During his recent Oval Office address to the nation about Russia’s invasion into the Ukraine and Israel’s offensive against Gaza, President Joe Biden quoted former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who had once called America “the indispensable nation.”
The reference to the United States as indispensable struck many viewers as curious since Biden, starting on the day he entered the White House, has worked with such determination to destroy American sovereignty.
Since Biden assumed office, about 8.6 million foreign nationals have crossed the border and settled in the interior. Their personal histories, health statuses and intentions are mostly unknown.
Worth noting is that Albright is one of a long line of secretaries of state who can turn a patriotic phrase but are, at heart, devoted globalists. The line, post-Albright, includes Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
As expected, Biden pleaded for more money to fund the two wars and will send a $105 billion package to Congress, where it will face an uphill battle.
The bulk of the funding is $61.4 billion allocated for Ukraine at a time when Americans have grown tired of sending their tax dollars, without accountability, toward what appears to be an endless, distant conflict.
Within the $61.4 billion is $481 million to support Ukrainians arriving in the United States through the “Uniting for Ukraine” program, which provides a two-year parole that includes work permission and other affirmative benefits.
In other words, more immigration — another Biden policy that Americans are weary of, especially as they watch thousands of migrants cross the U.S. border unchecked daily.
Israel’s share of the $105 billion pie is a mere 25% of Ukraine’s — $14.3 billion.
Biden’s proposed national security package will provide Israel with $10.6 billion in assistance through the Defense Department, including air and missile defense support, industrial base investments and replenishment of U.S. military stocks that have been drawn down to support Israel.
The $105 billion total also allots $10 billion for humanitarian assistance.
Tucked into the $10 billion is $850 million for what’s referred to as “migration and refugee assistance” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Again, more immigration and more facilitating of immigration that voters oppose.
Biden’s address flummoxed viewers. He passionately made the case for the United States to aid in defending Ukraine and Israel, and few dispute that both embattled nations need U.S. aid.
But Biden has created a U.S. border crisis and then continuously ignored the calamities that an unprotected border spawned — among them, migrant deaths, drug smuggling, human trafficking, sex trafficking and environmental damage.
Key administration officials like Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Department Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have rubbed salt into concerned citizens’ wounds by, in defiance of ample evidence, insisting that the border is secure.
While Biden, imploring Congress and the Americans it represents, to act as the “agents of democracy,” he never in his 15-minute address mentioned the border and the terrorism threats that leaving it unprotected represents.
Maybe — but only maybe — the latest Customs and Border Protection report will awaken Biden, et al, to the homeland dangers percolating.
Border officials arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watchlist in September, making fiscal year 2023 a record year for such encounters at the southern border.
The watchlist, now officially called the Terrorist Screening Dataset, is the U.S. database that contains information on terrorist identities and includes not only known or suspected terrorists, but also affiliates of watch-listed individuals.
CBP statistics released Oct. 21 showed that 169 people on the FBI terror watchlist were encountered between ports of entry at the southern border in the past 12 months, a number that exceeds not only FY 22’s record-setting total, 98, but the last six fiscal years combined.
Including encounters between northern border entry ports, the total for FY 23 rose to 172.
Thousands of “special interest aliens” from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by Border Patrol agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years.
Special interest aliens are people from countries the federal government identifies as having conditions that promote or protect terrorism or potentially pose some sort of national security threat.
Iranians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Afghans, Egyptians, Chinese and other nationalities have been stopped.
If the administration wants to avert what looks like the inevitable — a major terrorist attack on the homeland — it will have to get immediately busy shutting the border and deporting illegally present aliens.