A nation without borders is not a nation at all! Amerika - such a country!

 

What's going on at the northern border?

By Silvio Canto, Jr. www.americanthinker.com

Let me paraphrase Marvin Gaye and ask what's going on?  Yes, what's going on at the U.S.-Canadian border?  Let's check the story:  

Border Patrol agents in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire apprehended more people illegally entering the US from Canada in the past three months than in the previous two years combined, authorities say.

Officials in the states, which make up the federal agency’s eastern “Swanton Sector,” saw a 743% increase in apprehensions and encounters between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 compared to the same period in 2021, sector chief, Robert Garcia said last week in a press release.

In December, a record 441 people were detained by US Border Patrol and Customs at the Canadian border in the region after flying to Canada from at least 19 countries, according to The Center Square. Fourteen others abandoned their illicit journey to America, and at least 135 foreign nationals evaded authorities and are now in the US illegally, officials told the outlet.

I guess that the U.S. does not have borders anymore.   

The game goes like this. You get to Canada and then walk into the U.S. How are these people getting into Canada in the first place?  They probably come in on a tourist visa and then pack up, or dress up very warm, to walk across the border.

Once upon a time, when the man who wrote mean tweets was in office, we had borders and sent that message around the world.  Now, the "humane" approach has eroded our borders, promoted human trafficking and chaos prevails north and south.

Who’s looking out for the country?  

Fraudulent Biden Immigration Policy HAS Totally Transformed our Republic - Beyond Recovery - Insanity Beyond Belief!

 

Now they're coming from CANADA

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com 29 January 2023 

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Northern border sees 743% spike in illegal migrants trying to cross in a year due to 'easier entry than Mexico' - as cops release eerie images of asylum seekers trudging through 12F snow

• Between October 1 and December 31, the Border Patrol's Swanton Sector - covering Vermont and New Hampshire - saw a surge in migrant encounters

• Agents reported a 743 percent increase in apprehensions and encounters compared to the same period the year prior

• Border Patrol officials say they are worried that migrants are unaware of how cold it can get, and say people traffickers are exploiting their desperation

Border Patrol working in the north of the US have reported a 743 percent rise in migrant encounters compared to the same period a year ago.

Robert Garcia, the chief patrol agent for the Swanton Sector - which covers Vermont, New York and New Hampshire - said he was troubled by the increasing popularity of the people-smuggling route.

He warned traffickers are exploiting desperate asylum seekers with potentially lethal consequences, amid freezing temperatures and dangerous passages.

Meanwhile the Grand Forks sector, which covers Minnesota and North Dakota, has reported 90 apprehensions in the three months since October 1.

The figure is more than for the whole of the 2022 fiscal year, when 80 were apprehended between September 30, 2021 and October 1, 2022.

It comes as a surprise as officials focus on clogging the southern border, which has reached crisis point as thousands migrants seek entry from Mexico.  

The deadly consequences were laid bare a year ago when an Indian family of four was found dead just north of the Grand Forks sector.

At the beginning of January, a Haitian man, Fritznel Richard, died just north of the Swanton Sector, having frozen to death while trying to reach his wife in the US.

Fritznel Richard, from Haiti, was found dead in January just north of the border and north of the Swanton Sector, trying to rejoin his wife in the U.S.

'Swanton Sector's greatest concern in carrying out our mission of border security is the preservation of life - the lives of community residents we are sworn to protect, the lives of our Border Patrol Agents carrying out the mission day-in and day-out in the field, and the lives of the individuals, families, and children we are charged with apprehending as they attempt to circumvent legal processes for entry,' said Garcia.

'Unfortunately, the transnational criminal organizations that stand to profit from the increased flow of human traffic care only about profits and have no concern for the welfare of those whose plight they seek to exploit for financial gain.'

Border Patrol said the number of migrants encountered in the sector during the 2023 fiscal year - which began in October - had already surpassed the 12 months of 2022's fiscal year. In December, a record 441 people were apprehended in the sector. 

The latest data 'represent a sustained increase in illegal border crossings as we head into the harshest winter months,' they said.

Overnight temperatures in the zone regularly drop to 12F, and have dropped below zero in previously years.

'Unpredictable storm fronts bring ice and significant snow accumulation throughout the extended winter season,' the Border Patrol warned.

'These geographic and weather features can make traversing unfamiliar territory perilous.

'Additionally, the risk of hypothermia from sustained or even brief outdoor exposure to near-freezing temperatures in wet or windy conditions is significant.'

Garcia tweeted: 'In less than four months, Swanton Sector's apprehensions have surpassed the COMBINED two prior years (FY2021-2022).

Kathryn Siemer, acting patrol agent in charge of the station in Pembina, North Dakota - one of seven stations in the Grand Forks sector - said the sharp spike in encounters was due in part to Canada loosening its COVID restrictions.

Migrants have been able to make their way to Canada, and, if unsatisfied by their life there, try their luck in the US.

Another factor driving the increase is Canada placing increasing barriers on migrants, said Frantz André, an immigration consultant who runs an organization that helps asylum seekers.

He told CBC migrants believe they may have better chances of working without papers in the US.

Siemer told Global News she remained haunted by the thought of the Indian family of four, who died north of her sector last year.

The parents and two children trudged through waist-deep snow in a blizzard for 11 hours before they perished.

Jagdish Patel, 39 and Vaishailben Patel, 37 were found dead with their children Vihangi, 11 and Dharkmik, three, in a field north of the US border on January 19, 2022, as temperatures plummeted to as low as -40F.

Steve Shand, 57, from Deltona, Florida has been charged with human smuggling and an investigation into the family's deaths continues.

On the southern border, meanwhile, the border city of Yuma, Arizona, says it is is at breaking point - with the unprecedented flow of migrants leaving the community at the brink of collapse and hospitals and food banks overloaded.

Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines criticized the Biden administration for its handling of the border crisis and said his county will crumble as it can't support the arrival of more migrants.

Customs and Border officials say some five  million migrants have crossed over the U.S. southern border since January 2021 when the Biden administration took over.

After Yuma County's Border Patrol saw a 171 percent increase in migrant crossings between 2021 and 2022, Lines warned that the situation will only get worse.

The family, originally from Gujarat, is believed to have made their way into Manitoba province from Toronto, where they initially entered Canada on January 12, 2022. 

'Policies need to be changed when you see an unprecedented amount of people coming across the border that even supersedes what we saw under any of the other presidents for the past 30 years,' he told Fox News.

He called the surging increase in crossings 'ridiculous'.

'They're coming because they said that Biden told them to come, that we have an open border.'

Yuma is known as the 'sunniest city on Earth', but over recent years it has become known as the US' hotspot for migrant crossings that has stretched its Border Control to the limit.

Facilities along the border are being pushed to breaking point due to the increasing migrant flow, with residents reportedly unable to access the only hospital in the city.

Migrants are coming from Central America in hope of a better life for them and their families, but locals and critics of the current immigration policy view the current numbers as unsustainable.

Most of the migrants are drawn to the area by the relative ease of crossing the border, officials say. 

According to Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, there are 50 breaks in the border wall along the 126-mile Yuma sector, including the infamous 'Gap'.

Huge container-sized gaps in the 30ft border wall allow migrants to walk right through, aided by a thinly-spread Border Patrol. 

Construction is currently underway to fill some of the gaps.

To add to the surge, Fox News reported that their sources confirmed 1.2million illegal migrants had escaped the Border Patrol force since January 2021.

Border counties like Yuma are trying to balance the needs of residents with the migrants queueing 

A strain has also been put on the city when it comes to food, with migrants walking across crop fields risking a pillar of the community's local economy. 

Yuma is the winter lettuce capital of the US due to its famed all-year-round sun. It produces 93 percent of the country's lettuce during the winter months.

Local farmer Alex Muller told Fox News: 'Our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens. You can't have people walking through the field.' 

County Supervisor Lines called on the Biden administration to act to relieve the pressure on border counties, and to visit Yuma to witness the strain that has been placed on the community.

'Please come and see for yourself,' Lines said. 'I've invited them several times, and I would invite them again right now,' he added.

A bipartisan delegate from Washington DC, led by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and John Cornyn visited Yuma earlier this month. But officials complained that they saw a 'sanitized' version of the border crisis.

Biden's migration headache EXPLODES: a record 242 million people across Latin America now want to leave, many eyeing the US, as border crisis intensifies

• Share of would-be migrants jumped from 18 to 37 percent this past decade   

• Latin America now on par with sub-Saharan Africa for numbers seeking an exit 

• Survey comes after record 251,487 encounters at southern border in December

The number of people in Latin America and the Caribbean who wish to migrate has jumped this past decade to 242 million, many eyeing the US, heightening fears about the border crisis.

In 2011, only 18 percent of people in Latin America and the Caribbean wanted to permanently leave their homes. By 2021, that had risen to 37 percent of the region's 655 million people, Gallup polling shows.

The desire to migrate rose faster in South America than anywhere else in the world. By the end of 2021, the share of Latinos wishing to migrate was on par with those in poverty-wracked sub-Saharan Africa.

In some South American nations — Honduras, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic — as much as half of the total population expressed a desire to move and live abroad permanently.

The survey comes amid record numbers of migrants trying to enter the US irregularly from Mexico, with Republicans criticizing President Joe Biden, a Democrat, over what they call his 'loose' or 'open' border.

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a right-leaning advocacy group, said the survey revealed 'enormous pent-up demand' to migrate north to the US.

'We can see how President Biden has created a dangerous and volatile situation as every month, millions more formulate the intentions and plans to try to move,' Stein told DailyMail.com.   

Migrants come from South America and the Caribbean in search of a better life for them and their families. Many are fleeing corrupt and inept leftist governments in such nations as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. 

But border locals and critics of the immigration policy view the current numbers as unsustainable and balk at the prospect of hundreds of millions more also laying plans to head north.

Globally, the desire to migrate has reached 'decade-high levels' in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions, said Gallup, which polled 127,000 people aged 15 and older across 122 countries last year.

Still, not everyone with a desire to migrate is able to do so, researchers added.

The US remains the favored destination for the world's migrants, though the share eyeing America has dropped slightly to 18 percent this past decade. Canada, Germany, Spain and France round out the top five destinations.

In previous surveys, Gallup has found that America was the favored end point for more than a third of Latin America and the Caribbean's would-be migrants.

The survey was released on Tuesday amid a surge of Cubans and Haitians traversing the Caribbean by boat to reach Florida's shores, and record flows of people trying to cross the southwestern border.

The border city of Yuma, Arizona, is at breaking point with the unprecedented flow of migrants leaving the community at the brink of collapse and hospitals and food banks overloaded, local officials say.

Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines has slammed the Biden administration for its handling of the border crisis and said his county will crumble as it can't support the cascading flow of migrants.

Customs and Border officials say there were 251,487 migrant encounters at the border in December. That's the highest figure for a single month ever, and brings the latest three-month total up to 717,600.

Last month saw a surge in unauthorized immigration due to uncertainty over Title 42, a Trump-era policy that has expelled migrants at the border since the start of the pandemic.

Some 5 million migrants have crossed over the US southern border since January 2021 when the Biden administration took over the White House, according to the agency.

The Biden administration has launched new schemes to allow more Latinos into the US legally and advised unauthorized migrants to stay at home, but Republicans still blame him for unruly scenes at the US-Mexico frontier.

Stein said Biden's plan to 'parole in more people' was no solution.  

'That merely incentivizes more to come until conditions in the US replicate those of the sending nations,' he told DailyMail.com.

Evil Government, Socialist Education, Hypocritical Media = Downfall of the Republic!

 

Equity means the dumbing down of America

By Bob Weir www.americanthinker.com

The term "equity" has been bandied about by the left as the new version of equality.

A basic definition of equality is a system that provides the same opportunities to everyone, irrespective of race, sex, religion, etc.  Simply put, it means that we have the right to use our God-given talents to aspire to the goals we seek to achieve.  If you have the intellect, the physical requirements, and the motivation to succeed in any endeavor, you will have the same opportunities as anyone else.  Equity, on the other hand, refers to equality of outcome, notwithstanding the ability, perseverance, and hard work put to the task by each individual.

Therefore, if student A takes his studies seriously and puts in several hours a day to excel, while student  B enjoys watching movies on Netflix and hanging out at the local gym, that should not mean that A deserves higher grades than B.  In the left-wing world of socialist dogma, no one has the right to achieve more than anyone else.  With that in mind, A has no incentive to work harder than B.  Without a carrot at the end of the stick, there's no motivation to go forward.  The result is the dumbing down of the education system, and with it, the ultimate destruction of our culture.  The blame game allows lazy people to point their accusatory finger at the most industrious in their orbit and claim there's something wrong with a system that doesn't reward winners and losers equally.

We find ourselves being chastised by radical groups who allege racism whenever a company, a school, a movie, or a neighborhood is not "balanced" with a percentage of non-white personnel.  Using that logic, every professional basketball team in the country should cut about 80% of their hoopsters and replace them with whites or Asians, inasmuch as blacks represent only about 15% of the country's population.  We can analyze all other sports, too, eliminating the disparate and "unfair" mixture of the races.  Hockey, primarily played by white athletes, should ensure that at least 15% of its players are black or Asian.

In academia, the snowflakes on the left tell us that our universities are fundamentally racist since, proportionally, more Asians and whites in Ivy League colleges earn academic degrees than their black counterparts.  A few minutes of research would reveal that Asians are discriminated against because of their academic prowess.  One national study of the college experience indicated that a student who identifies as Asian will need 140 SAT points higher than whites, 320 points higher than Hispanics, and 450 points higher than blacks in order to gain admission to many institutes of higher learning.  It seems to me that these learning centers are building a system in which the best and the brightest should feel embarrassed by their superiority in their respective endeavors and struggle toward mediocrity.  

At Virginia's historically prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, notifications to students who earned National Merit awards were delayed, preventing recipients from adding the awards to their early-admission college applications.  Evidently, some school personnel didn't want to hurt the feelings of those students who didn't make the list.

The truth is, equity theory, like Critical Race Theory, is merely another wedge issue used by the left to divide and conquer the greatest country in the world.  CRT is telling white kids they are manifestly racist and should spend their lives in shame-filled contrition for the sins of people who lived hundreds of years ago.  Meanwhile, we dare not try to shame blacks for their role in the way-out-of-proportion crime rate in our country.  The fact that more than 50% of violent crime is committed by blacks is one of those statistics that the left refuses to address.  Moreover, anyone with the temerity to mention it will suddenly be bombarded with charges of racism and white supremacy, in addition to being harassed at work or home.

We live in a merit-based system that is designed to reward the highest achievers by paying them more, and honoring them more, than those who are less productive.  That's why LeBron James can earn about $50 million annually, with a net worth of more than a billion dollars, for his skill in stuffing a round ball in a metal rim more often than other players in the league.  If you're a gifted athlete, you can make it on a professional sports team and become a millionaire.  Yet how is that fair to all the other athletes who aren't as qualified?

This guilt trip, being used by the radical left, is a con game to make you feel culpable for having a strong work ethic.  It's Socialism 101.

Majority Republican Congress MUST get its priorities straight. Our Borders ARE more important than a failed nation half way around the planet!

 

Keeping America Out of War with Russia

By J. Robert Smith www.americanthinker.com

When has a Republican been in D.C. too long?  When he prioritizes the Ukraine war over the disintegration of the U.S.-Mexican border.  And not just any Republican, but a Texas Republican with a pivotal House leadership role.

Michael McCaul is the Texan.  He chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  He should know better than most about the dangers flooding across the southern border.  Dangers posed by illegals, drugs, human trafficking, and cartels.  More ominously, the cartel wars raging throughout Mexico threaten to venture north into the U.S.  Tens of thousands of Mexicans are dying in those brutal wars.  Are American lives next?    

The Freedom Caucus, having wrestled important concessions from Kevin McCarthy in exchange for the speakership, has another more critical job: Stop McCaul and other House Republican war hawks from escalating America’s involvement in the Ukraine war, where the U.S. has no vital interests or national security stakes.  Shift the focus to the southern border and the growing threats there.    

In Ukraine, increased American military aid and bold talk out of Washington about assembling a “Coalition of the willing” to oppose Russia more aggressively politically and, perhaps, militarily is sheer folly.  The smug assumption is that conflict with Russia can be contained to Ukraine.  Conceit and miscalculations may trigger a U.S.-Russian war.  A war that likely won’t be limited in scope.  

After two devasting 20th century wars, Europeans grasp that fighting Russia would result in widespread carnage.  Germany had its arm twisted to provide fourteen Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.  Biden announced that the U.S. plans to send 31 Abrams tanks.  With the preponderance of Russian military assets in Ukraine and a buildup of assets just across the border in Russia -- estimates range in the hundreds of thousands of troops -- 44 tanks won’t tip the balance for Ukraine. 

Biden’s latest military aid package to Ukraine carries a $2.5 billion price tag.  Total outlay in aid to Ukraine is a staggering $26 billion. 

Americans have every right to demand answers to why Biden and Congress have no hesitancy in sending $26 billion in aid to a faraway nation at war but allocate only a pittance to secure the U.S.-Mexican border.    

Why is McCaul leading the fight to aid Ukraine but not leading the charge to stop the ruin of his native Texas and the rest of his country?      

Per CNN, via Breitbart, McCaul, being very condescending in that Washington establishment way, lectures us “that skeptics of aid to Ukraine do not understand ‘what’s at stake.’”  McCaul doubled down, saying, “We have to educate our [fellow House] members.  I don’t think they quite understand what’s at stake.”

Us dumb skeptics and McCaul’s witless House colleagues just don’t get it.  But it’s McCaul who either doesn’t understand what’s at stake along the border or, worse, doesn’t much care. 

An estimated 5.5 million illegals (slightly less than metro Atlanta’s population) have poured across our vanished southern border since Biden was sworn in as president.  How many more millions will cross before Biden’s term ends in January 2025? 

What about the fentanyl that’s entering the U.S. by truckloads?  Fentanyl produced by Mexican cartels with China’s help?  In 2021, Fentanyl killed an estimated 100,000 Americans.  The death toll is being tallied for 2022. 

While the mounting national crisis due to the open southern border has taken tens of thousands of American lives and risks greater death, the Washington establishment is invested in the Ukraine war -- a war that D.C. is pushing into a proxy war between Russia and the U.S. 

The Biden administration could have sought to be an honest broker, seeking to mediate differences between the parties, defusing tensions to seek an honorable and fair resolution.  The belief here is that Donald Trump would have done just that.    

The Biden administration could have recognized Russia’s legitimate security concerns resulting from the ongoing advance of NATO east toward and, eventually, into Ukraine.  Russia no more wants NATO in Ukraine (it tolerates NATO in the Baltic states) than the U.S. would have abided the Warsaw Pact moving into Canada or Mexico.    

The quid pro quo would have been Russia giving ironclad assurances that Ukraine would have its independence respected as a nonaligned nation, with security guarantees from the U.S. and/or key European nations (not NATO).  Eastern, Russian-populated regions of Ukraine would have been granted autonomy.  The Crimea has been part of Russia since the 1700s.  Conceding Crimea to Russia would have been necessary. 

But an agreement along those lines -- however unpalatable to U.S. war hawks – would have spared Ukrainians not just the death and devastation experienced to date, but that which is imminent.  Ukraine -- unlike Serbia, which sparked WWI -- would have ceased being the locus of what may be a new and unquantifiable deadly major European war.                       

It’s worth repeating.  The U.S. has no vital interests or national security concerns in Ukraine.  U.S. war hawks offer only vague assertions why they’re inching the U.S. ever closer to open conflict with Russia. 

From the outset of the Russian invasion, we’ve heard relentless cries from war hawks and the media that we had to “defend democracy” in Ukraine.  That’s an old, sanctimonious Woodrow Wilson trope that post-WWII gave us bloody wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.  Korea ended in stalemate, while both Vietnam and the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan were lost.       

As to democracy in Ukraine, Zelensky acts more like a tyrant.  Corruption in Ukraine is epic.  Time had this to say in its lede in a January 25 article about Ukrainian corruption:

The Ukrainian government unveiled a major shake-up of government leadership this week, in an apparent effort to root out corruption at the highest level.

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has demanded an audit of U.S. aid to Ukraine.  Where’s taxpayer money going is the right question.  Moreover, Greene had previously called for an end to military aid. 

Calls to defend democracy in a distant country failed to rally Americans.  Americans have no desire to send their sons and daughters off to fight and die in Eastern Europe.

Now, McCaul has dusted off an old rationale for increased U.S. involvement Ukraine.  For McCaul, the “Domino Theory” is back in vogue.  The same theory that JFK and LBJ used to spin American engagement in what became the Vietnam tragedy.    

Again, via the Breitbart article, McCaul makes this claim while offhandedly pivoting to the border:

“If Ukraine falls, Chairman Xi in China’s going to invade Taiwan. It’s Russia, China. Iran is putting drones in Crimea, and North Korea that is putting artillery into Russia,” he explained to CNN. “They have to understand the case. And they talk about the border, not mutually exclusive at all. We can do both. We’re a great country. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

McCaul asserts that the southern border and Ukraine needn’t be mutually exclusive, but he falls short here, too. 

The preeminent threat to the U.S. lies along its’ southern border.  Mexico roils with cartel wars.  The U.S.-Mexican border is a hemorrhaging wound.  Americans know it.  The real war America needs to fight lies just south of McCaul’s district. 

America is a great nation that’s $31 trillion in debt.  Profligate spending by Congress created inflation.  Biden’s hostility to conventional energy sent costs rocketing.  A recession looms.  Cities are sumps of homelessness and crime.  Antifa is back on the streets.  Churches are vandalized by pro-abortion terrorists.  Corruption is rife in the FBI and CIA.  The military is woke and military stockpiles are being depleted. 

A great nation knows to prioritize, Congressman McCaul.  You don’t.

Our Patriotism, Politics, Morality, Debt, Education, Families and Religion Hang in the Balance. Get educated, inspired, involved and participate to save our Republic!

 

How the Deep State Destroyers Threaten Your Way of Life

By Allan J. Feifer www.americanthinker.com

Think of the thousands of people working like diabolical ants so we can be reborn in their diabolical image.  They have a secret weapon they employ against us.  By tearing up the railroad tracks, burning bridges, and putting sugar in our gas tanks, they plan to ensure there is no going back to our old ways.  In a page out of history, Cortés burned his ships when he reached the New World to make a point: there was no going back for them, either.

The Destroyers know they have limited time to do their mischief before they're found out.  Once light shines on them, like cockroaches, they'll scurry to the darkest recesses they can find.  These people know that the clock is ticking, and it is getting harder and harder to hide the damage they are doing to us all.  Has the damage been enough to us to keep us from turning back the clock? 

The Destroyers have an annual January convention right out in the open.  The World Economic Forum (WEF) holds its annual conclave in Davos, Switzerland to make decisions about its carefully curated world.  We weren't invited.  Kerry, Yellen, and at least ten other U.S. government officials attended, along with despots, thieves, Hollywood types, and Greenmailers.  In a place where globalism and climate change come together, over 1,000 governmental and private aircraft landed to discuss eliminating your fossil fuel footprint.  They don't set a good example for mere mortals; rather, as the elite, they always will exempt themselves from what they mandate of others.  "Do as I say, not as I do," they tell us.

The following concepts and principles will make it hard to return to the America of our forefathers:

• Patriotism.  Start with the premise that patriotism is now anti-woke, and go on from there.  This Atlantic article sums it up perfectly.  It's okay to be a patriot, not a nationalist.  Our definition of patriotism is defined as love of country, and as a nationalist, you love and boost your country as frequently as possible.  This is the opposite of what globalists and socialists want.
   

• Politics in America.  One word describes us: divided.  How did we get this divided, angry, and self-destructive?  Is this something new, or has it always been this way?  No, this is not something new.  The stridence of individuals frequently relates to their party affiliation.  Dems tend to go left today; therefore, those with a strong affinity for the Democrat party are pulled in that direction.  The same concept, unfortunately, applies to Republicans.  Lost in partisan politics is the foundational truth of who we were and the blessings bestowed on America through those truths.
  
  I am a conservative writer, so my bias is toward traditional thinking.  This means I am cautious about making quick, radical changes.  That's why I'm frightened by what's happened to the Democrat party.  People I know have abandoned the far-left-leaning Democrat party as too extreme for them.  Growth comes primarily from immigrants and the young, who are blank slates for the Destroyers.
   

• Morality.  Those working to destroy us don't want — they even fear — a strongly ethical country.  We always come back to the obvious: morality and ethics are essential to keep society on the straight and narrow.  We live in a world where 1 + 1 no longer equals two, and where doing the right thing can make you an object of ridicule or, even worse, see you sued, beaten up, or prosecuted.  Prosecutors aren't even prosecuting theft, hit and run, or assault in some jurisdictions.
   

• Debt.  We have arrived at Armageddon.  We've reached a point where the financial standing of our country has to come into question.  Our ability to be subverted by malign actors is ever-present as we face the reality of being an extreme debtor nation.
  
  Most Democrats and too many Republicans believe that doing something about our debt crisis is like touching the third rail.  There is a real fight within the Republican party to use the debt ceiling issue to force reforms.  Ask yourself: if not now, then when?  Interest on the debt will soon become the single largest federal government expenditure. 
   

• Families and Religion.  Remember the expression, "Dance with the one who brought you"?  One of the distinctive differences for us is our core belief in family and God.  Yet the government has been trying desperately to inculcate our children into a system absent God and traditional family values.  The government redefined marriage and removed us from the foundational "one nation under God."  Our belief in family and God is why we've created the world's largest and ever-growing economy and the largest middle class.  Without those principles, we have begun to sink and become just another country with unsolvable problems.  It is inevitable that without God and family at our core, we will not survive as a recognizable whole.  And that's the Destroyers' intent.
   

• Education.  Perhaps nowhere else have we been so damaged than in our educational systems, from pre-K to doctoral.  Termites of evil and misinformation at our schools have eaten away at our traditional foundations, invisible from the outside until they swarm.  Our schools are shot through with manipulation, reinvented histories, and strident haters of America.
   
  There are many ways we could put a stop to this crisis that will affect the next generation of citizenry.  Parents need to regain the power and oversight they ceded all too readily.  They must oust those on school boards and in teachers' unions who are complicit in the brainwashing of America.
   

• Energy.  As a pilot for most of my life, I stay up to date with the aviation industry.  People will be flying much less in the future, with $20-a-gallon SAF fuel requirements and the false god of electric airplanes being promoted.  Even worse is our government's single-minded push for electric vehicles of all kinds, even going so far as electric tanks!
   

• Media.  Mainstream media no longer reliably cover important stories that in any way conflict with the left's hard-left tilt.  Read Journalism's Code of Conduct and see how far most journalists diverge from what they espouse.  I certainly wish their code had the power of law so we could prosecute lobbyists acting as journalists, making believe they are reporting the news fairly.

These are the top categories I could fit in an essay of limited length.  Within these selected categories are the actions and policies undertaken to reduce your freedom by dragging us all along a hidden path of no return that will see us all entrapped in a dystopian world of horrors. 

The way back starts with an understanding of what the Destroyers are doing.  We've all been warned.

This Article Must be read and re-read! Take the time and effort to understand its contents!

 

Given That Illegal Immigration Damages America, Why Does No One Stop It?

By Vince Coyner www.americanthinker.com

For ordinary Americans, watching the unending flow of illegal aliens into America leads to an inevitable question: Why is no one showing the political will to stop it? It turns out that more institutions and people than just the Democrat party benefit from that flood of humanity, drugs, and crime.

One of the big drivers of illegal immigration is the pernicious Chamber of Commerce, once a “Main Street” organization. Big Business in America needs workers. Illegal immigrants swell the worker pool, doing many of those supposed “jobs Americans won’t do.” You know, those in the construction industry, hotels, farming, etc. To the degree that Big Business can employ illegal immigrants at wages below those wages for legal American workers, illegal immigration is a winning issue for them.

Another pro-illegal institution is the Catholic Church. It not only solicits funds from parishioners but also generates hundreds of millions of dollars annually for supporting the illegal alien invasion.

The Chamber and the Vatican are only part of the cabal of businesses, NGOs, and government agencies that have built an ecosystem around the illegal immigrant trade. Illegal aliens are profitable for everyone but the American worker.

Somebody has to sell the cell phones the government is giving to illegals. Companies must facilitate the tens of billions of dollars illegal aliens send home yearly. Someone has to provide the gasoline for planes to fly immigrants around the country.

Schools get bigger budgets—to the tune of $59 billion. Hospitals earn almost $20 billion a year. Even hotels get into the mix, with one upscale Times Square hotel that has rooms going for $400 a night completely booked with illegal immigrants, some of whom spend their time beating their spouses, doing drugs, drinking, throwing out food, and having sex in the stairways.

And of course, tens of thousands of bureaucrats across the country at all levels must be hired to deal with the onslaught. Their salaries must be paid for by the government, which means by taxpayers. Beyond all of that, we’re even paying $6 million a day to defense contractors to NOT build a wall on our southern border!

The amounts involved are simply staggering: well over $100 billion annually (or $200 billion, depending on who’s counting). In fact, that’s surely a severe undercount when considering those dollar figures don’t count the “enforcement“ of the border element of the equation. Every single year…

There’s worse. While your money goes into the pockets of the illegal alien empowerment cabal, it’s only money. There are other, far more vicious costs.

One tragic cost was paid by the families of the 100,000 Americans who died last year from fentanyl overdoses. (It’s a drug that almost exclusively comes over the southern border.) Plus, there were many times that number of addicts who didn’t succumb but continued to wreak havoc in their homes and communities.

Then there are the tens of thousands of women and children who suffer from sex trafficking across the border. And there’s the price paid in life and treasure by the victims of illegal alien crime. And Democrats whined when Trump wanted to spend a few billion to build a wall…

Exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the country? Numbers are all over the map. In 2021, a DHS report estimated that the number of illegal aliens in 2018 was 11 million. Not surprisingly, that’s essentially the exact same number the government has been claiming for decades!

That 11 million, of course, is a lie. Also, in 2018, Yale and MIT estimated the number at 22 million and potentially as high as 29 million. Way back in 2005, Bear Sterns estimated the number was 20 million, with another 3 million coming in annually. If that assessment was accurate, then 18 years later, we’d have another 52 million illegals in the country for a total of 72 million!

The one thing we know is that the government has been telling us the number is 11 million since the 90s, so it’s obviously lying, for that is impossible. In just the last 22 months, 5.2 million people illegally crossed into the United States, and that doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who eluded detection. The exact number of illegal aliens in our midst is impossible to know for certain, but the most likely number is 35 million or more.

Given that illegal aliens seem to make up almost 10% of our population, the question is again: Why doesn’t someone stop this invasion? The real answer is actually quite simple: Power.

The reason this is not stopped is that illegal aliens flock to large cities in Democrat strongholds. It’s not because they vote, although no doubt some of them do illegally. No, it’s all about numbers. We’ll start with the proportions reported by Pew Research in 2019 about where illegal aliens live. As the report parrots the government’s lie of 11 million, we’ll triple their stated numbers. Doing so gives us 33 million illegal aliens spread over all 50 states.

Importantly however, 80% of those 33 million are located in large metropolitan areas in just 15 states: AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, TX, VA & WA. That’s approximately 24 million people, with 14.5 living in Democrat states and 9.1 living in GOP states. The fact that they are people but not citizens is critical because Congressional representation is based on population, not citizens. The number of people each Congressional district represents is approximately 735,000.

Of the 15 states listed above, eight have majority Democrat Congressional delegations (CA, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, WA), four have majority Republican delegations (AZ, FL, GA, TX), and one (NC) is even. California, with its estimated 6.6 million illegal aliens, has between eight and nine more seats than it would without illegal aliens. New York, with its 2.1 million illegal aliens, has approximately three more Congressmen than it should, while Texas, with its 4.8 million illegal aliens, has six or seven extra congressmen. When you do the math, those 24 million illegal aliens living in those 15 states result in a net positive of six Congressional seats for Democrats.

If six seats don’t sound like much, think again. In four of the last 13 Congressional elections, had the minority party had just six more seats, it would have been the majority party. And with that majority comes power. As the government has accumulated more power, as Washington has increased its control over the everyday lives of the American people, and as the leviathan of the bureaucracy has grown, the value of each and every illegal alien increases.

Money and power. Probably not news, but there it is. Those are the driving forces behind the refusal to stop this invasion of illegals and, instead, to encourage it. It’s interesting too that the cabal who are abetting this invasion are the familiar faces pushing the policies behind much of the dystopian chaos that our biggest cities are suffering through today: Activist NGOs, big business, bureaucrats and, of course, the Democrat party.

Hiding their avarice behind the fig leaves of “compassion” and “empathy,” the members of this cabal increase their bank accounts and their power with little regard for the benefit or desires of the legal citizens of the United States. But the truth is, why should they? They are all but declaring war on the United States and the American people, yet—somehow—they keep “winning” elections. Who says insurrection doesn’t pay?

Horrific Consequences of Illegal Immigration Take Devastating Toll on Americans - Biden Policy is Insane!

 

It begins: Joe Biden's border surge imports a big new crime wave

By Monica Showalter www.americanthinker.com

So Donald Trump, who once was excoriated for saying Mexico is "not sending their best," on the illegal alien front, was right again after all.

Here's the local talent coming in to New York from the migrant buses out of Texas, according to John Binder at Breitbart News:

Four border crossers, bused from Texas to New York City, were arrested this month after allegedly stealing nearly $12,500 worth of merchandise from a Macy’s department store.

On Monday, the Nassau County Police Department in Long Island, New York announced the arrests of 19-year-old Wrallan Cabezas Meza, 30-year-old Jose Garcia Escobar, 21-year-old Miguel Angel Rojas, and 27-year-old Rafael Rojas for allegedly shoplifting at Macy’s.

All of the men are newly arrived border crossers who were bused from Texas to New York City as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) plan to send migrant buses to sanctuary jurisdictions.

In total, nearly $12,500 worth of merchandise was recovered from the four border crossers. Escobar and Rafael Rojas were subsequently released from jail without bail. It is unclear if Meza and Angel Rojas remain in jail on bail.

According to the New York Post, Meza crossed the United States-Mexico border on July 4, 2022 while the others arrived at the border months later in September. All were put on buses by the state of Texas and relocated to New York City.

Angel Rojas and Rafael Rojas, the Post reports, have been living rent-free at the Westin Hotel in Manhattan.

Which pretty well tells us where this migrant surge is going. 

Their big second chance in America brought on by Joe Biden's open borders, with free housing, food, medical care and legal services on prime land in New York City, plus free transport to it from Texas, and their first move was to go smash-and-grab a Macys department store, for a five-figure payout, which they likely would have gotten away with were it not for the fourth-world driving habits of the gang's getaway driver, which led to the fateful traffic stop on Long Island.

This tells us a lot about what kind of people are rolling in, unvetted and fully enabled, in Joe Biden's open-border surge.

One of the reports cited named South America as the place of origin of the thugs, where they toiled as gang members. South America has got a lot of those, and apparently many have taken advantage of the border surge. It would make sense that they did, given that they can't get into the states in a legal way. An open border to them is an absolute siren song, given the pickings available once in, plus all the free stuff. Imagine the scornful laughter at such luck in those circles.

It's also noteworthy that they got in as processed immigrants, they weren't "getaways." They came into the states illegally, waited in line for the Border Patrol to pick them up at a crossing and then got processed, said the magic word "asylum" to get entry, just as the BGOs told them, andonce in,  proceeded with the robbery business as usual.

You can bet these thugs aren't the only ones committing crimes against Americans now that Joe has let them in, and there will be more of them.

According to this July 2022 report from Fox News:

The number of crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States surged in fiscal year 2021 after declining in the years before that. 

Homicides, assaults, incidents of domestic violence, illegal weapons possession, and sexual offenses committed by illegal aliens all increased dramatically in fiscal year 2021 compared to fiscal year 2020, data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows.

Illegal immigrants committed 1,178 assault and domestic violence crimes in 2021, which represents a more than 400% increase from the 208 in 2020.

Sixty homicide or manslaughter convictions were attributed to illegal immigrants in 2021, a 1,900% increase from the previous year.

It's as if the domestic crime wave brought on by leftist district attorneys isn't enough for Joe Biden; he's determined to import more crime to the states from Latin America, which sports the most impressive thugs in the hemisphere. 

According to the New York Post, there are a lot of them, and they are arriving now in record highs:

Federal officials tallied more than a quarter-million migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border last month — the highest monthly total ever recorded, according to a quiet Friday-night data dump from US Customs and Border Protection.

The 251,487 illegal-entry encounters at the southern border in December surpassed the 179,253 in December 2021 and the 73,994 in December 2020, according to CBP figures.

The number was even greater than the peak in 2022’s historic year, when migrant encounters hit 241,136 in May, at the start of the typically busier summer months.

Sure, leftists will argue that they aren't all criminals. But that doesn't explain the kind of crime that's starting to roll in as a result of this Biden migrant wave. A thug is naturally going to be drawn to an open border in a way a law-abiding person abroad would be hesitant to be. The denials about migrant crime, which we are bound to hear more of also doesn't address the fact that even if an illegal migrant is not a career criminal, he would have to have associates who were in order to pay the crossing fees to the cartel gangs who control the border crossings. Do you know any people of that caliber? Normal people don't, but the criminal class, which thrives with a certain class of largely lawless people, does. What's more, the reports of migrant behavior at the free hotels, which includes drinking, fighting, wasting food, turning tricks and having sex in public pretty well suggests that the criminal element has moved in.

Now the migrant surge is on, and so is Joe's imported crime surge. Joe Biden can pat himself on the back for this one, because his take-all-comers open border policy is pretty well going to victimize everyone now. Criminals are naturally attracted to open borders and on Long Island, we are getting the first whiffs of them.