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The Real Crisis Slithering Through Our Southern Border The deliberate and strategic entry of Sharia-followers into the United States. by Aynaz Anni Cyrus

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-real-crisis-slithering-through-our-southern-border/

While the media drowns in humanitarian headlines and border numbers, the real threat crossing our southern border isn’t families fleeing hardship—it’s trained, ideological operatives with a mission: infiltrate, embed, and one day, execute. You won’t hear this from CNN. But if you’ve been watching closely, you already know what’s happening. FBI and DHS whistleblowers have confirmed that individuals tied to Islamist extremist groups—like Hezbollah and al-Shabaab—have already been apprehended at the southern border. These aren’t anomalies. They’re waves. And for every one caught, how many have slipped through undetected? Border Patrol agents have encountered individuals on the terror watchlist, while others have been flagged through encrypted communications, suspicious financial transfers, and travel patterns consistent with jihadist activity. Behind every name on a list are likely dozens more who entered unnoticed—blending into migrant caravans, using fake documents, and crossing through overwhelmed checkpoints.

But it doesn’t stop at entry. Once inside the United States, these Islamists don’t immediately turn to violence. They embed. They build communities, establish networks, infiltrate cultural spaces, and slowly worm their way into education systems, activist circles, and even local politics. This isn’t speculation—it’s strategy. This is classic sleeper cell methodology: stay quiet, stay legal, wait, then act. It’s what we saw before 9/11, and it’s what we’re seeing again. The hijackers didn’t sneak in under the cover of night—they came through the front door, legally, and waited until the moment was right.

Today, with a wide-open border and vetting protocols gutted in the name of political correctness, we’re facing the perfect storm for Islamist infiltration. These aren’t war refugees. They’re ideological foot soldiers exploiting our broken asylum system and progressive sanctuary policies to get inside. They don’t just want to live here—they want to change us from within. Through courts, classrooms, policy manipulation, and, eventually, through acts of terror.

These actors are highly trained. They know how to play the system, how to cloak their intentions in victimhood, how to mobilize identity politics, and how to silence critics with accusations of “Islamophobia.” But this isn’t about faith—it’s about conquest. This isn’t religious persecution—it’s a coordinated campaign of national subversion. Once inside, they’re not hiding in caves—they’re attending mosques, starting businesses, joining local boards, and laying the groundwork for something far darker. They don’t need to rush. Time is on their side.

The legal case to deport Mahmoud Khalil of “Columbia University Apartheid Divest” is airtight

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-legal-case-to-deport-mahmoud-khalil.html

When you read the relevant US codes, the case to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unassailable.

U.S. immigration agents arrested Khalil,  Palestinian graduate student who acted as a leader of the Columbia University group that led pro-Hamas protests.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Khalil was apprehended “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism,” alleging his involvement in “activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” 

What are the legal grounds for the arrest?

Khalil a US permanent resident with a green card. 

According to 8 U.S. Code § 1227 – Deportable aliens, “Any alien who is described in subparagraph (B) or (F) of section 1182(a)(3) of this title is deportable.”

The relevant part of those subparagraphs say: a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity;

There is no question that Khalil is a representative of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD.) He represented CUAD in negotiations with Columbia a number of times; he was interviewed on TV numerous times as its lead negotiator, he is described as one of CUAD’s leaders. 

Report: Deported MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Detained For Human Trafficking in 2022 By Debra Heine

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/17/report-deported-ms-13-gang-member-kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-detained-for-human-trafficking-in-2022/

New evidence has emerged that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member and wife-beater who was deported to El Salvador last month, engaged in human trafficking several years ago.

In an exclusive report, the Tennessee Star reported Wednesday that in December 2022, Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) caught Garcia smuggling seven suspected illegal aliens in a van in Tennessee. Garcia and the seven individuals were allegedly caught midway through their trip from the Texas border to Maryland. THP detained the crew until the FBI under then-Director Christopher Wray directed THP to release them.

The Star obtained information about the stop, “including the identity of the THP officer, the officer’s badge number, and the Computerized Dispatch Report code assigned to the incident.”

During the nearly two-hour traffic stop, “an officer determined that Abrego Garcia was operating the vehicle without a valid driver’s license and began searching for information about him,” according to the Star’s THP sources.

The sources also indicated that someone in the car, possibly Garcia himself, may have been on a terrorist watch list.

The officers on the scene called the FBI, who instructed them “to capture photographs of all eight people in the vehicle and document its contents.”

After the photos were taken, according to a THP source, the FBI directed the officers to “release all eight individuals.” The THP officers then complied with this request despite their concern that  Abrego Garcia was engaged in human trafficking and driving without a license, a misdemeanor offense in Tennessee.

Mass Hearings and Due Process by Zoom: A Modest Judicial Proposal Court orders demanding Trump reverse a deportation highlight escalating judicial interference in immigration and foreign policy, raising questions about constitutional overreach. By Roger Kimball

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/20/mass-hearings-and-due-process-by-zoom-a-modest-judicial-proposal/

The tsunami of court orders that has been washing over the Trump administration—he “can’t do this,” he “must do that”—has me wondering where it all will end. Will the multifarious injunctions, restraining orders, and appeals finally paralyze Trump’s agenda? An agenda, I hasten to point out, on which he was elected, so, given the strength of his victory, it is also the American people’s agenda.

I don’t know. The attacks have been extraordinary not only in number but also in depth. The president and his lieutenants have, in effect, been told that they cannot hire and fire whom they wish or enter into or terminate what contracts they wish; in some cases, they are even forbidden to know what payments have been made by the agencies they nominally direct. Law enforcement and foreign policy are, or at least used to be, executive branch responsibilities. But the courts have gone to extraordinary lengths to insinuate themselves into those processes.

On April 4, Paula Xinis, a Maryland district court judge appointed by Barack Obama, ordered that the Trump administration must “facilitate and effectuate the return of Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States by no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, April 7, 2025.”

As all the world knows, Garcia, an illegal alien, had been sent to enjoy the hospitality of El Salvador in March. It turns out that his deportation to El Salvador had been a mistake, an “administrative error.” This was not because he did not deserve to be deported. He most certainly did. However, he had previously been granted “withholding of removal” status by a judge in 2019 because, though El Salvador was his native land, he said he was threatened by gang members of MS-13 there. That meant that while Garcia could be deported, he could not be deported to El Salvador.

There are several ironies in the case. One is that MS-13, once a scourge of El Salvador, has been effectively neutered there by Nayib Bukele, the president. Indeed, Bukele has transformed El Salvador from “the murder capital of the world” into one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Democrats’ Bizarrely Misplaced Empathy Ben Shapiro

https://pjmedia.com/benshapiro/2025/04/17/democrats-bizarrely-misplaced-empathy-n4939001

This week, Democrats decided to expend their quickly diminishing political capital in defense of a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was deported to El Salvador some weeks ago; the Department of Justice initially admitted that his deportation was an “administrative error.” It turns out that Garcia had an order withholding removal to his home country, due to his claims that returning to El Salvador would risk his life. Nonetheless, the administration flew him to that country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, where he is apparently being held to date.

Initially, a district court judge ruled that Abrego Garcia’s removal was violative of due process, and that the administration had to “facilitate” his return to the United States. The case was elevated to the Supreme Court, which found 9-0 that while the executive branch likely had the power to order his deportation, it still had to follow court orders to “facilitate” his temporary return for due process reasons. The Trump administration, for its part, claims that it has already “facilitated” his release from custody — that they’ve asked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele nicely to release him, and that Bukele has refused. Bukele sat in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump and said just that: “The question is preposterous: how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”

Regardless of the legal wrangling over the case — and there is in fact a solid legal basis to the idea that the administration ought to temporarily return Abrego Garcia just to receive a court hearing, after which he can be deported right back again — Democrats have wrong-footed themselves yet again. This week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., decided to fly down to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia; other Congressional Democrats vowed to do the same. In their telling, Abrego Garcia is an innocent caught up in the mills of wrongheaded justice.

Do Desperate Dems Really Want To Die On Illegal Immigration Hill?

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/04/18/do-desperate-dems-really-want-to-die-on-illegal-immigration-hill/

The Democratic Party is twisting in agony over its newfound lack of popularity among rank-and-file voters, including those within its own party. To understand why, the party needs look no further than its support for bringing illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia, you see, was among those here illegally who were deemed criminal enough to be shipped immediately back to their home country. Abrego Garcia is not an American citizen; he is Salvadoran, both by birth and by legal citizenship.

Sending Abrego Garcia back should have been a slam dunk. And it was, until U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg found “probable cause” for holding the Trump administration in criminal contempt of his March order forbidding the deportation of Abrego Garcia.

Now we’re told this is a “constitutional crisis.”

It’s true the Justice Department admitted making an “administrative error” in sending Abrego Garcia back when they did, but that error wouldn’t have changed his deportation status; only it’s timing.

It’s also true that the Supreme Court has said that the Trump administration must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release, as if Trump controls El Salvador’s prisons.

For the record, on Monday, meeting at the White House with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, Trump explained why he couldn’t “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from prison.

Because he can’t.

Indeed, Bukele was asked point blank by the media if he’d send Abrego Garcia back. His response: “Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”

Leavitt Holds Powerful White House Press Briefing, Leaves the Media Stunned Sarah Anderson

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/04/16/leavitt-holds-powerful-white-house-press-briefing-leaves-the-media-stunned-n4938974

There are some things that just leave you speechless, and what happened in the White House Press Room today is one of them. And it didn’t just leave me speechless — it left the reporter pool stunned, too. 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she’d be holding an impromptu press briefing with a special guest on Wednesday afternoon, and if you missed it, it was a doozy.

The topic was Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Well, sort of. Leavitt started by pointing out that Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen was currently in El Salvador, pleading with the country’s government to release one of its own citizens — a member of the foreign terrorist organization MS-13 with a history of violence who was in the United States illegally — so he can smuggle him back into the United States so we can probably deport him again. 

Leavitt began, “Today, we have officially learned Democrat officials still refuse to accept the will of the American people” before, once again, reminding us who the left has spent the last couple of weeks defending so vehemently.  

Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen rushed to Dulles Airport this morning to fly to El Salvador, potentially using taxpayer dollars, to demand the release of a deported illegal alien MS-13 terrorist. The Democrats and the media in this room have continually and wrongly labeled Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a ‘Maryland Father.’

There is no ‘Maryland Father.’ Let me reiterate: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member, and foreign terrorist who was deported back to his home country. And when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money covering the ears, mouth, and eyes of presidents on various currency denominations. This is a known MS-13 gang symbol of “Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.” Abrego Garcia was also arrested with two other well-known members of the vicious MS-13 gang, and two separate judges found that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13, and that finding has never been disputed.

And just this morning, it was revealed through Maryland court documents that Abrego Garcia’s wife petitioned for an order of protection against him for two instances of domestic violence in May of 2021. And here is the order right here. The court ordered that “The respondent committed the following acts of abuse.” Once in May of 2021, “Assault in any degree,” and on May 4th of 2021, he punched and scratched his wife, ripped off her shirt, and grabbed and bruised her.

Dems fight bill to stop illegal immigrant voting despite polls showing voter support 208 Democrats on Thursday voted against the Trump-backed measure that would crack down on noncitizen voting y Deirdre Heavey , Elizabeth Elkind

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-fight-bill-stop-illegal-immigrant-voting-despite-polls-showing-voter-support

The House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on Thursday, with 208 Democrats voting against the President Donald Trump-backed measure that would crack down on noncitizen voting.

The SAVE Act, which passed 220-208, now heads to the Senate, where it will need the support of some Democrats to meet the 60-vote threshold for advancement. Democrats have rejected the bill, despite polling indicating bipartisan support for voter ID requirements. 

A Gallup Poll released ahead of the 2024 election found that 84% of respondents favor requiring a photo ID to vote, and 83% support requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time. 

If passed in the Senate and signed into law by Trump, the SAVE Act by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would require voters to obtain proof of citizenship in person before they register for a federal election, and it would remove noncitizens from voter rolls. 

Anchor Babies Aweigh Augusto Zimmermann & Gabriël Moens

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/america/anchor-babies-aweigh/

In a recent article published in Quadrant and entitled Trump’s Authoritarian Arrogance, Roger Partridge contends that the recent actions of the American President comprise an ‘unprecedented assault on constitutional government.’ He then accuses Donald Trump of ‘systematic dismantling of checks on presidential power.’ He also claims that his actions ‘reveal a leader rapidly consolidating personal control while declaring himself above the law.’[1]

To partially justify his claims Partridge provides the example of Trump’s Executive Order 14156, signed on January 20, 2025, on Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. This order, aimed at denying the granting of citizenship to the children of parents who are either in the U.S. illegally or on temporary visas, stipulates ‘it is the policy of the United States that no department or agency … shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship’ to these children. It further tasks ‘The heads of all executive departments and agencies’ with the issuing of ‘public guidance within 30 days of the date of this order regarding this order’s implementation with respect to their operations and activities.’[2] Accordingly, the Order is unlikely to be applied retrospectively because it does not propose the withdrawal of citizenship of those who have already become American citizens.

However, according to Partridge,

[Trump’s] declaration of a “border invasion” to suspend asylum rights exemplifies this overreach. Rather than work with Congress to reform immigration law, Trump simply decreed that America’s legal obligations to asylum seekers no longer apply. This is not normal policy implementation. It is rule by executive fiat.

The US, along with nearly every country in North, Central and South America, adopts the jus soli or “right of the soil” principle of citizenship. Jus soli is reminiscent of feudalism, where the socio-political organisation linked people and goods to the land. Today, it is justified by the need to incorporate the children of immigrants in the State where their parents legally arrived, with a clear intention to work and to participate in the country’s economic and social development.

The US and Canada are the only two “developed” countries, as defined by the International Monetary Fund, that still have unrestricted birthright citizenship laws. However, apart from the US, no country that adopts the ius soli principle has been automatically providing citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.  Nevertheless, Partridge postulates that the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, offers a precedent for such granting of citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.[3]

Trump Secured Border for Only 0.2% of the Cost of the Border Crisis Media hypes cost of securing border, refuses to discuss the cost of open borders. by Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-secured-border-for-only-0-2-of-the-cost-of-the-border-crisis/

The media has some big news.

Southwest border mission has cost $330M so far — with over $40M for Guantanamo Bay alone – ABC News

Interesting. Let’s even for the moment assume that those numbers are accurate. What was the cost of the border crisis?

The House Budget Committee estimated the cost of the crisis at $150 billion. Others put it at $200 billion or even higher.

$330 million would be around 0.2% of $150 billion.

Some estimates set the annual cost of illegal migration at $150 billion as well.

To put that $330 million into context, under Biden, DHS allocated $380 million for migrant-infested areas through FEMA in August 2024.

We’re spending a fraction on an ounce of prevention here to secure the border.

The media hypes the cost of securing border, but refuses to discuss the cost of open borders.