Joe Biden’s sword of Damocles hovers over the US border



Joe Biden's open-border policies are America’s sword of Damocles, a metaphor illustrating a growing sense of impending catastrophe.

The allegory, attributed to the Roman statesman Cicero, tells the story of King Dionysius, who appeared to live a life of luxury surrounded by sycophants. One of these followers, Damocles, expressed envy of the king's life. In response, King Dionysius offered Damocles the chance to live in his shoes, but Damocles soon realized the peril the king constantly faced when he noticed a sword hanging above him, held by a single horsehair, symbolizing the king’s constant fears and dangers.

The allegory parallels the current state of America’s open-border policies.

Americans have long enjoyed prosperity, freedom, and the opportunity for every person to succeed and rise to great heights within society. Despite the dangers of crime-infested Big Blue cities, Americans have generally felt safe and secure within their own country. However, the open-border policies implemented under the Biden administration have changed this reality.

While many concerns, such as issues related to law and order, a two-tier justice system, political persecutions, the fentanyl crisis, inflation, and socialism, have already been recognized as potential threats to the American way of life, it was the shocking invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists that heightened awareness of an existential threat to American national security due to open-border policies.

The sword is hanging over America by a single thin horsehair.

The successful and shockingly grotesque attack on Israel by Hamas, despite the region having one of the world's best-defended borders, forced a sobering re-evaluation of America's southern border. This scenario, in which 2,500 well-armed terrorists overwhelmed the Israeli border, took control of towns, and committed heinous acts against civilians, was unthinkable to government security forces. It highlighted the risk of becoming complacent and underestimating the evil intent of determined and ruthless enemies.

Border security now transcends simple law enforcement concerns, and Americans have come to understand that their open border poses a threat to national security and the American way of life. The world is indeed filled with genuine threats, and those who seek to enter and destroy America have an easy way in.

In fiscal year 2023, Customs and Border Protection encountered a staggering 3.2 million illegal border-crossers and apprehended a record 169 individuals on the terror watch list. And this doesn’t even count the 1.7 million known "gotaways" since fiscal year 2021.

Notable among the last year’s border encounters are nearly 40,000 Chinese nationals, most of whom are of military age. This raises concerns about potential security implications, particularly in the event of a conflict with China. Consider, for example, teams of covert Chinese operators, who had already gained illegal entry into our country, launching coordinated attacks on critical infrastructure like substation transformers, water facilities, or even schools, in response to American involvement in Chinese aggression toward Taiwan.

The threat of terrorism infiltrating the southern U.S. border is also a real worry. A federal government memo from the Customs and Border Protection bureau in San Diego warned recently of the possibility of “foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers” attempting to travel between the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries through Mexico, posing a significant danger to American security.”

The potential damage to America’s infrastructure and harm to our citizens from terrorists already within the nation are a cause for alarm. The threat is not limited to lone individuals but includes the possibility of militarized crime cartels and organized terror cells seizing control of towns and communities along the border and around the nation.

I fear the time has already passed to secure our nation against infiltration by those who wish America harm. The sword is hanging over America by a single thin horsehair.

Like the Israelis who grew complacent ahead of the horrific Hamas attack on October 7, Americans are unprepared to handle the violence and chaos that could be unleashed by enemies already within our borders. Our own Texas Military has demilitarized into a disaster relief organization, and our law enforcement agencies have had their hands tied so that they can’t effectively counter such threats, leaving our nation extremely vulnerable.

America is facing a national security threat due to its open-border policies. The situation is critical, and Americans are finally recognizing that we urgently need measures to protect our nation and its citizens.

These measures include securing the borders, safeguarding critical infrastructure, identifying all illegal aliens within the country, and implementing a plan for mass deportations to address these potential security risks. While the challenge is considerable, the need for immediate and decisive action is essential to secure the nation against infiltration by those who wish us harm. The crisis cannot be ignored or leveraged for an activist political agenda.

THIS might be AOC's DUMBEST take yet ...



Our southern border has been open to the extent that the Texas National Guard is trying to close and lock gates — while Biden’s Border Patrol has kept opening them back up.

“I would say that that’s in complete contrary to what their freaking job is actually supposed to be, which is border protection,” Sara Gonzales says.

However, the Department of Homeland Security has since done a one-eighty and completely changed its tune. This week, the DHS released a memo explaining there is an immediate need for a border wall.

Biden disagrees and has voiced his frustration at Congress for shutting down his proposal to redirect money appropriated for the border wall.

AOC has also weighed in, releasing a statement that calls for the president to take responsibility for this decision to build a border wall and reverse course.

“A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States. You do not risk your life or your children’s lives going through the Darien Gap or traversing hundreds of miles of desert if you have any other options,” AOC wrote in her statement.

“Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy,” she continued.

“I don’t mean to sound cold-hearted, but I feel like I’m a realist here,” Gonzales responds.

“This is our country. Borders are supposed to be sovereign for a reason.”

Eric July sees the current situation as a bit of a “white pill.”

He notes that in places like Chicago, the black community is coming together in support of a border wall after migrants continue to be shipped into their city.

“I think in the future, like I mean the very near future, that may be one of those issues that breaks that party,” he says.


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'Arizona did the job the federal government failed to do': Gov. Ducey's Yuma border wall completed



Over 1.9 million illegal aliens have stolen across the southern U.S. border in 2022 — more than ever before in recorded history. Yuma, Arizona, is a particularly high-traffic sector, which has seen a 250% increase in migrant encounters this year, with over 259,895 illegal aliens encountered between October 2021 and July 2022.

Citing "the worst border crisis in over 20 years," Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill into law on June 30 that would finance the construction of a wall along his state's border with Mexico. Accordingly, $335 million in state funds were directed to "construct and maintain a border fence, purchase or install border security technologies, and to pay associated administrative costs." An additional $209 million was allocated to fund "border-related enforcement."

Although President Joe Biden halted construction of the southern border wall when he took office and ended former President Donald Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, his administration announced in July that it would complete the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall, specifically in the Yuma sector.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, part of the administration's reasoning for completing the project near Yuma was to protect illegal aliens from getting hurt near the Morelos Dam.

Ducey found the Biden administration's initiative dubious and issued a statement on August 12, asserting that "Arizona has had enough. We can't wait any longer. The Biden administration's lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty." Ducey indicated that he would fortify gaps in the state's border, using 60 double-stacked 8,800-pound shipping containers, all reinforced with concertina wire at the top.

Despite an allegedly deliberate effort by persons unknown to topple portions of the new build last week, on August 24, Ducey announced that 3,820 feet of open border near Yuma had been filled. Now plugging the gaps in Yuma's border barrier: 130 containers (70 more containers than originally promised), all double-stacked, linked together, and welded shut.

\u201c\ud83d\udd3911 days\n\ud83d\udd395 gaps\n\ud83d\udd39130 shipping containers\n\ud83d\udd393,820 linear feet\n\ud83d\udd3948 workers\n\nWe did it. Yuma is safer today.\u201d
— Doug Ducey (@Doug Ducey) 1661378098

Concerning the barrier's completion, Ducey said, "In just 11 days, Arizona did the job the federal government has failed to do — and we showed them just how quickly and efficiently the border can be made more secure — if you want to."

Douglas Nicholls, the mayor of Yuma, said that the Morelos Dam, now covered with shipping containers, was where 50% of the illegal aliens crossing in the Yuma sector would come through.

Arizona Department of Homeland Security Director Tim Roemer suggested that the containers will force illegals to "go through Border Patrol" and minimize the number of future "gotaways on the southwest."

Arizona straddles 300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Although Yuma is now more secure, Ducey cannot presently run shipping containers the entire length of the border or everywhere install border security technology, since a significant stretch of it is reservation land.

\u201cHundreds of migrants waiting to be processed by Border Patrol in Yuma, AZ today. This is on the edge of the Cocopah Indian Reservation. With many of the border wall gaps now filled, most migrants are crossing through reservation land because that\u2019s where the wall can\u2019t be built.\u201d
— Robert Sherman (@Robert Sherman) 1661338642

Sixty miles of the Tohono O'odham Nation's land, for instance, runs along the border. One tribal leader, Chairman Ned Norris Jr., likened the construction of a wall along the border near tribal land to the DHS "building a 30-foot wall along Arlington cemetery."

Gov. Ducey recognizes the border wall construction at Yuma as a "win for Arizona, our communities, our farmers and our law enforcement," but stated that "the effort to secure our border is far from complete. Washington must act. Border security is a federal responsibility. They need to fix the border they've broken."

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Horowitz: The massive invasion and human rights violations ... at our own border harming our communities



We have the wealthiest, most sophisticated and brutal cartels at our border who surveil our side of the border with cutting-edge technology and bring over millions of impoverished aliens, thousands of dangerous criminals and gang members, and drugs killing over 100,000 Americans a year. Perhaps if we renamed Texas or Arizona “Ukraine,” we’d get Republicans to finally care about the issue.

It’s not that Putin hasn’t violated human rights and invaded a sovereign nation. It’s that the testosterone levels of GOP politicians go from 0 to 100 instantaneously when discussing the sovereignty of every nation but our own. Our government continues to refuse to release this year’s ICE immigration enforcement report, but the preliminary numbers paint a shocking picture.

NEW: Prelim ICE data shows a massive drop in deportations in FY \u201821 compared to previous years, despite much higher encounters. \n\nFY 21: 55,590 deportations\n1.7 million encounters \n\nFY 20: 185,884 deportations\n458,000 encounters \n\nFY 19: 267,258 deportations\n977,000 encounters
— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1644452899
BREAKING: In a federal court filing obtained by @FoxNews, DHS reports 153,941 migrant encounters in January, almost doubling Jan. \u201821 (78,414) and more than quadruple Jan. \u201820 (36,585).\nDHS also reports 62,573 migrants were released into U.S. just last month alone. @FoxNewspic.twitter.com/RiEPKVsQi3
— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1645050902

We are on pace for roughly 700,000 illegal aliens to be released into our country in one year. Moreover, this open invitation has allowed the cartels to strategically distract our agents with babysitting while smuggling in thousands of people who are even more problematic. Consider the magnitude of Biden’s invitation to invade America. Look at the percentage increase in Border Patrol apprehensions of categories of criminals since Biden took office:

Notice the jump in apprehensions of convicted murderers and sex offenders. Now consider the fact that those people pay the cartels a significant sum of money to be strategically and surreptitiously crossed. Given their successful business model, it’s hard to imagine CBP apprehending more than a tiny fraction of these dangerous criminals. Every boatload of fake refugees our agents are forced to deal with is a strategic ploy for the cartels to cross over dangerous individuals. That is an invasion.

We will never know the full scope of the number of dangerous criminals who enter our country, but we can begin to quantify how much it affects our safety by looking back during the Trump administration when they were still apprehending them inside our country. If you go back to FY 2018, ICE apprehended criminal aliens who together racked up 542,798 criminal convictions and arrests. The numbers include 2,028 homicide offenses, 5,562 robberies, 11,766 weapons offenses, 50,753 assault charges, 76,585 dangerous drug charges, 80,730 DUIs, and over 12,000 sexual offenses.

Just ponder for a moment the immeasurable carnage caused by our senseless disregard for sovereignty and the number of nameless victims the media will never spotlight. This data doesn’t include those criminal charge categories that had fewer than 1,000. Only 29% of those were unconvicted charges, which likely means that the main focus of ICE removal operations, understandably so, is on convictions because they focus on the prisons and jails. Which means there are likely many more arrested for crimes who are not apprehended by ICE.

Also, keep in mind that ICE only has fewer than 6,000 deportation officers, a fraction of the size of the NYPD, and the largest number of illegal aliens live in sanctuary cities, which made it difficult for ICE to catch the largest number of criminal aliens.

As of the most recent ICE report, there were 3.26 million aliens under ICE's undetained docket. These are individuals who have been targeted by ICE for removal, which most likely means the overwhelming majority have criminal records in addition to immigration violations. That means over 3 million criminal aliens who were dangerous enough to be on ICE's radar remain in the country indefinitely without being deported.

As of 2018, there were more than 1 million illegal aliens who have already received final deportation orders, with another 1.5 million having already received deportation orders but who are in the process of seeking an appeal.

Even if we focused solely on the bad guys, we lack the resources to make a dent. As early as 2013, DHS estimated, based on ICE programs in local jails, that there were 1.9 million criminal aliens in this country and that 900,000 aliens were arrested every year. Chillingly, the report noted that "550,000 criminal aliens convicted of crimes exit law enforcement custody every year" and that "this population of criminal aliens poses a major threat to public safety."

Now consider the fact that this is all old data and preceded the worst border invasion in our history. Just since fiscal year 2018, we’ve apprehended 3.7 million at the border, of whom undoubtedly most were released and many more never recorded got away from agents. While we often complain that all illegal crime is avoidable and that not enough criminals are deported, we have still deported from the interior and at the border 1.8 million criminal aliens from 2007 to 2018. Can you imagine how many of them likely took advantage of the invasion of the past few years, paid the cartels enormous sums of money, re-entered our country and communities, and enriched these vicious cartels at the same time so they can more effectively control, surveil, and manipulate both sides of our border?

Nobody has ever endeavored to fully quantify the magnitude of crime, chaos, fiscal cost, and drugs and gangs in our cities as a result of this. It is astounding that we don’t try to ascertain the citizenship of every individual arrested, but back when ICE was still doing good work, they divulged some numbers in New York City from among those they lodged detainers against. In FY 2019, ICE’s New York bureau field office lodged 7,526 detainers for foreign criminals who racked up 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges. The offenses included among those crimes were 200 homicides, over 500 robberies, over 1,000 sexual offenses, over 1,000 weapons offenses, over 3,500 assaults, and over 1,500 DUIs.

At the time, I noted the 200 homicides are astounding because there were only about 300 murders per year at the time. Not all of those homicides were committed in one year, but for ICE to have definitively identified aliens with 200 murder convictions or charges in just one year’s worth of detainers is simply astonishing.


Which brings us back to the border and the broader lack of prioritization of geopolitical threats by our political class. In January, Todd Bensman reported live from the Mexico-Guatemala border that the U.N. was handing out cash assistance to encourage migrants to invade our border. It’s this invasion that is facilitating unconscionable amounts of crime, drugs, sex trafficking, and gang and cartel activity at our border and in every major American city. Ranchers on our own soil live and work in constant fear. It’s hard to conjure up a greater, more comprehensive systemic threat to our sovereignty, security, culture, and human rights than the policies facilitating the border invasion.

While the media whips everyone into a frenzy over a foreign country over which we have little control and few options, they will never tell what is occurring at our own border. For GOP politicians to only care about what the media tells them to while ignoring the plight of our own people is a violation of their oaths of office.
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Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station agents encounter more large groups of migrants



As the U.S. continues to experience an influx through its southern border, Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station (RGC) agents have recently encountered multiple large groups of migrants.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that earlier this week, authorities encountered a group consisting of 123 people, which included some individuals whom agents identified as unaccompanied kids.

The July 20 CBP press release reported: "Last night, RGC agents working in Roma, Texas, encountered a large group of migrants as they walked away from the Rio Grande into the United States. Agents identified 94 of the migrants as family members, 11 as unaccompanied children, and 18 as single adults."

The people in that group were from the nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, according to CBP.

Another incident involved a group of 106 people: "This morning, RGC agents working in La Grulla, Texas, observed a large group of migrants walking north from the Rio Grande," the July 20 news release noted. "The group of 106 migrants was comprised of 56 family members, 10 unaccompanied children, and 40 single adults."

The release reported that this marked "the eighth group of 100 or more migrants encountered by Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol (RGV) agents within the previous five days."

A July 19 news release recently highlighted three other migrant group encounters that occurred on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, including one group that numbered 298.

Southwest land border encounters have been on the rise each month so far during fiscal year 2021, with the latest number from June reaching a whopping 188,829.

"The large number of expulsions during the pandemic has contributed to a larger-than-usual number of migrants making multiple border crossing attempts, which means that total encounters somewhat overstate the number of unique individuals arriving at the border," CBP noted in a press release.

"Thirty-four percent of encounters in June 2021 were individuals who had at least one prior encounter in the previous 12 months, compared to an average one-year re-encounter rate of 14 percent for Fiscal Years 2014-2019. The number of unique new encounters in June 2021 was 123,838," the agency noted.

Arizona AG fears Biden will 'cave' to radical far-left and order National Guard troops at border to leave



Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich spoke in support of several states sending National Guard troops to the U.S. southern border after the nation's largest Latino civil rights group called on President Joe Biden to order the troops away.

At the request of Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), 12 states with Republican governors have sent personnel to the southern border to assist with border security amid a record surge of migrants attempting to cross into the United States. In response, the League of United Latin American Citizens sent a letter to the White House on Sunday demanding that President Biden "prevent this usurping of federal powers by a few recalcitrant and rebellious states."

LULAC accused the states sending troops to the border of engaging in an "insurrection" against the United States. Reacting on Fox News, Attorney General Brnovich accused the Biden administration of abdicating its responsibility to secure the border, forcing the states to act in the federal government's absence.

"The reality is the states created the federal government, the federal government did not create the states," Brnovich said.

"At the end of the day, the federal government is charged with protecting our borders, they are not," he continued. "Historically, law enforcement, public health and safety was left to the states. The Biden administration has abdicated their responsibility. They've incentivized people coming here. We have a record number of people coming here illegally."

Brnovich noted that the Biden administration is tracking at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants who have been ordered to leave the country but have not yet been deported.

"Criminals are being released into our community. So the states are trying to do everything they can, but the reality is that this is the Biden administration's job," he said.

In February, Brnovich filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security to put a stop to the 100-day moratorium Biden declared on deportations of illegal immigrants. The state attorney general told Fox News that Arizona's lawsuit brought to light emails the White House received before Biden issued his order from activists urging the administration to stop deportations, which subsequently Biden did.

Brnovich raised concerns that after LULAC's letter the Biden administration will again "cave again to the far-left wing of the party," removing National Guard troops from the southern border at a time when law enforcement needs more resources to combat rising crime associated with an insecure border.

"By any objective standard, whether you look at the numbers, whether you look at the spike in fentanyl coming across our border, whether you look at decreasing drug prices — which means there's more supply, the Biden administration has empowered the cartels, they've made our communities more dangerous by allowing criminals or those charged with crimes into our communities, and it's only going to get worse," Brnovich said.

"There's going to be physical costs associated with this and there's going to be human tragedy costs associated with it, whether it's the increase in overdose deaths, whether it's the increase of drug dependency because of what the cartels are doing, or whether it's, God forbid, one of these criminals being released hurting you or one of your family members."