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President Biden, your wide open border has created the gravest US terror
threat in years
It only took 19 Al Qaeda terrorists to kill 3,000 Americans on 9/11.
Many more foreign terrorists have almost certainly crossed into the US
since Biden took office
Sen. Tom Cotton By Sen. Tom Cotton Fox News
Published September 11, 2023 8:00am EDT

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Joe Biden has left America’s southern border wide open, and everyone
knows it. It’s not just common criminals breaking our immigration laws,
or coyotes sneaking people across, or cartels smuggling in deadly drugs.
Although that’s bad enough. Everyone—including those wishing America the
greatest harm—knows the door is open.

So far this year, the Border Patrol has encountered 146 known foreign
terrorists attempting to cross the southern border—a nearly 50 percent
increase compared to last year’s 98 encounters. And that’s just the ones
we caught—no one knows how many made it through. While terrorists have
long tried to cross our border, they have never done so in such great
numbers. During the previous administration, an average of only three
foreign terrorists attempted to cross our southern border illegally each
year.

The Biden administration wants Americans to believe that racism, or
COVID-19, or the Second Amendment is the greatest threat to America. The
reality is that his open border is the gravest terrorist threat to the
homeland in years. Remember, it only took 19 Al Qaeda operatives to kill
3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Many, many times that number have
almost assuredly crossed our southern border since Joe Biden took office.

FBI PROBES UZBEK ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO CROSSED BORDER WITH HELP FROM
TRAFFICKER LINKED TO FOREIGN TERROR GROUP

Last year, an Iraqi man affiliated with ISIS tried to smuggle in four
other terrorists across the southern border to assassinate former
President George W. Bush. His plans were well underway, having already
surveilled President Bush’s home to plan the attack, before unwittingly
telling a law enforcement source his plans, resulting in his arrest.

Just last week, even CNN reported that the Border Patrol apprehended
more than a dozen Uzbekistan nationals with ties to ISIS, only to
release them into the United States on "parole." The government
reportedly can’t find these suspected terrorists.

Unfortunately, terrorists arriving at our border may find partners among
the more than 70,000 Afghan evacuees that Secretary Mayorkas rushed into
the country during President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from
Afghanistan. He abused an immigration loophole known as "humanitarian
parole" to allow them in with no legal status and with our government
having little if any information about them.

FBI TERROR WATCHLIST ARRESTS, ENCOUNTERS AT SOUTHERN BORDER FOR FY 23
HITS ALL-TIME RECORD

Numerous government reports have now proven that the evacuees were not
fully vetted, despite promises to the contrary from the Biden
administration. Scores of Afghan evacuees—according to one
whistleblower, more than 320—are on terrorist watch lists. Many have
since disappeared into American communities.

It’s not just terrorists, either. The Border Patrol encountered 50,000
Russians and 40,000 Chinese nationals attempting to illegally cross the
southern border this year. Some are doubtless coming for jobs and better
opportunities, but only a fool would believe that our enemies aren’t
sending loyalists among the throngs crossing our border.

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Again, these numbers only account for the border crossers we know about.
According to DHS, there were an estimated 150,000 "gotaways" in 2019. By
2022, that number had more than quadrupled to over 600,000. How many of
those 600,000 individuals are terrorists, criminals, cartel members,
spies, or foreign saboteurs? Your guess is as good as the government’s.

With America’s border wide open, the threats of terrorist attacks,
espionage, and subversion on American soil are as great as they were
preventable.

Should he choose, the president could declare a national emergency,
reinstitute the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico policy, crack
down on asylum fraudsters, and immediately deport those whose first act
on American soil was to break our laws. These steps would alleviate the
pressure on our ports of entry. In the meantime, the U.S. military could
help defend the open stretches of our border that our enemies are crossing.

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The administration could ensure that any cartel that assists terrorists
in entering our country would share their fate. The president could also
direct federal law enforcement to end their partisan crusades against
their fellow Americans and instead hunt down the foreign enemies inside
our borders.

But I fear President Biden will take none of these actions to secure our
homeland. He certainly hasn’t so far.

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Republican Tom Cotton represents Arkansas in the United States Senate.
He is the author of the forthcoming book, "Only the Strong" which will
be published by Twelve on November 1, 2022.

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vetsop1
11 September, 2023

down here in Texas I live on the front lines. we have so-called
sanctuary states and cities complaining of a few thousand Invaders. we
see a few thousand on a daily basis and our great Governor is doing his
best to protect the citizens of Texas and the country. we have zero help
from the federal go...See more

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fierce388
11 September, 2023

And pay for. You forgot that part. American citizens have to PAY.

knights-who-say-ni
11 September, 2023

So Open Border Supporters please explain how millions of illegal
migrants makes life better for working class American citizens and
taxpayers? I see only negatives.

Working class Americans face jobs being taken and wages cut by cheap
foreign labor at the same time facing Biden's record inflation.

A...

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livin'thedream
11 September, 2023

To think that we, the seniors, still pay for everything is frightening,
too. It's money we just don't have and after working my entire life, I
resent it. It's not fair. However, your comment about "Americans face
jobs being taken"......it's even sadder than that because there are help
wanted signs ...

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svingarlic,breath
11 September, 2023

All it's doing is seeing to it that America, as we knew it, GETS DESTROYED!