Former National Security Officials Warn of “Multi-division Army of Young Single Adult Males” Illegally Crossing Border
“These men are potential operators in what appears to be an accelerated and strategic penetration, a soft invasion, designed to gain internal access to a country that cannot be invaded militarily in order to inflict catastrophic damage if and when enemies deem it necessary.”
Ron DeSantis has suspended his presidential campaign, but he’s still speaking out on the single most important issue for the 2024 presidential election – the uncontrolled southern border, and he’s still right about it:
“The appropriate number of illegal entries is zero.”
Stopping the invasion at our border is a matter of will. It doesn’t require a so-called deal that codifies into law illegal entries in excess of 1.8 million per year and provides incentives for future illegal immigration. pic.twitter.com/ClQToc7nVi
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 27, 2024
The “deal” he’s talking about is the tentative agreement between Biden and Republican Senators. Per Bill Melugin of Fox news, here is the outline:
– Mandatory detention of all single adults.
– Mandatory “shut down” of border once average daily migrant encounters hits 5,000. Importantly, this 5,000 number includes 1,400 CBP One app entries at ports of entry per day, and roughly 3,600 illegal crossings per day.
– How is that enforced? Once the 5,000 threshold is hit, a new authority is codified into law that requires Border Patrol to immediately remove illegal immigrants they catch without processing. They would not get to request asylum, they would immediately be removed. This includes removals back to Mexico, and deportations to home countries. This would be a *massive* change from current policy, which is that once an illegal immigrant reaches US soil, they must be processed via Title 8 and allowed to claim asylum. Under this new authority – they are not processed, and they are mandatorily immediately removed once the “shut down” threshold is reached.
– This “shut down” also takes effect is there are 8,500 migrant encounters in a single day.
– The “shut down” would not lift the next day. It wouldn’t lift until daily encounters are reduced to under 75% of the 5,000 threshold for at least two weeks. This means the “shut down” authority would not lift until two weeks of an average of less than 3,750 migrant encounters per day.
– Some family units will be released with ATD (Alternatives to Detention, ankle monitors etc).
– New removal authority to immediately remove all migrants who do not have valid asylum claims, which will be determined within 6 months rather than the years long process we have right now.
– Any migrant caught trying to cross twice during “shut down” phase would be banned from entering US for one year.
– US will need agreement with Mexico for MX to take back non Mexican illegal immigrants. This hasn’t been ironed out yet.
– President Biden approves of the deal and is ready to sign it as is, right now, and implement the new authority it would give him.
This deal is a step back to codify massive illegal immigration, and is worse than current law. The problem is Biden will not enforce current law.
Existing law provides for mandatory detention of *all persons* entering illegally. If they write a chest-beating law calling for "mandatory detention of all single adults," (a) that actually guts the better law we already have, & (b) why would anyone trust them to enforce it? https://t.co/SJifsv0JEt
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) January 27, 2024
The Biden-McConnell open borders amnesty bill would let in a minimum of 1.8 million illegal aliens before even pretending to close the border. https://t.co/DuJ8Dymi9O
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 27, 2024
We are at a crisis point, and not just from the number of illegals crossing the border. There isn’t a doubt in my mind that China, Iran, other hostile nations and various terror groups are infiltrating saboteurs into the country for use when needed, as this letter from former FBI officials asserts.
The threat we call out today is new and unfamiliar. In its modem history the U.S. has never suffered an invasion of the homeland and, yet, one is unfolding now. Military aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands – not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected with ready access granted.
It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is comparatively a multi-division army of young single adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown. They include individuals encountered by border officials and then possibly released into the country, along with a shockingly high estimate of “gotaways” – meaning those who have entered and evaded apprehension.
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For these reasons, elements of this recent surge are likely no accident or coincidence. These men are potential operators in what appears to be an accelerated and strategic penetration, a soft invasion, designed to gain internal access to a country that cannot be invaded militarily in order to inflict catastrophic damage if and when enemies deem it necessary.
This sobering letter from former FBI, Homeland Security, and other law enforcement officials describes the chilling reality of why @POTUS’s open border is a clear and present danger to America. pic.twitter.com/JrlM6vKjVq
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) January 25, 2024
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Blue helmets make easy targets…now an anachronism.
I wonder how they will react to unconventional return fire. Our teenage fascination with Viet Nam and growing up in the shadow of Fort Bragg, LeJune, Beaufort and Fort Jackson produced much info on IED production and utilization.
I stated the same thing two days ago, and LI censors removed it.
Careful what you say about blue helmets. LI loves them!!!!!!!
I have been chastised by a resident screechy here at LI.
Censor away. I choose 2A for self-defense..
Was it one supporting Hamas atrocities ?
When our ability to warn someone that we intend to resort to self-defense is censored, all it means is that the self-defense will take place with absolutely no warning.
Just as in Mutual Assured Destruction, defensive threats actually deter violence, while filtering them hastens action.
“soft”?
Close the border now. Period. End of sentence.
Agreed, close border now and start rounding up and deporting ALL illegals.
It really is as simple, and difficult with this administration and supporters, as that. Announce to the world that the border is closed and actually turn away anyone attempting to enter illegally. Prosecute people attempting to assist illegal entry (even if not specifically noted in Immigration statutes, conspiracy would be in order). Obrador will complain and strenuously object, likely going so far as to file a ludicrous lawsuit demanding we admit illegals. But his best course would be to stop the illegals coming into Mexico instead of facilitating their movement to the US border.
For one interpretation of what’s going to hit us, read Kurt Schlichter’s new book, The Attack. It’s written as interviews and telling stories of those who survived the terrorist attacks, carried out in 49 states simultaneously, by “young single adult males” who came in via our open border. The attacks span three days, Aug 27-29, 2024, hitting public places, then residential areas, and finally infrastructure. The book is written as if it’s written 2029. Truly frightening, and at this point attacks like this are probably inevitable, even if the border were sealed tomorrow.
I read that book. I’m also watching a couple of relocated Hollywood moonbats running around trying to ban guns in Tennessee. They are so clueless it’s terrifying.
Interesting book, interesting concept; we’re already there. Antifa, BLM and their ilk have proven this with their attacks, as have the pro-“palestinian” mobs.
These invaders, and I deliberately employ this word, are already here and the current U.S. Government has deliberately ignored these “demonstrations” that display their rather obvious power to disrupt and shut down the everyday activities of the general population.
Question is:
what are we (obviously the govenment has shown it doesn’t want to get involved) going do about the millions, estimated between 30-40, of invaders (they’re not immigrants by any stretch of the the definition) already here?
Think how easy it would be for a few hundred modestly-armed men to take over a nuclear power plant. But wait, it’s worse. Our most sensitive military installations were not built, nor are they defended, to withstanding a well-trained, company-sized assault force. And yet, we’re allowing the equivalent of a regiment of military-aged males into the country, unvetted every week. This is going to end horribly.
Not to mention all those soft-target elementary schools in your community and across the nation.
Remember Beslan.
this is going to end horribly
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unfortunately, have to agree with you–most politicians and arm-chair analysts refuse to acknowledge the real elephant in the room–regardless of who you ask, nearly everyone agrees that there are literally millions of illegals who’ve gained entry to our country–they are already here–the scope of the problem(s) are beyond the “open borders” crowd’s understanding–like the sheer length of the texas ( southern ) border, ordinary citizens simply don’t have a reference point to comprehend the enormity of the problem–we have been (and continue to be) overrun–any warrior knows that at some point ( regardless the skill / determination of the defenders) the numbers begin to tell–imho, we are well past that point–the question then arises: what are we going to do about it ?–due to the persistent/deliberate malfeasance of fjb, we are very, very likely to be on our own and it will be up to us to right the ship
Actually getting into a power plant might not be so easy. But you are dead on about other “secure” installations.
Not really. The two major problems with current law are:
1. As soon as an alien is inside the USA, and he says the magic word “Asylum” (which they have all been taught to say), it is illegal to deport him until he has had a hearing. This is the fundamental problem, which needs legislation to fix, which means the senate and the president have to be on board, which means we must negotiate with them.
2. The second biggest problem is the Flores consent decree, which Andy McCarthy seems to ignore. Under that decree alien children, whether or not accompanied by their parents, can’t be held in custody longer than 20 days. After that they must be released to some appropriate caregiver.
In practice that means there are only two alternatives: release the whole family, or separate them, keeping the parents in custody and finding someone to look after the children. The problem is that Trump tried that, and it lasted about two whole before the pressure became so great he caved in and reversed the policy. So even if we had a president willing to enforce the law, the only way to keep aliens who come with their children in custody is to reimplement this policy and be prepared to withstand the national outrage that Trump couldn’t withstand.
(Also, the government must be able to prove at all times where all the children are, and that they are truly being looked after. The implementation under Trump was not very good, probably because it was sabotaged by the career civil service, and he ended up getting a spate of court orders.)
Given this, the practical current law is that only single adults can be kept in custody. (Unless both parents come in together with the children, in which case it would be possible to hold one parent while releasing the other and the children. That might prove acceptable to the public and not spark the outrage that the Trump policy did. But what do you do when there is only one parent?)
So a compromise in which this becomes mandatory law is no worse than the current situation. And the rest of the deal, i.e. the abolition of the magic word “asylum” as an automatic stay of deportation, makes it a lot better than the current situation.
Of course ideally Congress would just fix the law by repealing both the “asylum” magic word and the Flores consent decree.
Or the next president could make a radical change in the legal status quo by announcing that the USA no longer consents to the decree, and refuses to be bound by it. Assert a new doctrine that an administration cannot be bound by its predecessors’ consent decrees.
Now this would be a radical change, because under current legal doctrine a consent decree is stronger than a judgment, and obviously an administration is bound by judgments against its predecessors. How could it be otherwise. So there is no doubt that Judge Gee (who’s in charge of the Flores decree) would immediately knock this down and order the president to continue to abide by the decree, and he would have to appeal it all the way up to the supreme court. But that seems worth doing, because consent decrees are a major problem; not just this one. But there’s no telling how the Supreme Court would hold.
“and it lasted about two whole ”
Should be “and it lasted about two months”.
Bullsh*t.
Etc., etc., etc.
Traitor Joe and his junta are orchestrating this invasion and they laughable “asylum” argument is complete BS and everyone knows it. Those Americans who have coached aliens to lie about asylum in order to invade us are traitors and those foreigners who have done the same are enemies of America. Frankly, all of the Red Cross and other camps for the future illegals outside of the southern border (and along the path northwards) should be napalmed and burned to ash. Everyone in those camps is an enemy of America and a legitimate target.
TY
And traitors should be hung by the neck until dead.
Excellent correction of the Millhouse troll machine! I don’t read LI articles much, but it seems every single one of them features MH countering any COMMON SENSE arguments with liberal legalese that is usually countered by FACTS! If he/she/it is not a PAID TROLL then his/her/its Mommy needs to unplug his/her/its computer and make him/her/ it go outside and eat some dirt!
Milhouse… hamstringing a nation one step at a time. I hope you are one the first to be affecting your nonsense.
Milhouse,
The problem is the lack of will by the Biden Admin to enforce the existing laws. They made deliberate policy decisions to facilitate the current border catastrophe.
Step one is empower CPB to make a determination about asylum claims on the spot. Hint if they haven’t bothered to apply at the US Embassy in their Nation of origin or the US Embassy/Consulate located within any of the Nations they traveled through enroute to the US Border…. their claim should begin with the presumption that it is BS.
Step two is indeed family unification send them back to their home Nation. Bill their Nation of Origin and if the payment is refused begin an escalating process of expelling their diplomats, halting foreign aid, ending any export/import permit waivers, halt issuance of all forms of VISA, expelling any current VISA holders, and ultimately an economic embargo. Ramp up the consequences until they comply or are isolated economically and politically from the US.
For Consent decree wrangling …it is an issue but not insurmountable. A consent decree is IMO the usurpation of Congressional Power. It is an agreement by the Executive Branch and a plaintiff signed off by the Judiciary, none of whom have the Constitutional power to bind future Congressional actions for all time based on a single Judge’s signature. It is as a practical matter an end run around Congress to create legislation. Congress should have to review and approve all prior and future consent decrees at minimum for them to be operable but a future Congress can always revisit and revise the underlying statutes. Sue and settle lawfare must be rejected as repugnant to our Republican Govt.
“The problem is the lack of will by the Biden Admin to enforce the existing laws. They made deliberate policy decisions to facilitate the current border catastrophe. ”
That second sentence absolutely negates your first. There is no lack of will to enforce the law when there is a conscious decision to encourage illegal aliens to enter the US. That decision might have been made for “humanitarian” considerations (Bravo Sierra produced by the Liar in Chief campaigning from the basement in 2019 and 2020). Perhaps an effort to bring the illegals in with an eye to granting them amnesty and citizenship for more voters (probably an end game).
They might be capitalizing on the SCOTUS decision that illegal aliens had to be counted in the Census. That decision, and the millions of illegal aliens entering now, results, in 2030 and after, in having replacements in Blue states for citizens fleeing those states with the practical effect of preventing loss of Congressional Districts, if not actually supporting more Districts which the Democrats will most assuredly win.
Both are correct, they aren’t enforcing the law and they purposely created the current situation
Edward
The issue is one of ideology as you alluded to later on in your post. The ideology of the current regime is one of open borders.
Their policy directives in implementing the enforcement of existing laws and the (somewhat) defensible argument about the freedom of the admin to prioritize X instead of Y undermines the actual enforcement of the statutes. Those decisions are 100% based on the lack of political will to deny entry and deny asylum claims.
Your proposals require changes to the existing law.
1. “Asylum” needs to stop being a magic word.
2. Flores needs to be overridden so that children can be kept together with their parents in custody.
3. The president’s discretion needs to be severely limited . You say the problem is the current administration’s unwillingness to enforce the law — but the current law allows it not to. What it’s doing now isn’t illegal, because the law gives the president almost unlimited discretion. Almost the whole immigration law has one great big footnote: “Unless the president doesn’t feel like it”. And that too requires a change in legislation. For which we need the Dems on board, so compromise is necessary. The “deal” being reported is far from good, but it’s better than the current situation.
And remember it’s not just Biden’s lack of will. When it came to separating families, Trump lost his will after a mere two months. So what can you expect from Biden? And without separating families, Flores means the law only applies to single adults anyway.
“As soon as an alien is inside the USA, and he says the magic word “Asylum” (which they have all been taught to say)”? Uh, don’t let them inside the US and stop administratively perverting guidelines. Problem solved. And Flores is a disgrace and should be vigorously challenged. why continue to let the bad decisions of the Clinton administration govern all future immigration policy. But that’s beside the point because we’re talking about young single adult males, and besides, don’t let them in, which Biden is empowered to do now, so no Flores issue anyway.
They’re not being “let” into the US. They cross over illegally and then surrender to the Border Patrol and say “asylum”; the Border Patrol knows this is BS but it is required to take it seriously and give them a court date. And if they have children it’s required to release the children within 20 days, which in practice means it’s required to release at least one of the parents too. The law is broken and needs to be fixed.
As for Flores, the only real way to fix it is by legislation. Consent decrees are stronger than judgments.
I don’t think the consent decree in this context is immune from all challenge and concede that may prove difficult, but let’s give it a try anyway.
But you’re just plain wrong, they are letting people through everyday. Those that bypass could be handled, but the Biden administration clowns have perverted all aspects of the process.
I understand (I think) the point(s) you’re trying to make, but
I have one name to bring up to you and would appreciate your insight (how this might apply to the present problem/discussion):
Elián González Brotons
What about him? He has no relevance whatsoever to the present problem or discussion. He was not deported, or denied asylum, or anything like that. On the contrary, his father, who was legally entitled to make his decisions for him, wanted him to come home to Cuba, so legally that is what Elian “wanted”, and Janet Reno ensured that he got his wish.
The case was exactly as if a slave woman in 1850 made it to Canada with her child, died there, and the slave father insisted that the child be sent back to him on the plantation in Alabama. Every resident of Cuba is a slave, and should be regarded as legally incompetent to make their own decisions. The father’s wishes should have been disregarded, and a guardian should have been appointed to make Elian’s decisions for him; one who would not decide to send him back into slavery. But that’s not what happened, so legally Elian “chose” to go back, and now he’s been brainwashed into being very glad he did.
They’ll just use the terrorist acts to eliminate our civil rights. A bomb here an energy shutdown there and most of America will gladly enter sheep mode.
And unfortunately there may be a faction of those-who-seek-to-rule-us that is looking forward to this “opportunity”.
They probably handed out MAGA hats to every one of the MAM…military age men…. for false flags. The horses have already left the barn a long time ago. There were tales of suitcase nukes smuggled into the country during the Cold War…. with the lack of any border security all bets are off. Yes… this would be a dream come true for the Left…. martial law and a “gun hunt” just like the Samurai did for the Shogun to suppress the countryside.
I hate these arguments about how dangerous the illegals are and the threats they pose to us. That is not the issue. The issue is SOVEREIGNTY. It is our country. This country belongs to Americans, not to the world. NO ONE has the right to force himself on us.
Asylum claims are complete bullsh*t. Asylum is something you apply for or you claim in the first country you find yourself in outside of yours. The only countries bordering America are Mexico and Canada and no one from either of those countries has any legitimate asylum claims. Period.
Further, Latin America has been nothing but sh*tholes for hundreds of years. Nothing has changed much for the worse south of the border. There is nothing new for them to complain to us about. They tend to love leftism down there so they have to sleep in the beds they have made (and have been making since anyone can remember). We have tried over and over and over to introduce the rule of law to Latin American countries (because we want to do business with them, which is what America wants to do with everyone) but they have just hated us for the effort.
There are no legitimate asylum claims from anyone on the southern border. They are all in Mexico. It’s a nice enough place that they can stay there. The Mexicans let them in so the Mexicans can keep them.
Traitor Joe and his junta are waging a war on America, trying to use BS “asylum” claims (LOL) that they and their NGOs have been training the invaders to say. They are guilty of treason and all that entails. And the illegals are all invaders, here, and need to be DNA swabbed and kicked out – never to be allowed in again (nor any of their immediate family, if we had any sense and self-respect).
Why do we need a “deal” with the administration to enforce law already in place — “illegal” immigrants are illegal. Just say no.
I had a discussion with a “gentleman” from the Seattle area last night over dinner with some friends..
This person kept trying to convince me that the “Progressives” were the moderate left, whereas the “Liberals” were the extreme left.
Why is it that the Left is always trying to “re-educate” us and twisting the English language to their own purpose: telling us that wolves are sheep and vice versa.
In my mind there is no such phrase as ‘“illegal” immigrants’, if a person enters another country without specific governmental permission, that person is invading that country.
These people are deliberately, unlawfully entering the United States of America with the intent to do some degree of mischief, and therefore are invaders and should be called such and treated as such.
You are the one twisting the language. A person who moves to a new country is an immigrant, regardless of what either country’s laws have to say about it. The word “immigrant” has never had any connection to law or to legal status; pretending it has such a connection is exactly what you’re accusing the left of.
We need a deal because the current law allows the administration to behave as it is doing, and there’s no way to stop it. The law needs to change to stop that, and it can’t change without getting the senate and the president on board. The only alternative is to wait for a R president and senate, and for the R senate to have the will to outlast a filibuster. Good luck with that.
“…the current law allows the administration to behave as it is doing, and there’s no way to stop it.”
Interesting. I haven’t found a source that informs through all the intricacies of the immigration mess since … What was his name? Got run out of polite company during Obama’s first term for WrongThink on immigration issue? Otherwise as “Just a little more left than most.” progressive, The Screaming D’s used to love. Lost his journalist jobs? Reported on his own for a while? Andrew Sullivan — am I remembering the right guy?
Anyway, I haven’t found a guide through the immigration law moving parts in less than forever, since whoever it was got kicked out of the conversation.
Right now, plenty of people say what the admin is doing is flat out illegal, multiple ways. I don’t know where it says: “The first 5,000 to the boarder any given day get in, nothing else considered.”
Or has the administration got the equivalent of unlimited “proprietorial discretion” on enforcing this stuff?
Or what?
I find it funny how leftists had no problem putting all American citizens under effective house arrest just to “flatten the curve” (for 3 years) in case the hospitals got over-filled, but those same tyrants claim they are unable to stop illegal aliens from crossing our border, entering our country, and staying and going wherever they want, whenever, while they over-fill our hospitals and schools and deny those services to Americans who actually pay for them, while those illegals do not have any right to be here, in the first place.
So, I pay almost $600/month for crappy health insurance, and I have to pay $500 in cash if I visit an emergency room, even though I have to wait 7 hours in agony because the emergency room is filled to capacity with illegals and their dangerous third-world diseases that they brought with them (or just kids with sniffles because they just go to the emergency room for anything) and for which they pay NOTHING.
It is insane. It is criminal. The worst sort of crime. THE WORST.
133,000 allied troops landed in Normandy on D-Day.
Three times that number of unvetted illegals, the majority of whom are military age males, crossed the southern border of the US in December alone and that’s been going on every month for 3 plus years
You don’t need to wear uniforms to invade another country.
Again, if these were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants streaming across the border, the Democrats would have already deployed the army with live rounds and orders to engage.
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(or even Jews in desperate need of asylum during WWII – think FDR)
If you’re thinking of the St Louis, that was before WW2, and FDR was right that the refugees were Europe’s problem and Europe would have to deal with them. Which it did. Not a single one was forced to go back to Germany. Unfortunately when the War broke out some of them ended up back under German control, but that can hardly be blamed on FDR.
Stock up on ammo and practice your shooting skills.
Hey Government, YOU HAD ONE JOB!
May those who support(ed) Traitor Joe, reap what they have sown!
This feels like extortion. Give us 5,000 somolians a day, or you might get robbed way harder. Nice border state you have there; would b a shame if anything happened to it.