“The last three years, you’ve had 336 known or suspected terrorists arrested between entry points in the southern border. If you take the past four years, fiscal year ’17, ’18, ’19, and ’20, you had 14. So, that caused us, from my perspective, sleepless nights.”
Those words did not come from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the official at the forefront in trying to protect our nation’s southern border, but from Tim Healy, the man who directed the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center under President Obama. Healy also added, “The demographics of this group has changed. It used to be kids and family members, now it’s adult males.”
It’s not just adult males who may be suspected terrorists who are crossing, either. Chinese nationals are the fastest-growing group of people being smuggled in. While many interviewed said they are just seeking better work opportunities than those available in their native China, that is not always the case, with Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations increasingly operating inside our purported borders.
This chaos is the result of President Biden’s border policy. All states have the constitutional right to protect their borders, but given that Texas is the locus of this invasion, it’s beyond absurd to pretend otherwise. It’s also beyond absurd for other states not to realize how this surge affects them.
Colorado is struggling to find funds in its budget to handle the illegals who have landed there. Maine is awash in illegal marijuana grow sites. Students in New York were forced back into
