Posted on 01/21/2019 9:21:26 AM PST by bitt
“This week, I published a policy report for the Independent Women’s Forum on border security. The report focused on my recent trip to McAllen, Texas, my reporting on the U.S. Mexico border and the serious national security implications associated with the failure to resolve the crisis.”
The two Bangladeshi men, known as Special Interest Aliens by the Department of Homeland Security, made their way down an old dirt road that buttresses land owned by a private citizen. It was just 500 yards from the U.S. Mexico border and the Rio Grande River. Like thousands before them, they were smuggled by criminal trafficking organizations operating in Reynosa, Mexico into McAllen, Texas more than a week ago.
People from Bangladesh are considered a significantly higher national security risk by the DHS because terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and Islamic State are present in the nation. The two men, who were eventually apprehended by Border Patrol agents, will be counted against the Department of Homeland Security’s 2019 total for Special Interest Aliens attempting to enter the U.S. illegally . As for 2018, the numbers are significant, say law enforcement officials. Roughly 1500 Special Interest Aliens were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in 2018, according to one former and current senior law enforcement official. In 2011, the number of SIAs apprehended by Border Patrol agents were just over 600.
Moreover, it is one of the many reasons President Donald Trump is fighting for the extension of the border wall and more resources for federal law enforcement officials. The battle between the administration and Democrats has resulted in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. And the president said he will update the nation Saturday afternoon from White House. It is not certain yet, what he will do. Although, Trump said ...
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Congress promised US border security in 1986.
They did again in 2006 with the Secure Fence Act.
Where’s the Secure Fence?
GOP Kay Bailey Hutchinson ended the fence.
Why is spell check not working?
Why don’t we take a page out of my man Silvio Berlesconi (Italy), and what he did to thwart the illegals storming the borders.
He lined up cannons on the shore and fired at all the boats coming in. It was a classic.
It worked quite well, until the liberal snowflakes cried like babies. I think politically he couldn’t continue.
Bottom line - Kirstjen Neilson should grow some ovaries and do a similar thing on our southern border.
Are you serious?
Every time you think someone is on your side, they turn RINO on you.
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