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General Calls Border Crisis An Existential Threat
Investor's Business Daily ^ | July 9, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 07/09/2014 9:59:24 AM PDT by raptor22

Immigration: The general in charge of U.S. Southern Command says America's porous southern border poses as much a threat as any foreign power, with gangs and terrorist groups hiding among the tidal wave of illegals.

If Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, keeps warning about the crisis at our southern border, he may soon join the long list of generals and admirals sacked by this administration as it decimates the military.

"In comparison to other global threats, the near collapse of societies in the hemisphere with the associated drug and (undocumented immigrant) flow are frequently viewed to be of low importance," Kelly told Defense One, a website focused on national security issues. "Many argue these threats are not existential and do not challenge our national security. I disagree."

Kelly, responsible for the Caribbean and all lands south of Mexico, has sounded the alarm that this isn't just a humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Russia
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; borderpatrol; borders; bordersecurity; bordersurge; dreamact; drugcartels; ibd; illegalaliens; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; ms13; openborders

1 posted on 07/09/2014 9:59:24 AM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

Yup. He be a goner for questioning The One. But, then again, how high has he climbed up the promotion ladder for supporting Obama? Over 200 officers that did not follow the Dimocrat party line were sacked. Those that kissed his skinny butt got promoted.


2 posted on 07/09/2014 10:00:59 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: raptor22

So, general, resign if you don’t get permission to close the borders. If you don’t resign, you are a putrid co-conspirator along with others in this maladministration. Does the word “traitor” come to mind?


3 posted on 07/09/2014 10:18:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

If I read the article correctly his command does not include our southern border.


4 posted on 07/09/2014 10:20:54 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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5 posted on 07/09/2014 10:58:48 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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6 posted on 07/09/2014 12:17:09 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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7 posted on 07/09/2014 1:06:46 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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8 posted on 07/09/2014 2:01:05 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

With a literal goal of Entropy...


9 posted on 07/09/2014 2:05:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: raptor22

I suspect we’re being invaded by Chinese spies and Iranian terrorists...

Democrats don’t care - they’re getting high off the idea of 20 million more democrats... and they’re not thinking in terms of 60 million dead Americans.


10 posted on 07/09/2014 2:10:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (Remember the oath is to "support and defend the Constitution" - not the President. FRrfreedom4u)
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So long, General Kelly. You'll be gone shortly and some a$$$ucking twit will be found to put in your place, with his lips firmly attached to the Emperor's backside.

You should know better than to tell the truth get published on a national security discussion web site. His Majesty is not be pleased with this sort of truth-telling.

11 posted on 07/09/2014 4:27:04 PM PDT by Gritty (Obama's governing as president of a Latin American republic, where only the president matters-MSteyn)
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To: RetiredArmy

“Over 200 officers that did not follow the Dimocrat party line were sacked. Those that kissed his skinny butt got promoted.”

Just like farging Argentina, or the “Democratic Republic of the” Congo.

If good men ever again occupy the Capitol and the White House, they will have to call hundreds of thousands of veterans out of retirement to get the military straightened out.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 11:29:49 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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13 posted on 07/10/2014 5:25:13 PM PDT by SJackson (government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)
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