Despite the best efforts by the D.C. establishment and its judges, the Sussman trial is moving forward and with that comes <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/20/clinton-campaign-manager-denies-approving-passing-anti-trump-info-to-fbi-00034115">closer scrutiny</a> of the Clinton campaign.

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		The manager of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid, Robby Mook, testified Friday that the campaign did not instruct or authorize a lawyer to go to the FBI with claims of a potential data link between then-candidate Donald Trump and a Russian bank owned by allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

	
		That lawyer — former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann — is on trial in federal court in Washington on a felony false-statement charge brought by special counsel John Durham, who claims Sussmann lied to the FBI when he said he was not acting on behalf of any client in relaying indications and internet data stream between a Trump-related server and one for Moscow-based Alfa Bank.
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	That particular smear, both discredited and explosive, is not the one most people are familiar with, but has shown how far the Clinton campaign was willing to go.


	Mook is denying any connection to it. But here's the buried lede.

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		Mook said he had no knowledge of Clinton approving Sussmann to go to the FBI with the server information on behalf of the campaign.

	
		“I don’t see why she would,” he said.
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	Having no knowledge is a different animal.

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		Mook confirmed that top campaign officials were aware of the Alfa Bank “secret server” allegations in the summer and fall of 2016, but said they favored handing them off to a reporter.

	
		“Going to the FBI does not seem like a very effective way to get that information out to the public. We do that through the media,” he said.

	
		Mook said that after discussions at the highest levels of the campaign, they decided to do just that. He also said that somewhere around that time he informed Clinton personally and she concurred.

	
		“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said. “She agreed to that. ... She thought we made the right decision.”
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	Seemingly, Hillary signed off on the media end of the smear campaign.


	But what Mook's really saying is that he was not in on the serious opposition research end of things anyway.

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		However, Mook said he didn’t know during the campaign a private investigation firm called Fusion GPS was doing opposition research for Hillary’s bid through the law firm.

	
		“I was not aware during the campaign of anyone they were engaging to do that work,” Mook said. “I did not know that they had been retained.”
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	If Mook is telling the truth, then he wasn't on that part&nbsp;of the loop anyway. But there's no reason to think that Hillary and her people weren't. So as a defense witness, Mook just serves the purpose of drawing a line between the campaign and its darker operations. That's the next step. The shadow campaign that spawned Russiagate.

Hillary Clinton Signed Off On Discredited Russiagate Smears

Despite the best efforts by the D.C. establishment and its judges, the Sussman trial is moving forward and with that comes closer scrutiny of the Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed Off On Discredited Russiagate Smears

"We're desperate, give us money."


	"If only we had funding, we might be able to teach."


	"Students in America are failing because schools don't have enough money."


	Nah. They have more money than<a href="https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/school-districts-are-struggling-to-spend-emergency-covid-19-funds-11652866201"> they know what to do with</a>. Every single outrageous property tax increase, teachers' union strike, and new budget pours insane amounts of money into a black hole that eats it up and emits nothing in return except more demands.


	We overfund the public school system and the vast majority of the money gets stolen, wasted, or sent off to politically connected consultants, woke textbook publishers, and the rest of the industrial educational complex.

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		U.S. school districts are struggling to spend billions of dollars in federal pandemic-relief money before the funding expires.

	
		Districts have yet to spend 93% of $122 billion sunk into the K-12 education system last year as part of the&nbsp;$1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.

	
		The money, the largest-ever disbursement of federal funding for American schools,&nbsp;is meant to address learning loss, mental-health problems and other issues in schools caused by the pandemic. Districts are spending the money on&nbsp;teachers, counselors, technology, after-school programs and upgrades to school facilities.
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	If we wanted to do that, we should have opened up the school system and allowed the money to follow students into educational institutions that, unlike the failed corrupt public school system, actually want to serve them.


	Instead, a bunch of school districts are going to frantically buy up office furniture from designated minority suppliers at a 300% markup and spend millions on diversity, equity and inclusion consultants.

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		“There’s a real pressure to show something for it,” said Nick Melvoin, a school board member for the 575,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District.

	
		The district, the nation’s second-largest, has yet to spend a penny of the $2.57 billion in American Rescue Plan money it received last year. It is still trying to use up a few hundred million dollars from earlier stimulus packages.
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	Tragic, just tragic.


	It's hard out there for government workers who have to figure out how to spend stolen taxpayer money as fast as it comes in. Feel their pain. They sure as hell don't feel yours. 
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Biden Dumped $122B on Schools, 93% is Unspent

"We're desperate, give us money."


	"If only we had funding, we might be able to teach."


	"Students in America are failing because schools don't have

Biden Dumped $122B on Schools, 93% is Unspent

Joshua Katz, a respected linguist at Princeton, is not being fired because of an alleged relationship in 2006, but because he criticized woke abuses in 2020.


	At Quilette, Katz had courageously condemned efforts to silence free speech and eliminate academic freedom.


	"Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it. In the United States, thank heavens, freedom to think for oneself is still a right, not a privilege," he concluded.


	In typical fashion, the radical leftists whom he had criticized in a restrained, civil and respectful fashion, unleashed the full fury of cancel culture and set out to destroy him.


	What followed was Lavrentiy Beria's&nbsp;"Show Me the Man and I'll Show You the Crime".&nbsp;


	Since none of the false claims that Katz was in any way a racist or had engaged in hate speech, could go beyond impotent fuming they had to find something else.


	And all <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/princeton-president-asks-board-to-fire-tenured-classics-professor-citing-sexual-misconduct-investigation-11653013224">this witch hunt </a>came up was this...

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		Princeton University’s president has recommended that the school’s board of trustees fire a tenured classics professor, concluding he didn’t cooperate fully in a sexual-misconduct investigation, according to a copy of his letter to the board’s chair reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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	Salem witch trial judges would be embarrassed by this.&nbsp;

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		The report said that in 2018, Dr. Katz didn’t fully cooperate with investigators examining a consensual sexual relationship he had with an undergraduate student beginning in 2006, after her junior year, and continuing until her graduation. The student declined to participate in the investigation at that time.
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	We know exactly why&nbsp;Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber wants Katz fired. He told us so himself in an op-ed in 2020, deeming his speech "irresponsible and offensive."


	"Our policies, however, protect Katz’s freedom to say what he did, just as they protected the Black Justice League’s. He can be answered but not censored or sanctioned," Eisgruber claimed.&nbsp;


	Now he grubbily seeks to bypass those policies.


	"Show Me the Man and I'll Show You the Crime".

Princeton Pres. Conspires to Fire Tenured Prof Who Defended Free Speech

Joshua Katz, a respected linguist at Princeton, is not being fired because of an alleged relationship in 2006, but because he criticized woke abuses in 2020

Princeton Pres. Conspires to Fire Tenured Prof Who Defended Free Speech

Predictable and despicable.


	From Obama spokescreep Tommy Vietor (above) to cult leader and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson all of lefty Twitter, the blame for leftists failing to sweep primary elections and oust incumbents is... the Jews.


	If it wasn't for those pesky Jews, the Squad would have grown three sizes overnight.


	A whole lot of money has been pouring into primary races on both sides. The decision by leftists to make the outcome of the primaries about "Jewish money", about a Democratic Majority for Israel and AIPAC, is anti-semitism of a very traditional kind.


	Leftists routinely pour money into local elections from outside the district. But when pump millions from the Bay Area or Park Slope into a primary race thousands of miles away, that's "grass roots energy", but when the accursed infidel Jews do it... well that's just evil.


	Having lost some primaries because of antisemitic candidates, lefties are doubling down on the antisemitism.


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Leftists Blame Jews for Losing Democrat Primaries

Predictable and despicable.


	From Obama spokescreep Tommy Vietor (above) to cult leader and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson all of lefty

Leftists Blame Jews for Losing Democrat Primaries

Whether it's Chris Rock and Will Smith, or Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, you don't actually have to pick a side in celebrity slapfights, literal or metaphorical.


	As a practical matter, these are battles between multi-million dollar leftist celebs who wouldn't reach out a hand if you were drowning. And as a moral matter of playing referee, we're talking here about emotionally unstable narcissists with substance abuse issues.


	Asking which of them is wrong is like trying to referee battles between Iran and ISIS.


	Everything they say about each other is probably true.&nbsp;It's possible for all of them to be wrong at the same time. And joining their teams is even sillier than cheering for woke NFL teams or China's NBA teams.


	Conservatives only look silly when they jump on celebrity bandwagon disputes because the one thing you can count on an emotionally unstable narcissist to do is make whatever cause you were championing seem silly.


	Take the conservatives who, for some incomprehensible reason, decided to champion Britney Spears. That, of course, ended in exactly the way that championing crazy people with lots of money who are dependent on public approval, but have no connection to reality, was ever going to end.


	Politics is downstream of culture, but this isn't our culture, it's "their culture". It's the culture imposed on us by the leftist entertainment industry. When we play that game, we always lose.

You Don't Have to Pick a Side in Celeb Fights

Whether it's Chris Rock and Will Smith, or Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, you don't actually have to pick a side in celebrity slapfights, literal or metaphorical

You Don't Have to Pick a Side in Celeb Fights

On May 15, 2022 Fox News reported, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-end-of-title-42-will-create-chaos-all-across-the-border-tom-homan-warns">The end of Title 42 will create ‘chaos all across the border,' former ICE director warns</a>.&nbsp; That report began with the following:


	<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/h/tom-homan">Former Acting ICE Director&nbsp;Tom Homan</a>&nbsp;warned on Sunday that the Biden administration's move to end the use of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/border-security">Title 42 public health order</a>&nbsp;to expel migrants at the border will create "chaos all across the border."&nbsp;


	The policy, used since March 2020 under both Presidents&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump">Trump</a>&nbsp;and Biden, provided the ability for American officials to bar migrants from entering the country during a health crisis such as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus">COVID-19</a>&nbsp;pandemic.


	Last month, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/joe-biden">Biden administration</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-sheriff-concerned-end-title-42">confirmed it will terminate the policy</a>&nbsp;at the end of May&nbsp;despite objections from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-sound-alarm-white-house-plans-scrap-title-42">both Democrats and Republicans</a>&nbsp;warning that it would trigger a massive migrant wave.


	Those very serious concerns are well founded, nevertheless, the Biden Administration appears determined to go forward with its plan of ending Title 42.


	Under Title 42 illegal aliens who apply for political asylum can be turned around at the border out of public health concerns.&nbsp; Once Title 42, which was imposed by the Trump administration I terminated, the Biden administration will welcome all illegal aliens into the United States even though there is no way to properly vet these aliens.&nbsp; Consider this warning contained in the official report, <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">9/11 and&nbsp; Terrorist Travel</a>:


	Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.


	Because of the huge numbers of illegal aliens who have been welcomed into the United State, most will not be required to go before an immigration judge for many years.&nbsp; And, if they fail to show up for their hearings years from now, what resources will the U.S. have to search for them?&nbsp; We are talking about millions of illegal aliens.


	The obvious question is why the hell would the Biden administration refuse to secure our borders against the entry of record number of illegal aliens and refuse to enforce our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States- thus endangering national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans?


	My recent article, <a href="https://usinc.org/mayorkas-lives-up-to-expectations-as-zealous-opponent-of-immigration-law-enforcement/">Mayorkas Lives Up to Expectations as Zealous Opponent of Immigration Law Enforcement</a> was predicated on his checkered past and his recent Congressional testimony about how DHS released terrorists who were apprehended recently attempting to enter the United States along with his policies to permit and not deter illegal aliens from&nbsp; entering the United States.


	This lunacy not only runs contrary to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, and our laws and the Constitution (<a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-4/section-4/">Article IV&nbsp;&nbsp;Relationships Between the States- Section 4 Obligations of United States to States</a>) which states:


	The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.


	The actions and policies of the Biden administration also run contrary to the findings and concerns provided at numerous Congressional hearings in both the House and Senate.&nbsp; Consider, for example a hearing that was conducted on April 17, 2018 by the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence on the topic: <a href="https://www.congress.gov/event/115th-congress/house-event/108155/text">State Sponsors Of Terrorism: An Examination Of Iran's Global Terrorism Network</a>.&nbsp; Here is the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/43eJWWzHmh4">Link to YouTube Video</a> and a <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/state-sponsors-of-terrorism-an-examination-of-irans-global-terrorism-network">Link to the video provided on Congressional website</a>.


	Here is an important and chilling excerpt of the prepared testimony of one of the witnesses, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:


	In recent years, Hezbollah’s Latin American networks have also increasingly cooperated with violent drug cartels and criminal syndicates, often with the assistance of local corrupt political elites. Cooperation includes laundering of drug money; arranging multi-ton shipments of cocaine to the United States and Europe; and directly distributing and selling illicit substances to distant markets. Proceeds from these activities finance Hezbollah’s arms procurement; its terror activities overseas; its hold on Lebanon’s political system; and its efforts, both in Lebanon and overseas, to keep Shi’a communities loyal to its cause and complicit in its endeavors.


	This toxic crime-terror nexus is fueling both the rising threat of global jihadism and the collapse of law and order across Latin America that is helping drive drugs and people northward into the United States. It is sustaining Hezbollah’s growing financial needs. It is helping Iran and Hezbollah consolidate a local constituency in multiple countries across Latin America. It is thus facilitating their efforts to build safe havens for terrorists and a continent-wide terror infrastructure that they could use to strike U.S. targets.


	Shortly after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, following my appearance before numerous Congressional hearings to provide expert testimony about the nexus between immigration and national security, I was a frequent guest on most of the major news program on many networks.


	During one of my first appearance on Lou Dobbs program on CNN Lou asked me to explain what what going on that convinced so many illegal aliens to head for the United States borders.&nbsp; My off the cuff answer became one of my most frequently plagiarized statements, “No one would break into the amusement park if they could not get to go on the rides.&nbsp; Today American taxpayers are paying for them to get on those rides, so why should anyone be surprised that they are coming?”


	Today the Biden administration is so absolutely determined to provide for the needs of illegal aliens that includes baby formulas when Americans are unable to find it on the store shelves in their neighborhoods.


	On May 12, 2022 Fox News reported:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gop-rep-illegal-migrants-pallets-baby-formula">GOP rep says illegal migrants sent ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula</a>.


	The issue is not that the administration is providing formula for alien infants- but that there is an abject shortage of vital nutrients for American infants.&nbsp; Parents are expected to care for their own children before providing for others.&nbsp; Governments are similarly compelled prioritize their own citizens before they help others.


	Clearly the Biden administration and the radicals who now control the Democrat Party seek to “fundamentally change America” as I previous observed, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/democrats-succeed-americans-must-fail-michael-cutler/">For Dems to Succeed, Americans Must Fail</a>


	But there may well be another motivation.&nbsp; My recent article, <a href="https://usinc.org/biden-administration-providing-the-best-government-money-can-buy/">Biden Administration Providing the Best Government Money Can Buy</a> may help to explain an additional motivation by this administration to undermine national security, public safety and the future of our nation and our citizens- good, old-fashioned CORRUPTION!


	Here is an excerpt from my article:


	There are many potential reasons the administration is eager to remove one of the barriers to unfettered illegal immigration.&nbsp; Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles recently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/nonprofit-no-bid-contract-after-hiring-biden-official/">published an article</a>&nbsp;that may explain at least one of the motivations for this impending betrayal of America to be launched by the Biden administration.


	Here is how the Judicial Watch report began:


	A nonprofit that hired a Biden administration official received a huge no-bid government contract that wasted $17 million on unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants, a federal audit reveals. The politically connected group, which had no experience providing the services covered by the sole source federal contract, also failed to meet COVID-19 health protocols required by the government when the deal was signed. The highly questionable arrangement was executed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Homeland Security agency responsible for housing migrant families in detention. The agency typically uses Family Residential Centers (FRC) to house family units, but in early 2021 ICE anticipated increased apprehensions of illegal immigrant families along the southern border and awarded a contract to harbor them in hotels while completing intake processing, auditors from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General explain in a recent report.


	The group that received the lucrative no-bid award, Endeavors, had never provided beds or all-inclusive emergency family residential services when ICE hired it to do so, auditors found. Formerly known as Family Endeavors, the Texas based nonprofit claims to passionately serve vulnerable people in crisis through its innovative, personalized approach. Last year a national news outlet reported that Endeavors won a colossal $530 million government contract just months after it hired Biden administration official Andrew Lorenzen-Straight as its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs. The contract is by far the largest ever awarded to the nonprofit, according to the article, and is potentially worth more than 12 times the group’s most recently reported annual budget. Lorenzen-Strait, a former ICE official who also advised the Biden-Harris transition team on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy and staffing matters, must have pulled some strings.


	The report was predicated on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2022-04/OIG-22-37-Apr22.pdf">report</a>&nbsp;issued by the Office of Inspector General on April 22, 2022.


	It has been estimated that termination of Title 42 could result in at least the doubling of the number of illegal aliens who would flood across the border.&nbsp; Imagine how much more money would be given to the “non-profit” NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) turning DHS into America’s “Inn Keeper!”&nbsp; I used to refer to DHS as the Department of Homeland Surrender under Biden and Mayorkas- perhaps DHS also stands for Department of Hospitality Services!


	The Biden administration needs a new cabinet level official- the Official Auctioneer!

Title 42 and Chaos on the Border

On May 15, 2022 Fox News reported, The end of Title 42 will create ‘chaos all across the border,' former ICE director warns.&nbsp; That report began with the

On April 21, 2022 the Department of Justice issued a press release that announced, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/juan-orlando-hern%25C3%25A1ndez-former-president-honduras-indicted-drug-trafficking&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3sl1w_4s9aXlk054-AcpUJ" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/juan-orlando-hern%C3%A1ndez-former-president-honduras-indicted-drug-trafficking" target="_blank">Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Indicted on Drug-Trafficking and Firearms Charges, Extradited to the United States from Honduras</a>.&nbsp; The subtitle of that DOJ news release provided a bit more specificity, Hernández Allegedly Partnered with Some of the Largest Cocaine Traffickers in the World to Transport Tons of Cocaine through Honduras to the United States.

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		The news release began with this excerpt:</div>
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			Juan Orlando Hernández, aka JOH, 53, the former President of Honduras, will make his initial appearance tomorrow, April 22, before Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron in federal court in New York after being extradited today from Honduras. A federal court unsealed drug-trafficking and weapons charges today in a superseding indictment against Hernández.</div>
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			The indictment charges that from at least in or about 2004, up to and including in or about 2022, Hernández, the former two-term President of Honduras, participated in a corrupt and violent drug-trafficking conspiracy to facilitate the importation of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States. Hernández allegedly received millions of dollars to use his public office, law enforcement, and the military to support drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and elsewhere.</div>
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		It is more than a bit ironic that the DOJ would pursue and tout the prosecution of an alleged high level drug trafficker while simultaneously the Biden administration has done everything imaginable- and even unimaginable, to undermine the security of the U.S. Southern border though which unprecedented quantities of deadly drugs and unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens easily flow into the United States.</div>
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		While Biden’s border policies are bad news for Americans they are certainly good news for the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/04/profiteers-biden-administrations-open-borders-michael-cutler/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Y5c9e3amZu3NBeXD7UjDJ" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/04/profiteers-biden-administrations-open-borders-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Profiteers of Biden Administration’s Open Borders Policy</a>.</div>
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	As horrendous as this situation is, even as you read my commentary, the Biden Administration is preparing to terminate the protection provided by Title 42 that was implemented by the Trump administration as one of the measures he implemented to protect Americans against the COVID-19 virus.</div>

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	While Title 42 addresses illegal aliens, as the number of illegal aliens entering the United States increases and&nbsp; overwhelms beleaguered Border Patrol agents, these agents are forced to deal with this human tsunami and are therefore not able to provide border security to prevent the illegal entry of both illegal aliens and contraband, particular deadly drugs.</div>

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	Simply stated, the Biden open border policies have enriched the drug traffickers, alien smugglers and human traffickers (often one and the same) immensely. &nbsp;</div>

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	As a direct consequence, historic numbers of illegal aliens around the world have flooded into the U.S., along with record quantities of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/dea-seizes-record-12000-pounds-fentanyl-enough-give-lethal-dose-entire&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3AykGZ9UVH-xqUcdyRNE4y" href="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/dea-seizes-record-12000-pounds-fentanyl-enough-give-lethal-dose-entire" target="_blank">narcotics and other contraband</a>, resulting in record numbers <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/11/17/us-sets-record-for-drug-overdose-deaths-these-3-states-had-the-biggest-increases/?sh%3D7aa5e3ce39d0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ofyfUCnrEn1w3Bi6fivq-" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/11/17/us-sets-record-for-drug-overdose-deaths-these-3-states-had-the-biggest-increases/?sh=7aa5e3ce39d0" target="_blank">drug overdose deaths</a>.</div>

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	As I noted in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://usinc.org/u-s-extradites-former-honduran-president-for-drug-smuggling-while-borders-are-wide-open/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2a-U3pSxcSr6JjabRyDZx2" href="https://usinc.org/u-s-extradites-former-honduran-president-for-drug-smuggling-while-borders-are-wide-open/" target="_blank">my recent article</a> about the prosecution of the former president of Honduras,&nbsp;</div>

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	The administration’s policies are encouraging and facilitating the flood of deadly narcotics and criminals into the United States while enriching the violent and pernicious drug cartels and human traffickers who, thanks to Joe Biden, now have operational control over America’s borders.</div>

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	It is worth considering an <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-announcing-charges-against-juan&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3XgvcLGW-HK97RqAwjnURw" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-announcing-charges-against-juan" target="_blank">official statement</a> issued by Attorney General Garland on April 21, 2022 about the extradition and prosecution of Juan Orlando Hernández that at it conclusion included the following excerpt:&nbsp;</div>

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		The Justice Department is committed to disrupting the entire ecosystem of drug trafficking networks that harm the American people, no matter how far or how high we must go.</div>

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		As the DEA Administrator will explain in more detail, today’s charges are part of our broader efforts to disrupt the activities of the most violent and extensive drug-trafficking organizations and gangs.</div>

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		The Justice Department is taking a comprehensive approach to protecting our communities and our country from violent crime and from the scourge of deadly drugs.</div>

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		We will work to support the communities most impacted by drug addiction and abuse

	
		We will work with our partners to hold drug traffickers accountable for their crimes.

	
		And we will confront corruption and criminal conduct anywhere that undermines the security of the American people.
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	If the Attorney General is truly committed to combatting violent drug trafficking organizations, as he stated in his own words, “…will confront corruption and criminal conduct anywhere that undermines the security of the American people.”-&nbsp; The obvious question is why doesn’t he and his Justice Department begin at our wide-open southern border?</div>

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	In point of fact, in this regard, I would call your attention to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1496076/download&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2mfEI_5VqZ6_rz4qry83SK" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1496076/download" target="_blank">Unsealed Criminal Indictment</a> provided by the DOJ concerning this case.</div>

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	That indictment goes into quite some detail about how allegedly hundreds of tons of cocaine were moved from Colombia and Venezuela to Honduras and the onward to Guatemala.&nbsp; From Guatemala the narcotics was allegedly moved by boats and other means to the United States in coordination of the extremely violent Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel.&nbsp; It is more than likely that the drugs were also smuggled across the U.S./Mexican border into the United States.</div>

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	If the goal of the administration was to combat the huge quantities of narcotics flooding into the United States though this alleged smuggling operations and other operation run by other drug cartels and drug smuggling operations, we are again forced to ask why our border was not made as secure as possible instead of having been all but eradicated?</div>


	If the Attorney General is truly committed to protecting America and Americans why has he utterly ignored the importance of our immigration laws to combat transnational criminals, international terrorist organizations and drug cartels and, in so doing, violated the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission that determined that border security is national security??


	The importance of effective immigration law enforcement to protect America and Americans was my focus in my earlier article, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/01/ag-garland-ignores-vital-immigration-law-michael-cutler/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3eUVIEP7nWUPA1ng3j6DmG" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/01/ag-garland-ignores-vital-immigration-law-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">AG Garland Ignores Vital Immigration Law Enforcement</a>


	In that article I called upon my 30 years of real-world experience as a former INS Special Agent.&nbsp; My highly diverse career included a four year assignment as the first INS Special Agent assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration in New York City whereupon I was promoted to the position of Senior Special Agent and assigned to the Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF).


	During my testimony at one of the first Congressional hearings at which I testified about immigration law enforcement I made the point that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression.&nbsp; For millions of people around the world, the way America enforces and administers the immigration laws provide that first impression because those are the first laws that they are likely to encounter.&nbsp;


	The Biden administration’s immigration policies coupled with the insanity of supposed Criminal Justice and Bail Reform have created a very dangerous first impression- particularly to the enemies of our nation and the criminals who seek to ply their respective “trades” here.


	In the United States violations of our borders and our laws will not only be tolerated but richly rewarded.


	On March 20, 2013 I testified before a hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CHRG-113shrg81774.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mDBm8o2O6VTFPSe1vM4wt" href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CHRG-113shrg81774.pdf" target="_blank">Building An Immigration System Worthy Of American Values.</a>.&nbsp; As bad as things were under the Obama administration. The Biden Administration policies have made things exponentially worse.


	The conclusion of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CutlerTestimony.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651132654584000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RhPGmjdRQXpLhWFYcdnm6" href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CutlerTestimony.pdf" target="_blank">my prepared testimony</a> for that hearing in 2013 will serve as the conclusion for my commentary today:

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		Law enforcement is at its best when it creates a climate of deterrence to convince those who might be contemplating violating the law that such an effort is likely to be discovered and that if discovered, adverse consequences will result for the law violators. Current policies and statements by the administration, in my view, encourages aspiring illegal aliens around the world to head for the United States. In effect the starter's pistol has been fired and for these folks, the finish line to this race is the border of the United States.&nbsp;

	
		Back when I was an INS special agent I recall that Doris Meissner who was, at the time, the commissioner of the INS, said that the agency needed to be “customer oriented.” Unfortunately, while I agree about the need to be customer oriented what Ms Meissner and too many politicians today seem to have forgotten is that the “customers” of the INS and of our government in general, are the citizens of the United States of America.
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Former Honduran President Charged With Smuggling Huge Quantities of Narcotics Into US

On April 21, 2022 the Department of Justice issued a press release that announced, Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Indicted on Drug-

If practitioners of any profession would be expected to understand and honor the notion of Free Speech it would be lawyers.&nbsp; In years past this would be a reasonable conclusion.&nbsp; However, in so many ways traditional American values have been turned upside down and inside out!


	Consider that on March 17, 2022 Fox News reported, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/yale-law-students-bipartisan-free-speech-police">Liberal Yale Law students derail bipartisan 'free speech' event in chaotic protest; police called to scene</a>.


	&nbsp;The report began with the following:


	A bipartisan panel on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/personal-freedoms/first-amendment">civil liberties</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/education">Yale Law School</a>&nbsp;was disrupted last week when more than 100 law students tried to drown out and intimidate the speakers, who eventually needed police to escort them out of the building, according to reports.


	The school’s Federalist Society hosted the March 10 panel, which featured Monica Miller, of the progressive American Humanist Association, and Kristen Waggoner, of the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 120 student protesters showed up with signs attacking the ADF to shout down the speakers, with one reportedly recorded on audio telling a member of the conservative group that she would "literally fight you, b——."


	"It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy. I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security," Waggoner told the Washington Free Beacon.


	The Fox News report also included this important observation by Waggoner:


	Waggoner later tweeted: "My hot take: Good lawyers win with civility &amp; persuasion, not physical intimidation and threats of violence. We aren’t afraid to engage with people and ideas we disagree with. Apparently many of the students missed this lesson."


	It is beyond disturbing that law students at one of America’s most prestigious and influential law schools would witness the sort of madness that occurred at the event described in the Fox News report.


	Many of those Yale law students will not only go on to successful careers as attorneys but become judges, leaders in major corporations and law professors.


	About a dozen years ago I was invited by the Federalist Society at Yale Law School to participate in a debate about Comprehensive Immigration Reform.


	The debate was spirited and fair and all who attended were courteous and respectful.&nbsp; But that was then.


	Open debate is at the heart of a free society and is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.


	Indeed, you can think of debate as an example of intellectual capitalism.&nbsp; Competing concepts are provided to the audience who then decide which concept they are willing to “buy.”


	On a personal note, I have a degree in Communications Arts and Sciences and had planned teaching speech and debate on the college level when I had the opportunity to make a career change and became a federal agent.


	You never understand your side of an argument more than when you have to defend it against an opponent- in fact, one of my debate coaches would have us prepare to argue both sides of a debate and then not tell us which side we would take until 30 minutes before the debate!


	The Radical Left however, knows that they cannot win a fair debate so they now seek to shut down debate as they sought to do in that debate at Yale Law School in February.


	Laws can be thought of as the rulebook by which society functions.&nbsp; Laws control human conduct and behavior and regulate the way that corporations function.


	Without laws or law enforcement anarchy follows.&nbsp; However, overbearing laws and law enforcement can create a dictatorship that strips the citizens of their freedoms.


	It is clear that those who write the laws, along with those practice law and those who enforce our laws are at the foundation of our society and government.


	For decades radicals and globalists have sought to wrest control over our government to gain control over America and Americans and strip our nation of its sovereignty.


	In point of fact, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/radical-democrats-have-become-adversaries-freedom-michael-cutler/">Radical Democrats Have Become 'Adversaries of Freedom'</a>.


	When Obama was elected President, in <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96624326">his victory speech</a> Obama declared, “Change has come to America!’


	It would appear that today, Lawfare is being waged against America and Americans.


	Lawfare has been defined as:


	Legal action undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against a country or group.


	We will explore how this is being implemented shortly, but first, consider that in the wake of the death of George Floyd riots broke out across the United States in which innocent people were killed and buildings were reduced to rubble and ashes in so-called “peaceful demonstrations” as reported on by supposed “news organizations.” These supposed news organizations were thinly veiled propaganda machines that could have been part of Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” straight out of the pages of his novel, 1984.


	The Radical Left began demanding “Criminal Justice Reform” and the defunding of police.”


	Anarchistic enclaves sprung up in cities such as Seattle, Washington.&nbsp; In short order Americans rejected this lunacy, so the Left distanced themselves from the Defund Police movement, but their goals did not change.


	Radical Leftists have simply taken a different approach to achieve the same anarchistic goals.


	“Bail Reform” was implemented in many cities controlled by the Leftists under the guise that this would only involve those charged with non-violent crimes.&nbsp; It quickly became apparent, however, that many violent thugs were released without bail and went on to commit more violent crimes that injured or killed more innocent victims including children.


	New York City, which had been the safest big city in the United States, quickly descended into violence and chaos as the newly-elected Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, implemented new bail policies and established prosecutorial discretion policies that encouraged not deterred violent crimes.


	Effective law enforcement is a system with a number of important elements.&nbsp; When dedicated laws enforcement officers make arrests and conduct criminal investigations, they must be supported by dedicated prosecutors who are on the same page, seeking the effective prosecution of criminals.


	Today, unfortunately, in many jurisdictions, prosecutors who are supposed to work in close coordination with law enforcement officers are now acting as though they are criminal defense attorneys.


	<a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-03/george-gascon-wound-not-compromise-then-he-did">George Gascon</a>, the infamous Los Angeles District Attorney became the veritable “poster child” of such prosecutors who sought to protect criminals and not their victims.


	It has become clear that the vast majority of Americans reject the lunacy of defunding the police and many politicians who had advocated for this policy are now denying that they support this madness.&nbsp; However, their goals of creating anarchy, likely in order to subsequently fill the void created by anarchy with their notion of control over government and hence society.


	Now we come to the issue of “Lawfare” I raised earlier in my commentary.


	A news release that was issued by Yale Law School on February 21, 2022 announced:&nbsp; <a href="https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/yale-law-school-announces-tuition-free-scholarships-highest-need-students">Yale Law School Announces Tuition-Free Scholarships for Highest Need Students</a>.


	The idea of providing free college education for American students is a concept I personally approve of.&nbsp; Children growing up in poverty are not likely to be able to afford tuition for college or to attend graduate schools and therefore scholarship for such students of appropriate academic standing could be a way to help combat endemic poverty.


	Yale Law School is not, however being altruistic in this case- it is clear that their actual goal is to enlist an army of lawyers who will practice Lawfare.


	Consider this final paragraph in that Yale news release:


	“At Yale Law School, we prepare lawyers and leaders to face the most critical challenges of the future and effect change across every sector of society,” said Gerken. “We are committed to ensuring every student can fully immerse themselves in our vibrant intellectual experience and has the tools and resources they need to leave their mark on the world. The Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program cements our commitment to access and equity for all.”


	The motivation is clear- Yale Law School is not as benevolent it may may appear to be.&nbsp; Yale Law School is clearly determined to create an army of lawyers who are literally indebted to Yale who will engage in “Lawfare”


	In his famous <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech">Iron Curtain Speech</a> Winston Churchill delivered on March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri&nbsp; Churchill spoke of:


	“...communist fifth columns that were operating throughout western and southern Europe. Drawing parallels with the disastrous appeasement of Hitler prior to <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii">World War II</a>, Churchill advised that in dealing with the Soviets there was “nothing which they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness.”


	That concern voiced by Churchill about “communist fifth columns” (and other adversaries of freedom), should also have included the United States.

Yale Law School Recruits and Trains Social Justice Warriors

If practitioners of any profession would be expected to understand and honor the notion of Free Speech it would be lawyers.&nbsp; In years past this would be a

It is becoming all-too apparent that proponents of Critical Race Theory seek the demise of our great Republic. They are using the age-old “divide and conquer” strategy to turn Americans against one another, seeking to instigate conflict and violence to undermine our peaceful society.


	There are no winners with this strategy in place -- only victims. (I addressed this threat in an earlier article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/radical-democrats-have-become-adversaries-freedom-michael-cutler/">Radical Democrats Have Become 'Adversaries of Freedom.'</a>)


	Racism is defined as:


	Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized -- the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.


	Racism is racism, and no matter who bears the brunt of it, is wrong-headed and dangerous. It is inherently and supremely unfair and leads all people, of all races, down a dangerous path of resentment and hostility that likely will ultimately result in violence. Critical Race Theory, or CRT, actually promotes racism.


	The Preamble of the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution">Constitution of the United States</a> begins with this eloquent paragraph:


	"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


	The point is that since its founding the United States has labored mightily to achieve progress in many areas to erase barriers to success and happiness for all Americans. Hard-fought Civil Rights Laws were enacted in the quest of forming that “more perfect union.”


	American children should be taught history that honestly addresses all aspects of the history of our nation -- including the struggles to overcome injustice, that should serve to encourage students to celebrate how far we have come and how positive change is always possible. Those lessons would be inspirational and provide an optimistic viewpoint.


	Children should also be taught productive ways to achieve conflict resolution instead of the conflict instigation that is the clear goal of CRT.


	Anti-American Critical Race Theory seeks to erase these achievements and turn Americans against one another. Its proponents, for example, push for “social justice” through the “Defund the Police" movement and, in the name of “criminal justice reform,” promote “cashless bail” that has resulted in the release of violent criminals who simply attack, injure and kill more victims.


	As an INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Special Agent I frequently testified at bail hearings in state court as well as in federal court. In some instances the federal prosecutors called on me to make the bail presentation because of my familiarity with the defendant who was being charged in criminal proceedings. The issue of bail should rest on only two issues: whether or not the defendant is likely to show up in court in the future or abscond and become a fugitive; and if the defendant poses a threat to public safety.


	Illegal aliens who have no community ties, and who have used multiple false identities should be considered “flight risk.” You could add to this the fact that the alien in question would be facing deportation (removal from the United States) after completion of the imposed prison sentence, if found guilty of his or her criminal charges.


	The issue of danger to public safety does not require a crystal ball. Any individual who has prior arrests for violent crimes and/or crimes involving weapons demonstrates the risk they pose to the safety of the community.


	We measure the civility of a society by how it looks out for the most vulnerable members of that society. Turning sociopathic criminals loose, resulting in violent attacks on innocent victims, including children, flies in the face of that notion of protecting the most vulnerable.


	When I was growing up my parents always told me to seek to find common ground with others, particularly if I had an argument with a classmate or friend. They suggested that I turn the situation around and ask myself how I would feel if whatever it was I said or did that upset the other person was done to me.


	That ability to metaphorically stand in my friends’ shoes has served me well throughout my life. Although my parents died when I was in college, I like to say that I am still standing on their shoulders, each and every day.


	Let us for a moment ask how turning criminals loose on society constitutes any sort of justice. Let us also pose a question I have never heard asked -- what sort of social justice is it that does not address a fundamental question: what is our society doing to prevent children from growing up to become societal scavengers and career criminals?


	When teenagers are asked about their dreams for their future many will talk about jobs or professions that they hope to have when they perhaps graduate from college. They may talk about owning a home or having kids of their own.


	But children who get sucked into gangs or depend on criminal activities don’t have long-term goals -- their concerns about the future likely do not extend beyond the next day or two.


	Many of these children are functionally illiterate. Many come from broken homes and may have become addicted to illegal drugs and by the time they are in their teens they are well on their way to becoming career criminals. Not exactly a “career” anyone should aspire to.


	They are likely to blame others for the situation in which they find themselves, fueled by the victimization narrative pedaled as Critical Race Theory. This does not empower anyone to strive for success.


	Further exacerbating this nightmare are our open borders that, thanks to President Biden, are flooding huge numbers of transnational gang members into our country who have been dispersed across our country, posing a threat to ethnic immigrant communities and the children, in particular, who live in those communities.


	Our open borders have also enabled record quantities of deadly narcotics to flood into our communities causing unprecedented overdose fatalities and increasing crimes associated with the drug trade.


	Meanwhile the proceeds from the drug trade fill the coffers of transnational gangs. Even terrorist organizations have come to work with drug- and alien smugglers to fund terrorism and move sleeper agents into the United States (consider my article, "<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/iran-threatens-us-and-its-allies-drugs-refugees-michael-cutler/">Iran Threatens U.S. And Its Allies With “Drugs, Refugees, Bombs And Assassination”</a>).


	The point is that those who profess to seek “Social Justice” by releasing violent criminals never seem to want to talk about creating an environment that is less likely to result in youngsters becoming criminals, but that instead produces children who can dream of success and then have a real likelihood of attaining that success.


	Social Justice in general, and Critical Race Theory in particular, are not about justice or even about helping any racial group, but about the destruction of our society through record levels of violence and carnage.

Critical Thinking Must Replace Critical Race Theory

It is becoming all-too apparent that proponents of Critical Race Theory seek the demise of our great Republic. They are using the age-old “divide and conquer”

The term “Mission Statement” has been defined as: a formal summary of the aims and values of a company, organization, or individual.


	In other words, the mission statement concisely establishes the goals and priorities of an organization for both the general the public and for the employees of that organization.


	The organization we will consider in my commentary today article is United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This agency operates under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is charged with adjudicating applications for various immigration benefits that include the permitting aliens to change immigration status in the United States to acquire political asylum, lawful immigrant status (signified by being issued a “Green Card”), and United States citizenship.


	I have come to think of USCIS as “America’s locksmith” because aliens who has been granted lawful status may easily enter the United States through ports of entry and remain in the United States permanently.&nbsp; For such aliens border walls are irrelevant.


	The February 10, 2022 Epoch Times report, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-immigration-agency-changes-mission-removes-key-phrases_4269309.html?utm_source=newsnoe&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-02-10-4&amp;utm_medium=email2&amp;est=jBMSMlv3H5RtSYk76rpXkjbzJBjj36tuY%2FYp1e02AbjydWEr36fljosv3WtdOA%3D%3D">US Immigration Agency Changes Mission, Removes Key Phrases</a>, began with this excerpt:


	A key federal agency on Feb. 10 changed its mission statement, removing several key phrases.


	The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-uscis">USCIS</a>) “upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve,” the new mission statement <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/mission-and-core-values">says</a>.


	Under the old statement, the agency <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210209020739/https:/www.uscis.gov/about-us/mission-and-core-values">was described</a> as “administer[ing] the nation’s lawful <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-immigration">immigration</a> system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.”


	USCIS, with approximately 19,000 employees, oversees legal immigration to the United States.


	Ur Jaddou, the agency’s director, said the new statement “reflects the inclusive character of both our country and this agency,” adding, “The United States is and will remain a welcoming nation that embraces people from across the world who seek family reunification, employment or professional opportunities, and humanitarian protection.”


	The clear difference between the two missions statements issued by the Trump administration, versus the Biden Administration is extremely worrying and helps to clearly delineate the stark contrasts between the two administrations.


	The Biden Administration’s goals and priorities in many areas stand in stark contrast with the goals and priorities of the Trump administration that it replaced.&nbsp; Arguable the greatest differences concern border security and immigration law enforcement.


	President Trump understood that border security is synonymous with national security and our immigration laws are essential to protect America and Americans from threats to public health, national security and public safety while Biden and his administration have charted a very different and perilous course that utterly ignores these threats.


	Under Trump the mission statement of USCIS took a balanced approach- maintaining America’s tradition as a welcoming nation, but prioritizing the need to protect Americans and the homeland.&nbsp; Under Biden, there is no mention in that mission statement about protecting America or Americans but is all about welcoming everyone with no thought being given to implications that this may have for national security public safety.


	For most folks immigration law enforcement is synonymous with the notion of border security and the Border Patrol which is charged with interdicting those who would enter the United States by evading the vital inspections process conducted at ports of entry by the Inspectors of CBP (Customs and Border Protection) the same element of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under which the Border Patrol operates.


	However, as I have noted on my prior occasions and during my testimony before numerous Congressional hearings, the United States is a nation of 50 border states and therefore the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States, the mission of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is at least as important as is the need to secure our borders from the unlawful entry by individual who seek to evade the inspections process.


	One of the critical responsibilities of ICE is to not only identify, investigate and arrest illegal aliens and aliens who are engaged in other criminal activities, but to conduct investigations into those who defraud the immigration system administered by USCIS, to seek lawful status by lying and/or concealing material facts that would prevent them from acquiring lawful status through the immigration benefits program such as political asylum, lawful immigrant status (as signified by being issued a “Green Card”) and ultimately, United States citizenship.&nbsp; Many of these critical investigations are generally predicated on requests by USCIS when fraud is suspected.


	As I noted in an extensive article I wrote some time ago, <a href="https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_27_3/tsc-27-3-cutler-2.shtml">Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill - 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as a key embedding tactic of terrorists</a>:


	The official report, <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">9/11 and Terrorist Travel</a> - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States focused specifically on the ability of the terrorists to travel around the world, enter the United States and ultimately embed themselves in the United States as they went about their deadly preparations.and carry out an attack.&nbsp; The preface of this report begins with this paragraph:


	It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.


	Page 46 and 47 of this report noted:


	Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States.


	The following paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits”:


	Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.


	Nevertheless, the Epoch Times report I cited above also includes this disturbing excerpt about the new mission statement:


	Michael Knowles, president of AFGE Local 1924, said the union supports the statement.


	He told The Epoch Times in an email that it “reflects the views of many of the employees who do this important work.”


	The union represents&nbsp;USCIS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers. Both agencies sit inside the Department of Homeland Security.


	Under Biden the entire workforce at USCIS, that should be dedicated to protecting America and Americans, have been indoctrinated to completely disregard their responsibilities to seek to uncover fraud and the threats such fraud might create.


	Consider that on October 22, 2022 I wrote the article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/biden-administration-plans-protect-immigration-michael-cutler/">Biden Administration Plans To Protect Immigration Fraudsters</a>.


	Long after Biden is gone, these employees will remain at USCIS.


	Members of Congress who are concerned about national security and public safety should be demanding to be given, for review, the curriculum being taught to the USCIS employees at the academy and the critical elements of their job descriptions and their evaluations.


	This insanity at USCIS should not come as a surprise, however. There is a Yiddish expression that says, “When the fish goes bad, it smells from the head.”


	Back on December 7, 2021 I wrote about my concerns about Alejandro Mayorkas, who is now the Director of the DHS. My article was, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/under-biden-dhs-would-become-department-homeland-michael-cutler/">Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender</a>; Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS.


	Mayorkas was the Director of USCIS under the Obama administration.


	On March 20, 2013 I testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on the topic, <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CHRG-113shrg81774.pdf">Building An Immigration System Worthy Of American Values</a>.


	<a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CutlerTestimony.pdf">My prepared testimony</a> concluded with these two paragraphs that are even more pertinent today:


	Law enforcement is at its best when it creates a climate of deterrence to convince those who might be contemplating violating the law that such an effort is likely to be discovered and that if discovered, adverse consequences will result for the law violators. Current policies and statements by the administration, in my view, encourages aspiring illegal aliens around the world to head for the United States. In effect the starter's pistol has been fired and for these folks, the finish line to this race is the border of the United States.


	Back when I was an INS special agent I recall that Doris Meissner who was, at the time, the commissioner of the INS, said that the agency needed to be “customer oriented.” Unfortunately, while I agree about the need to be customer oriented what Ms Meissner and too many politicians today seem to have forgotten is that the “customers” of the INS and of our government in general, are the citizens of the United States of America.

For the Biden Administration, National Security is 'Mission Irrelevant'

The term “Mission Statement” has been defined as: a formal summary of the aims and values of a company, organization, or individual.


	In other words, the

Rampant violent crime across the United States, particularly in cities and states run by radical leftist mayors and governors is of great concern to Americans everywhere and is an outgrowth of the insanity of the defund police movement and “criminal justice reform” which has led to violent criminals being released without bail causing carnage at unprecedented levels.


	Perhaps in response to this crisis, on January 21, 2022 the Department of Justice issued a press release:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-us-conference-mayors">Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors</a> that provided a transcript of his remarks as they were delivered.


	It is important that, as you read the transcript, to remember that the Attorney General of the United States is also the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.&nbsp; Many federal law enforcement agencies operate under the aegis of the Justice Department but even those agencies that operate under the auspices of other agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, and the Treasury Department still rely on the federal prosecutors of the Justice Department they partner with to further criminal investigations and prosecutions for all crimes comprehended under federal statutes.


	Violations of federal criminal laws are prosecuted by federal prosecutors who are assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s offices located across the United States.


	Federal prosecutors are not, however, required to accept the prosecution of all cases that are presented to them by federal agents.&nbsp; Because of limited resources and political considerations, federal prosecutors have far-ranging discretion in deciding whether or not to pursue criminal charges in the cases that are brought to them.


	U.S. Attorneys are beholden to the “marching orders” issued by the Attorney General for whom they all work.


	This brings us back to Attorney General Garland’s prepared remarks and a particular worrisome excerpt:


	Keeping our country safe and the American people safe is a core priority of the United States Department of Justice. A critical part of keeping our country safe is protecting it from foreign and domestic terrorism.


	These are dangers that Justice Department law enforcement components work against all day, every day. And as I have said, they are dangers that we work against together with our state and local partners, without whom we cannot succeed.


	Another important part of keeping our country safe is working alongside all of you to protect our communities from violent crime, and particularly the scourge of gun violence.


	At the Justice Department, we stand shoulder to shoulder with you in the fight against violent crime, and we will use every tool at our disposal to protect our communities.


	Last year, the department launched a comprehensive anti-violent crime strategy aimed at harnessing our resources of every relevant component in the department, including our United States Attorneys' Offices, our litigating divisions, all of our law enforcement agencies and our grantmaking offices.


	Recognizing the importance of anti-violent crime strategies that are tailored to individual communities, we directed each United States Attorney’s Office to work with its state and local partners to address the crime problem in those communities.


	As a result, the FBI, ATF, DEA and U.S. Marshals Service partnered with state and local agencies and police departments to embed agents in homicide units, confiscate illegal firearms, disrupt violent drug trafficking and provide other support where needed.


	That very last paragraph is beyond shocking.


	The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the immigration law enforcement elements of the that federal leviathan are conspicuously absent from the Attorney General’s statement which included the threats posed by international terrorists even as he enumerated many other federal agencies.


	The Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) has always included immigration law enforcement officers.&nbsp; In point of fact, the 9/11 Commission, to which I provided testimony, made it abundantly clear that the 9/11 terror attacks and other such attacks, were only possible because of multiple failures of the immigration system.


	A variety of other task forces have also traditionally included immigration law enforcement personnel.


	Other law enforcement efforts are largely duplicated by local and state law enforcement agencies however, the enforcement of the immigration laws including the deportation (removal) of illegal aliens is unique to the DHS.


	We will consider the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission shortly, but first I want you to know that in writing my article today I am calling upon my extensive real-world experiences as an INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) special agent.


	I was the first INS agent assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in New York City.&nbsp; I worked closely with the DEA, FBI, local and state police and a variety of law enforcement agencies both within the United States and even foreign governments.


	That assignment lasted for about four years whereupon I was promoted to the position of Senior Special Agent and assigned to the Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force.&nbsp; Once again, I was assigned to various other federal agencies to provide my unique authorities and expertise as an INS agent to assist in conducting investigations and subsequent prosecution of large-scale narcotics trafficking organizations.


	There are a variety of crimes that pertain specifically to aliens who commit serious crimes in the United States that are uniquely pursued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.&nbsp; Among these crimes are:


	<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1326">8 U.S. Code § 1326</a> (Reentry of aliens who were previously removed from the United States)- which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison for aliens who are deemed to be “aggravated felons.”


	<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324">8 U.S. Code § 1324</a> (Bringing in and harboring certain aliens).


	<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1546">18 U.S. Code § 1546</a> (Fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other documents) which can carry up to 25 years in prison when such crime is committed in conjunction with terrorism.


	<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922">18 U.S. Code § 922</a> (Unlawful acts concerning firearms and ammunition) the following subsection addresses possession of firearms or ammunition by illegal aliens:


	(5)who, being an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=18-USC-92903111-944436382&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:44:section:922">alien</a>—


	(A)is illegally or unlawfully in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=18-USC-2032517217-947183885&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>; or


	(B)except as provided in subsection (y)(2), has been admitted to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=18-USC-2032517217-947183885&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>&nbsp;under a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=18-USC-857198958-944436382&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:44:section:922">nonimmigrant visa</a>&nbsp;(as that term is defined in section 101(a)(26) of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/topn/immigration_and_nationality_act">Immigration and Nationality Act</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101#a_26">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(26)</a>));


	Additionally, the removal (deportation) of aliens helps to combat recidivism.&nbsp; Criminal aliens who are no longer in the United States cannot carry out crimes in the United States.


	Nevertheless, the Biden administration has gutted both border security and the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States.&nbsp; Garland’s omission of immigration law enforcement from the efforts to help combat violent crime was clearly consistent with the policies of the Biden Administration.


	Transnational gangs are running rampantly across the United States, frequently profiting by their involvement in the drug trade which has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of victims in the United States.


	Gang violence causes many additional deaths- frequently within the ethnic immigration communities where these criminals, from all over the world, now operate with impunity particularly in so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States.”


	The preface of the official report <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">9/11 and&nbsp; Terrorist Travel</a> - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States began with the following paragraph:


	It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.


	Border security is national security, but perhaps the most overlooked element of immigration law enforcement is the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States.&nbsp;


	Page 54 of the above-cited report contained this excerpt under the title “3.2 Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot.”


	“…once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.”


	Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after 9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.


	I included that statement in my prepared testimony when, on March 10, 2005, I testified before a hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on the topic,&nbsp; <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju99785.000/hju99785_0f.htm">Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources</a>.


	Advice for Garland, Biden and Mayorkas: as I noted in <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cutler_testimony_07_12_06.pdf">my prepared testimony</a> for a <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/examining-the-need-for-comprehensive-immigration-reform-part-ii">hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee</a> on July 12, 2006, “A nation without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls.”

AG Garland Ignores Vital Immigration Law Enforcement

Rampant violent crime across the United States, particularly in cities and states run by radical leftist mayors and governors is of great concern to Americans

The leaders of the Democrat Party claim to be concerned about the environment.&nbsp; It was the Democrats, after all, who have been pushing The <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F02%2F21%2Fclimate%2Fgreen-new-deal-questions-answers.html&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C35853f28e6944dd805b608d9b5cf6561%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637740724773230684%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=gNdJPJZceYNmIZ%2BBzwkyT6CdBZUgdFEVqJwz3PjQgBw%3D&amp;reserved=0">Green New Deal</a>, a major element of the disastrous legislation known as “Build Back Better.”


	However, as we shall see, hypocrisy is never difficult to find.


	Before America is pushed off the proverbial cliff by the lunacy of Build Back Better, I propose that an all-inclusive environmental impact study be conducted first to explore the intended and unintended consequences of this bill.


	The “pro-environment” Democrats should be delighted to have an independent study done to make certain that we safeguard the environment that they claim to be ever so concerned about!


	In 1973 the Endangered Species Act was enacted to protect endangered species of flora and fauna from extinction.&nbsp;


	Frequently&nbsp; major construction projects require that environmental impact studies be conducted before work can begin, to safeguard the environment.&nbsp;


	Having brought up the Endangered Species Act it is worth noting that on August 31, 2021 the Center for Biological Diversity issued a press release, <a href="https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/historic-accomplishment-snail-darter-recovered-2021-08-31/">Historic Accomplishment: Snail Darter Recovered Fish Made Famous in Tellico Dam Controversy No Longer Endangered</a> that began with the following excerpt:


	WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2021-18127/endangered-and-threatened-species-removing-the-snail-darter-from-the-list-of-endangered-and">proposed</a>&nbsp;today to remove the snail darter from the endangered species list due to recovery. Thanks to government and collaborative efforts, the little fish is no longer in danger of extinction.


	The 3-inch-long fish — named after its primary food source, small riverine mollusks — gained fame in the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case&nbsp;Tennessee Valley Authority vs. Hill. The court upheld the newly passed Endangered Species Act at the request of conservationists and others who sought to protect the fish and its last free-flowing habitat in the Little Tennessee River, along with 300 family farms and countless Cherokee ancestral sites, from the construction of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s highly controversial Tellico Dam.


	The press release went on to note:


	“Thanks to the persistence of many people, the extinction of the snail darter was ultimately avoided, and today we can celebrate its recovery,” said Zygmunt Plater, the attorney who wrote the citizens’ petition to save the darter in 1975 and represented the fish and the farmers in the Supreme Court victory. “But the uneconomical Tellico project was a boondoggle from the start. The snail darter, like many other endangered species, signaled that human values are also endangered when their survival is threatened. The destruction of the Little Tennessee River shows that bad ecology is usually bad economics and it’s safer to save an animal’s natural habitat in the first place.


	Today America’s middle class should be placed at the top of that Endangered Species List and should be given as much concern as the snail darter was accorded in 1975.


	This past June I wrote an article about the disastrous impact that Biden’s immigration policies are having on the environment, <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fusinc.org%2Fbiden-administration-advances-environmentally-destructive-immigration-policies%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C35853f28e6944dd805b608d9b5cf6561%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637740724773250675%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=InMLInwN805P%2FPjoGMDwMYm2JRZgf%2BAB7tdeSKXTMBE%3D&amp;reserved=0">Biden Administration Advances Environmentally-Unsustainable Immigration Policies</a>.


	The amnesty provision contained within Build Back Better would also potentially lead to the influx of tens of millions of immigrants as I outlined in my article,&nbsp;<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontpagemag.com%2Ffpm%2F2020%2F10%2Fbidens-build-back-better-bunk-michael-cutler%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C35853f28e6944dd805b608d9b5cf6561%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637740724773250675%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=r4taaSutA9uVzXNRi0rGFDYH4UJu8H%2BXvYm6BjnrSEo%3D&amp;reserved=0">Biden’s 'Build Back Better' is Bunk</a>:&nbsp;Dems' plans to import tens of millions of immigrant children prove it.


	Each person who is present in the United States needs much more than a pillow on which to lay his/her head at night.&nbsp;


	Each person present in the United States creates a significant ecological footprint.


	Each person needs food, water, electricity, sewerage, clothing, housing, transportation, health care and, in the case of minors, eduction.&nbsp; Food required acreage of land be set aside to grow food for each person.


	While Build Back Better promises to provide clean water, water shortages are becoming more pronounced, especially in the American West.&nbsp;


	Consider this worrying report from CBS News’ 60 Minutes, <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fcolorado-river-water-level-60-minutes-2021-10-24%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C35853f28e6944dd805b608d9b5cf6561%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637740724773260670%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=6H1f06E2M592MCG98mYDeYBjqoWPiml85QvuVNYh1Pg%3D&amp;reserved=0">Southwest states facing tough choices about water as Colorado River diminishes</a>.


	Water is not just used for drinking but to prepare food and grow crops and sustain farm animals.&nbsp; Water is also essential for sanitary purposes.&nbsp;


	While the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that 6.5 million illegal aliens would benefit from the amnesty provided in Build Back Better, the realty is that there is no way to really know what number of illegal aliens would participate.&nbsp; The requirement that these aliens had to have entered the United States prior to 2011 is utterly meaningless.&nbsp; Because the numbers of aliens are so huge there will be no interviews and no field investigations. Additionally, speaking from direct experience, I spent one year as an adjudications officer during my 30 year career with the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) it is far easier and quicker for an adjudicator to approve an application for an immigration benefit than to deny it.&nbsp;


	An application can be approved in less than 30 minutes while denials could take days or longer.


	Denials are likely to be followed up by appeals by the aliens.&nbsp; No one appeals an approval!


	Furthermore, no record of entry is created aliens who enter the United States without inspection.&nbsp; Many aliens use multiple false identities and so there would be no way to reliably determine whether an alien entered the United States ten years ago or ten days ago.&nbsp;


	Considering the checkered background of Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)&nbsp;<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontpagemag.com%2Ffpm%2F2020%2F12%2Funder-biden-dhs-would-become-department-homeland-michael-cutler%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C35853f28e6944dd805b608d9b5cf6561%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637740724773270664%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=uIKp95yUp3LBqvcEHiH7P%2FcI4Wjj0csE3G54xob6puc%3D&amp;reserved=0">Alejandro “Get to Yes” Mayorkas</a>, adjudicators will likely be pressured to approve all of the applications they are assigned and it is also likely that there will be no efforts to verify the familial relationships between the legalized aliens and their supposed children and spouses for whom the newly legalized aliens will most likely have the authority to file petitions to grant them immigrant visas.&nbsp; The outrageous claim that “only” 6.5 million illegal aliens would be granted lawful status could easily explode into tens of millions of lawful immigrants.


	Each person has an economic footprint as well.&nbsp; Flooding America with millions of aliens would have an adverse impact on inflation, the national debt, education, unemployment, jobs and wages.


	Meanwhile, flooding America with millions of immigrants would lead to more inflation as they require food, clothing and shelter.&nbsp; The cost of housing will rise dramatically while the value of labor would plummet, leading to more homelessness.


	Our roads and our cities would suffer from far more congestion which would lead to more pollution.


	The inability to properly vet millions if aliens would irrevocably undermine national security and public safety and send that very dangerous message to aspiring illegal aliens from around the world that in the United States violations of laws will not just be tolerated but rewarded, essentially firing the starter’s pistol for this race to the borders of the United States.


	It is important to be clear that the United States has the most generous immigration policies of any other country on this planet.&nbsp; Indeed, generally the United States admits more than one million lawful immigrants each year.&nbsp; They are provided with “Green Cards” and are immediately placed on the path to United States citizenship.


	This is more than all of the other countries from the rest of the world combined.


	Additionally the United States admits tens of millions of aliens on various temporary (non-immigrant) visas- again, more than the rest of the world combined.


	However, I fear that the lunacy of Build Back Better would discourage highly qualified immigrants to seek to enter our country as the situation spirals out of control even as America’s adversaries lick their chops in anticipation of the self-destruction of our nation at the hands of those We The People elected to protect the Constitution, our nation and our fellow Americans.


	There is nothing “Anti-Immigrant” about securing our borders from the un-inspected entry of aliens who may pose a threat to national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans.&nbsp; Indeed, the entry of such aliens poses a threat to Americans and lawful immigrants alike.


	As the title of one of my previous articles noted, <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontpagemag.com%2Ffpm%2F2021%2F03%2Fbidens-immigration-bill-would-be-act-national-michael-cutler%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C35853f28e6944dd805b608d9b5cf6561%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637740724773270664%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=Mflb1qkLPgZ5tXdgGONdAEwgm1PeGdqaKci8pvdyWF4%3D&amp;reserved=0">Biden’s Immigration Bill Would Be an Act of National Suicide</a>: Figures don’t lie - but liars can figure.

Environmental Impact Study Must Precede 'Build Back Better'

The leaders of the Democrat Party claim to be concerned about the environment.&nbsp; It was the Democrats, after all, who have been pushing The Green New Deal

In law enforcement the term “Fence” refers to one who sells stolen property.


	By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within&nbsp; the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.


	The issue of national sovereignty is one of the key issues for the globalists.&nbsp; They have, for decades, pushed to essentially dismantle America’s borders and law enforcement programs that address multiple aspects of the immigration system.


	America’s borders and immigration laws are our first and last line of defense- but to the globalists our borders and immigration laws are an impediment to their already immense wealth!


	On June 11, 2019 Breitbart published my interview and provided a link to the audio of that interview under the title, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/11/exclusive-michael-cutler-mass-immigration-cash-cow-ruling-class-while-destroying-middle-class/">Exclusive–Michael Cutler: Mass Immigration a ‘Cash Cow’ for Ruling Class While ‘Destroying Middle Class’</a>.


	In that interview I referenced a portion of testimony that was provided by Alan Greenspan when he testified before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee that was, at the time, chaired by Chuck Schumer at a hearing on the topic <a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/date-change_-comprehensive-immigration-reform-in-2009-can-we-do-it-and-how">Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How? </a>


	Greenspan’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/greenspan_testimony_04_30_09.pdf">prepared testimony</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;included the following infuriating paragraph in which he provided an argument for flooding America with many more foreign high-tech workers under the aegis of the H-1B visa program as&nbsp;requested by Bill Gates:


	First, skilled workers and their families form new households. They will, of necessity, move into vacant housing units, the current glut of which is depressing prices of American homes. And, of course, house price declines are a major factor in mortgage foreclosures and the plunge in value of the vast quantity of U.S. mortgage-backed securities that has contributed substantially to the disabling of our banking system.


	The second bonus would address the increasing concentration of income in this country. Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process, we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at noncompetitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income inequality.


	Clearly Greenspan’s goal is address “wage inequality” by driving the wages of American middle class high-tech workers down through the floorboards to destroy the middle class.


	No one could be happier about this massive betrayal of America and Americans than the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/04/profiteers-biden-administrations-open-borders-michael-cutler/">Profiteers of Biden Administration’s Open Borders Policy</a> for whom malfeasance has it rewards!


	On November 19, 2021 The Hill reported, <a href="https://thehill.com/latino/582254-historic-immigration-reform-included-in-house-passed-spending-bill?userid=87954">Historic immigration reform included in House-passed spending bill</a>.


	Here is how the article began:


	The social spending bill approved by the House Friday in a 220-213 vote includes the most extensive immigration reform package reviewed by Congress in 35 years, albeit in a much reduced version from what proponents originally sought.


	If the provision is approved by the Senate as-is, the immigration measure in the bill would allow undocumented people present in the U.S. since before 2011 up to 10 years of work authorization, falling short of an initial goal to offer them a pathway to citizenship.


	The provision approved by the House offers a sort of waiver to immigration laws, using a process known as parole to allow people to stay in the country for five years with the option to extend for another five years thereafter.


	About 6.5 million people would stand to benefit from the measure directly, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).


	According to that analysis, about 3 million of those people would become eligible to springboard from the parole status to legal permanent residency, the first step toward citizenship.


	The so-called “Build Back Better” bill that was passed by the House of Representatives has many troubling elements that have been discussed and debated on various news programs, I will, however, focus purely on the so-called immigration reform measures that it reportedly contains.&nbsp; While much discussion about many of the elements of this disastrous bill, the immigration measures have received little coverage although, in my opinion, are among the most dangerous to the future of our nation and our citizens and their children.


	I addressed my concerns about Biden’s immigration plans, even before he was elected, in my article that was published on October 9, 2021, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/bidens-build-back-better-bunk-michael-cutler/">Biden’s 'Build Back Better' is Bunk</a>: Dems' plans to import tens of millions of immigrant children prove it.


	Now we come to the article I just noted.&nbsp; To begin with, it is important to remember that when President Ronald Reagan proposed the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/1200">Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986</a> (IRCA), it was estimated that roughly one million illegal aliens would participate in that ill-conceived program.&nbsp; Ultimately more than 3.5 million illegal aliens were granted lawful status.&nbsp; What has never been discussed is that those 3.5 million aliens were immediately authorized to petition to have all of their minor children and spouses admitted lawfully into the United States to join them.&nbsp; To my knowledge, the total number of such children and spouses has never been reported but it is likely to have been a multiple of the 3.5 million amnestied aliens.


	It was claimed that somehow the government underestimated the actual number of illegal aliens.&nbsp; While it is entirely possible that the government underestimated the actual number of illegal aliens, it is likely that many of those aliens actually entered the United States long after the cutoff date and lied on their applications.&nbsp; Aliens who evade the inspection process do not create a record of entry.


	Now we are being told that the Congressional Office (CBO) estimates that 6.5 million illegal aliens would be eligible for what is claimed is a smaller number than the 11 million Biden claimed were illegal present.&nbsp; These aliens would simply have to claim that they entered the United States by 2011.


	Because we would be dealing with unknown millions of illegal aliens there would be no capacity to conduct in-person interviews with them and certainly no capacity to conduct any field investigations to verify the information contained in the applications that these millions of illegal aliens would file for amnesty.


	Without the capacity to interview these millions of aliens or conduct field investigations, any alien could falsely claim to have entered by whatever date is required and succeed in gaming the system.&nbsp; Aliens who are still in their home countries could enter the United States next year and falsely claim to have entered a decade ago and easily get away with that lie.


	Although not mentioned in the article from The Hill, it is likely that these aliens will also have the ability to petition to have their minor children and spouses legally admitted to join them in the United States.


	Given the background of the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/under-biden-dhs-would-become-department-homeland-michael-cutler/">Alejandro “Get to Yes” Mayorkas</a>, it is likely that there will be no efforts to verify the familial relationships between the legalized aliens and their supposed children and spouses.


	How quickly might the now estimated 6.5 million illegal aliens explode into tens of millions of lawful immigrants?


	The title of my March 2, 2021 article says it all:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/bidens-immigration-bill-would-be-act-national-michael-cutler/">Biden’s Immigration Bill Would Be an Act of National Suicide</a>: Figures don’t lie - but liars can figure.


	The 9/11 Commission, to which I provided testimony, determined that immigration fraud was the key method of entry and embedding for terrorists- and not just the 19 hijacker terrorists who so savagely attacked our nation on September 11, 2001 as I noted in my extensive piece, <a href="https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_27_3/tsc-27-3-cutler-2.shtml">Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill - 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as a key embedding tactic of terrorists</a>.


	On June 22, 2007 The Washington Times published my Op-Ed, <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2007%2Fjun%2F22%2Fimmigration-bill-a-no-go%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cljjordan%40ap.org%7C20262f5aafb94e4feb6f08d9a67059b4%7Ce442e1abfd6b4ba3abf3b020eb50df37%7C1%7C0%7C637723824851287775%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=itTf0lg9B3sRjQrQj7qR4UPdygibVhRjRHPeC%2BAZ%2F9g%3D&amp;reserved=0">Immigration bill a ‘No Go</a>’ that focused on my concerns about the previous attempt to enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform.&nbsp; Then- U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions quoted from my commentary, on three separate dates, from the floor of the U.S. during the contentious floor debates in 2007 when Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation was under consideration.&nbsp; He emphasized my suggestion that given the inherent dangers to such a massive amnesty that the bill be given a more honest and descriptive title, “The Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act.”


	The very first question that Americans should ask is simply, “How would such a massive amnesty program benefit America, American citizens or aliens who abide by our laws and were lawfully admitted into the United States?”

Biden’s Build Back Better Speeds The Fencing Of America

In law enforcement the term “Fence” refers to one who sells stolen property.


	By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration

In Joe Biden’s America U.S. citizens face increasing scrutiny while illegal aliens are encouraged, aided, abetted and induced to enter the United States why whatever means possible.&nbsp; Furthermore, once in the United States, illegal aliens have nothing to fear.&nbsp; Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of DHS the Department of Homeland Security, (Department of Homeland Surrender?) has ordered that agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) will no longer arrest aliens who are working illegally or punish employers who intentionally hire illegal aliens.&nbsp; This was the focus of my recent article, <a href="https://usinc.org/biden-admin-powers-up-magnet-to-attract-even-more-illegal-aliens/">Biden Admin Powers Up Magnet to Attract Even More Illegal Aliens</a>.


	This is all in direct contradiction to the provisions of a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324">8 U.S. Code § 1324</a>.


	Even though immigration fraud was identified by the 9/11 Commission as being the key method of entry and embedding of international terrorists, DHS Secretary <a href="https://usinc.org/mayorkas-plans-to-shield-immigration-fraudsters-after-dhs-officer-arrested-for-naturalization-fraud/">Mayorkas Plans to Shield Immigration Fraudsters – After DHS Officer Arrested for Naturalization Fraud</a>.


	While we consider terrorists, Biden and his Attorney General Garner are now <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/targeting-american-parents-michael-cutler/">Targeting American Parents</a> who may question the curriculum that their own children are being indoctrinated with in American schools while blatantly ignoring how <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/bidens-afghanistan-catastrophe-increases-terror-michael-cutler/">Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US</a> especially as our borders are now wide open and immigration law enforcement from within the interior of the United States has been all but terminated.


	My dad sagely told me that nothing is so good it could not be made better or be so bad that it could not get worse.


	How much worse could things get under Mr. Biden and his wrecking crew?


	Consider that while Biden has proposed hiring an army of thousands of IRS agents to scrutinize the tax returns filed by Americans and drilling down into bank accounts with balances as low as $600 to make certain that the federal government captures every cent Americans taxpayers owe on November 6, 2021 the Washington Times reported, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/6/biden-migrant-families-separated-border-deserve-co/?cx_testId=16&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_1&amp;cx_artPos=0&amp;utm_source=piano&amp;utm_medium=in-article&amp;utm_campaign=3_item_Pos_0_desktop#cxrecs_s">Biden: Migrant families separated at border deserve compensation</a>.


	President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions came up with the “Zero Tolerance” policy to attempt to discourage the human tsunami of illegal aliens who were pouring through the highly porous and dangerous U.S./Mexican border.&nbsp; The clear goal was to deter what could only be described as an invasion of the United States.


	Under a the provisions of the Flores Decision, minor aliens cannot be held for more than 20 days.&nbsp; Human trafficking organizations quickly realized that they could use young aliens to compel immigration authorities to release aliens who were accompanied by what they claimed were their children even when they weren’t actually related.


	I wrote about this in my article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/05/alien-smugglers-exploit-infants-michael-cutler/">Alien Smugglers Exploit Infants</a>.&nbsp; My article included the link to an ICE press release issued on May 16, 2019 that addressed the discovery that a previously deported illegal alien was found wading across the Rio Grande with a 6 month old infant in his arms.&nbsp; Although he initially claimed it was his child, it was subsequently determined that he was not related to the infant.&nbsp;


	The press release, <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/fraudulent-family-case-involving-6-month-old-represents-new-level-child-endangerment">Fraudulent family case involving 6-month-old represents 'new level of child endangerment' according to ICE officials</a> began with this excerpt:


	WASHINGTON – A Honduran man attempting to cross the border with an unrelated 6-month-old infant last week underscores what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents have described as an increasing trend of fraudulent families presenting at the border in order to take advantage of loopholes in immigration laws and avoid being detained by immigration authorities.


	“Cases like this demonstrate the real danger that exists to children in this disturbing new trend,” said HSI Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa Erichs. “And while we have seen egregious cases of smugglers renting and recycling children, this case involving a six-month-old infant is a new low – and an unprecedented level of child endangerment.”


	Amilcar Guiza-Reyes, a 51-year old citizen and national of Honduras, who was previously deported in 2013, made an initial appearance in federal court in the Southern District of Texas May 10, charged with 8 USC 1324 alien smuggling for allegedly smuggling a 6-month-old infant across the U.S.-Mexico border.


	It is beyond outrageous for Mr. Biden to support the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to illegal aliens who intentionally violated our borders and our immigration laws that are essential to national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans is more than outrageous.&nbsp; The message will be clear- for illegal aliens, the streets are indeed, paved with gold, the gold taken from the U.S. taxpayers to reward illegal aliens for violations of our laws.


	Contrary to Mr. Biden’s claims- many children were separated from their parents long before they came to the U.S. / Mexican border.&nbsp; They were separated from their families back in their countries of origin- either because their parents were willing to “rent them out” or because they were kidnapped.&nbsp; Trump’s efforts to use DNA testing to determine if those claiming to be the parents of these children was rebuffed by the courts.


	To this point, on July 10, 2018 Politico reported, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/10/separated-families-migrant-children-deadline-trump-administration-676078">Judge demands Trump administration meet deadline to reunify dozens of migrant children</a>.


	There are other factors to consider beginning with the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/04/profiteers-biden-administrations-open-borders-michael-cutler/">Profiteers of Biden Administration’s Open Borders Policy</a>.


	First of all, do not forget that lawyers from the ACLU are seeking this settlement.&nbsp; They would undoubtedly get a significant share from this abominable “settlement.”&nbsp; This simply adds yet another dimension to the immigration delivery system that provides an unlimited supply of foreign workers to compete with and displace American workers.&nbsp; An unlimited supply of foreign tourists, foreign students and, for the immigration lawyers- an unlimited supply of clients!


	The ACLU is apparently looking for a huge payday!


	Here are other factors to consider.


	When people are arrested they are invariably separated from their children.&nbsp; As an INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Special Agent I participated in many arrests.&nbsp; Often I worked in close coordination with law enforcement officers of other agencies. I spent roughy half of my 30 year career working with the DEA, FBI, ATF and local and state police departments.&nbsp; (I was assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of the DEA in New York City for four years and then promoted to the position of INS Senior Special Agent and assigned to the Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force.)


	When we knew in advance that children were likely to be found at the location where we were making going to make arrests, if both parents were named in arrest warrants, we arranged to have appropriate authorities from Child Welfare accompany us to take care of the children.&nbsp; We always felt terrible about the situations these children were placed as a consequence of their parents’ criminal activities.


	Actions have consequences.


	Mr. Biden claims to be concerned that children were separated from their parents because of President Trump’s policies.&nbsp; Today how many children’s lives are being endangered by his open-borders and other immigration policies driving unprecedented numbers of people including children to use pernicious sociopathic alien smugglers and human traffickers to head for the United States through incredibly dangerous terrain and conditions?


	Additionally- if Mr Biden’s is truly concerned that children were supposedly separated from their parents because of policies of the government, that those who were made to suffer should be paid, then I have an additional proposal.


	The separation of children from their families is indeed terrible.&nbsp; But there is another situation that has also results in the separation of children from their parents.&nbsp; But in this case their parents did nothing wrong but to be in the proverbial “wrong place at the wrong time.”


	Their parents were killed by aliens who should not have been permitted to enter the United States nor to remain in the United States.&nbsp; In many instances these criminal aliens had been deported and illegally reentered the United States.&nbsp; Policies of Sanctuary Cities and Sanctuary States resulted in detainers that were lodged by ICE to be ignored.&nbsp; These aliens who were in custody were turned loose and subsequently went on to kill and/or seriously injure innocent victims-thereby separating these victims - all too often permanently from their children.


	Biden’s policies that have facilitated the entry of criminal aliens has also resulted in more innocent victims being permanently separated from their families and their children.&nbsp;


	Record quantities of narcotics have also flooded into the United States.&nbsp; How many lives have been ruined or even lost to drug overdoses or to deaths that are directly or indirectly linked to drug use and the drug trade- causing more children to be permanently separated from their parents and other family members?


	The question to which all American must demand an answer is simple- how much money should be paid by the jurisdictions that are responsible for their permanent separations of children from their parents because of Biden open borders/immigration anarchy policies that are exacerbated by the policies of “sanctuary jurisdictions’?


	How much money should be paid to families who suffered the loss of their loved ones because of insane “no cash bail” policies that result in the release of sociopathic violent criminals who subsequently killed still more innocent victims?

Biden Seeks To Prove That Crime Pays

In Joe Biden’s America U.S. citizens face increasing scrutiny while illegal aliens are encouraged, aided, abetted and induced to enter the United States why

America’s borders and immigration laws are its first and last line of defense against threats to national security, public safety and public health.


	A review of the relevant section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">8 U.S. Code § 1182</a>&nbsp; (Inadmissible aliens) will provide clarity as to the intent and importance of our immigration laws that Biden refuses to enforce.


	Indeed, the Biden administration continues to wage an escalating war against immigration law enforcement yet the largely compliant mainstream media never asks how Biden’s policies are in the best interests of America or Americans.


	The disaster on the southern border has been well-documented and the dangers that this creates for national security, public safety, public health cannot be over-estimated.


	However, there are many other elements of the immigration system and immigration fraud has been identified as the key method of entry and embedding for terrorists- and not just the terrorists who participated in the deadly attacks on September 11, 2001 but other terrorists who sought to carry out deadly attacks inside the United States before and even after the terror attacks of 9/11.


	I focused on the dangers inherent in immigration fraud in my article, <a href="https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_27_3/tsc-27-3-cutler-2.shtml">Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill - 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as a key embedding tactic of terrorists</a>.


	My June 15, 2018 article, <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/trump-administration-opens-office-find-michael-cutler/">Trump Administration Opens Office To Find Naturalization Fraudsters</a> addressed the important and commonsense measures the Trump administration took to uncover naturalization fraud to not only identify those who had committed fraud and seek to strip them of their citizenship, but to deter others from gaming that important system.


	Frequently terrorists and spies seek U.S. citizenship as an embedding tactic.&nbsp; Under our immigration laws when aliens become naturalized they may legally change their names.&nbsp; Their U.S. passport only reflects their new names.&nbsp; In essence, this enables aliens to create their own witness protection program of sorts.&nbsp; The solution is simple- have their U.S. passports reflect their new and their old names.&nbsp; However this is not done.&nbsp; This not only endangers America but our allies as these individuals may easily&nbsp;travel to countries around the world under their new identities.


	I raised this serious vulnerability when I testified before Congressional hearings- but to no avail.


	Additionally a naturalized citizen my use his/her U.S. passport to travel from the United States to another country and then travel onward to yet another country under their previous passport from their native country- often enabling them to cover their tracks as they move around the world.


	The New York Times published an article on May 20, 2015, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/world/asia/bin-laden-bookshelf-list-released-by-us-intelligence-agency.html?_r=0">"In Osama bin Laden Library: Illuminati and Bob Woodward"</a> that reported on what American commandos discovered when they raided bin Laden's compound on May 2, 2011.&nbsp; Here is a significant paragraph:

<blockquote>
	
		He also appeared to have maintained a keen interest in what the United States government thought of Al Qaeda. A copy of “The 9/11 Commission Report” was found in the compound in Abbottabad, as were three reports on Al Qaeda by the Congressional Research Service. There was also an application for American citizenship (no word on whether it was filled out).
</blockquote>


	I doubt that bin Laden was planning to become a United States citizen at the time our military took him out.&nbsp; It is far more likely that he sought to have his operatives acquire United States citizenship to facilitate future terror attacks against the United States.


	Consider these cases of naturalized U.S. citizens who used their U.S. citizenship for malevolent purposes:

<blockquote>
	
		<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/nypd-officer-arrested-spying-china-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">NYPD Officer Arrested For Spying For China</a> 
		Naturalization provided him with the “keys to the kingdom.”

	
		<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/09/alleged-hezbollah-sleeper-arrested-nyc-joint-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Alleged Hezbollah “Sleeper” Arrested In NYC By Joint Terrorism Task Force</a> 
		He's a naturalized U.S. citizen admitted lawfully nearly 20 years ago.

	
		<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/05/hezbollah-sleeper-agent-convicted-plotting-us-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Hezbollah Sleeper Agent Convicted Of Plotting U.S. Terror Attacks</a> 
		Lebanese-born terrorist was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

	
		<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/yet-another-naturalized-citizen-sentenced-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Yet Another Naturalized Citizen Sentenced On Terrorism Charges</a> 
		Fatally flawed vetting process provided Somali-born terrorist with citizenship and U.S. passport.
</blockquote>


	Not only is the Biden administration undoing that important program created by the Trump administration but is planning to end efforts to strip fraudsters of citizenship.&nbsp; This is a dangerous move and will encourage more fraud.


	Perhaps Biden and Mayorkas are upset that on April 7, 2021 the Justice Department issued a press release:


	<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/federal-immigration-official-originally-nigeria-charged-illegally-obtaining-us">Federal Immigration Official Originally from Nigeria Charged with Illegally Obtaining U.S. Citizenship under Fake Identity</a>


	Here is how the DOJ press release began:

<blockquote>
	
		SANTA ANA, California – An immigration services officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was arrested this morning in Maryland on a federal charge that alleges he obtained U.S. citizenship under a false name.

	
		The defendant is charged under the false name of “Karl Nwabugwu Odike Ifemembi,” but the criminal complaint in this case notes that his real name is Modestus Nwagubwu Ifemembi, originally of Nigeria. Ifemembi, 48, who previously resided in Aliso Viejo, but relocated to Rockville, Maryland, last year, has worked for USCIS for seven years. Ifemembi is charged in the complaint with one count of unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship.

	
		Ifemembi made false statements on various government forms to obtain U.S. citizenship, as well as employment with USCIS, according to the affidavit in support of the complaint, which was unsealed this morning.
</blockquote>


	That this alleged fraudster sought employment at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is extremely disconcerting.&nbsp; He worked at that division of DHS for seven years.&nbsp; Every application he adjudicated must be reviewed for possible fraud.


	However, I do not trust Mayorkas or his subordinates who want to keep their jobs to undertake such a massive audit to seek out possible fraud even though such fraud poses a threat to national security.


	In the wake of that DOJ press release Mayorkas should have ordered a tightening of scrutiny to uncover possible other instances of such fraud.&nbsp; Instead, Mayorkas did the precise opposite!


	On October 13, 2021 the Washington Times reported, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/13/dhs-drafts-plan-allow-fraudsters-keep-citizenship/?utm_source=Boomtrain&amp;utm_medium=manual&amp;utm_campaign=newsalert&amp;utm_content=newsalert&amp;utm_term=newsalert&amp;bt_ee=9puoOu5Mgvi4PjC3Fti79rrQxLHEhGqWptgASSBf0eY5vJseZt%2B867JgftGRoIcb&amp;bt_ts=1634166351372">EXCLUSIVE: DHS drafts plan to allow fraudsters to keep citizenship</a>: Memo would constrain ability to pursue denaturalization cases.


	Here is how that report begins:

<blockquote>
	
		The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/united-states-department-of-homeland-security/">Homeland Security Department</a> is circulating a draft proposal that would severely curtail its attempts to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized based on fraud.

	
		The Washington Times saw a draft of the memo, from Secretary <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/alejandro-mayorkas/">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> to the heads of the three immigration agencies. The memo says people might not apply for citizenship because they worry about losing it in the future.

	
		“Naturalized citizens deserve finality and security in their rights as citizens,” the memo says. “Department policies should not cause a chilling effect or barriers for lawful permanent residents seeking to naturalize.”
</blockquote>


	Mayorkas’ statement is outrageous- but unfortunately not surprising.


	Back on December 7, 2020 my article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/under-biden-dhs-would-become-department-homeland-michael-cutler/">Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender</a>: Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS focused on Mayorkas’ performance when he headed up USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) and ordered the beleaguered employees of that agency “get to yes” and approve applications for visas that never should have been approved, including categories of visas that had been used by terrorists and spies.


	The Office of Inspector General conducted an investigation into the allegations made by USCIS employees and found serious wrongdoing- nevertheless he was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security.


	Here is an important excerpt from my December 7, 2020 article:

<blockquote>
	
		On March 24, 2015 a <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mga/OIG_mga-032415.pdf">report of the findings of the investigation by the Office of the Inspector General</a> was released.

	
		The focus was on how applications for a particular visa category, the EB-5 Visa for aliens who invest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 in businesses that creates jobs for Americans in the United States, were wrongly approved.

	
		ABC News published several in-depth articles about the troubling findings of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

	
		On March 24, 2015 ABC News reported, “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/top-homeland-official-alejandro-mayorkas-accused-political-favoritism/story?id=29868429">Top Homeland Official Alejandro Mayorkas Accused of Political Favoritism</a> Alejandro Mayorkas oversaw controversial $500,000 visa program.”

	
		The above-noted report was preceded by two ABC News reports that were published on February 3, 2015 which illustrate a clear nexus between these visas and national security:

	
		<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/whistleblowers-us-gave-visas-suspected-forgers-fraudsters-criminals/story?id=28671577">Whistleblowers: US Gave Visas to Suspected Forgers, Fraudsters, Criminals</a> Internal documents show feds ignored warnings from FBI.”
</blockquote>


	The lack of integrity to the various elements of the immigration system under the Biden administration is a reflection of the lack of integrity of Joe Biden and his administration.


	Perhaps Joe is seeking the MVP Award from ISIS, al Qaeda, China, Russia, Iran and/or the drug cartels.

Biden Administration Plans To Protect Immigration Fraudsters

America’s borders and immigration laws are its first and last line of defense against threats to national security, public safety and public health.


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My August 18, 2021 article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/bidens-afghanistan-catastrophe-increases-terror-michael-cutler/">Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US</a>: Biden administration, meanwhile, focuses solely on "domestic extremists”, was published just a few weeks before the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and was predicated on the August 13, 2021 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press release titled,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/08/13/dhs-issues-new-national-terrorism-advisory-system-ntas-bulletin">DHS Issues New National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin</a>.


	It was more than a bit disconcerting that the DHS press release focused entirely on the threats posed by domestic (American) extremists while blithely ignoring the threats posed by foreign terrorists.


	Clearly the Biden administration views American citizens as more dangerous than foreign criminals or even international terrorist organizations who are likely flooding into the United States along our borders that Biden refuses to secure against the illegal and unvetted entry of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from countries from around the world each and every month.


	Now, in a further outrageous expansion of this administration’s antipathy and indeed open hostility&nbsp; towards American citizens, on October 5, 2021 the Associated Press published a report,


	<a href="https://apnews.com/article/merrick-garland-school-boards-violence-daaff3f659981354b7a9a536db5cf2e2">Garland says authorities will target school board threats</a> that began with this excerpt:


	WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday directed federal authorities to hold strategy sessions in the next 30 days with law enforcement to address the increasing threats targeting school board members, teachers and other employees in the nation’s public schools.


	In a memorandum, Garland said there has been “a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff who participate in the vital work of running our nation’s public schools.”


	To address the rising problem, Garland said the FBI would work with U.S. attorneys and federal, state, local, territorial and tribal authorities in each district to develop strategies against the threats.


	“While spirited debate about policy matters is protected under our Constitution, that protection does not extend to threats of violence or efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views,” he said.


	This newest development is alarming on a number of levels.


	To begin with, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states:


	Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


	While violence and the threat of violence is certainly not protected by the First Amendment and is unacceptable and illegal, the notion that the FBI would insert itself into situation’s where teachers or school board members felt intimidated is worrying.&nbsp; What constitutes intimidation?


	Could parents threatening to vote out members of the school board or speaking loudly at a school board meeting be considered acts of intimation that could result in a visit from the FBI?


	Also- while we are on the topic of intimidation, there is no mention that parents or students who felt intimated by actions or statements by teachers or school boards would be protected by the FBI or Mr. Garland.&nbsp; Indeed, who will protect American parents from the clear intimidation by Mr. Garland and the Biden administration?


	The other part of this issue is that while Garland and Biden threaten to sic the FBI on parents who demonstrate understandable concerns about the the education and indoctrination of their own children, the overwhelmed FBI which already lacks adequate resources to conduct vital investigations into possible terror plots in the United States and rampant espionage committed by China and other adversarial nations will now how to prioritize the investigation of irate Americans who take their parenting responsibilities seriously.


	America’s vulnerability to terror attacks have increased as I noted I’m recent article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/bidens-catastrophic-policies-immigration-and-michael-cutler/">Biden’s Catastrophic Policies: Immigration and Afghanistan</a>: Shocking and dangerous parallels, Biden’s abruptly withdrawal of our military forces from Afghanistan before removing American civilians and Afghanis who had aided America for 20 years placed these vulnerable people in harm’s way.&nbsp; Coupled with Biden’s failure to remove or destroy tens of billions of dollars of American military hardware allowed some of our best military equipment to now fall into the hands of the Taliban and hence terrorist organizations and also provide our adversaries with access to our equipment so that they would be able to better understand our how weapons are made and to assess their strengths and weaknesses.


	Biden also facilitated the release of more than 5,000 battle-hardened terrorists in Afghansitan who are back on the battle field and now pose an immediate threat to America and our allies.


	Finally, Afghanistan is now a sanctuary for various international terrorist organizations thereby rolling back all of the hard-fought successes of America’s efforts over the past 20 years.


	Meanwhile Biden’s refusal to secure America’s southern border or enforce our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States violates our laws, commonsense and the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 commission that came to equate border security with national security.


	To understand how all of these issues overwhelm America’s capabilities to protect our nation and our citizens it is helpful to consider my May 7, 2019 article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/05/jihad-border-michael-cutler/">Jihad At The Border</a>: How the border crisis facilitates the entry of terrorists. in which I included the following excerpts:


	Thus the ability of the already beleaguered U.S. Border Patrol to secure our porous and dangerous southern border has been diminished by 40%.


	Those who study history, specifically World War II know that “D-Day,” also known as “Operation Overlord” was only successful because of a diversion created by the Allies known as the “Calais Deception” that was officially labeled “<a href="https://www.worldwar2heritage.com/en/timeline-details/14/Operation-Fortitude">Operation Fortitude</a>.”


	General George Patton was put in charge of a phantom division that consisted of inflatable tanks and trucks that from the air, created the elaborate but false illusion of a large contingent of soldiers preparing to attack Germany at the Pas-de-Calais rather than at Normandy where the attack would actually be mounted.


	The Germans were thus conned into splitting up their defensive forces, leaving Normandy vulnerable to the Allies on June 6, 1944.


	Today our Border Patrol and, indeed, the entire immigration system, is being inundated by huge numbers of illegal aliens forcing the Border Patrol to deploy many of its agents to assignment that remove them from the primary mission of securing vast stretches of unsecured border.


	Consequently, stretches of our southern border suffer a lack of resources to prevent the un-inspected entry of aliens and like narcotics and other contraband, including potentially weapons.


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	On April 17, 2018 the House Committee on Homeland Security,&nbsp;Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee, conducted a&nbsp;<a href="https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/state-sponsors-of-terrorism-an-examination-of-irans-global-terrorism-network/">hearing</a>&nbsp;on the topic, "<a href="https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/state-sponsors-of-terrorism-an-examination-of-irans-global-terrorism-network">State Sponsors Of Terrorism: An Examination Of Iran’s Global Terrorism Network</a>.”


	The prepared testimony of one of the witnesses, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, included this alarming excerpt:


	In recent years, Hezbollah’s Latin American networks have also increasingly cooperated with violent drug cartels and criminal syndicates, often with the assistance of local corrupt political elites….


	This toxic crime-terror nexus is fueling both the rising threat of global jihadism and the collapse of law and order across Latin America that is helping drive drugs and people northward into the United States. It is sustaining Hezbollah’s growing financial needs. It is helping Iran and Hezbollah consolidate a local constituency in multiple countries across Latin America. It is thus facilitating their efforts to build safe havens for terrorists and a continent-wide terror infrastructure that they could use to strike U.S. targets.


	That article was published during the Trump administration as caravans of tens of thousands of aspiring illegal aliens were traveling up through Latin America, into Mexico and onward to the U.S/Mexican border.


	My dad used to say that “Nothing is so bad it could not get worse or be so good it could not be made better.&nbsp; Since my articles that I reference above were published, Biden has, incredibly, found was to make things worse- far, far worse!


	Now we could almost look back at those caravans with nostalgia as the Biden administration has, through words, deeds and executive orders, encouraged, aided and abetted a human tsunami of individuals from all over the world including aliens who are ill, have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and may be motivated to enter the United States for far more nefarious reasons that seeking economic opportunities.&nbsp; This would include fugitives from justice, members of the drug cartels and pernicious transnational gangs and terrorists.


	On October 6, 2021 The Washington Times published a worrying report, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/6/iran-smuggling-high-tech-drones-militant-allies-op/?utm_source=Boomtrain&amp;utm_medium=manual&amp;utm_campaign=newsalert&amp;utm_content=newsalert&amp;utm_term=newsalert&amp;bt_ee=S8W9tDzQ7Hmetyrmwh%2BAsVIvCD8twj%2Bhx4nRSN7Lsrp6nmCb1nSNt%2B169bZjZdCF&amp;bt_ts=1633606954261">Iran smuggling high-tech drones to militant allies, opposition group says</a>.&nbsp; With the chaotic situation on the U.S./Mexican border, it is entirely possible that in addition to recored quantities of deadly narcotics flowing into the United States, weapons such as Iranian drones may also be entering the United States along with sleeper agents who would be trained and prepared to use those drones within American borders.


	Additionally, the Biden administration now seeks to double the funding of the IRS and have enhanced authority to gain access to the banking records of American citizens even as it encourages illegal aliens to make a mockery of our borders and our immigration laws.&nbsp; This was the focus of my earlier article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/biden-administration-ramps-irs-enforcement-while-michael-cutler/">Biden Administration Ramps Up IRS Enforcement</a>: While encouraging massive immigration law violations.


	In the days, months and even years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 member of the political establishment from both sides of the aisle demanded to known, “Why didn’t anyone connect the dots” to prevent the deadly terror attacks.


	The dots were connected though a series of Congressional hearings and the 9/11 Commission reports.&nbsp;


	Yet today it would almost appear that for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, the Biden administration is doing whatever it can to operate in direct opposition to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.&nbsp; Today, because of all of Biden’s actions- including the disaster in Afghanistan, in my judgement, America and Americans face an unparalleled vulnerability to international terror attacks even as the administration aggressively scrutinizes American citizens.


	Our adversaries are thus emboldened and encouraged and our allies are gravely concerned.&nbsp; Biden’s approval ratings are sinking almost as fast as our ability to defend our own nation and our fellow Americans even as Americans may be interviewed by the FBI and asked, “Do you now, or have you ever in the past, belonged to the Parents’ Association?”

Targeting American Parents

My August 18, 2021 article, Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US: Biden administration, meanwhile, focuses solely on "domestic

Voltaire was the nom de plume of famed French philosopher François-Marie Arouet. We will begin today by considering the sage advice encapsulated in his quote, “Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”


	Purveyors of absurdities unmask themselves when their statements are laced with contradictions and demonstrate hypocrisy. Seeking out those examples of hypocrisy and contradictions can serve as an effective “BS detector!”


	There is certainly no shortage of absurdities that are spewed by the mainstream media and politicians, but the Biden administration appears hell-bent on foisting record numbers of absurdities on Americans today even as his statements, policies and executive orders undermine national security, public safety, and public health, thereby proving that in reality, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/bidens-build-back-better-bunk-michael-cutler/">Biden’s 'Build Back Better' is bunk</a>!


	While Biden lambastes Americans who refuse to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and imposes draconian measures to punish them, he continues to encourage a human tsunami of illegal aliens to head for the U.S. borders. Among these hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are citizens from countries around the world. Many of these aliens are permitted to enter the United States each month and among them are those who have not been vaccinated to protect them (and us) against COVID-19 and, indeed, are stricken with that virus and other dangerous viruses.


	It must be noted that this is a clear violation of&nbsp; <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">8 U.S. Code § 1182</a> which enumerates the categories of aliens who are inadmissible. This section of law begins with the following:


	(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission


	Except as otherwise provided in this chapter,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">aliens</a>&nbsp;who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>:


	(1) Health-related grounds


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	(i) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-646160747-1201680097&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">Services</a>) to have a communicable disease of public health significance


	On September 17, 2021 BBC reported, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58593632">US immigration: Thousands gather under bridge at US-Mexico border in growing crisis</a>.


	While some news organizations may cover the huge numbers of aliens who have turned themselves into Border Patrol agents to apply for political asylum, little if any attention is being paid to the so-called "getaways” -- the aliens who evade the Border Patrol and surreptitiously enter the United States.


	This is a huge problem and the actual numbers of these aliens who escaped detection and apprehension is unknown as are their identities and potential affiliations with criminal or terrorist organizations.&nbsp;


	While the Border Patrol is overwhelmed by the largest increase of illegal aliens ever what is seldom, if ever reported, is how many aliens are evading detection by the beleaguered Border Patrol to easily enter the United States and perhaps bring narcotics and even weapons into the country without detection.


	The disastrous situation Biden created in Afghanistan resulted in the release of thousands of terrorists, restored Afghanistan as a safe haven for radical Islamic terrorists, and provided them with incredible quantities of heavy weaponry and even with night-vision devices which could be used to help these terrorists more easily infiltrate our borders and the borders of our allies and then be used in conjunction with the commission of terror attacks.


	I addressed this exceedingly dangerous situation in two recent articles:


	<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/bidens-afghanistan-catastrophe-increases-terror-michael-cutler/">Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US</a>:&nbsp; Biden administration, meanwhile, focuses solely on "domestic extremists".


	<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/bidens-catastrophic-policies-immigration-and-michael-cutler/">Biden’s Catastrophic Policies: Immigration and Afghanistan</a>:&nbsp; Shocking and dangerous parallels.


	However, even before the Afghanistan debacle, the nexus between border security and national security was well-established.


	The preface of the official report <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">9/11 and Terrorist Travel</a> - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States begins with the following paragraph:


	It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.


	Page 61 of that report contained this passage:


	Exploring the Link between Human Smugglers and Terrorists 


	In July 2001, the CIA warned of a possible link between human smugglers and terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.&nbsp; Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that since 1999 human smugglers have facilitated the travel of terrorists associated with more than a dozen extremist groups.&nbsp; With their global reach and connections to fraudulent document vendors and corrupt government officials, human smugglers clearly have the “credentials” necessary to aid terrorist travel.


	Nearly two years ago I wrote about the dangers to national security and public safety created by “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States” in my article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/iranian-terror-threat-exacerbated-sanctuary-michael-cutler/">Iranian Terror Threat Exacerbated by Sanctuary Policies</a>. Now Biden has turned all of America into what can only be described as a “Sanctuary Country!”


	My earlier article published in 2019, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/05/jihad-border-michael-cutler/">Jihad At The Border</a> focused on how the border crisis facilitates the entry of terrorists included this worrying excerpt that is being blatantly ignored by the Biden administration:


	On April 17, 2018 the House Committee on Homeland Security,&nbsp;<a href="https://homeland.house.gov/subcommittee/counterterrorism_and_intelligence_subcommittee">Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee</a>, conducted a&nbsp;<a href="https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/state-sponsors-of-terrorism-an-examination-of-irans-global-terrorism-network/">hearing</a>&nbsp;on the topic, "State Sponsors Of Terrorism: An Examination Of Iran’s Global Terrorism Network.”


	The prepared testimony of one of the witnesses, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, included this alarming excerpt:


	In recent years, Hezbollah’s Latin American networks have also increasingly cooperated with violent drug cartels and criminal syndicates, often with the assistance of local corrupt political elites….


	This toxic crime-terror nexus is fueling both the rising threat of global jihadism and the collapse of law and order across Latin America that is helping drive drugs and people northward into the United States. It is sustaining Hezbollah’s growing financial needs. It is helping Iran and Hezbollah consolidate a local constituency in multiple countries across Latin America. It is thus facilitating their efforts to build safe havens for terrorists and a continent-wide terror infrastructure that they could use to strike U.S. targets.


	I began my commentary today by quoting Voltaire and will wrap up with another of his famous quotes:


	Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.


	My dad taught me that the only "dumb question” is the question you don't ask!


	We The People must ask a simple question: Why in the world would the President of the United States act as he has, in so many ways, to endanger America and Americans? Indeed, we should ask all politicians how their actions and policies are in the best interests of America and Americans.


	For far too long the citizens of our country have failed to ask the hard questions to hold our politicians accountable. Today, as a consequence of our failures as citizens of our republic, we are now paying one hell of a price.

Biden, 'Conman-in-Chief,' Foists Absurdities on Americans

Voltaire was the nom de plume of famed French philosopher François-Marie Arouet. We will begin today by considering the sage advice encapsulated in his quote

Nearly twenty years ago, on September 11, 2001 ago radical Islamist terrorists conducted the deadliest terror attacks ever carried out on American soil, in the history of our nation.


	The administration of President George W. Bush, in response to the terror attacks, working with America’s allies sent the military to the Middle East to hunt down those responsible for the deadly attacks and to deprive al-Qaeda and other terror organization with sanctuaries from which they could launch terror attacks in the United States and other countries around the world.


	Afghanistan was considered a key to our military operations.


	President George W. Bush and then President Obama both justified the use of our military forces overseas by declaring that we were fighting the terrorists “over there” so that we would not have to fight them “over here.”


	I took issue with that absurd statement in an article I wrote several years ago,&nbsp;<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/fighting-war-terror-here-there-and-everywhere-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Fighting The War On Terror Here, There And Everywhere</a>.


	We will delve into the issue of how the war on terror needed to be pursued domestically as well as overseas shortly.&nbsp; (Think immigration law enforcement.)


	But first, the disastrous strategic decisions of President Joe Biden to pull our troops out of Afghanistan have reverberated around the world.


	Our allies fear that America can not be trusted and has no resolve to stand up and our nation’s enemies are greatly encouraged by Biden’s lack of resolve.&nbsp; There is a fundamental principle that states that negotiations should never be conducted from a position of weakness but from a position of strength, however Joe and his policies could not be weaker.


	The issue is not that Biden ordered our troops out of Afghanistan, there are many, including former President Trump, who believe that the time has come for American forces to be removed from Afghanistan.


	The issue is how Biden ordered the removal of troops to be conducted- he got the sequence of the evacuation ass-backwards!


	At the pistol range the orders are, Ready- Aim- Fire.


	In essence, Biden’s orders were Fire- Ready- Aim!


	Sky divers are instructed to pull their ripcords BEFORE they hit the ground.


	Biden would have instructed them to pull the ripcord AFTER impact!


	Biden did not consult with America’s allies including NATO even though there are NATO troops in Afghanistan. &nbsp;


	Biden ordered our troops to abandon Kandahar International Airport, literally in the dead of night without even notifying Afghan troops who were fighting alongside American soldiers.


	Biden evacuated the soldiers before he evacuated American civilians or the Afghanis who had worked with our military and our government are were, consequently at mortal risk.


	This sets up a very real possibility of Americans and allies being taken hostage by the terrorists.


	Biden evacuated the military before removing or destroying a huge arsenal of military hardware and weaponry so that terrorists would have access to these weapons.


	Under federal law, anyone who provides weapons or items of potential military use to certain prohibited countries is subject to criminal prosecution that carries severe penalties.&nbsp; The 19 hijackers who carried out the terror attacks of 9/11 wielded boxcutters.&nbsp; Imagine what terrorists who could gain access to a huge arsenal could do!


	Finally, he left thousands of terrorists in prisons at Kandahar and elsewhere who were promptly released by the Taliban.


	How many U.S. or allied soldiers died or were seriously injured in operations to capture of these highly dangerous terrorists?&nbsp; Now that they are free, they will once again pose a threat, not only to the citizens of Afghanistan but to countries around the world, including the United States of America.


	If you thought “Catch &amp; Release” only applied to the Border Patrol, Biden has allowed that dangerous practice to metastasize to our military operations in what is one of the most dangerous places on earth!


	Having mentioned the Border Patrol we now need to turn our attention to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, to which I provided testimony.


	That commission ultimately determined that those terror attacks were facilitated and, indeed, made possible, by multiple failures of the immigration system.


	In the wake of the terror attacks of 9/11 I have testified before numerous hearings conducted in the House and Senate about failures of the immigration system that undermine national security and public safety.


	On May 5, 2010 I testified at a hearing conducted by the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on the topic:&nbsp;<a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju21026.000/hju21026_0f.htm" target="_blank">New ''Dual Missions'' Of The Immigration Enforcement Agencies</a>.


	Back then the chairman of that important subcommittee was Republican Congressman John Hostettler from Indiana who was extremely critical of the way that President George W. Bush failed to follow the guidelines established by the Homeland Security Act to create the DHS (Department of Homeland Security).&nbsp; Hostettler’s prepared remarks included this paragraph that succinctly laid out just how critical immigration law enforcement is to protecting the United States from international terrorists and is worth considering today:

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	The frustration and consternation of Chairman Hostettler was absolutely justified, yet our political leaders from both parties refused to take commonsense measures needed to protect America and Americans.


	President Trump was the only president to accept the critical nature of America’s borders and immigration laws and act accordingly.&nbsp;


	In my view, as a result of his efforts to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws, came under fire in unprecedented ways.


	For decades immigration law enforcement was hobbled by a policy of “Catch &amp; Release” whereby illegal aliens who were arrested by the Border Patrol were promptly released from custody.&nbsp; Only a very small percentage ever showed up for their hearings.&nbsp; What was never discussed publicly was that the&nbsp; lunacy of Catch &amp; Release also included the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States.


	On March 10, 2005 the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims conducted a hearing on&nbsp;<a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju99785.000/hju99785_0f.htm" target="_blank">Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources</a>.&nbsp; I testified at that hearing.


	I urge you to read the transcript of that entire hearing and that you pay particular attention to the prepared statement of no other than Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who, in criticizing President Bush for not providing necessary resources stated, in part:

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		The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement merged the investigative function of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Customs Service, the INS detention and removal functions, most of the INS intelligence operation, the Federal Protective Service, and the Federal Air Marshals Service. ICE's areas of responsibility include the enforcement of laws dealing with the presence and activities of terrorists, human trafficking, commercial alien smuggling operations, document fraud, and drug trafficking, and many important aspects of their work have been successful.

	
		Just recently, for example, we were able to applaud Operation Predator, which was able to bring in 5,000 arrests since 2003 on the question of those who are non-citizens who have come into this country and who have been predators against our children.

	
		Also, for instance, ICE investigators conducted an 8-month investigation last year of two men who were selling false identity documents to members of terrorist organizations. The ICE investigators developed such a strong case against these individuals that they pleaded guilty on February 28, 2005, to a charge of involvement in a conspiracy to sell false documents to purported members of Abu Sayyaf, a Philippines-based group that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

	
		The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 authorized 800 new ICE investigators for FY 2006 through FY 2010. The President's budget only requests funding for 143 new ICE investigators for FY 2006, which is only 17 percent of the authorized number. We need all of the 800 additional ICE investigators authorized by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act.

	
		And with a little lightness, Mr. Chairman, maybe the Administration was simply trying to tease us, to egg us on, to see if we had the stomach to do what is right, and that means that we need to fully fund the 800 additional ICE investigators. Let's take the bait, if you will, accept the challenge, and do what we need to do.

	
		The National Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act also authorized 8,000 new detention beds each year from FY 2006 through 2010. The President, however, has requested funding for 1,920 beds for FY 2006, which is only 24 percent of the authorized number. Mr. Chairman, I know that you are headed to the border, at least a portion thereof. I have spent some time at the border with Congressman Ortiz. I saw what the need was and the crisis—hard-working men and women who understand the needs of securing the border, but more importantly, understanding the needs of retaining those who have entered this country illegally. They cannot do their job without the full funding of these detention beds and the recognition that, in fact, we have a responsibility to provide them with the necessary resources.
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	Whatever happened to Sheila and her Democrat friends since that hearing?


	Clearly she very well understands the perils we face because of systemic failures of the immigration system.


	Even after the terror attacks of 9/11 increasing numbers of cities and even some states declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens and among them criminal aliens and terrorists, in directly contradiction to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.


	Now Biden’s immigration policies have turned America into a Sanctuary Country for illegal aliens and Afghanistan into a Sanctuary for terrorists who seek the destruction of the United States and our allies.&nbsp;


	The title of my recent article will serve as my summation today,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/biden-ends-war-radical-islamist-terrorists-over-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Biden Ends War On Radical Islamist Terrorists 'Over Here' and 'Over There'</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Too bad the terrorists aren’t calling it quits.

Biden’s Catastrophic Policies:  Immigration and Afghanistan

Nearly twenty years ago, on September 11, 2001 ago radical Islamist terrorists conducted the deadliest terror attacks ever carried out on American soil, in the

The twentieth anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 is just a few weeks away.

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	The good news is that the Biden administration acknowledges that America faces an increased threat of terrorism, especially as the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of 9/11 by al-Qaida approaches.</div>

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	The bad news, even as the Taliban has now taken back all of Afghanistan because of the Biden administration’s abysmally failed policies, the Biden administration, incredibly, is entirely focused on the threats posed by domestic terrorists and extremists. &nbsp;</div>

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	Biden utterly ignores the failures of the immigration system that continue to undermine national security and public safety in this especially dangerous era.&nbsp;</div>

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	On August 13, 2021 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a press release titled, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/08/13/dhs-issues-new-national-terrorism-advisory-system-ntas-bulletin&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6g8xu_wlEaB089ILAN4jOYoMpWA" href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/08/13/dhs-issues-new-national-terrorism-advisory-system-ntas-bulletin" target="_blank">DHS Issues New National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin</a>.</div>

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	The focus of the press release, and as you will see, the NTAS Bulletin was Domestic Terrorism without a single reference to possible entry of foreign terrorists into the United States even as it addressed the elevated threats posed by various terror groups as the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of 9/11 is nearly upon us.</div>

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			Under the Biden-Harris Administration, DHS has increased the development, production, and dissemination of intelligence and other actionable information central to countering threats in the current environment.&nbsp; DHS has established a new, dedicated domestic terrorism branch within the Department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&amp;A).&nbsp; Further, DHS has established the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) to help build local prevention frameworks to provide communities with the tools they need to counter terrorism and other targeted violence.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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			These initiatives are taken in concert with the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Domestic Terrorism Strategy which highlights the whole-of-government approach being take to enhance the analysis and distribution of actionable intelligence to stakeholders; prevent domestic terrorism recruitment and the mobilization to violence; disrupt and deter domestic terrorism activity; and confront long-term contributors to domestic terrorism.&nbsp;</div>
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	The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-august-13-2021&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHR5eq5HBO63J9axSq7hnt_hDIfOg" href="https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-august-13-2021" target="_blank">National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin</a> referred to above begins with this summary:

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			The Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the current heightened threat environment across the United States.&nbsp; The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment leading up to and following the 20th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as well religious holidays we assess could serve as a catalyst for acts of targeted violence. These threats include those posed by domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence, and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists and other malign foreign influences. These actors are increasingly exploiting online forums to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity. Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions.</div>
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	This bulletin articulated concerns about domestic extremists and their numerous possible motivations.&nbsp; When the bulletin did mention foreign terrorist organizations, the concern was limited as to how those terror groups could motivate domestic terrorists,&nbsp; presumably Americans, via the internet. 
	 
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			Additionally, leading up to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula recently released its first English-language copy of Inspire magazine in over four years, which demonstrates that foreign terrorist organizations continue efforts to inspire U.S.-based individuals susceptible to violent extremist influences.</div>
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			Foreign and domestic threat actors, to include foreign intelligence services, international terrorist groups and domestic violent extremists, continue to introduce, amplify, and disseminate narratives online that promote violence, and have called for violence against elected officials, political representatives, government facilities, law enforcement, religious communities or commercial facilities, and perceived ideologically-opposed individuals. There are also continued, non-specific calls for violence on multiple online platforms associated with DVE ideologies or conspiracy theories on perceived election fraud and alleged reinstatement, and responses to anticipated restrictions relating to the increasing COVID cases.</div>
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	There was not a single word in the two DHS documents cited above, about concerns that foreign terrorists would seek to enter the United States to carry out terror attacks even as the Taliban was rampaging across Afghanistan, the country that provided safe havens for al-Qaida and other terror organizations before the attacks of 9/11 which prompted American military action in that country to help prevent future terror attacks against the United States.</div>

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	Now even the Mainstream Media is alarmed over the loss of Afghanistan to the Taliban as&nbsp; direct result of the abrupt way that the Biden administration essentially turned tail and fled from that dangerous country, even leaving the U.S. Embassy staff in harm’s way, ordering them to “Shelter in place” as the Taliban captured city after city, including Kabul.&nbsp;</div>

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	On August 15, 2021 Newsweek reported, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsweek.com/clip-biden-saying-people-wont-lifted-off-embassy-roof-afghanistan-resurfaces-just-that-happens-1619517?utm_source%3DPushnamiMailing%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dautomatic%26UTM%3D1629064063918%26subscriberId%3D5f16b27823994a6b873d047d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE64Xgkh4sQ34dyp3y0pQ5CtIa1mg" href="https://www.newsweek.com/clip-biden-saying-people-wont-lifted-off-embassy-roof-afghanistan-resurfaces-just-that-happens-1619517?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=automatic&amp;UTM=1629064063918&amp;subscriberId=5f16b27823994a6b873d047d" target="_blank">Clip of Biden Saying People Won't Be Lifted Off Embassy Roof in Afghanistan Resurfaces as Just That Happens</a> while on that very same day AOL posted the Associated Press report, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aol.com/news/concerns-over-us-terror-threats-210240946-215031182.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH46L9V0sc3lEfFpJB5l_xKmysYrw" href="https://www.aol.com/news/concerns-over-us-terror-threats-210240946-215031182.html" target="_blank">Concerns over U.S. terror threats rising as Taliban hold grows</a>.</div>

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	The first paragraph of the preface of the official report, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHVNDoB95Q6UCk6qIZdjDXs7FdEBw" href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf" target="_blank">9/11 and&nbsp; Terrorist Travel</a> - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States” states:&nbsp;</div>

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	It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.</div>


	 
	Page 47 contained this excerpt:

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	Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.” Mohammed Salameh, who rented the truck used in the bombing, overstayed his tourist visa. He then applied for permanent residency under the agricultural workers program, but was rejected. Eyad Mahmoud Ismail, who drove the van containing the bomb, took English-language classes at Wichita State University in Kansas on a student visa; after he dropped out, he remained in the United States out of status.</div>


	 
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	Exploring the Link between Human Smugglers and Terrorists&nbsp;</div>

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	In July 2001, the CIA warned of a possible link between human smugglers and terrorist&nbsp;</div>

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	groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Egyptian Islamic Jihad. &nbsp; Indeed, there is&nbsp;</div>

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	evidence to suggest that since 1999 human smugglers have facilitated the travel of&nbsp;</div>

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	terrorists associated with more than a dozen extremist groups.&nbsp; With their global reach and connections to fraudulent document vendors and corrupt government officials, human smugglers clearly have the “credentials” necessary to aid terrorist travel.</div>

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	The only conclusion I can come to is that inasmuch as the Biden administration is determined to ramp up the “Immigration Delivery System” as I have come to refer to the administration’s malfeasant immigration policies, there can be no acknowledgment that terror attacks from foreign terror organizations depends on multiple failures of the immigration system.</div>

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	One of my earlier articles, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/05/jihad-border-michael-cutler/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHUgrbr1mKyioA4lC-4xQfmTcFDIg" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/05/jihad-border-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Jihad At The Border</a>, explained how the border crisis facilitates the entry of terrorists.</div>

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	Given all of the foregoing facts I have provided today, my earlier article was all too prescient:&nbsp; <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/biden-ends-war-radical-islamist-terrorists-over-michael-cutler/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629272328964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNELVsytl7YXbDFIP4zY6TC1smyfzw" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/biden-ends-war-radical-islamist-terrorists-over-michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Biden Ends War On Radical Islamist Terrorists 'Over Here' and 'Over There'</a>.</div>

Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US

The twentieth anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 is just a few weeks away.


	The first step in solving a problem is to acknowledge

With just about all attention focused on the crisis on the U.S./Mexican border, scant if any attention is being paid to the many other ways aliens may enter the United States in violation of our immigration laws.


	I have frequently written about the irrefutable fact that the United States has 50 border states and not just the four border states that abut with the Mexican border.


	In addition to the four “border states” that everyone is well aware of, any state that lies along our nation’s northern border, lies along our nation’s 95,000 miles of coastline or has an international airport are all “border states.”


	Aliens who run our nation’s borders are entering the United States without inspection, but then so do aliens who stow away on ships and then sneak off those ships.&nbsp; Boats undoubtedly make landfall along our 95,000 mile coastline and enable aliens to also evade the inspections process that is mandated by immigration laws and protect the United States from the entry and presence of aliens who may pose a threat to national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans.


	On June 6, 1993 a dilapidated and vermin-infested boat, the Golden Venture ran aground in the Rockaways, a coastal neighborhood in Queens, New York.&nbsp; On board were some 300 illegal aliens from China who had paid alien smugglers thousands of dollars to enter the United States without inspection and they hoped, without detection.


	On June 7, 2018 a local newspaper, The Rockaway Times, published a detailed report about that event,&nbsp;<a href="http://rockawaytimes.com/index.php/columns/3917-the-golden-venture-25-years-later" target="_blank">The Golden Venture: 25 Years Later</a>.


	Authorities only became aware of that aliens smuggling / human trafficking criminal enterprise because it failed.&nbsp; The obvious question is how many such efforts have been successful?&nbsp; As the saying goes, “You don’t know what you don’t know.”


	Numerous reports prepared by the GAO also point to another means by which aliens enter the United States in violation of our immigration laws.&nbsp; These aliens enter the United States and violate their immigration status.&nbsp; All too frequently such aliens are referred to as “Visa Overstays.”&nbsp; This tends to sound less ominous that the reality.&nbsp; The notion that aliens remain past their authorized period of admission does not sound particularly&nbsp; worrisome, after all, we have all had houseguests who stay too late and ruin our nights sleep.


	Why then should we be concerned about aliens who don’t leave when they are supposed to?


	The more accurate way of describing aliens who violate the terms to their admission is “Visa Violators.”&nbsp; They not only remain beyond their authorized period of admission but likely violate other terms of their admission into the United States by, perhaps, accepting illegal employment or by committing serious crimes.


	Many visa violators also lie on their applications for visas that they file at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world and also lie to the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors at ports of entry.


	For the first four years of my thirty year career with the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) I was an Immigration Inspector assigned to John F. Kennedy International Airport before I became an INS Special Agent.&nbsp; The frustrations of that job were constant and enormous.


	Inspectors are generally expected to take about one minute to complete the inspection of an alien seeking entry into the United States.&nbsp; On a limited basis when there are serious doubts about the alien’s admissibility into the United States that alien may be sent for a more in-depth “Secondary” inspection.&nbsp; However, with CBP’s limited resources many aliens are simply admitted into the United States and they simply go hiding in plain sight.


	Biden’s edict that illegal aliens not be arrested by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents unless they not only have outstanding Warrants of Removal (Deportation) but must also have convictions for serious crimes meant that aliens who can game the legal entry process at ports of entry and then violate our immigration laws have nothing to fear- but Americans most certainly do!


	In fact, on May 11, 2006 I testified before a hearing conducted by the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the topic,&nbsp;<a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa27480.000/hfa27480_0f.htm" target="_blank">Visa Overstays: Can We Bar The Terrorist Door?</a>&nbsp; That hearing was convened because of serious concerns about how terrorists were able to easily game the immigration system to supposedly enter the United States legally, embed themselves in communities around the United States and go about their deadly preparations.


	The preface of the official government report, “<a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf" target="_blank">9/11 and&nbsp; Terrorist Travel</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States”&nbsp;begins with the following paragraph:&nbsp;

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		It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.
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	Page 54 of above-noted report contained this excerpt under the title, “Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot”-

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		Although there is evidence that some land and sea border entries (of terrorists) without inspection occurred, these conspirators mainly subverted the legal entry system by entering at airports.

	
		In doing so, they relied on a wide variety of fraudulent documents, on aliases, and on government corruption. Because terrorist operations were not suicide missions in the early to mid-1990s, once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.

	
		Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after 9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.
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	Last month my article,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/michael-cutler/" target="_blank">Alleged Iranian Kidnap Plot Targeted Iranian/American Dissident In Brooklyn</a>&nbsp;Connecting the immigration dots Biden ignores, focused on how an Iranian woman was able to enter the United States to participate in what was a foiled plot to kidnap a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Iran and has been writing articles critical of the Iranian regime. &nbsp;


	On July 22, 2021 the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-individuals-charged-superseding-indictment-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s" target="_blank">Nine Individuals Charged in Superseding Indictment with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China</a>.&nbsp; The subtitle stated, “PRC Prosecutor Allegedly Traveled to the United States, Directed Stalking of U.S. Residents, and Obstructed Criminal Investigation.”


	Here is the salient excerpt from that press release:

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		According to court documents, Tu Lan, 50, and Zhai Yongqiang, 46, both of China, are the latest two of nine charged in the superseding indictment. Co-defendants Hu Ji, 46 and Li Minjun, 65, both of China; Zhu Feng, 34, a Chinese national residing in Queens, New York; Michael McMahon, 53, of Mahwah, New Jersey; Zheng Congying, 24, of Brooklyn, New York; and Zhu Yong, aka Jason Zhu, 64, of Norwich, Connecticut, were previously charged in a related criminal complaint issued in October 2020 and a related indictment in May 2021. The name of the ninth defendant remains under seal.

	
		According to court documents, the defendants allegedly acted at the direction and under the control of PRC government officials, conducted surveillance of and engaged in a campaign to harass, stalk and coerce certain residents of the United States to return to the PRC as part of a global, concerted and extralegal repatriation effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt.” The superseding indictment also alleges that Tu Lan, a new defendant who was employed as a prosecutor with the Hanyang People’s Procuratorate, traveled to the United States, directed the harassment campaign and ordered a co-conspirator to destroy evidence to obstruct the criminal investigation.
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	There was no mention of how the alleged Chinese prosecutor procured a visa to enter the United States, to allegedly oversee the operation.


	This case was the subject of an earlier DOJ press release, dated October 28, 2020,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china" target="_blank">Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China</a>.&nbsp; That press release also included a link to the initial&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1331941/download" target="_blank">Criminal Compaint</a>&nbsp;which disclosed that most of the defendants in the case were either lawfully admitted permanent resident, aliens of the United States or a naturalized United States citizen.


	In both of the&nbsp;above noted Iranian and Chinese cases, governments that are hostile to the United States were able to insert their operatives into the United States by potentially committing immigration and visa fraud. Nevertheless, a review of DOJ press releases shows that no attention is being given to visa fraud by the Biden administration. Indeed, as I noted in a recent report in which I addressed another case involving alleged Chinese espionage,&nbsp;<a href="https://usinc.org/biden-dept-of-justice-drops-criminal-charges-lodged-against-five-chinese-spies/" target="_blank">Biden Dept. of Justice Drops Criminal Charges Lodged Against Five Chinese Spies</a>.


	America’s adversaries are having a field day while America’s national security and public safety are undermined by the Biden administration, even as the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of 9/11 looms large on the horizon.

Biden’s Immigration Policies Vs. National Security &amp; Public Safety

With just about all attention focused on the crisis on the U.S./Mexican border, scant if any attention is being paid to the many other ways aliens may enter

I refer to DACA (Deferred Action- Childhood Arrival) as a scam because while it was foisted on Americans as program to provide legal protection to young aliens, in reality it enabled aliens in their mid to late thirties to acquire lawful status.&nbsp; We will explore the true nature and background of DACA shorty, but first there has been an important development with this program.


	On July 19, 2021 the New York Times reported, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/us/court-daca-dreamers.html">Judge Rules DACA Is Unlawful and Suspends Applications</a>


	That news report included this excerpt:


	The judge, Andrew S. Hanen of the United States District Court in Houston, said President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he created the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/us/us-to-stop-deporting-some-illegal-immigrants.html">by executive action in 2012</a>.


	But the judge wrote that current program recipients would not be immediately affected, and that the federal government should not “take any immigration, deportation or criminal action” against them that it “would not otherwise take.”


	The New York Times article went on to note, in part:


	Judge Hanen, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, ruled that the creation of the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act, in part because comment from the general public was never sought. “D.H.S. failed to engage in the statutorily mandated process,” he wrote, “so DACA never gained status as a legally binding policy that could impose duties or obligations.”


	Now let’s delve into the background behind the creation of the DACA con game by President Obama.


	On June 15, 2012 then-President Barack Obama announced, during a Rose Garden event at the White House, that he was going to create the DACA program to provide temporary lawful status for what he claimed were young “undocumented immigrants.”&nbsp; DACA is an acronym for Deferred Action- Childhood Arrivals.


	On June 17, 2012 Fox News published my Op-Ed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-invokes-prosecutorial-discretion-to-circumvent-constitution-and-congress">Obama Invokes Prosecutorial Discretion to Circumvent Constitution and Congress</a> that took Mr. Obama’s bogus claims to task.


	To begin with, Mr. Obama claimed that he was exercising “prosecutorial discretion” to create DACA.&nbsp; Prosecutorial discretion is a valid concept whereby the limited resources for law enforcement are used to address more serious problems while intentionally ignoring relatively minor law violations.


	However, prosecutorial discretion could never be reasonably used to provide lawful status to law violators under the guise of making effective use of limited resources.&nbsp; Providing lawful status to illegal aliens should require legislation and such a program would create additional burdens that squander and not make effective use of limited resources.


	Therefore I noted in my Fox News commentary that Obama was not using prosecutorial discretion but was, instead, using prosecutorial deception!


	The notion of “Deferred Action” was one that was used by the former INS and the subsequent follow-on immigration agencies of the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) on a limited, case-by-case basis for humanitarian purposes.


	If, for instance, a family from another country was visiting in the United States and a family member was injured or fell ill with a serious injury or illness, Deferred Action would permit the family to remain in the United States for as long a period as necessary, as attested to by their attending physician(s).&nbsp; Immigration authorities would require that their doctors provide periodic updates until the alien was well enough to travel back to their home country.


	The action that was deferred was the requirement that aliens depart from the United States.


	Deferred Action was never meant to be used to act as a stop-gap in anticipation of pending amnesty for huge numbers of illegal aliens to enable them remain in the United States.


	Obama justified creating DACA because he falsely claimed, “Congress failed to act.”


	In reality Congress had acted and, indeed, acted in accordance with the Constitution.&nbsp; It is just that Congress did not act the way Obama wanted when it it voted to not enact the DREAM Act.&nbsp; (DREAM Act is an acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) that would have provided lawful status for millions of illegal aliens who claimed to have entered the United States prior to their 15th birthday- however, these aliens could be as old as 35 yeas of age when they made their applications.


	I am compelled to note the hypocrisy in the name of that failed legislative action.&nbsp; The term “Alien” has come to be reviled by the open borders / immigration anarchists, even though the term alien is defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act as simply being, “Any person, not a citizen or national of the United States.”&nbsp; However, apparently when the term alien was essential to creating the acronym that conjured up the image of the “American Dream” the supposedly dastardly term “alien” became palatable.


	The actual purpose for the DREAM Act and for DACA was to dupe kind-hearted Americans into believing that this was about helping children.&nbsp; In reality, this was not about children but about flooding Ameria with huge numbers of aliens for political purposes and to enrich those who profit from massive immigration and provide huge campaign contributions to politicians who do their bidding


	The immigration system has morphed into a delivery system that, as I have noted in the past, provides an unlimited supply of clients for immigration law firms.&nbsp; There is no shortage of immigration lawyers among the ranks of politicians from both parties and on all levels of government- particularly the U.S. Congress.


	Among those who also benefit from this “immigration delivery system” are companies that want cheap and exploitable labor, religious organizations that want to fill the seats in their houses of worship, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, labor unions that seek to increase their membership so that they get more money (union dues) and increased political leverage.


	As more aliens flood into the United States housing becomes scarce and the price of housing increases.&nbsp; Banks make more money as the size of mortgages increase as the cost of housing goes up.&nbsp; This causes homelessness to increase as more Americans lose their jobs to foreign workers or suffer wage suppression even as the cost of housing soars.


	Fraud would permeate this program because there would be no way to interview all of these aliens and no way to conduct field investigations to determine if the information contained in their applications was accurate and truthful.&nbsp; The 9/11 Commission, in point of fact, identified immigration fraud as a key vulnerability that was repeatedly exploited by terrorists to enter the United States and embed themselves.&nbsp; This nexus between immigration fraud and terrorism and national security was the predication of my article, <a href="https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_27_3/tsc-27-3-cutler-2.shtml">Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill</a>.


	The DREAM Act legislation, incidentally, followed on the heels of a prior failed piece of legislation, Comprehensive Immigration Reform.&nbsp; Comprehensive Immigration Reform is still on the agenda for leaders of both parties.&nbsp; There would be no age cut off for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, only a requirement that the aliens who participate would have entered the United States prior to a cutoff date.&nbsp; Again, the inability to interview so many aliens or conduct field investigations would enable aliens to easily misrepresent their dates of entry into the United States as it would be for them to misrepresent their true identities and potentially their criminal histories and/or affiliation with criminal or terrorist organizations.

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	These concerns caused me to write an Op-Ed for the Washington Times that was published on June 22, 2007, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/22/immigration-bill-a-no-go/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627106609450000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEytljlIp1v1OM60VbOMLvKBYp-Dg" href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/22/immigration-bill-a-no-go/" target="_blank">Immigration bill a ‘No Go’</a>, in which I proposed changing the name of the legislation from Comprehensive Immigration Reform to “The Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act.”</div>

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	The hotly contested bill was being debated in the U.S. Senate at the time and then-Senator Jeff Sessions quoted my article during the floor debate on three separate days and sent me a certificate in which he attributed my article, in part, to his successful efforts to block that wrong-headed and dangerous bill back then.</div>

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	We will give the “last word” to none other than former President Obama. &nbsp;</div>

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	On November 18, 2014 the Washington Post published a report, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/11/18/obamas-flip-flop-on-using-executive-action-on-illegal-immigration/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627106609450000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHWMdx5nGzg5vCChF2PdBAZNzS-Rw" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/11/18/obamas-flip-flop-on-using-executive-action-on-illegal-immigration/" target="_blank">Obama’s royal flip-flop on using executive action on illegal immigration</a> that included this excerpt:</div>

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					There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.</div>
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Federal Judge Halts Unlawful DACA Scam

I refer to DACA (Deferred Action- Childhood Arrival) as a scam because while it was foisted on Americans as program to provide legal protection to young aliens

On July 13, 2021 the Department of Justice issued a press release that announced, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-intelligence-officials-indicted-kidnapping-conspiracy-charges">Iranian Intelligence Officials Indicted on Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges</a>. The subtitle of that press release provides a bit more information: Iranian Intelligence Services Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap a U.S. Journalist and Human Rights Activist from New York City for Rendition to Iran.


	The information contained in the DOJ press release reads like the plot of an international spy novel, but this case is not a fictitious novel.&nbsp; The claims made in the press release detail a serious plot allegedly mounted by the renegade government of Iran to shut down any criticisms of the Tehran regime by kidnapping Iranian expatriates around the world to silence them and to intimidate any others who might consider speaking out against the Iranian government.


	The DOJ press release also contained a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1411366/download">ink to the superseding indictment</a> and began this way:


	A New York federal court unsealed an indictment today charging four Iranian nationals with conspiracies related to kidnapping, sanctions violations, bank and wire fraud, and money laundering. A co-conspirator and California resident, also of Iran, faces additional structuring charges.


	According to court documents, Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani, aka Vezerat Salimi and Haj Ali, 50; Mahmoud Khazein, 42; Kiya Sadeghi, 35; and Omid Noori, 45, all of Iran, conspired to kidnap a Brooklyn journalist, author and human rights activist for mobilizing public opinion in Iran and around the world to bring about changes to the regime’s laws and practices. Niloufar Bahadorifar, aka Nellie Bahadorifar, 46, originally of Iran and currently residing in California, is alleged to have provided financial services that supported the plot.


	“Every person in the United States must be free from harassment, threats and physical harm by foreign powers,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Mark J. Lesko for the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Through this indictment, we bring to light one such pernicious plot to harm an American citizen who was exercising their First Amendment rights, and we commit ourselves to bring the defendants to justice.”


	“As alleged, four of the defendants monitored and planned to kidnap a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin who has been critical of the regime’s autocracy, and to forcibly take their intended victim to Iran, where the victim’s fate would have been uncertain at best,” said U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York. “Among this country’s most cherished freedoms is the right to speak one’s mind without fear of government reprisal.


	Additional important information about this case, including the identity of the intended target of the alleged Iranian operation, Masih Alinejad, is provided in the July 13, 2021 New York Daily News report, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-iranian-intelligence-officer-plotted-to-kidnap-brooklyn-journalist-20210714-w7mfi2khhbgzrkfgcouslygzmm-story.html">Iran plotted to kidnap dissident journalist and author from her Brooklyn home: feds</a>.


	The Daily News article began with this excerpt:


	An Iranian intelligence officer and a network of accomplices tried to kidnap a prominent U.S. journalist and author from her Brooklyn home to silence her criticism of the Iranian regime, federal prosecutors allege.


	Prosecutors allege a disturbing plot by the Iranian government aimed to grab activist Masih Alinejad and lock her up in an Iranian prison. Their plans included spying on her home for months and researching the best route to the Brooklyn waterfront — where they hoped to shove her in a military-style speedboat headed for Venezuela.


	The Daily News report also included this excerpt:


	Alinejad is known for her fierce activism against the law requiring women in Iran to wear a hijab, and in 2019, she sued the Iranian government in federal court, accusing it of harassing her family and imprisoning her brother. She fled Iran in 2009, and became a U.S. citizen in 2019.


	“I have 5 million followers on my Instagram... I’m giving a platform to people inside, challenging the compulsory hijab, and challenging the religious dictatorship,” she told The News. “All the years and years they called America the great Satan, the biggest enemy. But they’re scared of their own people. That’s why they sent officers from the intelligence service to Brooklyn to kidnap me.”


	She said she was horrified by the news last year that the Iranian government had executed Ruhollah Zam, a dissident journalist living in France. Federal prosecutors said he was lured by Iranian intelligence services to leave France in October 2019, and captured him.


	“My heart was broken following the news of his execution, and I was like, ‘Wow, they’re trying to exactly do the same to me.’ It’s scary but it gives me hope. I give voice to the voiceless people inside Iran,” she said.


	News coverage of this case has, however, ignored the immigration components of this case.&nbsp; To begin with, while four of the defendants are fugitives and, at least for the present at large (likely outside the United States), the fifth defendant in this case, Niloufar Bahadorifar, aka Nellie Bahadorifar, is in custody and is charged with providing financial assistance to the plotters.


	The obvious question is how she was able to enter the United States in the first place.&nbsp; If, as it is alleged, she provided the financial resources necessary for the plot to be carried out, when did she first decide to help Iran with this nefarious plot?&nbsp; Has she been involved in other such operations before she entered the United States?


	Therefore I would hope that the U.S. Attorneys who are assigned to this case will dig into Bahadorifar’s apparent ability to secure a visa.&nbsp; It is significant to know if she lied on her application for that visa and if anyone helped her to secure that visa.


	Visa fraud was identified by the 9/11 Commission as the key method of entry and embedding for terrorists and was, in fact, the focus of the very first congressional hearing in which I participated back on May 20, 1997 on the topic, <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju44195.000/hju44195_0f.htm">Visa Fraud And Immigration Benefits Application Fraud</a>.


	That hearing was predicated on two terror attacks carried out in the United States in 1993 by aliens from the Middle East, who had gamed the immigration system- the deadly shooting at the CIA in January 1993 and the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.


	Because of the findings of the 9/11 Commission that visa fraud is an extremely serious crime with potential national security implications, under the provisions of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1546">18 U.S. Code § 1546</a>, an alien who commits visa fraud in support of terrorism faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.


	Incredibly, as I noted in a previous article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/under-biden-dhs-would-become-department-homeland-michael-cutler/">Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender</a>, the current Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, has an abysmal track record on seeking to identify and ferret out fraud in immigration and visa applications.&nbsp; I noted in my earlier article that an investigation conducted by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) into Mayorkas’ practices, when he was the Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services during the Obama administration, found that he acted improperly.


	In my earlier article I provided links to several worrying news reports and an OIG report about Mr. Alejandro “Get to yes!” Mayorkas who admonished those under his command to approve virtually all applications.


	Here are the appropriate links from my earlier article:


	On March 24, 2015 a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mga/OIG_mga-032415.pdf">report of the findings of the investigation by the Office of the Inspector General</a>&nbsp;was released.


	The focus was on how applications for a particular visa category, the EB-5 Visa for aliens who invest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 in businesses that creates jobs for Americans in the United States, were wrongly approved.


	ABC News published several in-depth articles about the troubling findings of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).


	On March 24, 2015 ABC News reported, “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/top-homeland-official-alejandro-mayorkas-accused-political-favoritism/story?id=29868429">Top Homeland Official Alejandro Mayorkas Accused of Political Favoritism</a>&nbsp;Alejandro Mayorkas oversaw controversial $500,000 visa program.


	The above-noted report was preceded by two ABC News reports that were published on February 3, 2015 which illustrate a clear nexus between these visas and national security:


	“<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/whistleblowers-us-gave-visas-suspected-forgers-fraudsters-criminals/story?id=28671577">Whistleblowers: US Gave Visas to Suspected Forgers, Fraudsters, Criminals</a>&nbsp;Internal documents show feds ignored warnings from FBI.”


	“<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-agents-investigating-firm-involved-us-visa-program/story?id=28682456">Feds Investigating Iran Ties to Firm Involved in US Visa Program&nbsp;</a>Documents: Iranian operatives may be abusing program to "infiltrate" U.S.”


	Finally, the alleged Iranian plot sought to remove Masih Alinejad from the United States on a speedboat from along what is America’s longest border.&nbsp; Not the U.S./Mexican border.&nbsp; Not the U.S./Canadian border, but along America’s 95,000 mile coastline.&nbsp; In this case, the shore line near her home in Brooklyn.


	As I have noted ever so many times, the United States has 50 border states.&nbsp; It is clear that the Biden administration is determined to erase all of America’s borders, thereby leaving America and Americans vulnerable to America’s enemies including spies, terrorists, transnational criminals, human traffickers and drug smugglers.


	A country without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls!

Alleged Iranian Kidnap Plot Targeted Iranian/American Dissident In Brooklyn

On July 13, 2021 the Department of Justice issued a press release that announced, Iranian Intelligence Officials Indicted on Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges. The

On July 2, 2021 CNN reported, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/politics/us-military-bagram-airfield-afghanistan/index.html">All US forces have left Bagram Air Base, as US withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion</a>.&nbsp; That report began with these three paragraphs:


	(CNN) The last US troops have left Bagram Air Base, according to a US defense official, marking the end of the American presence at the sprawling compound that became the center of military power in Afghanistan.


	The full withdrawal of US troops from the country is not&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/afghanistan-accelerated-us-troop-pullout/index.html">complete yet but expected very soon</a>.


	Nearly two decades after the first American troops arrived at Bagram and helped take control of the field after the 9/11 attacks, the transfer of the field to the Afghan military proceeded without fanfare, a hushed finale that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/afghanistan-accelerated-us-troop-pullout/index.html">portends the imminent conclusion of America's longest war</a>.


	As the CNN report noted, the massive U.S. presence in Afghanistan (and other countries in the Middle East) was triggered by the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.


	Now it is believed that U.S. troops will, literally, unceremoniously, clear out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the worst terror attack ever carried out on U.S. soil.


	The CNN report went on to note:


	Bagram was officially handed over to the Afghan military Friday, Rohullah Ahamadzai, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense told CNN.


	But the withdrawal from Bagram, devoid of any pomp and ceremony, is a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/middleeast/abdullah-abdullah-interview-afghan-taliban-us-withdrawal-cmd/index.html">symbolic victory for the Taliban</a>, who have waged a relentless cross-country battle against the Afghan military, pushing back government forces and overrunning a growing number of districts.


	Today the Taliban is waiting in the wings to take control of cities across Afghanistan to provide terrorists the opportunity to regroup in that beleaguered country to create training camps and pose a threat to countries around the world, including the United States.


	When President Bush sent troops to the Middle East, in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, he said that we would fight the terrorists “over there- so that we won’t have to fight them over here.”


	President Obama echoed that claim, that our military efforts “over there” were being carried out so that the United States would not have to fight the terrorists “over here.”


	Both Presidents ignored what should have been obvious- we have to fight the terrorists “over here” because they are here!


	Subsequent deadly attacks inside the United States and other unsuccessful terror attacks attempted by international terrorists in the United States makes clear the unavoidable fact that there is, indeed, a continuing “war on terror” being waged inside the borders of the United States.


	To state the obvious, if alien terrorists are operating inside the United States, the immigration system is failing and national security and public safety are being undermined.


	The 9/11 Commission determined that multiple immigration-related failures were exploited repeatedly by international terrorists and not just on 9/11.


	Now, although the “All Clear” has not sounded, the Biden administration is essentially ending the war on terror “over there”.


	Add this fact to the open borders policies of the Biden administration that has not only encouraged, aided and abetted a human tsunami of illegal aliens to head for the United States from countries around the world, in including countries associated with terrorism, but has also al but shut down the enforcement of the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States.


	This is a catastrophe waiting to happen!


	I wrote about my concerns about Biden’s immigration agenda in an article published on January 19, 2021, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/bidens-immigration-policies-would-overwhelm-michael-cutler/">What Biden’s Immigration Policies Would Do To America</a>.&nbsp; The subtitle to my earlier article said it all, America’s adversaries can’t wait for this massive betrayal.


	In an earlier piece I urge you to read, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/under-biden-dhs-would-become-department-homeland-michael-cutler/">Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender</a>, I expressed my extreme consternation over Mr. Biden’s pick for the vital&nbsp; position of the Director of the DHS (Department of Homeland Security), Alejandro Mayorkas who had created DACA for the Obama administration came to the job with lots of “baggage.”


	Mayorkas had garnered a reputation for demanding that the adjudications officers who worked under his “leadership” at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) “get to yes”.&nbsp; In other words he wanted applications for various immigration benefits approved, even though the 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as the key method of entry and embedding for terrorists.


	By a strange coincidence, my earlier article about Mayorkas was published on December 7, 2020, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.&nbsp; The parallel between the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese fleet is a parallel worth considering to underscore the magnitude of the threat we face to international terrorists.


	Nineteen terrorists carried out the attacks of 9/11 and they killed more people than America lost to the Japanese Fleet on December 7, 1941.&nbsp; Furthermore, the death toll from 9/11 continues as more Americans, mostly first responders, continue to die from their exposures to the deadly toxins that were released when the buildings collapsed.


	In point of fact, the 9/11 Commission determined that the ability of the terrorists to travel around the world and cross international borders, especially the borders of the United States, was essential to ability of the terrorists to carry out those deadly attacks.


	These obvious facts were not only a major theme of the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf">9/11 Commission Report</a> but was the focus of an official report authored by the 9/11 Commission Staff that consisted of government attorneys and federal agents, <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">9/11 and&nbsp; Terrorist Travel</a>.


	This report focused specifically on the ability of the terrorists to travel around the world, enter the United States and ultimately embed themselves in the United States as they went about their deadly preparations.and carry out an attack.&nbsp; The preface of this report begins with the following paragraph:


	It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.


	Page 46 and 47 of this report noted:


	Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.” Mohammed Salameh, who rented the truck used in the bombing, overstayed his tourist visa. He then applied for permanent residency under the agricultural workers program, but was rejected. Eyad Mahmoud Ismail, who drove the van containing the bomb, took English-language classes at Wichita State University in Kansas on a student visa; after he dropped out, he remained in the United States out of status.


	Page 61 contained this passage:


	Exploring the Link between Human Smugglers and Terrorists 


	In July 2001, the CIA warned of a possible link between human smugglers and terrorist


	groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.&nbsp;&nbsp; Indeed, there is


	evidence to suggest that since 1999 human smugglers have facilitated the travel of


	terrorists associated with more than a dozen extremist groups.&nbsp; With their global reach and connections to fraudulent document vendors and corrupt government officials, human smugglers clearly have the “credentials” necessary to aid terrorist travel.


	This paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits:”


	Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.


	It is important to note that bin Laden obviously paid attention to the 9/11 Commission Report and understood the significance of our immigration system.&nbsp; The New York Times published an article on May 20, 2015, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/world/asia/bin-laden-bookshelf-list-released-by-us-intelligence-agency.html?_r=0">"In Osama bin Laden Library: Illuminati and Bob Woodward"</a> that reported on what American commandos discovered when they raided bin Laden's compound on May 2, 2011.&nbsp; Here is a significant paragraph:


	He also appeared to have maintained a keen interest in what the United States government thought of Al Qaeda. A copy of “The 9/11 Commission Report” was found in the compound in Abbottabad, as were three reports on Al Qaeda by the Congressional Research Service. There was also an application for American citizenship (no word on whether it was filled out).


	It has been reported that up until his demise, bin Laden was determined to carry out future attacks on the United States to kill Americans.&nbsp; Clearly he was interested in the analysis of the attacks that was produced by the 9/11 Commission.&nbsp; Perhaps he was concerned about vulnerabilities that were identified that future attacks he wanted to carry out might not be able to exploit.&nbsp; It would also be interesting to know what the Congressional Research Service reports found in his compound were focused on.


	Finally- and of great importance, is the fact that an application for United States citizenship was found in bin Laden's compound, certainly pointing to his interest in the United States immigration system.


	Furthermore, that United States citizenship provide the “Keys to the Kingdom” to those who acquire U.S. citizenship, whether it is through birth in the United States or through the naturalization process was obviously not ignored by bin Laden or his adherents and successors.


	The 9/11 Commission worked to prevent terror attacks in the United States.&nbsp; It is incomprehensible that Biden and his administration are acting in direct opposition to the findings and recommendation of that report, thereby undermining national security and public safety.&nbsp; Nevertheless, no one from either political party ever mentions the 9/11 Commission Report or its findings and recommendations.


	It’s time we dusted it off those vital reports and demand answers from those elected to “represent” us, We the People!

Biden Ends War On Radical Islamist Terrorists 'Over Here' and 'Over There'

On July 2, 2021 CNN reported, All US forces have left Bagram Air Base, as US withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion.&nbsp; That report began with these

Iran is one of the most dangerous nations on earth and has been identified as being the greatest state sponsor of international terrorism.


	For decades the leaders of Iran have chanted, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”


	Virulent anti-American chanting by Iran’s leaders is only the tip of the huge Anti-American Iranian iceberg.


	President Abraham Lincoln sagely observed that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”


	The United States is currently in the midst of a battle for the minds and souls of Americans.


	Rather than teaching critical thinking in American schools and universities, students are now being indoctrinated in anti-American Critical Race Theory that pits Americans against Americans along racial lines that were erased by America’s Civil Rights laws.


	There are many reasons that this toxic ideology has taken hold in America but let us not forget that as America falters, the enemies of our nation are rejoicing.&nbsp; Indeed, while we have heard much about supposed Russian interference in the Presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, as it turns out, Iran has been heavily involved.


	On June 7, 2021 Time Magazine published an important report, <a href="https://time.com/6071615/iran-disinformation-united-states/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=sfmc&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter+brief+default+ac&amp;utm_content=+++20210608+++body&amp;et_rid=96905766">Exclusive: Iran Steps up Efforts to Sow Discord Inside the U.S.</a>


	That report began with the following two paragraphs:


	Iranian state actors are intensifying their disinformation campaign on social media to spread discord and anti-Semitic tropes inside the U.S., two U.S. intelligence officials say.


	Social media accounts tracked to troll farms run by the Iranian government have ramped up disinformation after several major events this year, including Biden’s effort to return the U.S. to the Iran nuclear deal, the April 14 announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin on April 20, and the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas that started on May 10. “It’s a significant level of activity,” one official tells TIME. “It’s active enough that we’re tracking it.” The officials did not offer details on the specific disinformation activity after the events.


	The Time news report also acknowledged that Iran sought to interfere in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections to hurt President Trump’s bid for a second term:


	The new spike in online provocations follows months of intense activity by Iran during the 2020 presidential campaign, when Tehran spread messages aimed at amplifying existing social divisions with the U.S and hurting former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning re-election, according to U.S. intelligence analysts. While Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 and 2020 elections and undermine trust in American democracy have been well documented, less is publicly known about Iran’s increasing online influence operations inside the U.S. “Russia wrote the playbook, but others are using it,” says the U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal analysis.


	The Time news report also noted:


	Last year, Iran was behind efforts to intimidate Democratic voters in the weeks before the election by sending threatening email messages from accounts posing as the violent pro-Trump group the Proud Boys, U.S. intelligence officials have <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf">found.</a> The same network of Iranian operatives created and distributed a video with fake allegations of voter fraud.


	Now the leaders of the radicalized Democrat Party are doing the “heavy lifting” for Iran,&nbsp; apparently seeking the MVP Award from that dangerous country.


	As I noted in a previous article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/radical-democrats-have-become-adversaries-freedom-michael-cutler/">Radical Democrats Have Become 'Adversaries of Freedom'</a>


	If all of the above is not disconcerting enough, consider that on June 13, 2021 CNN Reported, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/13/politics/pelosi-ilhan-omar-democrats-cnntv/index.html">Pelosi says House leadership 'did not rebuke' Omar over comments about US, Israel, Hamas and Taliban</a>.


	Bad as all of these factors are, we certainly cannot ignore the threat to America and Americans that can be found in the Biden administration’s immigration policies that fly in direct opposition to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission that was convened to identify the various vulnerabilities that the terrorists were able to exploit, enter the United States and embed themselves as they went about their deadly preparations.


	I have testified before Congressional hearings that focused on the nexus between systemic immigration failures and terrorism and have also written numerous articles on this topic.&nbsp; For example, my January 2020 article, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/iranian-terror-threat-exacerbated-sanctuary-michael-cutler/">Iranian Terror Threat Exacerbated by Sanctuary Policies</a> explained how failures of the immigration law enforcement system that are exacerbated by so-called “sanctuary” policies of numerous U.S. states and cities play into the hands of the Iranian rulers and other adversaries of the United States.


	That earlier article began with these two paragraphs”


	The United States and Iran has been on a collision course since the Carter administration and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.army.mil/article/114417/US_Embassy_in_Iran_Seized__4_November_1979/">seizure of the U.S. Embassy at Tehran, Iran</a>&nbsp;on November 4, 1979.


	Iran has issued a string of threats against the U.S. since that day.&nbsp; Consider my earlier articles published in 2018:&nbsp;<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/iran-threatens-us-and-its-allies-drugs-refugees-michael-cutler/">Iran Threatens U.S. And Its Allies With “Drugs, Refugees, Bombs And Assassination”&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270141/congressional-hearing-iranian-sleeper-cells-michael-cutler">Congressional Hearing: Iranian Sleeper Cells Threaten U.S.</a>&nbsp;So many hearings, so little action.


	Ms Pelosi has, on numerous occasions, called for the creation of a “9/11 style commission” to investigate the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.&nbsp; Yet no one has ever asked her why she would want such a commission to be created when she, the Biden administration and far too many other members of Congress blithely, continually and spectacularly ignore the findings and recommendation of the original 9/11 Commission thereby imperiling and indeed, undermining national security and public safety!


	On September 28, 2001, just about two weeks after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 the Washington Post&nbsp; published a report written by Bob Woodward, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/28/in-hijackers-bags-a-call-to-planning-prayer-and-death/fd0bd532-6dec-4b98-8979-7ab0e1894e99/">In Hijacker's Bags, a Call to Planning, Prayer and Death</a> that began with these two paragraphs:


	Mohamed Atta, one of the key organizers among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, left behind a five-page handwritten document in Arabic that includes Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life and practical reminders to bring "knives, your will, IDs, your passport" and, finally, "to make sure that nobody is following you.”


	FBI investigators, who found the writings in Atta's luggage, which did not make it onto his flight, are not sure of the author's identity -- whether it was Atta, another hijacker or someone else.


	The Washington Times article went on to report:


	Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News quoted federal officials as saying that a copy of an Arabic-language prayer guide had been found in the wreckage of Flight 93.


	The first four pages of the document obtained by The Post are handwritten on large paper and recite some basic Islamic history about the prophet fighting infidels with 100 men against 1,000. They also include prayers such as, "I pray to you God to forgive me from all my sins, to allow me to glorify you in every possible way.”


	The fifth and last page is on standard stenographer paper that apparently had been ripped from a pad and is headed, "When you enter the plane”:


	It includes a series of prayers or exhortations. "Oh, God, open all doors for me. Oh God who answers prayers and answers those who ask you, I am asking you for your help. I am asking you for forgiveness. I am asking you to lighten my way. I am asking you to lift the burden I feel.


	"Oh God, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me."


	America’s “doors” are its ports of entry and its borders.


	The Biden administration immigration policies are the fulfillment of the fervent prayers of those who carried out the deadly terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

Iranian Goal Of 'Death To America' Aided and Abetted By Radical Dems

Iran is one of the most dangerous nations on earth and has been identified as being the greatest state sponsor of international terrorism.


	For decades

&nbsp;On June 17, 2021 AOL published an Associated Press report under the title, <a href="https://www.aol.com/news/justice-dept-missouri-governor-cant-010218695-123635296.html">Justice Dept.: Missouri governor can't void federal gun laws</a>.&nbsp; This report began with this excerpt:


	WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is warning Missouri officials that the state can’t ignore federal law, after the governor signed a bill last week that bans police from enforcing federal gun rules.


	In a letter sent Wednesday night and obtained by The Associated Press, Justice officials said the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause outweighs the measure that Gov. Mike Parson signed into law Saturday. The new rules penalize local police departments if their officers enforce federal gun laws.


	Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton said the law threatens to disrupt the working relationship between federal and local authorities, they said in the letter, noting that Missouri receives federal grants and technical assistance.


	“The public safety of the people of the United States and citizens of Missouri is paramount,” Boynton wrote in the letter.


	The DOJ did not have to wait long for a response.&nbsp; Just hours later, as reported by ABC News, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/missouri-responds-defiantly-justice-dept-gun-law-78344384">Missouri responds defiantly to Justice Dept. over gun law</a>, which noted, in part:


	Similar bills were introduced in more than a dozen other states this year, including Alabama, Arkansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Iowa. In Texas, the governor has called for the state to become a so-called Second Amendment sanctuary.


	Wow!&nbsp; A new form of “Sanctuary policies” enacted by state governments and the federal government under Mr. Biden’s “leadership” is upset!


	Having uttered the magic word “Sanctuary”, we cannot ignore that over the past several decades a growing number of cities and states, almost invariably led by radical leftists, have implemented so-called “sanctuary policies” that, to varying degrees, hamper cooperation between local and state police and federal immigration law enforcement authorities.


	Certainly, our nation’s immigration laws are serious laws that were enacted to protect national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans.


	Frequently these sanctuary policies have increased to the point where detainees lodged by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) personnel have been blatantly ignored so that aliens who have serious criminal histories were released from custody rather than be turned over to ICE so that could be deported from the United States.


	A few of these cases received attention from the media, but in reality a huge number of such criminal aliens who should have been removed (deported) from the United States were permitted to roam freely in towns and cities across the United States, all too frequently, with tragic results.


	Consider the horrific case of 32 year old Kate Steinle who was shot to death by Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, a citizen of Mexico who was illegally present in the United States and had and extensive criminal history in the United States.&nbsp; He had been previously deported from the United States five times, so that his mere presence in the United States constituted a felony under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA): <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1326">8 U.S. Code § 1326</a>.


	On December 1, 2017 Business Insider published a report about this case, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-kate-steinle-murder-immigration-2017-12">Kate Steinle's death at the hands of a Mexican national became a flashpoint in the immigration debate — here's the story behind her killing</a>.&nbsp; Here is an excerpt from this report:


	At the time of Steinle's death, Garcia Zarate had been convicted of nonviolent drug crimes and deported five times since the early 1990s.


	He faced a sixth deportation in 2015, and was in Justice Department (DOJ) custody that March after serving 46 months in prison for a felony re-entry into the US, but instead of transferring him into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the department transferred him to the San Francisco County Jail for prosecution of a 1995 marijuana charge.


	San Francisco prosecutors, who had long ago deprioritized marijuana charges,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sfsheriff.com/files/SFSD_PR_RM_07_03_15.pdf">dismissed the decades-old charge</a>&nbsp;and released Garcia Zarate on April 15, 2015. Due to San Francisco's policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities — which some refer to as a "sanctuary" policy — the city did not inform ICE when they released Garcia Zarate.


	There is a huge number of similar cases around the United States, where "sanctuary policies” that contradict federal immigration law has resulted in the death and injury of thousands of victims at the hands of aliens who were illegal in the United States, subject to deportation but were shielded, aided and abetted by the jurisdictions who declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens, in apparent violations of a number of laws, beginning with <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324">8 U.S. Code § 1324</a> that begins with the following:


	(a) Criminal penalties


	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1)


	(A) Any person who—


	(i) knowing that a person is an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">alien</a>, brings to or attempts to bring to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>&nbsp;in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-535736584-1485256776&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:8:chapter:12:subchapter:II:part:VIII:section:1324">&nbsp;Commissioner,</a>&nbsp;regardless of whether such<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">&nbsp;alien&nbsp;</a>has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>&nbsp;and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:8:chapter:12:subchapter:II:part:VIII:section:1324">&nbsp;alien;</a>


	(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">alien</a>&nbsp;has come to, entered, or remains in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>&nbsp;in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">&nbsp;alien&nbsp;</a>within the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>&nbsp;by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;


	(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">alien</a>&nbsp;has come to, entered, or remains in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>&nbsp;in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">&nbsp;alien&nbsp;</a>in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;


	(iv) encourages or induces an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-92903111-1485256781&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">alien</a>&nbsp;to come to, enter, or reside in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2032517217-1201680101&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=">United States</a>, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=8-USC-2124045062-1201680096&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:8:chapter:12:subchapter:II:part:VIII:section:1324">&nbsp;residence&nbsp;</a>is or will be in violation of law; or


	(v)


	(I) engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or


	(II) aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,


	When President Trump acted to end sanctuary policies that harbor and shield illegal aliens, out of his well-founded concerns about public safety and national security, he was rebuffed in the courts and by globalists who complained that his efforts were based on “xenophobia” and God knows what else!


	Did the bi-partisan 9/11 Commission that we keep so much about by Nancy Pelosi suffer from racism and xenophobia?&nbsp; Pelosi has repeatedly called for a “9/11-style commission” to investigate the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.


	Back on December 21, 2004, the Congressional Research Service issued a wide-ranging <a href="https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL32616.html">report</a> that must be made mandatory reading for every political leader of the United States.&nbsp; The title of the report was: <a href="https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20041221_RL32616_4d0a64b4616f5937d0c6d85abbb8f1436b6fb7cc.pdf">9/11 Commission: Legislative Action Concerning U.S. Immigration Law and Policy in the 108th Congress Updated December 21, 2004</a>.


	Here is the summary of this report began:


	Summary


	Reforming the enforcement of immigration law is a core component of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission). The 19 hijackers responsible for the 9/11 attacks were foreign nationals, many of whom were able to obtain visas to enter the United States through the use of forged documents. Incomplete intelligence and screening enabled many of the hijackers to enter the United States despite flaws in their entry documents or suspicions regarding their past associations. According to the Commission, up to 15 of the hijackers could have been intercepted or deported through more diligent enforcement of immigration laws.


	The 9/11 Commission’s immigration-related recommendations focused primarily on targeting terrorist travel through an intelligence and security strategy based on reliable identification systems and effective, integrated information-sharing. As Congress has considered these recommendations, however, possible legislative responses have broadened to include significant and possibly far-reaching changes in the substantive law governing immigration and how that law is enforced, both at the border and in the interior of the United States.


	The next time Nancy or her disciples invoke the 9/11 Commission, they need to be pointedly asked if they read the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf">9/11 Commission Report</a> and how they and the Biden administration can blithely ignore the clear and present danger the Biden administration’s immigration policies (actions and lack of action) create for America and Americans.


	Our nation’s Constitution and laws are not a menu from which picky eaters can decide what to order or not order.&nbsp; It is hypercritical and beyond outrageous that the DOJ would attack Sanctuary policies regarding the Second Amendment while not only sanctioning immigration sanctuary policies, but actually emulating those extremely dangerous policies in clear violation of standing federal law and in direct opposition to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.


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