By Brian C. Joondeph
As the 2024 presidential election nears with the world on the brink of, or already in, World War Three, America must make a serious choice in 13 months. Will America course correctly or slide into bankruptcy and irrelevancy on the world stage? Perhaps the feckless Republicans need a rallying cry.
Bill Clinton had one when he ran against ruling class scion George HW Bush. “It’s the economy stupid” was a phrase James Carville coined in 1992 when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run for the White House.
In 2023, it’s the economy again, but not only the economy. Our national debt is over $33 trillion, growing by $5 billion a day, with interest payments costing taxpayers almost $2 billion each day. Much of it is or was going to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, holding no vital US interest, or spent on the nonsensical “Green New Deal,” while most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
While not pleasant, America can survive a recession or depression, as we did a hundred years ago. But what if we are invaded and conquered?
That’s a new scenario for America. The past two world wars, and subsequent wars were all fought overseas, not in the US homeland.
Invasions don’t always happen by ships and planes. What if we simply allow the enemy to move into the country, ready for activation at any time? In other words, America’s future enemy combatants may already be here.
Republicans should be shouting, “It’s the border, stupid!” This issue will resonate with all voters, especially in Democrat-run cities like New York and Chicago, now overrun with migrants that their taxpayers must support and live with. But everyone should be concerned after what happened in Israel. No one is safe—children, the elderly, concertgoers, or everyone else.
Who controls American borders? The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. Their mission statement is “Protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic prosperity.”
Are they doing that? Or the opposite? From their website, here is CBP’s ethos,
- We are the guardians of our Nation’s borders.
- We are America’s front line.
- We safeguard the American homeland
- at and beyond our borders.
- We protect the American people against
- terrorists and the instruments of terror.
- We steadfastly enforce the laws of the United States
- while fostering our Nation’s economic security through
- lawful international trade and travel.
- We serve the American people with vigilance,
- integrity, and professionalism.
How is that working out? Are the borders safeguarded? Are Americans protected from terrorists? Are the laws being enforced? Are open borders improving our economic prosperity?
From the CBP website, there have been 7.5 million border encounters from 2021 to the present (that is, during Biden’s presidential term). 5.2 million, more than two-thirds, were single adults, mostly male. If these young men are seeking political asylum, why aren’t they bringing their families rather than coming alone?
And it’s getting worse. Look at the encounters in just one month: “CBP’s total encounters along the Southwest border in August 2023 were 232,972.” At that rate, it’s close to 3 million illegal aliens a year.
These are encounters. How many illegal migrants get through without being caught or encountered? That number is largely unknowable, but the Center for Immigration Studies estimates somewhere between 50 and 68 percent of illegal border crossers are caught. What if far fewer are caught?
The House Judiciary Committee reports, “1.7 million known ‘gotaways’ have evaded Border Patrol and escaped into the interior since January 20, 2021, with untold numbers of unknown ‘gotaways avoiding detection during that period.”
In other words, the number of illegal border crossers under Biden could be between 10 and 20 million, perhaps more, close to 5 percent of the US population.
Is the Biden administration sending any illegal aliens back home, or are they all staying in America? The House Judiciary Committee answers again, “Of the at least 2.1 million aliens released into the United States since January 20, 2021, the Biden Administration has failed to remove, through immigration court removal proceedings, roughly 99.7 percent of those illegal aliens.” In other words, they all stay here.
Where are they coming from? Mostly Central and South America, but from where else? From CBP data, about 65,000 single adults came from China during Biden’s time in office. About 40,000 single adults came from Russia. Congressman Tom Cole notes migrants from more than 150 countries have illegally crossed the border.
Thousands of “special interest aliens” from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by CBP agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the past two years, according to internal CBP data leaked to Fox News.
Would Russia or China be concerned if 60,000 young American men migrated to their country? You betcha.
The House Committee on Homeland Security reports that in 2023, so far, 151 individuals on the terrorist watchlist were stopped at the southern border. How many made it through? CBP arrested over 32,000 aliens with criminal convictions. How many more were not arrested and are in a city near you?
Is it concerning that young men of military age are coming into the country from who knows where? For anyone who still believes it’s just poor families crossing into the US, Pew Research says otherwise, “By far the largest number and share of encounters involved single adults.”
Assume 5 million single adults arrived illegally into the US, mostly young men. While AOC likes to pose in front of children, photos of migrant caravans tell a different story of hordes of military-age men in these caravans. Where are their families? Are they simply seeking political asylum, or do they have other activities in mind?
How many of these young men might be from Hamas, Hezbollah, or other militant groups intent on causing harm in America? Or are criminals? Or cartel members?
Can Europe show us what’s ahead with unfettered immigration? This New York Post headline gives a preview, “When Europe ignored the sex crimes of immigrants, all women suffered.” Young women who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats might reconsider what they are voting for.
What if only one percent of these young men have bad intentions for America? That is still 50,000 potential militants. Remember, it only took 19 al-Qaeda terrorists to carry out the 9/11 attacks. What could 50,000 terrorists do?
Investigative journalist Laura Loomer tweeted one potential answer,
Sources telling me that there were emergency intel meetings this weekend to discuss the rise of Hamas terror cells that are operating in American cities. These HAMAS terrorists came across the US border and are apparently planning to attack major US cities over the next 14 months.
Trump said much the same on Truth Social,
The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers. Are they planning an attack within our Country? Crooked Joe Biden and his BOSS, Barack Hussein Obama, did this to us!
Yet we still have a wide-open border. The Biden administration and Democrats want this, replenishing their voter rolls so they don’t have to fabricate as many ballots and votes in future elections. Republicans have done nothing to stop it, beholden to their Chamber of Commerce donors seeking cheap labor.
When President Trump tried to build a border wall, the GOP-controlled House and Senate, directed by Speaker Paul Ryan, “reneged on a deal to fund the border wall,” according to then-President Trump.
We will have our Gaza moments thanks to joe biden. The border is experiencing an invasion. biden should have been removed from office in Year one of his regime.
Go nowhere unarmed. It’s becoming more and more critical.
Wasn’t kamala the border czar?
biden, much like Afghanistan, has failed miserably at the border. Like Afghanistan, Trump left biden a perfect roadmap to maintain the border and to exit Afghanistan without consequence.
General Mark Milley: I go through the entire withdrawal from Afghanistan– chapter and verse all the time. That was a strategic failure for the United States. The enemy occupied the capital city of the country that you were supporting. So, to me, that hurts. It hurts a big way. But no matter what pain I feel or anyone else feels– nothing comes even close to the pain of those that were killed.
If you look at the composition of the protests in support of the baby murdering, raping, elderly killing Hamas, it is clear we should expect the next domestic terrorists to be wearing keffiyehs and be dark complected. Just like those weak, virtue-signaling crybabies that march along and loot with BLM, we should expect the university degenerates to participate. Maybe while the FBI waits in vain for the MAGA wave of violence to materialize, they might spare a guy or two to look out for Islamic terrorists. But, that would leave the nation vulnerable to the most existential threat this nation has ever faced, the MAGA “extremists” who, to date, have yet to commit a single act of terroristic violence.
Biden the Democrat/Globalists doing t he wish of the UN/CFR/Globalists for reasons for his Impeachment and removal of the UN from America
More inclusive and concise would be to say, “It’s the DEMOCRATS, stupid!” The disruption caused by the CCP virus aside, the nation was in pretty damned good shape. Then, through politicizing COVID, suppressing evidence of corruption and election fraud, the Democrats fought tooth and nail to reverse everything going well in the nation. Perhaps the border is the worst (best) example.
The border was secured and numerous international agreements were in place to stem the flow of phony “refugee” applications, a new, effective wall was going up across the border, laws were finally actually being enforced and the message that illegal immigration was NOT a victimless crime and was going to be treated as such was being transmitted. The border was secure and was getting MORE secure every day.
Imagine going from a few hundred thousand illegal immigrants to TWO MILLION illegal immigrants a year and calling THAT “secure” and under “operational control”? And that doesn’t address the millions of got-aways that undoubtedly include the worst of the worst that don’t want to risk being recognized and detected by Border Patrol. But Democrats don’t care; hell, they cut HOLES in the “ineffective” wall to make SURE it is ineffective and those seeking to sneak in are able to. Are there actual people among us SO STUPID as to believe THIS is border security? No… that simply isn’t possible. This debacle is intentional.
Democrats are bound and determined to destroy this country, down to the very foundation.
Terror attacks by Muslims are being covered as just local crimes.
I used to be at this intersection all the time back when I lived in Long Beach.
This week a Muslim man plowed thru a bunch of people and cars, killing one (so far) and very critically wounding another.
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Local version:
https://www.foxla.com/news/man-crashes-car-into-pedestrians-at-long-beach-crosswalk-killing-woman
Long Beach, CA is only about 100 miles north of the border.