We all keep our front door closed as a deterrent. It makes us feel safe and secure. (Our personal “Wall”)
We are caring people and the most benevolent society in the world. If someone who is “in need” knocks on your door, you will open it and probably find a way to help out. (Processing 800,000 asylum claims)
If they knock down the door or sneak into your house, you call 911. (Border Patrol/ICE)
It’s that simple.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
On 3 January, President Trump invited Congressional leaders to the White House to hear a briefing from Secretary Nielsen, Home Land Security. The democrats present kept interrupting (decorum?) to the point that she was unable to complete the briefing. So, on 4 January, the President sent a signed letter to every member of Congress with the following facts (rounded numbers) from Nielsen’s briefing:
In FY 2018, 17,000 adults with existing criminal records were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the border.
In FY 17/18 ICE officers arrested 235,000 illegal aliens on criminal charges within the US. (Yes, what a good idea, let’s do away with ICE); 100,000 for assault, 30,000 for sex crimes, 4000 for homicides.
We are now averaging 60,000 illegal aliens a month on the US/Mexican border.
Last month alone, 20,000 minors were smuggled into the US.
The immigration court backlog is 800,000 cases.
There has been a 2,000% increase in asylum claims in the past 5 years. About 90% are rejected by the asylum courts. During the months-long process, the immigrants have been necessarily released into our society. Thereafter, they fail to report for their court hearing and become illegal aliens.
In FY17, 3800 known or suspected terrorists were prevented from entering the US.
In FY17, 6000 gang members were apprehended at the Southern Border and removed by ICE.
In FY18, 60,000 unaccompanied children illegally crossed the Southern Border.
In FY17, 135,000 illegal and inadmissible family units arrived in the US. 98% of family units and unaccompanied alien children are never removed. In FY18 the number skyrocketed to 161,000.
So far, in the first 4+ months of FY 2019, we have seen a 280% increase in family units over what we experienced in FY18.
Every week 300 Americans are killed from heroin use, 90% of which floods across our Southern Border. 6,500 lbs were seized in FY18, a 22% increase over FY17.
In FY18 2,400 lbs of fentanyl was seized, a 73% increase over FY17. That is enough fentanyl to overdose and kill every man, women and child in the US.
In FY 18, 282,000 lbs of cocaine were seized.
From FY 17 to FY 18 there was a 38% increase in methamphetamine smuggling. In FY18, 248,000 lbs were seized at the border.
Many of the migrants are sick; 50 per day are referred to medical providers.
Among the female immigrants traveling to the border, 31% are sexually assaulted in route.
Chuck Schumer, in more sane times said, “Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Until the American people are convinced that we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress on dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants who are here now, and are rationalizing our system of legal immigration. That’s plain and simple and unavoidable.” A pure, simple, sane description of the problem and what needs to be done.
President Trump: “Illegal immigration is NOT progressive; by every measure, it is unfair, unjust, uncompassionate, and cruel. Senators Obama and Clinton, Schumer and many other democrats in the House and Senate voted for a hard, physical barrier.”
Conclusions from this briefing:
- Facilities are inadequate (Congressional budgets propose additional cuts), Border Patrol is overwhelmed, technology cannot ever fill all the voids 24/7.
- A nation that fails to control its borders cannot fulfill its most basic obligations to its citizens—physical safety, economic security, essential public services, and the uniform protection of our laws.
- Loopholes in federal laws prevent removals and provide a magnet for illegal entry. For example, if an illegal minor, or those traveling with a minor, merely set foot on US soil, they cannot be successfully returned home. This provides the incentive for even more families and unaccompanied children to make the perilous journey to our border.
- Every time Speaker Pelosi gets behind a microphone she says, “a wall is immoral, it is unamerican.” What IS immoral, is to sustain a failed system that allows 60,000 UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN to cross that border at their own peril.
What we have on the border now are all the pieces of a solution—walls, barriers of various configurations, Border Patrol agents, cameras, drones, etc. But the statistics in President Trump’s letter tell us clearly that they are insufficient now and what is in place will be vastly insufficient going forward to the point of being overwhelmed.
We do not have sufficient deterrence. Our closed and locked front door is a deterrent. Walls deter. The walls we have currently in place deter. More walls will deter more. And “more” is what is absolutely essential. Now!
Every Democrat that ever previously voted for the wall or spoke out in favor of greater deterrence, should be ashamed of their own hypocrisy. Google up what Presidents Clinton and Obama have said publicly with great emotion about securing our southern border. Their point, it is unacceptable to not have complete control of our borders.
Democrats, what is it about these numbers that you do not understand?
We have a humanitarian and national security crisis.
TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES: I ACTUALLY BELIEVE YOU MUST, INTELLECTUALLY, UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR MORE DETERRENCE. UNFORTUNATELY, YOU ARE OVERCOME WITH THE EMOTION OF POLITICAL RESISTANCE. SHAME ON YOU AS A SOLID CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS AND SHAME ON ALL OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY WHO LACK THE COURAGE TO DO SOMETHING ESSENTIAL TO INSURE THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF OUR NATION AND OUR PEOPLE.
And where is the main-stream media with respect to President Trump’s overwhelming message? THE MOST INSIDIOUS POWER THE MEDIA HAS IS THE POWER TO IGNORE.
Marv Covault