Four men with mid-east names just out for a hike. Consider their intentions if they made it.

 

Four "British Hikers" Caught on Golden Road After Illegally Entering U.S. from Canada: Court Records

Apr 09, 2026 robinsonreport.substack.com

British men Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh were caught illegally sneaking into the U.S. in a remote part of Maine, per court records.

Four British nationals were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in a remote stretch of Somerset County woods after illegally crossing from Canada into the United States on April 3, federal court documents filed this week reveal.

One of them captured the whole thing on a GoPro camera, narrating a celebration as the group set foot on American soil.

“I can confirm you are now on US Soil,” Mohammed Sultan Saleh narrated on video as the group crossed through thick forest just a few hundred yards from the St. Zacharie Port of Entry in northwestern Somerset County, according to an affidavit sworn by U.S. Border Patrol Agent Scott Hanton and filed April 7 in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine.

Another man in the group — Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah — can be heard on the recording asking, “I’m on US Soil?” Saleh replied by showing his phone screen with GPS coordinates displayed, and declared, “Now, we are in the US. We just made it, baby.”

The bust began with an unlikely pair of informants: two maple sugar workers heading into Canada who spotted four men of apparent Middle Eastern appearance walking south along the Golden Road near mile marker 90 — in the wrong direction to be casual hikers.

For those unfamiliar with the Golden Road, it’s a 96-mile, primarily unpaved private logging road in Maine, stretching from Millinocket west to the Quebec border — and there’s nothing but trees to see for 95.9 of those miles and no cell service.

The unidentified maple sugar workers flagged down a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at the St. Zacharie Port of Entry at approximately 9:15 a.m. to alert them to the bizarre sighting.

By 9:40 a.m., the same workers had returned to the U.S. side with more intelligence: a third man had told them that two men in a gray Nissan parked on the Golden Road were asking passersby for fuel and Wi-Fi so they could contact the people they were supposed to pick up. At 10:13 a.m., that same third man called back — the Nissan had turned up near his maple sugar shack at mile marker 80.

A Border Patrol agent and the CBP officer loaded up a marked patrol vehicle and headed south on the Golden Road. At mile marker 90, they spotted fresh footprints in the soft dirt. At mile marker 87, they found the men themselves — four individuals attempting to conceal themselves in roadside vegetation.

Google Maps images of the area help show just how remote a location the supposed British hikers had found themselves in.

 

“One of the four men was acting nervously,” Hanton wrote in his affidavit. “The two officers took the four men into custody without incident.”

Although the Go Pro recording would show the men indisputably entered the U.S. illegally and intentionally, they initially claimed they were ‘just going for a hike.’

When questioned about their citizenship, all four told agents they were British citizens. They claimed they didn’t know they had entered the United States, a claim the Go Pro recording revealed to be a lie.

After being transported to the Jackman Border Patrol station, the men were identified as Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, 18, of Liverpool, England; Hameed Mohammed Nagi; Ibrahim Ayyub Khan; and Mohammed Sultan Saleh — all British nationals, according to court documents.

Their stories didn’t hold up.

Abdullah declined to answer questions. Nagi claimed he was just going on a hike with the group. Saleh echoed that line — but federal agents had already found the GoPro footage on his phone, along with a series of telling Google searches conducted April 3: “bangor from my location,” “boston from bangor,” “new york from boston,” and — critically — “is st zacharie border crossing still used the one near quebec golden road.”

That last search would appear to put to rest any claim that Saleh was unaware he had crossed an international border.

The gray Nissan the maple sugar workers had described was still sitting near mile marker 80 when agents returned — out of gas. Two men were inside. They identified themselves as U.S. citizens.

Before the driver could fully exit the vehicle, a CBP officer observed him reach under the driver’s seat. When agents checked, they found a loaded 9mm handgun.

The two men in the Nissan were taken to Jackman as well, in connection with what the affidavit describes as “a suspected alien smuggling event.” The passenger of the vehicle later admitted to investigators that the driver had intended to pick up one of the four men — someone the driver said he had dropped off in the same Golden Road area approximately 30 days earlier, according to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Pierre Mathieu, who briefed Hanton.

A forensic review of the driver’s cell phone found text messages with an individual believed to be one of the four men, discussing expected arrival times and pickup logistics, according to the court filing.

Federal prosecutors’ motion for pretrial detention adds a further wrinkle to the story.

Abdullah, identified as the lead defendant in the criminal complaints, had previously run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities. His application to extend his U.S. visa was denied in March 2025, and he departed the country in May 2025, the motion states.

Prosecutors allege that Canadian authorities had recorded his arrival in Canada on April 1, 2026 — two days before the Maine crossing — traveling on a United Kingdom passport.

“Law enforcement authorities are attempting to ascertain the purpose of his travel to Maine,” the motion states.

All four men are charged with one count each of Entry Without Inspection, a Class B misdemeanor under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1), which carries a maximum sentence of six months in federal prison and a $5,000 fine. The case is assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison.

Abdullah appeared before the court on April 7 and waived his right to both a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, consenting to remain in federal custody pending trial. The court accepted his waiver and ordered him detained.

Trial is scheduled to begin June 3, 2026, before Magistrate Judge Nivison. Pretrial motions are due April 21.

The three co-defendants — Nagi, Khan, and Saleh — have related cases pending in the same district.

 

This post provides extremely important illegal alien crime statistics. Reading it will require special attention to details.

 

Unveiling The Hidden Truth About Illegal Aliens And Crime

The Democrats have done their best to hide the data, but it is possible to use available information to extrapolate just how bad illegal alien crime is.

Allan J. Feifer | April 9, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

The Democrats have done their best to hide the data, but it is possible to use available information to extrapolate just how bad illegal alien crime is.

Every day, all over America, illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and naturalized Americans from a rogue’s list of countries to our South and from the Middle East kill, rape, rob, and defraud us, almost with impunity. Yet, if you try to prove it by citing reliable government statistics, you can’t. The left works hard—it may be its most important job—to ensure you can’t find out exactly how bad things really are across America.

The bottom line: almost no states or the federal government track crimes using reliable indicators of someone’s country of origin, immigration status, or citizenship status. To the extent that states do, information is spotty and irregular. Only one state, Texas, keeps comprehensive records...only one! (Thank you, Governor Abbott!)

And, if you guessed that blue states not only don’t collect such data, but have created laws to ensure that information is not collected, you would be correct. Several Democrat-led states and localities have laws or official policies that restrict asking for, collecting, or sharing immigration or national-origin information for most public, state, and local government purposes. Notable examples include California’s SB 54 (the California Values Act), New Jersey’s Immigrant Trust/Privacy Protection laws, and statewide/local guidance in New York; many other blue states have statutory or policy limits on participation in federal immigration programs.

Recently, moments after being sworn in as Governor, Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger’s first act was to reverse all policies that former Governor Glenn Youngkin had enacted on a range of immigration and cooperation subjects. Her statements were masterclasses in duplicity, promising to enforce the law, even while making it impossible for Virginia law enforcement to do so because ICE detainers are administrative, not judicial:

I have full confidence that Virginia law enforcement agents are keeping Virginia safer when exercising their authority under Virginia law.

[snip]

And, importantly, any time there is a judicial warrant in hand, state and local law enforcement should be, and the expectation is, they should be cooperating with any other law enforcement agencies that might need their assistance.

By stating this and through other Executive Orders, Spanberger wasted no time in returning Virginia to its status as an aggressive and repressive sanctuary state, effectively favoring non-citizens over citizens. Recent high-visibility incidents in Virginia that involve illegal aliens include Old Dominion, the Fairfax bus stop stabbing, the stabbing death of a 3-month-old, and a machete murder. There are more, but it’s hard to dig most of them up due to the limitations previously mentioned.

But, what if there were a way to tabulate an approximation, imperfect, but a starting point to achieve a national number? Obviously, the left wants to ignore this possibility because it would likely drive people into the streets in a furious demand that the carnage stop by reversing policies that are intended to obscure data and encourage the veritable war on traditional America.

We’ll extrapolate official Texas numbers and see where that takes us—Data and Assumptions:

• Texas population (July 1, 2024): 31,290,831.
• U.S. population (2024 estimate): 340,110,988.
• Texas share of the US population: 31,290,831/340,110,988\approx 9.20% of the country.
• Texas DPS cumulative DHS-matched counts (June 1, 2011–Feb 28, 2026): homicide 1,123; assault 78,122; robbery 3,394; sexual assault 7,629. These are charges tied to DHS-identified non-citizens.
• Time window length used: June 1, 2011 → Feb 28, 2026 ≈ 14.75 years.
• Calculations (method: proportional extrapolation)
• Sum Texas violent charges used: 1,123+78,122+3,394+7,629=90,268.
• Extrapolate to the US by population share: 90,268/0.09197\approx 981,500 total extrapolated US charges over the same period.
• Per-year estimate: 981,500/14.75\approx 66,600 violent-offense charges per year nationwide (DHS-matched non-citizen charges, estimated).
• Category breakdown (rounded)—Offense Texas cumulative Extrapolated US cumulative Estimated per year: Homicide 1,123 ~12,200 ~828 / year Assault 78,122 ~849,300 ~57,600 / year Robbery 3,394 ~36,900 ~2,500 / year Sexual assault 7,629 ~83,000 ~5,600 / year (Totals match rounded to ~66,600 violent, non-citizen crimes per year nationwide

Of course, some states will have lower illegal alien crime rates (e.g., Vermont) but that will be offset by those that have high rates, such as California, New York, etc.

A note about my calculations:

Bad enough at over 66,000 violent non-citizen crimes annually, these numbers are likely greatly understated. Why? First, my numbers spanned 15 years. The Biden presidency greatly upped the tally of non-citizens, and we are naturally experiencing greater numbers of non-citizen violent crime today than 15 years ago. Second, the number of non-citizen crimes is understated because authorities cannot always confirm someone’s non-citizen status. Lastly, and this is a big one, these stats are based on arrests. A significant portion of criminals go undetected and unarrested.

Most reported violent offenses do not result in an arrest; nationally, roughly 60–65% of violent offenses are not cleared by arrest or exceptional means (i.e., not “cleared”) in recent years—about 63% not cleared in 2022 and 58% not cleared in 2020. If one adds that into the assumption, our 66,000 number rises to at least 150,000 murders, rapes, and violent assaults annually.

But wait, that’s not the end of this horror show guaranteed to make you ill! We are not even beginning to count the non-violent crimes, scams, thefts, and petty crimes committed. No one seems even to want to make a guess, but it’s got to be hundreds of thousands of crimes by non-citizens each year. Just look at Minneapolis and Los Angeles, where immigrant fraud is rife.

All of us are paying for this financially, socially, and personally, as every American reading this is a victim in some way, whether it’s the cost of credit due to fraud, higher taxes than they would otherwise be, the loss of someone close to us, or, for some, even being afraid to walk our streets.

One other group for which no statistics exist: naturalized Americans who go on to become (or already were) criminals. The numbers here are also staggering, and the fact that too many government agencies won’t collect the relevant data is a crime in itself.

Can you imagine the outcry if we really could quantify the cost in actual murders, economic destruction, and the resulting loss of emotional wellness due to non-citizen crime? It would force change almost overnight, as if waking up from a nightmare. The hue and cry for immediate reform would expose the leadership of every major city in America, leaving no room for misinterpretation about how bad non-citizen criminality has become. Spare me the fake numbers of crime having been vastly reduced. NYC cops don’t arrest violators anymore; they’re too afraid of Mamdani! Police are on defense, almost everywhere in America, afraid to do their jobs.

This could be the wake-up call for Americans to take to the streets demanding accountability and change.

God Bless America!

 

The manipulation of Federal immigration law including 'birthright citizenship' knows no ends. This insanity must end. The SCOTUS can and must do this!

 

Mid-Air Birth Flies Home How Stupid Birthright Citizenship Is

By: M.D. Kittle April 08, 2026 thefederalist.com

The extreme manipulation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause must end now if the republic is to survive.

To borrow from comedian Jeff Foxworthy’s famous redneck schtick, if you were born on a flight over U.S. air space, you might be a U.S. citizen. 

The latest birthplace debate underscores just how insanely stupid sweeping birthright citizenship has become in the modern age. And it’s another example of why the U.S. Supreme Court needs to fix a flawed 130-year-old interpretation of the Constitution. 

‘A Child Born on a Plane’

Multiple corporate outlets had some fun reporting on the “stork” story of a passenger who gave birth over the weekend during a flight from Jamaica to New York City.  The Caribbean Airlines flight “landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy international airport with one more person than it took off with,” the liberal Guardian guffawed.

As the cheeky piece explained, the citizenship status of the newborn remained up in the air because officials had yet to make clear the citizenship status of the parents — “and where the plane was at the exact moment the baby was born.” The child would, of course, automatically be a U.S. citizen if either parent is a U.S. citizen. If not, it depends on precisely where the birth occurred. If the answer is within 12 nautical miles of the U.S. coastline, the newborn just won the U.S. citizenship lottery. 

“… [A] child born on a plane in the United States or flying over its territory would acquire United States citizenship at birth,” the State Department’s rule states. 

All of this drives home the point that the expansive view of birthright citizenship is a bastardization of the law — and it needs to end. This Supreme Court has a chance to bring sanity to more than a century of manipulation of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, twisted to appease myriad monied interests. 

‘Wherein They Reside’

Last week, the court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a challenge to President Donald Trump’s first-day-in-office executive order denying automatic citizenship to children born to illegal aliens or to “birth tourists” and others that have long gamed the system. 

As Hans Mahncke wrote this week in The Federalist, the question before the court is whether the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause extends to “every child born on American soil, no matter who the parents are or why they are in the United States.” And American waters and airways, as the ridiculous expanded interpretation goes. 

While it seems inconceivable that the three liberals on the court would stand with Trump on doing away with the birthright citizenship, members of the conservative majority seemed skeptical of the government’s arguments. Perhaps that’s because, for reasons not entirely clear, Solicitor General D. John Sauer failed to press the jurisdictional language of the amendment. But the justices seemed to be missing the key point of a post-Civil War constitutional amendment meant to extend U.S. citizenship to former slaves, not to grant it to millions of children of noncitizens by virtue of being born within the boundaries of America. 

The Amendment declares:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

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Ira Mehlman, director of media for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), contends the phrase that pays in the 14th— is “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” 

“What does it mean to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States? Does it simply mean that you’re here and you have to obey the laws like everybody else? Or does it mean something deeper,” Mehlman said this week on The Federalist Radio Hour. “We know that, for instance, children born to foreign diplomats in the United States are not U.S. citizens because they’re simply not subject to the jurisdiction of the country.” 

Mahncke wrote that the real argument turns on one word in the Citizenship Clause, which has largely escaped scrutiny: reside. 

“Perhaps because it comes at the end, it has been treated as an afterthought, but careful reading shows how central the term ‘reside’ is,” Mahncke asserts. “The clause does not say ‘are born,’  ‘are physically present,’ or ‘pass through on a tourist visa.’ Citizenship is granted only to those who actually ‘reside,’ establishing a precondition for the clause’s application…”

‘The Consequences Are Severe’

The justices on the highest court in the land may not get it, but most Americans do. 

A Rasmussen Reports national poll released Tuesday found 59 percent of likely U.S. voters support limiting automatic birthright citizenship to births where at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. That includes 39 percent who strongly support such limits. About one-third surveyed (34%) are opposed, including 23 who strongly oppose limitations.  

A Pew Research Center poll in June found Americans divided on automatic citizenship to children born to illegal immigrant parents.  

Right on cue, corporate media outlets and liberal organizations have been pushing a narrative and polls that show overwhelming support for birthright citizenship. As always, in polling much depends on how the question is asked.

One thing is for certain, the crafters of the Citizenship Clause did not foresee the rise of “birth tourism,” which has, according to FAIR, “exploded into a coordinated global enterprise, with roughly 33,000 tourist-visa births per year and more than 70,000 total foreign births annually.”

“The consequences are severe: nearly 1.5 million U.S.-citizen children raised overseas with primary loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, an explosion of chain migration, and more than $150 billion in annual net costs shifted onto American taxpayers,” the Federation reports. 

And it’s safe to say the denizens of 1868 did not envision babies born mid-air and the dividing line between citizen and noncitizen. For the real originalists on the court, and the liberal justices selectively claiming that space, the Citizenship Clause is more than location; it’s the intent of the time in which it was written.  

On that score, birthright citizenship should be blown out of the air.