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Border Insecurity, even the NYT can see it...
« Reply #3100 on: August 26, 2024, 10:49:29 AM »
https://archive.is/rCKtn

New Yok Times coverage, more at the link.

How a Migrant Accused of Rape Was Freed and Charged With Rape Again
A failure of cooperation between New York City and federal authorities allowed Daniel Davon-Bonilla, a 24-year-old from Nicaragua, to slip out of the grasp of law enforcement.

For 15 months, Daniel Davon-Bonilla sat in the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, accused of raping a transgender woman in a migrant shelter.

Then, on June 24, Mr. Davon-Bonilla stood before a judge in a Brooklyn court. The victim in the case had refused to testify, and now prosecutors were offering him a deal: He could plead guilty to a felony assault charge and be released that day.

The judge, Donald Leo, warned Mr. Davon-Bonilla, a 24-year-old from Nicaragua, that he could be deported.

“Do you still wish to proceed with your plea of guilty?” asked Justice Leo, according to a transcript of the hearing.

“Of course,” Mr. Davon-Bonilla replied.

In fact, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, had informed the city that it intended to deport Mr. Davon-Bonilla when he was first charged with rape, the agency said. But neither the city nor the Brooklyn district attorney notified federal officials when he was released that day in June.

Mr. Davon-Bonilla did not show up for his sentencing on Aug. 9. Two days later, the police say, he raped a homeless woman under the Coney Island boardwalk.

New York is a so-called sanctuary city, one of several across the United States that try to minimize the deportation of migrants. In practice, this means that local law enforcement officials limit their coordination with federal immigration authorities. Those policies infuriated Donald J. Trump when he was president. He painted sanctuary cities as crime-ridden dystopias and threatened to withhold federal money from them.

Now the Coney Island case has renewed attention on those policies and brought a fresh round of criticism — not just from Mr. Trump, who is running for his old office, but also from New York police officials and Mayor Eric Adams. They say the sanctuary system, enshrined in city law, safeguarded the rights of a violent criminal at the expense of a vulnerable woman. The mayor called Mr. Davon-Bonilla “the poster child of what’s wrong with not doing that coordination.”
(More at the link)

[Doug]  The details go on but the point is simple, the man shouldn't be in this country, and if here, he should be behind bars.

"Sanctuary City".  Sanctuary for WHAT?!  Why is it 'legal' to say the laws of the land won't be enforced here?  Maybe we should also say, federal checks won't be sent here.  Not social security, not federal payroll, not one dime until illegal sanctuary status is removed.
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Border Insecurity, Human traficking, Fentanyl
« Reply #3103 on: September 09, 2024, 08:44:15 AM »
Democrats (SNL) mocked the lady who put concern for rape at the border in her top concerns.
https://www.newsweek.com/snl-mocks-katie-britt-sotu-1877622
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But Democrats are losing support from the Fentanyl victims' families.  Some like Trump's tough talk on the border.

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/fentanyl-deaths-are-causing-grieving-parents-embrace-trump-rcna169921

As I've told Democrats on other issues, Trump (and Republicans) wouldn't have been necessary if Democrats had governed well.

Some do, but how come more Democrats don't care about this??


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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #3105 on: September 09, 2024, 09:55:29 AM »
as predicted by MY

me - as well as everyone else.   :wink:

It seems to get worse by the month
Around here in NJ it is never ceases to astonish me at the OBVIOUS invasion of people from different countries.

https://brilliantmaps.com/number-of-unauthorized-illegal-immigrants-by-us-state/

I don't vouch for the above source, but I would think it could even be more in a this state with over 9 million residents.

One can tell if they look Dominican, Haitian, Columbian, Mexican/Guatemalan, though it is harder for me to tell Peruvian from Equadorian.  Northern Africans from Sub-Saharan Africans - for sure if they are dressed in Muslim garb.

Except for when they speak, and I hear accents or other languages Europeans of course are harder to tell if illegal or not, but I am sure they are blended into the US as well.

Hard to tell about Orientals if they are legal or illegal since of course so many are legal.
Though some seem like they are out of place walking around and thus hint they are illegal.

As for Indians many are legal so usually tough to guess, surmise which ones illegal.


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Illegal Jordanians released after posting bail.
« Reply #3106 on: September 11, 2024, 04:07:29 PM »
Apologies if this is a duplicate:

Illegal Jordanian Aliens Who Tried to Breach Quantico Released After Posting Bail (legalinsurrection.com)

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Sorry, Springfield Ohio migrant issues are not fake news
« Reply #3107 on: September 12, 2024, 03:20:17 AM »
20,000 Haitian migrants invade a town of less than 60,000 is the story.

Whose idea was that?
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Homeland inSecurity, Border failure, organized crime
« Reply #3109 on: September 12, 2024, 05:06:29 AM »
Founded in a Venezuelan prison where it ran a zoo, swimming pool, disco, restaurant and bar, the Tren de Aragua has grown into a fearsome transnational criminal force in less than a decade—“MS-13 on steroids,” as one federal official put it, referring to the Central American gang that is entrenched in many U.S. communities. The specter of crime caused by immigrants has become a major theme in the presidential campaign, with former President Donald Trump calling out “migrant crime” repeatedly. Federal crime data show homicides and other crimes have dropped—and that the U.S. is far safer than it used to be. The gang isn’t a household name, but its activities are a source of fascination on social media. “I think the Tren de Aragua in the U.S. could help elect Trump,” said Michael Shifter, a senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington. (Source: wsj.com)

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Hamas Engineers Building Cartel Border Tunnels
« Reply #3110 on: September 15, 2024, 09:24:17 AM »
Like butter on toast or pretzels and beer, some things make an obvious match. In this instance it’s Hamas tunnel engineers with experience digging in sandy strata and Mexican cartels that need unbridled access to the American market:

https://x.com/kimwexlermajd/status/1834652302767988852?s=61




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WT: Mexican Maffia approves killing TDA
« Reply #3114 on: September 19, 2024, 05:27:38 AM »


Mexican Mafia approves killings of gang rivals flowing into U.S.

Tren de Aragua lured by Biden’s generous ‘parole’

By Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Mexican Mafia, worried about the growing power and recklessness of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, has “greenlighted” killings of TdA members, said a homeland security expert who tracks cartel behavior.

Jarrod Sadulski said TdA has sent thousands of members across the border into the U.S. and has been encroaching on what the Mexican Mafia considers its territory. La Eme, as the mafia is known, has responded with the kill order.

“They’ve been greenlighted to murder them,” Mr. Sadulski said. His information comes from a former senior Sinaloa Cartel operative with ties to the Mexican Mafia, a coalition of Hispanic gangs that is primarily involved in drugs in the Southwest.

Tren de Aragua has become the face of crime amid the Biden border surge. Gang members have been implicated in some of the most high-profile cases over the past year. That includes a migrant mob attack on New York City police, the killing of university student Laken Riley in Georgia and the rape of a girl at a government-run migrant shelter in Massachusetts.

The gang has quickly expanded its reach into more mundane criminal enterprises, such as drug distribution and prostitution.

East Colfax Community Collective held a rally this month in Aurora, Colorado, to address chronic problems in the apartment buildings occupied by people displaced from their home countries in Central and South America.

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The arrival of a new gang is always touchy on the streets as the old players try to figure out a new balance. They must decide whether to ignore the newcomer, try to co-opt it, take it over or go to war.

That La Eme chose war is not surprising, said John Fabbricatore, a gang expert and retired senior executive at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“You’re going to see a lot of brushback from gangs and cartels,” he said. “If this does spill over to the confrontations between these gangs, unfortunately, the normal civilian always gets caught in the middle.”

Former President Donald Trump threw a spotlight on TdA during the presidential debate this month when he pointed to a housing complex in Aurora, Colorado, where a viral video showed heavily armed young men walking through the hallways. Residents said they were TdA members.

Local authorities have disputed parts of that account.

Meanwhile, city officials in El Paso, Texas, moved to shut down the Gateway Hotel, a residential hotel, after TdA infiltrated the building. City police said criminal activity exploded once TdA took hold.

An officer said police had responded to hundreds of complaints at the Gateway over the past year. When officers were dispatched, they found drug paraphernalia and trash-strewn hallways with garbage piled high enough to block emergency exits, prostitution, and people with tattoos popular among TdA members.

Mr. Fabbricatore said TdA’s arrival reminds him of the cocaine gang wars of the 1980s, which were fueled by the arrival of tens of thousands of Cubans from the Mariel boat lift.

He noted similarities to TdA, except the U.S. government is making it even easier for the Venezuelans to gain a foothold thanks to the generous support to new arrivals under President Biden’s “parole” programs.

One program offers an iffy legal status to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans if they secure a sponsor in the U.S. and fly directly into airports, skipping the southern border. Another, open to a broader range of nationalities, welcomes unauthorized migrants with the same iffy legal status as long as they preschedule their arrivals at border crossings.

None of them has a legal visa to enter, yet most are granted parole and given some transition assistance. Work permits are issued to those who want them.

“We are literally setting things up for TdA. We are funding NGO housing for them, we are providing three months of rent. We are providing food benefits. They don’t have to struggle. They can go right to crime,” said Mr. Fabbricatore, who is running as a Republican for a seat in Congress in Colorado.

Sniffing out gang members from among the broader Venezuelan migration is tricky because the U.S. doesn’t have access to data from Venezuela, an adversarial nation. Mr. Sadulski said TdA members often postpone their gang tattoos until after they are in the U.S., making it tough for Customs and Border Protection agents and officers to spot them.

TdA is strategic about where it goes. “TdA will study the state laws, study law enforcement. They find the weakness in the area of operation where they’re at,” Mr. Sadulski said.

The gang is the first from Venezuela to make it on the international scene. Its expansion largely tracks the broader exodus of Venezuelans escaping the calamity of the Maduro regime: in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Chile.

More recently, it has gained footholds in the U.S.

Mr. Sadulski said TdA has indications of alignment with the Cartel of the Suns, a drug smuggling operation with ties to the Venezuelan government. Indeed, after the Venezuelan government deployed thousands of security forces to retake the TdA-controlled Tocoron prison last year, experts said it seemed staged and pointed out that the gang’s top leaders escaped.

TdA leader Hector Guerrero Flores, also known as Nino Guerrero, went on the run.

In July, the Treasury Department declared TdA a “deadly criminal threat” and slapped financial sanctions on the group’s assets. The State Department announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Mr. Guerrero, $4 million for Yohan Jose Romero and $3 million for Giovanny San Vicente.

“Tren de Aragua leverages its transnational networks to traffic people, especially migrant women and girls, across borders for sex trafficking and debt bondage. When victims seek to escape this exploitation, Tren de Aragua members often kill them and publicize their deaths as a threat to others,” the Treasury Department said.


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PP: Cartel types now stealing oil in Texas
« Reply #3116 on: September 20, 2024, 10:51:18 PM »
BTW, this skill set has been honed in Mexico for many years.

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Texas oil thefts linked to illegal immigration: Texas Republican Representative Tony Gonzales will soon introduce a bill aimed at combatting a serious problem connected to illegal immigration: oil theft. In western Texas, across a region known as the Permian Basin, there has been an increasingly sophisticated operation of gasoline and oil theft orchestrated by malefactors with ties to criminal organizations across the border. These criminal groups primarily recruit illegal immigrants to steal the oil. And the problem is only growing as hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. The thefts include hijacked trucks hauling oil and gasoline as well as stealing expensive drilling rig equipment. Gonzales argues, "The locals know about this, but they just don't have the resources to combat against it because it's very sophisticated." Matt Coday, president and founder of the Oil & Gas Workers Association, explained, "It's not just people being attacked. It's not just a threat to our economy. It's an absolute threat to national security."

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Biden-Harris have intentionally left us wide open
« Reply #3117 on: September 23, 2024, 08:10:36 AM »

https://homeland.house.gov/2024/09/19/biden-harris-administration-has-intentionally-left-us-vulnerable-pfluger-higgins-deliver-opening-statements-in-hearing-on-terror-threats-from-the-border/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFeXohleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHf2Ghznhqp3OiWKECoWEgBQ4Ba1VT_w-qWoaHqli5CXHVGWSWIleTpsipg_aem_bRdhhbK5CDDdTKiXFTFkhQ

which leads to this:

Forward Observer:

(1) HIGGINS: 2,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON TERROR WATCH LIST IN U.S.: During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said his sources reported that likely over 2,000 illegal immigrants on the FBI terror watch list have crossed over the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released at least 99 illegal immigrants on the watch list into the United States, according to Higgins.
Former FBI Terrorist Screen Center Director Timothy Healy said the surveillance of possible terrorists entering the U.S. is not manageable as numbers have risen from 11 in 2020 to 380 since 2021.
Why It Matters: The significantly higher number of Special Interest Aliens (SIA) with ties to terrorism, and the likelihood that many more have entered undetected, has likely made surveillance of terrorism planning and activities impossible due to resource constraints. This substantially increases the risk of terrorist attacks. – R.C.
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FO: Sabotage?
« Reply #3119 on: September 27, 2024, 01:51:33 PM »
(3) SHIPBUILDER REPORTS FAULTY WELDS TO DOJ: According to a memo from Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Nickolas Guertin, shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries notified the Department of Justice (DOJ) this week of faulty welds on non-critical components of in-service U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.
Guertin told Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti there were indications that some of the faulty welds were made intentionally.
Why It Matters: The faulty welds on submarines and aircraft carriers could be due to incompetence, mismanagement, and labor force issues that have hit other defense contractors like Boeing. However, Geurtin’s memo about the indications that the faulty welds were intentional opens the door to deliberate sabotage. The investigation is ongoing and further details will not likely be publicly available for some time. – R.C.

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Kamala visits the border
« Reply #3120 on: September 29, 2024, 07:54:52 AM »
Jesse Waters comments:

https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1839831095153480120

She's tough on cartels?  Cartels are laughing to the bank.

WHAT PART OF SANCTUARY STATE IS "HARD ON THE CARTELS?"

They had the first two years with a Democrat House and Senate, but (Trump blocked) legislation stopped them from doing their job, protect the border, protect the country?

Strangely, it's both a success of hers and Donald Trump's fault, all at the same time.

WHO believes this?  And who just repeats talking points like a parrot?
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663,000 criminals came into this country under this administration (that we know of). Of course the really bad criminals are the most likely ones to be in the 'got-away category, not checking in with the authorities.

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with sexual assault, murder convictions in US: ICE data
ICE provided the new data to lawmakers this week  Source:  Biden Harris administration.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tens-thousands-illegal-immigrants-sexual-assault-homicide-convictions-roaming-us-streets

Not bad out of 15 million total?  It only takes one out of every 20 illegals to get to 663,000 new criminals imported.

It only took 19 to commit a 9/11 level terror.

Homeland Security??  We're on the honor system now.  But for the law abiding, keep taking your shoes off in airports and having your genitals checked. Don't carry an extra cell phone battery pack.
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« Reply #3125 on: October 03, 2024, 07:18:36 AM »


(1) DHS RELEASES 2025 HOMELAND THREAT ASSESSMENT: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the terrorism threat environment in the Homeland is expected to remain high over the coming year, including potential violent extremist responses to domestic sociopolitical developments and international incidents.

According to the report, DHS assesses domestic and foreign adversaries will continue to target critical infrastructure through cyber and physical attacks, and violent extremists will continue to call for physical attacks on critical infrastructure.
DHS also assesses foreign adversaries including China will continue non-market policies and practices, economic espionage, and intellectual property theft to undercut U.S. competitiveness.

Why It Matters: The cyber threat to U.S. critical infrastructure is likely more broad and deep than publicly reported. DHS reported earlier this year that their chemical site security tool was hacked by foreign adversary hackers. The chemical site security tool contained physical security plans, increasing the vulnerability of these storage sites, spanning from chemical plants to agricultural facilities, to physical sabotage. – R.C.

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How much of this can be done to us?
« Reply #3126 on: October 03, 2024, 12:02:59 PM »

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FO: 1.7 million SIAs!!!
« Reply #3128 on: October 04, 2024, 12:24:52 PM »
(1) REPORT: 1.7 MILLION POTENTIAL SECURITY THREATS CROSSED BORDER: According to a new interim report from the House Judiciary Committee staff, 1.7 million special interest aliens (SIA) from a list of 26 countries the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has determined pose the greatest national security and counterintelligence threat to the U.S. have entered the country since 2021.

According to the report, 504,214 SIAs were encountered at the southwest border in 2024 so far.

Why It Matters: The majority of illegal immigrants from DHS’s list of 26 countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, and Turkey are unlikely to have ties to terrorism or terrorist groups. However, at least 250 SIA’s on the FBI terror watch list have been detained while crossing the southwest border, and according to this report and testimony from former Border Patrol officials, 99 were released into the United States. It is likely due to a lack of accurate records and uncooperative officials in countries of origin that some SIAs with ties to terrorism have slipped through the border undetected. – R.C.

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Number of illegals dumped into swing states is jaw dropping
« Reply #3129 on: October 04, 2024, 01:42:17 PM »
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/10/04/the-number-of-illegal-aliens-dumped-into-swing-states-is-jawdropping-n2645729

The Number of Illegal Aliens Dumped Into Swing States Is Jaw-Dropping
Katie Pavlich
October 04, 2024

Illegal immigration populations have increased by hundreds of percent in swing states during the Biden-Harris administration, according to court filings.

Georgia - 401%
North Carolina - 446%
Pennsylvania - 241%
Arizona - 734%
Nevada - 562%
Michigan - 775%
Wisconsin - 467%

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Border Rape
« Reply #3130 on: October 04, 2024, 02:02:02 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_of_migrants_from_Latin_America_to_the_United_States

The proportion of women and girls who are sexually assaulted over the course of their journey might be as high as 60% (2010)


Sexual assault is sometimes part of the "price" of smuggling, and some women have reported preparing for it in advance by taking contraception.

[Doug]  Why would it be better now; cartels control the border.

What I don't get is all these women here supporting the policy that leads to and tolerates all this irreparable harm to women.
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More here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6165364/
Abstract
(1) Background: Sexual violence (SV) is a major public health problem, with negative socio-economic, physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health consequences. Migrants, applicants for international protection, and refugees (MARs) are vulnerable to SV.

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