Saturday, October 28, 2023

D.L. Garder: Where in the World is America?

According to Customs and Border Protection (CPB) the total number of encounters with illegal immigrants on our southern border in FY 2020 was 458,088; in FY 2021 the number was 1.7 million; in FY 2022 the number was 2.3 million; and, in FY 2023 the number was 2.47 million ending September 30. Included in the FY 2023 numbers CBP reported are 169 people on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist.

Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens wrote in an X-post (formerly Twitter) on October 17 that more than 18,000 known “gotaways” evaded border patrol officials since October 1. A gotaway is an illegal immigrant who evaded capture and identification. Last month the House Committee on Homeland Security estimated nearly 1.6 million known gotaways have entered America since President Biden took office. In FY 2023 alone more than 20,000 Chinese nationals have been encountered along the Southwest border, an estimated 831% increase compared with FY 2022.

FY 2024 appears to be another record-breaking year for illegal immigrants and gotaways.

Early Saturday morning on October 7, Hamas forces moved from Gaza into Israel in a surprise attack on families and innocents. They quickly slaughtered more than 1,300 people and took hundreds more hostage back into Gaza. What does this have to do with our open-door immigration policies? What dangers do Americans face from millions of illegal immigrants who cannot be traced? 

We have had a major crisis at the southern border since the first day Biden entered the White House. With all the illegal immigrants, drugs, and human trafficking growing each year at exponential rates, we are fighting a multifaceted war. Biden’s team thoroughly botched our withdrawal from Afghanistan within a few months of taking office. Russian President Putin activated his plan to invade and conquer Ukraine a few months later. Chinese President Xi has been taunting military operations with Taiwan. Iran and North Korea have continued if not increased their terrorist activities around the globe.

This is the timing Hamas has chosen to challenge America’s strongest ally Israel. Have you noticed the roles these nations play in the production of petroleum? Last year President Biden conducted the largest ever sale from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 180 million barrels lowering the reserve to its lowest level in 40 years. Was this just bad timing?

The good news is that with all these wars and rumors of wars, America’s military industrial complex is cranking up again. All the arms and weapons we’ve given to Ukraine has depleted our stockpiles. We’re sending tons of weapons and missiles to Israel. Where else might some nation or nations decide to take advantage of all the chaos going on around the world?

The crisis at our southern border has grown from a few mosquitos in our bedroom at night into swarms of blood suckers that distract us from other much bigger dangers outside the windows. How might President Biden and his administration finally begin to fight our enemies crossing the border? What is the plan for fighting terror cells hiding in plain sight in our midst?

The war in Ukraine is dragging on toward its second year. Will other European nations be drawn into this war? Will Hamas’ war with Israel attract Islamic allies? Will the war spread across the Middle East and into Africa? Where in the world is America?

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

Kingfish note: Couldn't resist.  Just couldn't.  Apologies. 

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

The crisis on our border, D. L., is what Big Business wants (cheaper and cheaper labor), what Big Government wants (just another “problem” for bureaucrats to ensure their job security), and what many of the pol sponsors on this page want (because illegals are something they can “take a stand on” and “fight,” just a convenient device to rouse the electorate). Regular folk want illegals sent packing back home to Squatemala or wherever they come from, but that ain’t going to happen. Regular folk aren’t going to vote our way out of anything. The Great Replacement has already begun.

Anonymous said...

It's more than free labor. They are all potential voters for the socialist lefties. Obama is pulling Biden's strings to make this happen. Don't believe me? Fast forward 5-10 years and find out.

Anonymous said...

6:07 has been saying the same thing I have. Obama is the only former president who did not leave DC. He stays there to tell the brain dead dim wit what to do. And you and I know that the dim wit is the new president elect next year.

Anonymous said...

Durhkha, Durkha! Mahammid jihad!

Everything Biden and democrats touch is turning to dog crap. He is stupid, dems are stupid, their policies are stupid. Anybody with any common sense can see it. The emperor president is not wearing any clothes.

Anonymous said...



Just like Ronald Reagan amnesty for illegal immigrants and tighter border security in 1986 huh?

Oh almost forgot stiff penalties for employers employing illegal aliens.

Right?

I remember Jesse Helms about cr@pped a brick!

Anonymous said...

We had a major crisis at the border from the day that Trump took office. He had two full years with Rs in control of Congress to revise our immigration policies but opted, instead, to divert money from our military to build a wall so flimsy that a Sawzall could cut through it as fast as a catalytic converter thief. We're still waiting for Mexico to pay for the wall.

Democrats don't want illegals here, either, and Biden has continued the policies that Trump put in place. The USA, like most other affluent nations, is an attractive place for political and environmental refugees. Greece and the rest of Europe are up to their eyeballs in people fleeing their native countries. It's a worldwide problem.

Anonymous said...

It’s much cheaper to fly them back than to put them on our welfare rolls ad infinitum.We can’t afford our own homeless and addicted. I don’t want to pay for them.

Anonymous said...

Thank you KF!! No apologies necessary. SP brilliance.
Great memories of Kim Jon Il singing “I’m So Ronery” 😜

Anonymous said...

I love anti-immigrant blather from people who would scream at Biden if they had to pay for fruits & vegetables harvested by citizens paid minimum wage (or more).

You’re racist AND stupid.

Anonymous said...

10:04 The people hitting the border now do not do so as "immigrants". We have an immigration process which they have subverted in order to flood the country unconditionally. They now say they are seeking "asylum". This legal trick has nothing to do with racism or the price of fruits & vegetables. This is a political stunt designed to overturn all traditional notions of "citizenship" and redirect American society. Immigration is a process by which people systematically join our American society as "citizens". This ain't that.

Anonymous said...

Wall Street sold America to the Chicoms for a quarterly profit. They lacked the foresight to realize that China already figured out how to make an unlimited money printing press too. While we wasted trillions on a phony “War on Terror” China set about making the RMB the new global reserve currency and creating strategic global alliances.

Anonymous said...

Not even legal migrants want to do the work illegals do. Try working in a chicken farm or crawfishing

Anonymous said...

October 29, 2023 at 7:07 AM, people like you are starting to make me believe that Trump derangement is a real psychosis. We are a little less than three months from Biden being in office three years, but it's Trump's fault.

I chuckled when I read the part where you said there was a border problem from Trump's first day in office. That could only mean it was left over from the Obama administration, which is true.

The nation had great expectation that the border issue was soon to be a thing of the past. In March 2021, Biden placed Kamala Harris in charge of stemming the flow of migrants to the US southern border, by working with Central American countries.

Harris should have been very successful at this appointment. Why? Because the man that had given her the appointment had held the same position in 2014, and 2015. Surely he passed on all the wealth of knowledge he gleaned from his time at this position.

Yes, it has been a rousing success. No longer is it just people from Mexico, Central, and South American countries coming over the southern border illegally, but from a total of 160 countries. This doesn't include the got-aways, but it's Trump's fault.


Anonymous said...

Immigration laws are created by Congress. The money for border security is appropriated by Congress. Why are you people blaming any President?

Anonymous said...

Until the root causes of illegal immigration are addressed then no wall or any other measures are going to stop it. Poverty, gang violence, and low wages are just a few of the reasons it happens, and all of you people who are complaining would do the same thing if you were in their shoes. People will do what they have to do to provide a better life for themselves and their families.

Anonymous said...

“Poverty, gang violence, and low wages are just a few of the reasons it happens”, are you talking about Jackson?

Anonymous said...

4:42 pm
BLAME CONGRESS!

THEY won't reform antiquated immigration laws!

THEY won't SPEND THE MONEY to adequately secure the borders!

THEY won't SPEND MONEY to HOUSE immigrants until they can be fully vetted.

Indeed, BLAME THE GOP CONTROLLED HOUSE FOR DOING NOTHING ON ANYTHING ... THEY JUST RAISE MONEY BITCH INSTEAD OF LEARNING THEIR JOBS AND PROPOSING WAYS TO FIX PROBLEMS!

And, now, they've picked an idiot who raises money from other idiots and has done nothing about anything.

Anonymous said...

October 30, 2023 at 10:01 AM, you keep yelling like that you're going to blow a gasket. Besides, no one takes an angry screamer serious.

Anonymous said...

11:13 So there was no poverty, gang violence, and low wages until the last 10 years or so? And it must be getting worse every day because the stream is now a flood.

I would suggest that it's not those things, but a lack of will to enforce immigration law, political motives, and a joke for a border that changed the narrative. Those other things were always present.



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