Joe Biden and the Coming Domestic Martyrdom Operations

“It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security is still not considered a cornerstone of national security policy.”

 — 9/11 and Terrorist Travel, Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Aug. 21, 2004

Do you remember the D.C. sniper attacks? In October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a protracted shooting spree in the Washington metropolitan area, during which they murdered 10 people, wounded three others, and disrupted the lives and daily routines of hundreds of thousands who feared being the next randomly selected victim.

It took three weeks to track down and capture Muhammad and Malvo. But, before they were caught, the killers tied up massive federal, state, and local law enforcement resources and terrorized Washington and its suburbs in Maryland and Northern Virginia.

Of course, in addition to these snipers who picked off their victims one at a time, there have been other individuals who have executed mass casualty shootings. But, as with the D.C. snipers, every time the loss of lives, disruption of society, and damage to public confidence have been devastating.

But what would be the effect if 1,000 gunmen were to launch simultaneous sniper attacks and mass casualty shootings in schools, shopping malls, and public venues across America? And what if, in addition to firearms, these attacks included the use of explosives and chemical and biological weapons? How would law enforcement respond, and how many innocent victims would be killed or wounded before the threats were eliminated?

So far, these have been hypothetical questions. But now, thanks to the Biden regime’s open border policies, we must face the very real possibility of such catastrophic attacks in the not-too-distant future.

Consider the following.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, under Biden a minimum of 6.3 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States.

Of these, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 5.1 million who were given government money and transportation to locations throughout the nation. CBP also estimates that an additional 1.2 million illegals entered the country without making contact with authorities. But the actual number of these so-called “gotaways” may be much larger.

In short, the Biden regime has effectively imported a minimum of 6.3 million illegals without conducting background checks. Who are they, and why are they here?

We do know from video evidence that many of these illegals appear to be fit, military-age men unescorted by wives or children. And we also know that their entry into the United States was and is being facilitated by the Mexican drug cartels that effectively control our southern border.

In July 2013, the Center for Security Policy published its findings that Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force were operating in Mexico in conjunction with Los Zetas and other drug cartels. The report stated that approximately “200,000 immigrants from Lebanon and Syria” had “established residence” in Mexico “with the help of drug cartels.” This led to a financial and logistic partnering of Iran’s forces with the cartels.

It also stated that Hezbollah had sleeper cells in Mexico and had assisted drug cartels in “creat[ing] tunnels on the American border that are extremely similar to those dividing Gaza and Egypt. These tunnels are perfect for the transport of illegal conventional and biological weapons to contacts in the United States. Weaponry created by Hezbollah is capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people in major U.S. cities.”

That was the situation in 2013.

More recently, on Oct. 20, 2023, CBP’s San Diego Field Office Intelligence Division issued an internal memorandum assessing that “individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border. Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.”

 The memo, American Military News reports, warns authorities to watch for “potential indicators of individuals with ties to terrorist organizations.” These “indicators” include “military-age males” and “individuals traveling by themselves”.

CBP also advises that, of the individuals it has encountered so far in 2023 (as opposed to the “gotaways”), 172 were on the known terrorist watchlist.  But according to former federal officials and experts, additional hundreds of people on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist have almost certainly slipped into the United States amid the millions of other illegal immigrants during the last three years. (WATCH: Terror Threats to U.S. Amid Israel-Hamas War)

“You have to be extremely naïve to not be significantly concerned about this,” said Rodney Scott, former CBP chief from 2020 to 2021. “Regardless of what the Biden administration may claim, what it said during the campaign and the executive orders taken in January 2021 have been interpreted around the world as the border is open. You’re insane if you don’t think terrorists will use that to their advantage (emphasis added).”

So, since Biden opened our borders in 2021, how many potential or actual terrorists have entered the United States, where are they now, and what are they planning?

On Oct. 10, 2023, speaking in the White House Briefing Room, President Joe Biden addressed Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel. In the course of his remarks, he assured us that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are “working closely with state and local law enforcement and Jewish community partners to identify and disrupt any domestic threat that could emerge in connection with these horrific attacks.”

These are soothing words, but why should we believe them?

Even before Biden opened the floodgates in 2021, federal law enforcement failed time and again to prevent mass casualty attacks by terrorists. Among these atrocities were the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the 2001 aerial attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the 2014 Boston Marathon bombing, and numerous assorted mass casualty shootings by jihadists at Fort Hood, Texas; San Bernardino, California; Orlando, Florida; and elsewhere.

In reaction to the 9/11 attack, our internal security apparatus was purportedly augmented by the formation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). So it is beyond alarming that, simultaneous with opening our borders in 2021, Biden appointed Alejandro Mayorkas secretary of DHS. Since then, with a straight face, Mayorkas has repeatedly testified before Congress that the border is secure.

But who are we to believe? Mayorkas, or our lying eyes?

The conclusion is inescapable: In its drive to fundamentally transform America by illegally importing what it hopes will be future Democrat voters, the Biden regime has invited and enabled the invasion by millions of illegals about whom we know dangerously little.

On Oct. 31, 2023, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He warned that the Israel–Hamas conflict had raised the potential for domestic terrorist violence.

“The ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level,” he told the senators. He added, the New York Times reports, that the FBI’s “biggest concern … is attacks from violent extremists or lone actors in the U.S. inspired by hateful messages and calls to violence.”

Wray cited several foreign terrorist groups who have issued calls to attack Americans in conjunction with U.S. support of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

“I will say that this is a threat that is reaching in some way sort of historic levels,” he said.

Following 9/11, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which conferred near limitless surveillance and investigative powers on a federal law enforcement that has seen fit to use those tools against pro-life advocates, parents who protest at school board meetings, traditional Latin Mass Catholics, MAGA Republicans, and other enemies of the state.

But will our secret police be able to shift focus from such soft, docile targets to do the far more difficult task of investigating actual hard-core, violent, and foreign-trained terrorists?

And if only a small fraction of the millions who have illegally entered the country attempt bloody martyrdom operations, will our weaponized internal security apparatus be able to protect us?

We are about to find out.

George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net.

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