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Having an open border also means having a big target on our backs. Beyond the millions of invaders, a more motivated group might decide to take a shot.
And this CBP memo raises some serious questions.
A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) memo is warning staff of the risk that foreign terrorist fighters engaged in the Israel-Hamas conflict could soon be attempting to enter the United States via the besieged southern border.
In a Friday memo by the agency’s San Diego Field Office’s intelligence unit, obtained by Fox News, the agency warns that individuals “inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border.”
The memo, first reported by the Daily Caller, doesn’t just warn about people on terror watchlists, rather it flags “military age males” in “military gear” with “weapons” and “insignia patches” of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad showing up on the border.
That’s well beyond people on terror watchlists infiltrating the United States. That is suggestive of a Hamas Oct 7 scenario.
Now we’ve had plenty of warnings and alerts that didn’t pan out. Most of them probably did not. As I wrote earlier offensive intelligence is vastly more useful than defensive intelligence. And most chatter turns out to be just noise.
But it’s still deeply troubling that there is anything like this in the aether. It’s also an urgent warning to secure our border before it becomes reality.
Whenever I’ve been asked about Israel’s border failure, I’ve wondered out loud what would happen if 100,000 armed enemy insurgents showed up at our southern border. It hasn’t happened and I don’t think it will soon, but I don’t believe we’re remotely ready for that kind of scenario and caravans of migrants create the perfect cover for such an attack.
The only reason something like this isn’t happening is not because we’re on alert or have sufficient deterrence, but because the enemy isn’t ready for anything on that scale. But Israel thought the same thing about Hamas.
Better to be on alert than not to be when the worst happens.
Jeff Bargholz says
The worst is definitely going to happen. You’re an expert on islamopithecine terrorists and you know their behavior, like a primatologist knows monkeys. It’s only a matter of time.
I don’t think they’ll storm the border but I’m sure the ones here are planning attacks. They’ll pick a day like Christmas for a mass attack across the country. I have no doubt.
I know how they think, too. I used to live with them. Not the scummy Near Easterners but Indonesians. But there were bad ones there, too, although uncommon. The Bali, Churches and Christmas bombings come to mind. It doesn’t take a lot of those animals to wreak havok.
NAVY ET1 says
How are you Biden voters feeling now? All good? More concerned about who wins ‘Dancing With The Stars’ and your favorite internet influencer than that “icky” news?
Anything that happens to you, you have earned through your own stupidity.
I take some solace in the fact that, should anything transpire, it’ll happen in big BLUE Biden cities like New York, Chicago and LA. If we learned anything from 9/11 it’s that terrorists like big targets and big audiences. Meanwhile, those of us whom you have sought to disarm will be loading up for a bug hunt, though you really don’t deserve it.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, when a dozen eggs cost up to ten bucks, only a fanatic asshole can continue to vote Dirtbagocrat. And seven to eight bucks a gallon for gas? MORONS.
Cat says
Again, big blue cities aren’t what you think. Sure the vote fraud machine there goes Democrat and there are immigrants and elites who vote democrat, but there are millions more hard working patriotic regular people in NYC, for example. Entire NYC neighborhoods that are bigger than most other cities are not leftwing. So being happy these good people are blown up is wrong and just too simplistic.
Divisiveness within the US, whether urban versus “small town” or blue state versus red state, it all weakens us and distracts is from who the enemy truly is. They are the grifters in charge. And something must be done about them.
NAVY ET1 says
I’m sorry Cat but I’ve tried the Rodney King “Can’t we all just get along” approach for many years and, as it turns out, we can’t. As I’ve told two conservative friends who lived in NYC, I’m tired of the stories of how their BLUE city is actually RED underneath. I’ve seen no evidence of that. Neither has anyone else. There are no “sanctuaries” in my state. We don’t have incredibly ironic ‘Gays For Gaza’ and ‘Homos For Hamas’ rallies either. We don’t have a revolving door justice system and women aren’t being raped in broad daylight in the middle of an intersection. What we DO have is law & order, a low crime rate and approximately 60% of people packing heat to ensure the aforementioned.
The weakening of the US was a forgone conclusion with the advent of the modern leftist. The “divisiveness”, while sad, is emblematic of a nation that’s dying, but there can no longer be a meeting in the middle. No congress. No agreement. Doing so, while ultimately our fault, was what got us here to this sorry state of affairs. Pitching one’s tent in a liberal and literal Sodom often comes with consequences.
BTW…my two conservative friends from NYC have since moved to Florida.
aristotle cam says
How can you be sure they’re not here already? 7=8 million people have come across our southern border in the last
5 to 6 years. Included are the ones that never were checked in at the border. Hell-even the people coming through
the check points were not properly vetted. We don’t know where they are or what they’re doing. How about the
Northern border-nobody has a clue. FBI, CIA, MEDIA, etc-Crickets!
Sleep well America!
Angel Jacob says
Islamic terrorists always hide among civilians to attack civilians.
Onzeur Trante says
A relatively obscure book, American Radical (can’t recall author’s name) describes exactly that. They. hide in our neighborhoods and in top positions in academia, as has been recently seen.
RAM says
It was so nice of the Democrats to welcome terrorists in,. I’m sure taxpayers will pay the tab for their upkeep Time for national registration of scimitars.
RAM says
As night follows day., insane policies have consequences.
Kasandra says
It took 19 and a few supporters to pull off 9/11. Terrorists don’t need an army of 100,000. In fact, the fewer the plotters the greater the operational security. The current administration is endangering the American public, pure and simple.
Onzeur Trante says
Sadly CBP is talking to the wind. This administration doesn’t give a damn about terrorists getting in, but when the terrorist dung hits the fan, the Biden propaganda machine and double speak will go into high gear pretending they care about our safety.
Ted says
As you are probably aware, Customs and Border Patrol agents were spotted last month cutting barbed wire in Eagle Pass,Texas, letting migrants illegally cross the border. Our enemy is the current regime in Washington. Keep up the great work. Enjoy your columns.
Cat says
And there was that disturbing video of them loading illegals onto to busses, one after another, in an orderly fashion. When a reporter and his camera crew tried to get closer, the border patrol pulled a truck up to completely block the view. I understand they want to keep their jobs and their pensions. Or maybe they are bleeding heart fans of the masses of illegals. But that isn’t their job. It is actually quite insane.
Taylor says
Americans have been subjected to daily chemical attacks by Chinese fentenyl manufacturers and S. American cocaine producers for years via Mexican cartels crossing our unguarded borders. Why not add Islamic terror attacks to the mix, too?