A Nero Moment

[Kathianne]

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/11/01/largest-migrant-caravan-in-a-year-heads-toward-u-s-southern-border-n589049


Largest Migrant Caravan in a Year Heads Toward U.S. Southern BorderKAREN TOWNSEND 8:41 AM on November 01, 2023

A large migrant caravan left southern Mexico on Monday for the United States. Caravan organizers said that there are around 5,000 in the group. Mexican officials put the number at about 3,500 migrants.


Many of the migrants are from Central America and Venezuela. Most are from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. They are traveling on foot from Tapachula in southern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border.


Irineo Mujica, a caravan organizer, said the migrants decided to leave Tapachula out of frustration about not being able to obtain humanitarian visas. Some migrants were offered help to recover efforts in Mexican port of Acapulco which was devastated last week by a hurricane. The Mexican authorities have been very slow to respond. The government’s National Migration Institute did not have a comment.


The migrants are being escorted by civil protection officials and ambulances. They are walking on a coastal highway and planned for their first stop to be in the municipality of Huehuetan, about 16 miles north of where they started.


Most of the migrants are fleeing poverty and political instability. These are not reasons to be granted asylum in the United States, yet they will be allowed to file their asylum claims and remain in the U.S. waiting for a court date, as that is what happens in Biden’s America. There has been a record number of crossings in the Darien Gap region that connects Panama and Colombia.


Venezuelans have left their country by the millions. This is due to the economic crisis that the full embrace of socialism brought the once-prosperous oil-rich country.


“In Venezuela things are very tough, we can’t live with the money we get, it’s not

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In an often contemptuous Senate hearing Tuesday, DHS Secretary Mayorkas admitted for the first time that there were over 600,000 known gotaways at the southern border in FY 2023. During questioning by Senator Marshall (R-KS), Mayorkas admitted he has no idea how many of those gotaways may be on the terror watch list. Gotaways run from law enforcement at the border instead of turning themselves in so they are not vetted at all.

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[Kathianne]

More or hand-in-hand:

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/01/fbi-terror-threat-high-homeland-security-we-have-no-idea-how-many-terrorists-are-in-us-n589081


FBI: Terror Threat High; Homeland Security: We Have No Idea How Many Terrorists Are in US
DAVID STROM 10:01 AM on November 01, 2023


It turns out that having an open border may not be great for national security.


Who could have guessed?


Before I get into this post let me say: I hope I NEVER have to say “I told you so” on this issue. We all do. But I fear that Homeland Security may be closing the barn door more than a little late, and be doing too little to increase border security.


The first bit of news is hardly worthy of being called “news.”


FBI Director Christopher Wray has deigned to inform Americans of what we all knew already: the risk of terror attacks is very high right now.

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“A whole other level” doesn’t sound very good.


The terror threat against the U.S. reached “a whole other level” after Hamas’ sneak attack on Israel, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told Congress on Tuesday, saying the big players in terrorism have all renewed calls to attack America and its interests.


He said al Qaeda has issued its most specific call for attacks on the U.S. in years, Islamic State leaders ordered followers to attack Jewish communities and Hezbollah is eyeing U.S. targets in the Middle East. Iran, meanwhile, has pushed proxy attacks on U.S. military basis.


“The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of attack on Americans to a whole other level,” Mr. Wray said.

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With world affairs having taken a major turn for the worse since President Biden was elected, it is hardly shocking that terrorists are looking with longing at American targets and plotting to take out more than a few. The war in Gaza simply steps up an already dire situation to “a whole other level.”


Now add to that little fact the non-news that the American border has been essentially open for 3 years, with 8 million known illegal entries and God knows how many “gotaways.” The number is staggering–around 600,000 this year alone, Mayorkas admits. But since they got away we really can’t say.

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