnels that the organization has built under the territory it has governed since being popularly elected in 2006. It is a virtual underground city stretching over 300 miles, constructed with untold billions of dollars in foreign-aid money diverted for the purpose (not to be confused with the aid money diverted to make billionaires out of Marzook and his fellow Hamas emirs).

Since Hamas has built tunnels instead of bomb shelters, the friendly Russia Today TV reporter wondered, why doesn’t it just let Gazans use the tunnels to shelter from Israeli attacks?

Marzook’s answer was chillingly matter-of-fact. The tunnels were not built for so-called civilians; they were built for the jihadists:

We have built the tunnels because we have no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed. These tunnels are meant to protect us from the airplanes. We are fighting from inside the tunnels.

Of course Marzook (sometimes spelled “Mazouk” or “Marzuq”) is not fighting from inside a tunnel. He was speaking from his posh offices in Qatar. There, he and the rest of Hamas’s “politburo” are harbored and abetted by the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Doha that President Biden — building on the Obama–Biden administration’s empowerment of Qatar, despite its record of material support to jihadists — has formally denominated a “major non-NATO ally” of the United States. Hamas has been formally designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law since 1994, yet the Obama–Biden administration greenlit the establishment of a Hamas headquarters in Doha in 2012 — just as it similarly greenlit the establishment of a Taliban headquarters that Qatar, of course, was delighted to host.

Remember, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”? Twenty-two years ago seems like an alternative universe now.

The notion that Hamas has a strictly political operation siloed from its jihadist operations has always been as absurd as the conceit, similarly popular among transnational progressives, that anti-Zionism is just a political stance, unconnected to hateful antisemitism. Marzook has been at the center of both fictions since the 1987 establishment of Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In Doha, the native of Gaza has landed softly, as ever, after bouncing from Amman to Damascus to Cairo. Following his faraway treks these last three decades, one almost forgets that it was in the United States that he helped forge Hamas — and even ran it for a time.

The Brotherhood’s Lifeblood Is the Campus

I recounted Marzook’s exploits in The Grand Jihad, my 2010 book about the partnership between the political Left and the Brotherhood — the most successful global sharia-supremacist movement in modern history. (The Brotherhood, which has numerous satellite organizations, is frequently referred to as the Ikhwan — shorthand for Jamā’at al-Ikhwān al-Mulismūn, the Society of the Muslim Brothers. It was established in Egypt after the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924.) While I’d love to take credit for as perfect a description of the Brotherhood’s sharia-supremacist project as “the grand jihad,” it is perfect because it comes directly from the Brotherhood itself. The phrase appears in an internal Brotherhood memorandum, which was central to the Justice Department’s eventual terrorism-financing prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development — the “charity” that served as Hamas’s American piggy bank.

In the memo, expounding on its mission in the United States, Marzook’s confederate, Mohamed Akram, wrote:

The Ikwhan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands [i.e., the Westerners’ own hands] and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.

Those words were written in 1991. By then, Marzook had been at this civilizational jihad in America for a decade.

The Brotherhood is a movement that sprang from universities and has always catalyzed campus radicalism. Its two most formative figures, founder Hassan al-Banna and his successor Sayyid Qutb, were academics. The Brotherhood’s guiding jurisprudent in the modern era, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, was a scholar at al-Azar University, the center of Sunni Islamic scholarship for over a millennium. So was another Brotherhood eminence, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (dubbed “the Emir of Jihad”), whom I prosecuted in the early-to-mid-Nineties, and whose students’ movement (Gama’at al Islamiyya, the Islamic Group) was principally responsible for murdering Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 over the peace he’d made with Israel.


Like most members, Marzook found the Brotherhood on campus, becoming active as an engineering student in Abu Dhabi during the Seventies. Ostensibly, it was to pursue an industrial-engineering doctorate at Columbia State University in Louisiana that he came to the United States in the late 1970s. That was over a decade after the Brotherhood stood up the first chapters of its most consequential building block in the West, the Muslim Students Association (MSA).

You’ve been aghast at the Dionysian exhibitions of Jew hatred on American campuses for the past seven weeks? You shouldn’t be so shocked. It’s been happening unimpeded right before our eyes for, now, 60 years.

MSA chapters indoctrinate young Muslims — and those they, in turn, influence — in sharia-supremacism, particularly the writings of Banna, Qutb, and Qaradawi. Needless to say, until his death last year, Qaradawi was harbored in Qatar, also — of course — home to the Islamist propaganda outlet Al Jazeera, which for years broadcast the sheikh’s weekly Sharia and Life program to audiences in the tens of millions. Antisemitism is a leitmotif of this oeuvre, seamlessly interwoven with progressive academia’s anti-Western, anti-Zionist, anti-white polemics against “colonialism,” “oppression,” and “systemic racism.”

Starting with just a few chapters in the Midwest (the first at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1963), the MSA now boasts chapters (often more than one) at hundreds of universities across the United States and Canada — such that it’s really not that tough to rustle up over 30 organizations at Harvard to blame Israel for the atrocities perpetrated on Israelis by Hamas. And if you’re wondering how you end up with 300,000 pro-Hamas demonstrators on the streets of London on the very day England reserves for the honoring of its war dead, the answer is the Brotherhood’s American model. In 1984, the Muslim Students Association of Europe was founded in Madrid. In short order, it became the plinth for the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, a hive for Brotherhood groups throughout the continent.

That’s exactly what had previously happened in the United States.

Marzook Builds the Brotherhood’s American Empire

Back in the Seventies, the Saudi government was playing the role now largely assumed by Qatar, bankrolling the Brotherhood’s proselytism. (This was four decades before the Brotherhood’s so-called Arab Spring revolts and the brutal war in Syria ruptured the Saudi–Brotherhood alliance.) In 1973, the Saudis and their Brotherhood partners at the MSA created the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which set about investing in (i.e., assuming control of) the lion’s share of American mosques and associated Islamic centers — the centers that Qutb envisioned as the “axis” of the movement to spread sharia’s dominion.

By 1981, the consolidation of influence in the mosques and on campus had proved so successful, the Brotherhood conceived of a new organization, which would serve simultaneously as an MSA graduate program and an umbrella structure “to advance the cause of Islam and service Muslims in North America so [as] to enable them to adopt Islam as a complete way of life.” Thus was born the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

ISNA is now the largest Muslim organization in the United States, and thus efforts to airbrush its history — including, to my chagrin, in National Review — are legion. But facts are facts. ISNA emerged from the MSA like Athena from the head of Zeus. It was incorporated at the same address as the MSA and NAIT. On its website, ISNA has frequently claimed to have been created in 1963 (the year of the MSA’s establishment, 18 years before ISNA’s). And an internal Brotherhood memo relates that the MSA “was developed into the Islamic Society of North America to include all Muslim congregations of immigrants and citizens, and to be a nucleus for the Islamic movement in North America.” For its part, NAIT acknowledged that it provided “protection and safeguarding for the assets of ISNA/MSA.”

ISNA chafes at this history because it resulted in the organization’s being identified, along with NAIT and other Brotherhood satellites, as an unindicted coconspirator in the notorious scheme to back Hamas’s anti-Israeli intifada with millions of dollars. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

In 1981, the same year ISNA also debuted in the Midwest, Chicago was the locus for the Brotherhood’s establishment of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP). The trailblazer for IAP was Marzook, then 30, in collaboration with another STEM student, Sami al-Arian. A budding computer engineer born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees, al-Arian would ultimately become a top leader in Palestinian Islamic Jihad while holding down a professorship in computer engineering at the University of South Florida (having earned his doctorate at North Carolina State University). According to the Turkish-American scholar Zeyno Baran, Marzook and al-Arian worked in consultation with Khaled Mashal, a prodigy who joined the Brotherhood at 15 while (naturally) a student in Kuwait — and who, years later, would succeed Marzook as Hamas’s leader because Marzook was stuck in U.S. federal prison.

Coddled by Marzook’s American Brotherhood Network, Hamas Is Born

The IAP was an unabashed Brotherhood organ, declaring its purpose to be communicating the Ikhwan point of view and championing “Palestine” in the arenas of politics and public opinion. It also became the essential support platform for the jihad against Israel when the Brotherhood created Hamas — whose name is an acronym roughly derived from Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Isamiyya, the Islamic Resistance Movement.

For decades, even prior to Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, jihadists had savagely resisted the presence of Jews in the ancestral Jewish homeland (as Sol Stern relates in an essential Commentary essay). But by the Eighties, “the resistance” was dominated by Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its tactical nods to radical Islam notwithstanding, the PLO had a Marxist bent (to say nothing of its notorious corruption), and thus coexisted uneasily with the Brotherhood and its sharia supremacism. Hamas would be the vehicle by which the  Brotherhood would seize control — very lucrative control — of the “struggle against occupation.”

In late December 1987, fighting broke out in Gaza when a tragic car accident, in which four Palestinians lost their lives, was distorted by agitators, who portrayed it as an intentional killing to avenge the recent murder of an Israeli. In the resulting revolt, Hamas was formally established by two longtime Brotherhood activists: Ahmed Yassin, a blind paraplegic bestowed the honorific “Sheikh” although he had not completed his studies, and Abdel Azziz al-Rantisi, a medical doctor who — need I say it? — joined the Brotherhood while at university in Alexandria, Egypt. By 1988, as the first intifada raged, Hamas had issued its infamous charter, which pledges it to Israel’s destruction by violent jihad, assertedly as an Islamic duty.

Once Hamas was established, its support became the preeminent mission of the Brotherhood globally, and especially of Marzook in America. He sprang his U.S.-based network into action, forming the “Palestine Committee” under the auspices of the IAP, as both a fundraising arm and a vehicle for imposing order and direction on the surge of pro-Hamas initiatives from various Brotherhood components.

These exertions included Marzook’s provision of $200,000 in seed money for the creation of the “Occupied Land Fund,” which in time morphed into the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The HLF operated from within ISNA and NAIT, which kept an HLF account into which were deposited checks payable to “the Palestinian Mujahideen” — a reference to Hamas’s military wing. Years later, when it became the subject of the Justice Department’s most significant federal terrorism-financing prosecution, the HLF was proved to have raised over $12 million for Hamas.

There was a vital piece missing from the Brotherhood’s U.S. infrastructure, however: a public champion wily in the ways of American law and media.

As the first intifada raged from 1987 through 1993, and Hamas emerged as the jihad’s hard edge, a new Democratic administration made its bed with Arafat in the quest for the holy grail: the “two-state solution” that Palestinians have never wanted, and the prospect of which they are reared from birth to regard as a betrayal of Allah. As “peace partner,” Arafat paid lip-service to the “renunciation of terrorism” and “Israel’s right to exist,” but never backed up his words with much meaningful action. It was enough, though, to persuade President Clinton to strengthen Arafat’s hand against his Hamas rival. New federal laws were enacted, under which Hamas was formally designated as a terrorist organization, such that material support to it was criminalized and its fundraising channels could be dammed.

Hamas’s principal supporters, under the auspices of Marzook’s IAP, were thus imperiled. They were known abettors of the jihad, and their labors could now land them in federal prison. “We are marked,” one fretted at a 1993 Brotherhood confab in Philadelphia, secretly recorded by the FBI.

The solution, they decided, was to establish a less “conspicuous” cheerleader with a clean slate, one that would combine what HLF leader Shukri Abu-Bakr called “a media twinkle” with an emotive commitment to civil rights — the better to obscure its jihadist sympathies in vaporous odes to “social justice,” “due process,” and “resistance.” Because “war is deception,” the Philadelphia conferees agreed, the organization would need to speak with a forked tongue — offering a message that would seem benign to the “American . . . who doesn’t know anything” while resonating with “the Palestinian who has a martyr brother,” as Nihad Awad, the IAP’s then-public-relations director, explained.

Thus did Marzook’s Brotherhood network birth the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, which made its first official appearance in 1994. It has since become the American media’s go-to source for sharia-supremacist apologetics. Awad, a Palestinian from Jordan, was placed in charge and is to this day CAIR’s executive director. Seed money was poured in by Marzook and HLF. CAIR would return the favor many times over, not only serving as Hamas’s “civil rights” advocate but also helping HLF raise funds.

Running Hamas . . . from Virginia

It is not enough, though, to say Hamas was bankrolled from the United States in its early days, as it sought to destroy Israel by force. Hamas was also run from the United States.

In 1989, Sheikh Yassin was arrested by Israeli authorities. At that point, Marzook was named head of the Hamas political bureau. For three years during the First Intifada, Marzook ran Hamas from his Virginia home. From that perch, he not only oversaw fundraising but coordinated forcible attacks as well as the recruitment and training of Hamas operatives on American soil. In 1992, Marzook moved closer to the action, relocating to Jordan where he remained until the Clinton administration induced King Hussein to expel him despite the resulting Palestinian unrest.

It should go without saying in this sordid story that Marzook had earned U.S. lawful-permanent-resident-alien status in the years during which he built the Brotherhood’s American network and led Hamas. With that seeming ace in the hole, Marzook calculated that the Americans could not prevent him from returning to his family in Virginia. But for once, he guessed wrong: He was arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York City in July 1995, his name flagged on a terrorism watch-list. Israel pressed its American ally to detain Marzook while it sought his extradition to face trial for a slew of terrorist atrocities. He was thus held in federal prison for 22 months.

The Peace Process Helps the Jihadist Slip the Noose

In a 1996 opinion rejecting one of Marzook’s many challenges to detention and extradition, the late judge Kevin Thomas Duffy — who had earlier tried the first World Trade Center bombing case in Manhattan federal court — summarized some of Marzook’s alleged trail of carnage:

(1) the bombing at a beach in Tel Aviv on July 28, 1990, which killed a Canadian tourist; (2) the stabbing deaths of three civilians working in a factory in Jaffa on December 14, 1990; (3) the January 1, 1992, shooting death of a civilian as he drove his car in Kfar Darom in Gaza; (4) the shooting death of a civilian as he drove his car in the Beit La’hiah region of Gaza on May 17, 1992; (5) the stabbing deaths of two civilians working at a packing plant in Sajaeya on June 25, 1992; (6) the gun-fire attack by three persons of a passenger bus in Jerusalem on July 1, 1993, in which two civilians were killed and others were injured; (7) the bombing of a passenger bus in Afula on April 6, 1994, which killed eight civilians and injured forty-six; (8) the bombing of a passenger bus in Hadera on April 13, 1994, which killed four civilians and injured twelve; (9) the machinegun attack in a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem on October 9, 1994, which killed one civilian and injured eighteen; and (10) the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv on October 19, 1994, which killed twenty-two civilians and injured forty-six.

Marzook laughably contended both that the Hamas political bureau he led was walled off from the organization’s forcible operations, and that the latter operations were nevertheless “political” rather than criminal — a claim Judge Duffy curtly rebuffed, pointing out that terrorist crimes against humanity cannot be immunized as mere political acts.

Marzook’s legal arguments were meritless, but he has always had an exquisite sense of timing.

In autumn 1996, after an outbreak of deadly fighting and under pressure from the Clinton administration to revive the flagging Oslo “peace process,” the newly elected Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to restart negotiations, mediated by Jordan’s King Hussein in conjunction with Clinton’s emissaries. Recognizing this as a sensitive moment — when, if he actually were tried for Hamas’s rampages in Israel, it could stir Palestinian outrage and disrupt the negotiations — Marzook suddenly dropped his objection to extradition. Flummoxed, Israel announced that it no longer sought to try him, despite having for a year and a half pressured the Clinton Justice Department to detain him in the teeth of protest by the Brotherhood’s array of American satellite organizations.

It is not enough to say that, at that point, there were abundant grounds for a U.S. prosecution that could, then and there, have put an end to Marzook’s jihadist career. Marzook was eventually indicted by the Bush Justice Department in 2002 — i.e., only after the 9/11 attacks had roused Americans into dull awareness that our country had for decades been fueling the jihad even as it turned its fire on us.

Alas, by then Marzook was long gone. Once Israel declined prosecution of its nemesis, Clinton washed his hands of Marzook, now pressuring Jordan to take him back less than two years after demanding that Jordan expel him. In the dead of night in May 1997, Marzook was flown from New York to Amman. He had agreed not to contest the terrorism allegations, which effectively forfeited his green-card status. While American and Israeli officials tried to spin this as a win, the Hamas emir was welcomed back to the region as a victor.

Though Hamas’s leaders have become multi-billionaires skimming off the jihad, it’s an uncertain life. But Marzook has a remarkable way of landing on his feet. Sprung from American imprisonment, safely out of U.S. jurisdiction, he evaded prosecution in the above-mentioned 2002 Texas case and, later, in the 2008 HLF prosecution — in which ISNA, NAIT, and CAIR were all named as unindicted coconspirators. They stayed unindicted. Despite convictions of several defendants and a mountain of evidence, by the next year the new, Brotherhood-friendly Obama–Biden administration was in power — with President Obama’s top adviser, Valerie Jarrett, keynoting the annual ISNA convention.

Meanwhile, Marzook was booted from Jordan to Syria when the vaunted “peace process” inevitably imploded. He subsequently made his way to Cairo, but the Arab Spring proved exceptionally hot when Egyptians ousted the new Brotherhood government upon just a small taste of what it would actually be like.

So now Marzook has found safe haven in the Brotherhood’s alter ego, the sharia-supremacist regime of Qatar. There, while Doha barters savagely abducted Israeli hostages — including toddlers — for concessions to Hamas, Marzook snidely explains that the tunnels in Gaza, built by diverting billions in foreign aid, are for jihadist warfare, not civilian shelter.

Many wonder at how, after funding and harboring Hamas for years, Qatar could be rewarded by the Biden administration with “Major Non-NATO Ally” status and all its attendant perks. Mousa Abu Marzook does not wonder. Having built the Muslim Brotherhood’s American empire, which has flooded urban centers and campus quads with unabashed Hamas supporters; having launched Hamas in gusts of American fundraising; and having run the Brotherhood’s Palestinian jihad for years from his Virginia home, Marzook can only smirk.

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« Reply #2929 on: November 28, 2023, 04:23:28 AM »
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will shut down or reduce some lanes of traffic at border crossings in Arizona and Texas. It wants to redeploy staff to handle an increase in migrants. ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOMELAND SECURITY

DHS shutting down, reducing traffic at border crossings amid new surge

BY STEPHEN DINAN THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it will reduce or shut down some lanes of traffic at border crossings in Arizona and Texas to redeploy staff to handle a renewed surge of migrants entering illegally.

Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the ports of entry, blamed “smugglers peddling disinformation” for the surge of people.

The affected border crossings are Lukeville, Arizona, where CBP said it will throttle down vehicle processing, and International Bridge 1 in Eagle Pass, Texas, where all processing is being halted.

The agency, in an unsigned statement, said it needed to shift the officers who usually staff those posts to help Border Patrol agents, who patrol the miles in between the crossings and who have been overwhelmed by the crush of people coming over the last few years.

“The U.S. is continuing to see increased levels of migrant encounters at the Southwest Border, fueled by smugglers peddling disinformation to prey on vulnerable individuals and encourage migration,” CBP said. “As we respond with additional resources and apply consequences for unlawful entry, the migration trends shift as well.”

The agency did not say what the current level of illegal crossings was.

The shutdowns mean more pain for those looking to cross legally, as Homeland Security seeks to handle those coming illegally.

Homeland Security has been playing whack-a-mole with the border since the start of the Biden administration, which erased Trump-era get-tough policies and quickly saw a relatively calm border explode into chaos.

It’s been up and down since then, though even the best month under President Biden since spring 2021 would count as one of the worst months for any previous president.

Every time the administration says it’s made changes to solve the situation, a new crisis emerges at the border.

After a catastrophically bad September, CBP celebrated an improvement in October, arguing it had cut Border Patrol arrests along the southern boundary by 13%, with particularly big drops in key demographics near the end of the month.

But Monday’s announcement suggests things may be dipping into catastrophic territory again.

The news comes as Mr. Biden has asked Congress for $14 billion in emergency money for the border mess. He’s requesting money to hire more Border Patrol agents and expand deportations, though most of the money appears aimed at speeding up processing of the migrants rather than deterring their arrival.

Republicans have said they will not approve the money unless it includes major changes to the administration’s policies, such as tighter restrictions on seeking and proving asylum claims.



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« Reply #2933 on: December 10, 2023, 07:31:17 AM »
" wireless security systems that depend on WiFi to operate "

yup , you can't use wireless against sophisticated criminals.

how about a wireless camera in your home.
well scumbag drives up to your house and sits in his car picks up the wireless signal and now watches you in your house smirking and laughing at his own brilliance the whole time.

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Eisenhower's Operation Wetback
« Reply #2934 on: December 12, 2023, 04:35:57 PM »



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« Reply #2937 on: December 14, 2023, 04:41:12 PM »
anyone with eyesight can see more and more illegals are coming to NJ monthly.


everywhere one looks
any time you speak on the phone with someone from a business

it gets worse monthly

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Even the Democrats know Democrat policies are wrong
« Reply #2939 on: December 19, 2023, 05:36:30 AM »
Even the Democrats know Democrat policies are wrong:

On inflation, on energy policy and at the border:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arizona-governor-democrat-orders-national-guard-border-2023-12-16/

Arizona governor, a Democrat, orders National Guard to the border

They can't deny it anymore.  How many million have come in, under false pretenses, and they get free transportation inward instead of escorted out and sent home.

Republicans should read (and follow) Crafty's impeachment advice.  If the shoe were on the other foot Democrats would most certainly exploit governing malfeasance for political gain.

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13 States had a population greater than what Biden let in
« Reply #2940 on: December 20, 2023, 02:02:16 PM »
The number that came under Biden alone is greater than 7 million.
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/biden-border-crisis/
These actual count is higher, obviously does not count those who came in unnoticed, uncounted.

According to the 2020 census state populations (last before Joe took office),
https://state.1keydata.com/state-population.php
Arizona and Massachusetts had populations of roughly 7 million.
Only 13 states had populations pre-Biden greater than that.

Replacement isn't a theory or an allegation.  These many millions are diluting, replacing, canceling our votes. 

Illegals can't vote?  Like saying felons can't vote?  First, no one checks, and then we legalize it anyway.  Why else are they bringing them in?  Because we had excess free healthcare capacity??
https://nypost.com/2023/12/19/opinion/biden-is-breaking-the-border-on-purpose-he-wants-mass-amnesty/

The Democrats in power are willing to give up Israel and Ukraine over border amnesty.  Amnesty for illegals is the only immigration issue.  We've (almost) always had generous legal immigration. 

What does 7 million people (plus all that came before them) look like if you could get them all in one picture?
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« Reply #2941 on: December 20, 2023, 02:24:12 PM »
yes and this is on top of low estimates of 13 mill already here but I recall we all discussed yrs ago it is almost surely several millions more possible over 20 million or more to start with.

So ~ 30 million in our country ?

no one knows which is the plan

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« Reply #2942 on: December 20, 2023, 04:54:08 PM »
Remember too the Congressional districts are apportioned by the number of people in them, not the number of CITIZENS.

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What is the main industry these illegals come for?
« Reply #2943 on: December 21, 2023, 05:52:21 AM »
59% of illegals households are on welfare:
https://cis.org/
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

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« Reply #2944 on: December 21, 2023, 06:33:43 AM »
is this nuts or what?

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« Reply #2945 on: December 21, 2023, 09:56:35 AM »
59%?!?  Fk!!!

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The Border: Worst Story of the Year
The numbers are mind-boggling, the costs are incalculable, and the Democrats are to blame.

Douglas Andrews


Try to imagine every single person in Alaska.

Now add everyone in Delaware. And in Hawaii. And in Maine. And in Montana. Now add New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Add together every single person in each of those states. Now you have a sense of how many illegal immigrants our demented Democrat president, Joseph Robinette Biden, has allowed to invade our country by refusing to secure our southern border.

We cease to be a country when we cease to control our border. And anyone who doubts that this "browning" of America is a key component of Barack Obama's third term in office and the Democrats' long-held plan for permanent political power hasn't been paying attention.

This isn't the sexiest story of the year. Let's face it: We're all sick of hearing about the border. Not a week goes by here in our humble shop when we aren't struggling for a way to put a novel spin on a broken record of a disaster. But Joe Biden's refusal — as opposed to "failure," which implies effort — to abide by his constitutional duty to secure our southern border is without a doubt the most consequential story of the year.

It's also an impeachable offense, and it speaks to Republican myopia that they fixate on the Biden Crime Family's influence peddling rather than having charged the president with this inarguably high crime long ago. We can't absorb a Pennsylvania of low-skilled and unskilled, non-English-speaking immigrants and not have it permanently change our national fabric. As we wrote earlier this year, the costs are incalculable.

Customs and Border Protection says we recently saw a record 14,509 illegals in a single day, Tuesday. In addition, as Fox News's Bill Melugin reports, we've already had more than 200,000 border encounters in December alone. That's the equivalent of a Birmingham, Alabama, crossing our border in just 20 days.

They're coming from everywhere — from Guinea, Senegal, Liberia, Oman, Lebanon, Bangladesh, India, and elsewhere. They're flying from Africa into Central America, then heading north. As our Emmy Griffin challenged earlier this week, "Tell us again how it's not an invasion."

But don't worry. A Colombian woman was given her confirmed appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for — we kid you not — Thursday, January 23, 2031. This is called back-door amnesty, and this is what Democrat governance gets you.

"It's deliberate," says Newt Gingrich, stating the obvious before adding something less obvious: that the Democrats' next phase is to grant illegals the right to vote.

Estimates vary when it comes to the scale of this calamity. And why wouldn't they? How can we keep track of a nearly 2,000-mile border when our president isn't interested in doing so? As the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard reports, "A new estimate this week put the growing population of 'gotaways' at a sky-high 13 million, more than the population of every state except four: California, Texas, New York, and Florida."

That shockingly large number comes from an expert: Steven Camarota, the research director for the Center for Immigration Studies. "He provided the new estimate at a conference held this week," Bedard continues, "during which he released a new census-based report showing that there are almost 50 million foreign-born citizens in the country, far more than previously expected by the government and likely driven by the spike in Biden administration-approved immigrants flooding into the country."

Camerota's paper also studied the ruinous economic impact of such a massive migration, noting that 54% of immigrant households — including naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used at least one major welfare program. The rate is even higher, 59%, for noncitizen households, which include green-card holders and illegal immigrants. As for U.S.-born households, "only" 39% are on the government dole.

Any suggestion that the Democrats have been powerless to stop this invasion — and this depletion of our treasury — is a lie, and that was made clear this week when news began to trickle out that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a band of establishment Republicans have been working in secret to tamp down the flow of illegals in exchange for $61 billion in aid for Ukraine. North Carolina moderate Thom Tillis and his fellow Republicans proposed a trigger of 3,000 illegal crossings per day for closing the border, which was down from the Democrats' opening offer of 5,000 per day.

Huh? How about zero? Does zero work for these people? And why are we bartering on behalf of Ukraine to secure our border? As the New York Post editorial board puts it:

If Washington can tell border agents to stop waving in illegals when the total hits some arbitrary threshold, then it can tell them to do it from the get-go. In other words, by dickering over just how many illegal migrants can come through in a day before the door slams shut, the Biden administration has at long last said the quiet part out loud: The law doesn't actually require treating the word "asylum" as a magic "Open sesame."

Wisconsin's Ron Johnson, who wasn't invited to the private powwow, spoke for many of us: "Conducting rushed and secret backroom negotiations is not the way to address the unprecedented border crisis. That's the kind of business-as-usual process that Washington leadership has relied upon to mortgage our children's future and weaken our country."

Thanks to Joe Biden, every state is now a border state. That's because this administration has long been packing up and sending illegals all over the country, to every congressional district in the 50 states.

Texas Governor Gregg Abbott has been returning the favor. Abbott, who followed the lead of Ron DeSantis but recently endorsed Donald Trump for president, is flying illegals to sanctuary cities like Chicago while noting that every sanctuary city is fair game. "Until Biden steps up to secure the border," he said, "we will continue to provide overwhelmed Texas border towns with much-needed relief."

Chicago's sanctuary mayor, Brandon Johnson, is squealing like a stuck pig: "We have a governor ... that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized. And then they come to the city of Chicago. ... The governor of Texas needs to take a look in the mirror of the chaos that he is causing for this country. This is not just a Chicago dynamic. He is attacking our country."

Republicans haven't been as strong on securing our border as they should be, largely because they've been cowed by a phony political calculus: They mistakenly believe that Hispanics will hold it against them at the polls. But Hispanics, as it turns out, are sick of this situation too. Judy Gutierrez, a lifelong resident of the border town of El Paso and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, calls the situation "unsustainable" and says that the normally solidly Democrat city will reflect its displeasure at the polls. "They're really frustrated. ... They just feel nothing is being done and their voices aren't being heard."

If you like what's been happening at our southern border under Joe Biden, then the Democrats are your party. If you deplore it, if you want your voice to be heard, then it's your duty to vote for the party that believes national borders are not optional, not a bargaining chip, not a "nice to have."

As for that national fabric we mentioned earlier, what are the effects — over weeks and months and years and generations — of an influx of people unlike any in American history that is forcibly distributed across the land by the Biden administration? Does our patriotism and our sense of Americanness grow stronger or weaker? Do we become more inclined to fight for our country or less so? More inclined to obey our nation's laws or less so? More inclined to pay taxes or less so? More inclined to work or less so? More inclined to vote or less so?

If recent polling is any indication, the American people are finally waking up. According to a recent Fox News poll, the percentage of voters who see illegal immigration as the most important issue facing the country has nearly doubled since August.

As for what ought to be done by the first post-Biden administration, 89% of Republicans favor deporting illegal immigrants, while Democrats are divided, with 48% in favor and 44% in opposition.

The 2024 presidential election will have consequences, and none will be more profound or long-lasting than our nation's border security.

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« Reply #2946 on: December 21, 2023, 04:30:11 PM »
"The Border: Worst Story of the Year
The numbers are mind-boggling, the costs are incalculable, and the Democrats are to blame."
 - Douglas Andrews (Patriot Post)
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This guy says all the right things, or you could say he agrees with us or reads the forum.

He is also on to crafty's idea of impeachment for not enforcing the Border and securing the country.

I wonder how you do that, an impeachment on those grounds right now. Like democrats, let three years go by and then suddenly do it? Put Biden on notice? Enforce it now or this is what's coming? Impeach both of them but I don't think there's any precedent for impeaching the vice president since the vice president has (almost) no responsibilities. Drop the corruption charges (that are taking forever) or add this to them. But if it's urgent then act like it's urgent. Oh well, skip that, Congress adjourned for the holidays. And 12,000 a day more come in or is it 14,000?  With 59% on some form of welfare, and virtually none of them top 1%, the ones who pay the taxes, We aren't ever going to balance a budget.  We couldn't get our fiscal act together before and now it's not possible.

Is a Republican president really going to send 7 million home? 13 million? 30 million? How? Where?  Do they really have homes waiting for them back home? Is that going to look better than children in cages?  Republicans chicken out when the cameras are on, and they don't get elected when they're successfully painted as extremists.  What a mess.

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« Reply #2947 on: December 22, 2023, 06:16:15 AM »
"  and the Democrats are to blame "

 drove somewhere Saturday, I think it was, and radio was turned on and I hear THAT voice of Anthony Weiner doing his radio show.

I listened for perhaps 2 minutes and he made the claim Republicans are to blame for immigration "reform" by holding it up in Congress.

I got sick with rage and turned it off.

Lying bastards.

All of them.

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« Reply #2948 on: December 22, 2023, 07:03:18 AM »
I recognize the feeling , , ,

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