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January 1, Obama Insider: Border Surge “Bigger Than Anything We’ve Ever Seen”

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An alarming admission has come from the former Department of Homeland Security Chief, Jeh Johnson, who served under the Obama administration.

During a recent Fox News appearance, Johnson candidly revealed that the current migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border surpasses anything the nation has witnessed in its history.

Even more concerning, Johnson pointed out that a significant number of these migrants remain unidentified by U.S. officials.

Commenting on the situation in the Middle East, with the deadliest attack by Hamas on Israel having taken place on October 7, followed by Israel’s substantial retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza, Johnson shifted the conversation to America’s southern border.

Hamas, labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S., has sparked fears of potential infiltration attempts by aligned individuals or suspected terrorists into the U.S., especially amidst the ongoing border crisis.

While former President Donald Trump asserted that individuals with Hamas affiliations were flooding into the U.S. through the Mexican border, no concrete evidence has been presented to validate this claim.

Still, concerns have been exacerbated after Khaled Mashaal, the former chief of Hamas, rallied for global demonstrations in favor of Palestinians.

Mashaal’s call to arms also extended to neighboring nations like Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt to rally against Israel, as covered by Reuters.

Addressing the palpable anxiety amongst Americans due to the Israel-Palestine conflict, Johnson urged the public to remain alert and vigilant.

He asserted, “There are a lot of people entering our southern border right now. Thousands and thousands. It’s a hemispheric move north bigger than anything we’ve ever seen. And the challenge for [U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP], for our DHS, the FBI, is to try to keep up.”

Highlighting the inadequacy of the current system, Johnson lamented, “Unfortunately, as you know, the system is broken, it’s horribly backlogged, and there’s a whole lot of people entering this country who we cannot identify.”

Under President Joe Biden, the administration’s handling of the border situation has been a continuous source of contention. Democrats have recently criticized the DHS’s decision to continue with border wall construction.

Staggering CBP data reveals that over 2.2 million migrants have encountered U.S. authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2023 fiscal year alone, showing a rise from 2.1 million the previous year.

Equally troubling is the spike in individuals detained at the border who appear on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. CBP has confirmed that 151 such migrants were apprehended in the fiscal year 2023, compared to 98 in 2022. However, it’s crucial to clarify that being matched to the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Data Set (TSDS) doesn’t conclusively label someone as a terrorist.

The DHS explains that matches could range from “known associates of watchlisted individuals, such as family members, to individuals directly engaged in terrorist activity.”

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  1. The Seymour Conservative

    October 24, 2023 at 12:07 pm

    It will take a Hamas style attack on border towns to convince the democraps the border needs closed.And this will happen sometime soon,terrorists with the mexico not doing anything as usual will invade and take over towns along the border and cut them off from the USA,mexico will let them do as they please on that side,they will take border lands.its coming.

    I wont even mention the inevitable iz.l.a.mic invasion from the North that Justin Tradue will allow.

    Face it Americans,we are on our own over here!!!

  2. ALFRED

    October 24, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    ONLY IN AMERICA DO WE HAVE A SENILE PRESIDENT, NO OTHER COUNTRY HAS A OPEN BORDER. TO LET IN 9 MILLION ILLEGALS AND TERRORISTS. TIME TO DEPORT BIDEN AND HIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION. TIME TO STOP WOKE, GENDER IDEOLOGY, LGBTQ. TIME TO HIRE PEOPLE BY MERIT NOT COLOR OR GENDER . JOE YOU NEED TO GO, YOU SHOULD NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO DESTROY WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD ALL LINED UP. BUT STUPID IS WHAT STUPID DOES. NO ONE EVER SAID BIDEN AND OBAMA HAD BRAINS. JUST FAST TALKING AMERICA HATING CORRUPT CROOKS. NO WE SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INSTALL PEOPLE, WITHOUT MERIT.REMOVE THE SQUAD AND ALL THESE TRAITOR DEMOCRATS WHO COMMIT TREASON EVERY TIME THEY OPEN THEIR LYING BIG MOTH.

    • Linda Sykes

      November 30, 2023 at 12:56 pm

      tRUMP promised a wall for which Mexico would pay but that didn’t happen. So what’s the problem now? MAGA Republican’ts control the House now so what are they waiting for to propose stopping this influx of migrants; I’m sure there would be enough Democratic votes to pass a law limiting (stopping now) the number of immigrants allowed in. I am a Democrat but I don’t agree with Biden’s border policy and it may be the breaking point of his re-election (I will still vote for him because he has done a lot of good things…especially for the middle working class, whereas tRUMP only cared about the rich and getting rich off Americans). There has been so much corruption in tRUMP’s administration that we can’t afford another 4 years of his lying, racism, bigotry, stealing from the American taxpayer to enrich him and his family and, God forbid, another insurrection! OPEN UP YOUR EYES, ALL YOU MAGA REPUBLICANT’S (in Congress and around the country); tRUMP doesn’t care about you. His only reason for wanting to get elected President again is to avoid jail and enrich him and his family again. Listen closer to his speeches; it all about “I” and “me”.

  3. Audrey Spaulding

    November 29, 2023 at 8:53 am

    Amen

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