Graham: ‘We’re Inviting a Terrorist Attack on Our Country on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 by Losing Control of the Border’
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News’s “Hannity” that the Biden administration is “inviting a terrorist attack” on the United States on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by not controlling the southern border.
“Let's start with the border. We are inviting a terrorist attack on our country on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by losing control of the border. How hard is it for a terrorist organization to figure out that you can put terrorists in this flow of illegal immigrants crossing our border? We’re equivocating on standing with Israel. I will be in Charleston, South Carolina tomorrow night rallying Christians and the Israeli community and freedom-loving South Carolinians to stand with Israel," Graham said.
"Two things I’m certain of. Hamas would kill every Israeli if they could. The only reason they are not is ‘cause Israel can defend itself, and Israel could kill tens of Palestinians if they wanted do. They don't. They want to live in peace. They want to live in security, so to my Democrats colleagues who are pushing Israel to stop killing Hamas, degrading Hamas, you’re wrong. Israel, if you’re listening, do what you need to do to protect yourself. This war needs to continue. You continue it. We have your back,” he said.
Graham said the U.S. has “done everything but take an ad out in the paper, come to America.”
“We’re stopping deportations. They’ve basically put ICE out of business. Joe Biden’s overwhelmed by the job of being president. The left has lost its mind. There’s more fentanyl across the border this time in 2021 than in all of 2020. Israel is under the gun – 3500 rockets. Where is it coming from? Iran,” the senator said.
“To the Biden administration, you would be insane to start negotiating with Iran as long as they’re still the largest state sponsor of terrorism. So I am very worried about our national security. I’m very worried about our border here at home,” Graham said, adding that “2022 is gonna be a hell of an election.”
“If you are a conservative person, and you don't vote in 2022, you have nobody to blame but yourself. I miss Donald Trump. None of this would happen if President Trump was president today. I hope he’s considering running. Let’s start a draft Trump movement. He’s the one guy who can go to the America people and say, ‘Let me finish what I started. What I did worked,’” he said.
Host Sean Hannity said that Trump’s agenda worked.
“I like focus on the agenda. His agenda worked. Conservatism works. Any time those policies are implemented, it works, and I think Putin, Kim Jong-un, the mullahs in Iran and Xi in China, they feared Trump. They don't fear this guy,” Hannity said.
Graham agreed.
“You got it. They are cleaning our clock, and when trump was the president of the United States, there was a different attitude the world had towards the United States, and I miss that attitude. We are weaker today than we’ve been since Jimmy Carter,” the senator said.
Narcotics Push into South Texas Border Area amid 20-Year High in Illegal Migration
The Rio Grande Valley Sector already leads the nation in apprehensions of unaccompanied migrant children (UACs), single adult aliens, and criminal aliens. Amid these trends, Mexican cartels are still pushing substantial quantities of drugs into the area.
On Monday, Border Patrol agents in concert with other local and federal agencies arrested 162 migrants in multiple stash houses throughout the Rio Grande Valley. To combat the problem, the Border Patrol is serving homeowners a notice that their property is being used for criminal activity which could lead to forfeiture proceedings.
On the same day, agents in Weslaco, Texas, arrested 237 migrants in one group. They consisted of mostly family units and unaccompanied children. Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents say they interdicted 50 “large groups” illegally entering the United States this year. A large group is defined as 100 or more migrants.
In Fiscal Year 2021, agents in the Rio Grande Valley apprehended 221,115 migrants–compared to 49,971 over the same period in 2020. The spike means better profits for the Gulf Cartel, which tightly controls access and use of border crossings throughout the Valley.
The cartel has not abandoned another staple commodity, narcotics. Over the past weekend, more than $200,000 in cocaine washed up along Padre Island. On Thursday, $500,000 in marijuana was seized in two separate smuggling events.
According to CBP, the Border Patrol is on pace to arrest more migrants this year than at any time in the previous two decades. The volume of unaccompanied migrant children and family units require hours of humanitarian care and deplete the time agents have to spend on patrol. This exacerbates any cohesive efforts to deny and disrupt cartel narcotics smuggling operations. The strain also increases the likelihood of migrants avoiding detection and apprehension.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
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