Last week eight illegal aliens — all military aged-males from Tajikistan — were arrested in three U.S. cities and accused of being members of ISIS who were planning terrorist attacks against the United States.
There’s a lot to parse out in that event.
Let’s start with the fact that the illegal aliens — who came through our open southern border — were vetted and admitted into the United States without further ado. According to all the media reports I can find there was no negative information about any of the eight in U.S. Border Patrol or intelligence databases. According to that Fox News report, all eight were “fully vetted” and nothing was found to indicate their ISIS affiliation.
A nation that doesn’t enforce its borders is not a nation.
So much for the so-called “terror watch list.” We don’t know yet what caused law enforcement to identify these men as possible terrorists and led to their arrests, but the media reports say that after they were admitted to the U.S., information was developed of “national security concerns” which were, at least in part, their affiliation with ISIS. According to the same Fox News report the ISIS Eight were caught as a result of intercepted conversations among them talking about bombs. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: Hunter’s Laptop: The Other Story)
What this incident tells us is that there is no real vetting of people coming into the U.S. illegally. If there were, the ISIS Eight wouldn’t have been admitted into the country. Thus, the “vetted” illegals are now as much danger to America as the “gotaways.”
Three weeks ago, I wrote about the “gotaways” — those illegals who enter the U.S. managing to evade the Border Patrol. There have been at least two million of them since Biden became president.
We know that the drug cartels are making it easy for people of all sorts — drug smugglers, terrorists, and others who mean us harm — to be smuggled into the U.S. As I wrote in that piece three weeks ago, the efficiency and the effectiveness of the cartels’ people-smuggling operations means that the FBI, Border Patrol, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies lack the ability to gather the intelligence information that would ensure that people such as the ISIS Eight couldn’t get into the country.
President Biden is impervious to the facts and logic of the open border crisis he created. His executive order supposedly reducing the admission of people and their asylum claims was, as Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy said of it, “a scam.” It will do nothing to control, far less reduce, the number of illegals coming across our border. It is also meaningless in controlling the number of “gotaways” who slip in.
According to some estimates, Biden has made more than ninety executive orders and other policy changes to open our southern (and northern) borders to illegals. His latest executive order does nothing to stem the flow.
Stemming the flow is what Texas Gov. Greg Abbot is doing. Abbot is erecting physical barriers at the border — despite Biden’s orders to not do so — and they are proving effective. The flow of illegals across the border into Texas has slowed to a trickle.
We know that the ISIS Eight are only destined to be deported. What that means is that the next time they want to get in, they’ll hire the cartels to smuggle them in and they will join the millions of “gotaways” that are already here. And let’s not forget that the flow of “gotaways” appears to be steady in gaining access to the United States.
What this all means is that the “gotaways” — those here and those coming in — are capable of doing our country great harm. We know that al-Qaida, Hizballah, and all the other terrorist networks have established themselves in South America (again, please re-read my column of three weeks ago) and are gradually sending their operatives into the U.S.
Why shouldn’t they? Biden is making it easy for them to do so.
There are myriad things we could do to better protect our country, including building Trump’s border wall, but Biden won’t do any of them. It is the biggest scandal of the Biden administration and few, if any, Republicans are even trying to do anything about it.(READ MORE: Impeach Biden?)
Like the Border Patrol, ICE and the FBI are overwhelmed. There are simply too many people coming into this country from countries like Tajikistan, Iran, China, Russia, and probably North Korea for them to even be aware of the threat individuals (and groups) among them pose. The intelligence they are gathering isn’t enough to enable them to protect us.
We keep hearing that Mexico wants to do more to help us protect our border but evidence of that is exceedingly hard to find. What are they doing to attack the drug cartels and make it impossible for them to smuggle the gotaways into the U.S.? Nothing, apparently.
The drug cartels are rampant in Mexico, which is a failed state. If we had a different president, we could literally be attacking the cartels on their home ground. You may remember Tom Clancy’s novel, “Clear and Present Danger,” which portrayed U.S. troops going into Mexico to do just that. We are not doing anything of the sort and it’s high time we were — clandestinely or otherwise — because Mexico won’t.
Biden needs to do more, a lot more, to protect us from the next big terrorist attack. But he won’t. We need a new president who understands the problem and is willing to act against it.
Trump promises the biggest deportation program in our history. That would be a good step but it’s not enough. We need to shut down the cartel smuggling that brings the gotaways into our nation and protect ourselves — by closing the border to illegals — from them as well. We need Trump’s border wall, possibly on our northern border as well as the southern one.
We are at risk of becoming a failed state, open to terrorism, sabotage, and other acts against us. A nation that doesn’t enforce its borders is not a nation. It’s just that simple and that complex a problem that our next president will have to deal with. If he’s reelected, Biden won’t.
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