Former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Mark Morgan instructed Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) the terrorist assault that occurred in Israel on October 7 may “absolutely” occur in the United States as a result of unsecured southern border, based on the newest episode of her present considered first by Breitbart News.
“The answer is absolutely, and this is what I keep saying,” Morgan stated on Unmuted with Marsha. “You don’t have to be a border security expert to understand that we have a national security crisis happening in our southern border. It’s just common sense.”
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He added:
What occurred in Israel must be a wakeup name for 2 essential causes. One, it exhibits us that international terrorism is alive and nicely. Islamic extremists that that carried out these atrocities in Israel. They need to do hurt to our homeland. That dedication has not modified. It is unwavering. And addition to that, it confirmed a colossal intelligence failure.
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We know that May of this yr, the director of the FBI throughout congressional testimony stated he’s involved concerning the southwest border as a nationwide safety menace. He instructed the Congress [that] Hezbollah is completely nonetheless dedicated to long-term contingency planning on doing hurt to the United States.
DHS simply a few days earlier than the October assault in Israel launched an inside report that stated that they’re involved that terrorist organizations are going to take advantage of our southern border.
Just a few days in the past, the CBP [in] San Diego put out an identical intelligence bulletin that they’re involved that terrorists impressed by what’s taking place in Israel proper now are going to take advantage of our southern border to do hurt to our United States. And but this administration, Senator, they’re not even acknowledging that correlation and that threat to our southern border.
Morgan stated regardless of the menace, the Biden administration has not modified a single border coverage.
“I refer to it as cognitive [dissonance] either through politics or ideology,” he stated. “It prevents them from seeing the truth, reality, and fact.”
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Morgan stated over the previous 34 months beneath the Biden administration, there have been 1.6 million identified “gotaways,” whereas on the identical time there was the highest degree of apprehensions of aliens on the FBI’s terror watch listing, in addition to the best degree of particular curiosity aliens on the border.
He stated the particular curiosity aliens are “individuals that come from countries that we know sponsor, facilitate, and harbor terrorism, that we know our own intelligence community has shown us, we believe pose a national security threat and risk to our country.”
He added:
In the previous 34 months, we’ve seen these people from 180 totally different nations…there’s solely 195 acknowledged nations in the face of the planet. Yet each single day we now have people coming to our border on the phobia watch listing in addition to particular curiosity aliens. And the difficulty is what number of of these terror-watchlisted folks and particular curiosity aliens are among the many 1.6 million identified gotaways. This is precisely why we are saying border safety is synonymous with nationwide safety.
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Blackburn famous that in 2019, there have been zero terrorist watchlist reportees apprehended on the southern border, and this yr alone, there have been 169. She stated in the month of October there have been 30 Iranians and 35 Pakistanis. In addition, she stated, “You’ve got over a hundred Russians and 2000 Chinese. These cartels are global organizations, and these people from countries that do not wish us well are coming to this southern border.”
Morgan stated final month alone, CBP apprehended extra aliens on the phobia watch listing than the earlier 4 years mixed beneath the Trump administration.
“Our border’s already been breached. It’s been breached for the past three years. And so it’s not a matter if the threat is going to get here, Senator. I believe the threat is already here,” he stated.
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Morgan stated in order to safe the border, a nationwide emergency must be declared and U.S. army deployment to the southern border elevated to right away safe it and achieve operational management.
He additionally stated the Remain in Mexico program must be reinstated, in addition to the coverage to ban asylum seekers transiting by means of different nations to get to the U.S. He stated he would finish Catch-and-Release, and enhance inside enforcement to permit ICE to do their jobs and take away folks illegally in the U.S.
He additionally advisable basically altering how the U.S. goes after cartels.
“How we’ve been doing it for the past 30 years if using a criminal prosecutorial method has failed. We need to go after them with the same level of commitment, tenacity, and government resources that we do terrorist organizations,” he stated.
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