Thursday, October 10, 2024

Over 460 people on terror 'watch list' encountered by border agents in FY 2024 By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, October 09, 2024

 

Over 460 people on terror 'watch list' encountered by border agents in FY 2024

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter 
An illegal migrant man crosses through the banks of the Rio Grande to be processed by the Border Patrol El Paso Sector, Texas, after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on May 10, 2023.
An illegal migrant man crosses through the banks of the Rio Grande to be processed by the Border Patrol El Paso Sector, Texas, after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on May 10, 2023. | HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images

Border agents encountered over 400 individuals on the terror watch list in the months after receiving an intelligence notice last year warning of potential foreign terrorist fighters with ties to Hamas and Hezbollah attempting to cross into the United States. 

According to recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection data updated on Sept. 16, border and law enforcement agents have encountered at least 460 individuals on the Terrorist Screening Database in the fiscal year 2024 (Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024). The data comes from encounters at the northern and southern border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment.

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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in San Diego issued a notice last year on the heels of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack against civilian populations in Israel, which resulted in the slaughter of at least 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds of others. 

The document, titled “Foreign Fighters of Israel-Hamas Conflict May Potentially be Encountered at [the] Southwest Border,” warned that “foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or front countries in the Middle East through Mexico.”

The report provided “Questions of Interest” for individuals with potential ties to groups the U.S. has designated as terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or similar organizations. 

In response to the memo, the Republican-led House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter last October to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting additional information on the matter and DHS’ efforts to address the national security threat. 

The letter held the Biden administration’s “open border policies” responsible for terrorists exploiting “glaring vulnerabilities” in security. Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, lawmakers have raised concerns about a record number of migrants illegally crossing the border. 

On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security issued a public service announcement warning of potential threats in the United States on the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on civilians in southern Israel. The statement warned of “consistent calls” for violence from foreign terrorist organizations to their supporters in the West. 

“FTOs and other violent extremists likely will continue to exploit narratives related to the conflict to call for lone attackers to conduct violence in the United States,” the announcement stated. 

“Online messaging associated with FTOs and other violent extremists highlighting the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks could motivate threat actors across ideologies, including those who espouse violent anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, to engage in violence,” the statement continued. “Individuals inspired by this online messaging could act alone to commit an attack with little to no warning.”

Last month, Aaron Heitke, the former chief patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego sector, accused the Biden-Harris administration of attempting to conceal an increase in the number of illegal immigrants with terrorist ties entering the United States. 

Heitke testified during a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security hearing that, at times, there would be 2,000 or more illegal migrants, but he was instructed to keep them out of the sight of the media. 

The retired border official also said that from 2022 to 2023, the San Diego sector saw over 100 "significant interest aliens,” which he explained are migrants with terrorist ties. Under the previous administration, the San Diego sector arrested an average of 10 to 15 SIAs per year. 

“These are only the ones we caught," Heitke said. "At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border."

Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman

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Harris Gives Rambling, Incoherent Answer On How To… BY ANASTASIA BOUSHEE OCTOBER 9, 2024 NO COMMENTS

 

Harris Gives Rambling, Incoherent Answer On How To…

BYANASTASIA BOUSHEE
OCTOBER 9, 2024
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During a disastrous “60 Minutes” interview, Vice President Kamala Harris embarrassed herself with an incoherent and rambling response to a question about what success would look like “in ending the war” in Ukraine.

Harris’ remarks only served to explain why she has refused to do unscripted events until now, as she consistently responded to questions with her signature rambling, incoherent “word salads” that didn’t actually include an answer.

While former President Donald Trump has vowed to force Russia and Ukraine to come to a peace agreement, Harris appears to be more in line with her boss, President Joe Biden, in supporting the continuation of a war that Ukraine has no chance of winning.

Russia invaded Ukraine not long after the Biden-Harris administration took office. There are many nuanced details behind how the war was started, but one thing is obvious: Russia was concerned about the Biden-Harris administration’s “inviting overtures for Ukraine to join NATO,” as Breitbart News reported. Russia has repeatedly called out NATO and the West for expanding their military alliance to countries right on its doorstep — likening it to Russia placing its military alliance forces in Mexico or Canada. Russia repeatedly stated that expanding NATO to Ukraine was a redline, and thus it took action to seize some Ukrainian territory to create a buffer space between NATO and Russia.

Regardless of the reasons behind the war, any sane and rational administration would be calling for peace talks to put an end to the rising death toll — as Ukrainians are dying in massive numbers amid mandatory military service. However, only one candidate is demanding peace — Trump, who responded to a question about the war by stating: “I want everybody to stop dying. Russians and Ukrainians… and I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”

Meanwhile, Harris had no answers when asked a similar question.

“What does success look like in ending the war in Ukraine?” CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker asked the Democrat presidential nominee.


Harris responded with another one of her meaningless word salads, stating: “There will be no success in ending that war without Ukraine and the UN Charter participating in what that success looks like.”


“Would you meet with President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a solution to the war in Ukraine,” Whitaker pressed.

“Not bilaterally, without Ukraine, no Ukraine must have a say in the future of Ukraine,” Harris replied, still rambling and making little sense.

“As president, would you support the effort to expand NATO to include Ukraine?” Whitaker followed up.

“Those are all issues that we will deal with if and when it arrives at that point right now we are supporting Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia’s unprovoked aggression.” Harris claimed.

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BUSTED: 60 Min Caught Selectively Editing Kamala Video — Trump Team Demands Full Transcript THIS is why Trump was right not to sit down with them Wes Walker October 9, 2024

 

BUSTED: 60 Min Caught Selectively Editing Kamala Video — Trump Team Demands Full Transcript

THIS is why Trump was right not to sit down with them

Wes Walker October 9, 2024
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Sixty Minutes was caught red-handed editing Kamala’s embarrassing answers and making them look more competent. Trump Team demands transparency.

The media seems to have forgotten the reason they have a privileged place in the democratic process: the system the Framers handed down to us requires an informed citizenry able to vote in their personal best interests.

When those who have been tasked with EXPOSING the truth of what politicians do and say become embroiled in the process themselves, they are as salt that has lost its saltiness. They have lost the one thing of value they had to offer the public.

We remember that infamous 60 Minutes interview where Trump was told that the Hunter Biden laptop was NOT genuine and any of the issues raised therein were to be ignored. Now, the DOJ itself has used that same evidence in criminal proceedings. In that moment, Leslie Stahl was behaving precisely as the term implies when we say ‘useful idiot’.

Trump was offered a 60 Minutes interview this time around, and was mocked as a coward for not doing so. The shamelessly partisan meddling with the video clips from Kamala’s disastrous interview should be sufficient to vindicate that decision.


The Trump team is demanding that 60 Minutes come clean after they prettied up her interview to make her answers look more Presidential.

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“60 Minutes” can try to memory hole that mess all they want. But the content has slipped their leash, and now it’s out there for all the world to see.

Not only has Maze Moore’s post proven embarrasing to Kamala, it’s shown the true face of a once-respected ‘news’ institution.

We’ll give Maze Moore the last laugh with a post that chopped up the interviews they did with Trump and Biden to make a delightful exchange every bit as fictional as the ‘serious interview’ they tried to sell the public with Kamala.

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Prof Suggests Men Not Voting Kamala Should Be Lined Up And Shot — Here’s The 411 We've got the video, and a bit of his bio Wes Walker October 10, 2024

 

Prof Suggests Men Not Voting Kamala Should Be Lined Up And Shot — Here’s The 411

We've got the video, and a bit of his bio

Wes Walker October 10, 2024
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Isn’t it strange how the same people who insist that using insensitive language is ‘violence’ against favored groups can ALSO make casual references to mass-murdering their political opponents?

These are the same people who insist that DJT somehow ‘incited’ the events of Jan 6, despite an explicit call to remain peaceful.

Here is video of a professor from the University of Kansas nonchalantly explaining to his students that any men not voting for Kamala are doing so because they think ‘women are not smart enough to be president’. He then says such people should be lined up and shot because they ‘clearly don’t understand how the world works’.

In an environment where two attempts have been made on Trump’s life, where an assassination attempt on GOP SCOTUS nominees was foiled, where leftwing political agitators routine escalate protests into riots and violence… does he think such blatant violent rhetoric might be out of line?


Of course not. Because he has decided who history’s heroes and villains are — and they just HAPPEN to dovetail perfectly with his own political biases. Anyone who disagrees is not worthy of full status being see as a rational agent making free decisions.

Those just happen to be the same mindset, absorbed by those in power, that filled Soviet gulags with political prisoners. Those in turn, filled mass graves my the millions.

Fittingly, this clown has an eminently mockable name.

On a lighter note:

In the end, the university was shamed into putting him on administrative leave. (Their account is not allowing replies.)

In all likelihood, this is just a ‘keep your heads down until the controversy blows over’ CYA.

He’ll likely be back to work before you know it. It’s not as if he did something a university would REALLY take seriously, like misgendering someone or publicly endorsing Orange Man Bad.

Punishment for an infraction like that, one expects, would be immediate and severe.

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