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During the first six months of fiscal year 2024, there have been 159 border agent encounters nationwide with illegal immigrants whose names appeared on the terrorist watch list. There were 564 such encounters during fiscal year 2023. Who knows how many suspected terrorists were released by the Biden administration or managed to evade capture altogether? Either way, they pose a clear and present national security threat, which President Biden’s open border and catch-and-release policies have exacerbated.

Instead of securing the country against this threat that already exists, President Biden is considering a dangerous plan that would let Gazans, who may well include Hamas terrorists and sympathizers, into the country through the front door as “refugees.” They would be provided with “permanent residency, resettlement benefits like housing assistance and a path to American citizenship,” according to a report by CBS News.

Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza, has not allowed Gazans seeking to escape Hamas’ conflict with Israel into its country. Egypt does not want to take the risk that Palestinian Islamists from Gaza will join other Islamist terrorists already in Sinai and threaten Egypt’s stability. Jordan and other Arab countries in the region have also refused to admit Gazans.

Yet President Biden is considering inviting Gazans into the United States and offering them a path to citizenship. Assurances that the Gazans will be carefully vetted before they are admitted are worthless, as demonstrated by the government’s deplorable record in the past.

Hamas terrorists can easily embed themselves into the “refugee” population and then commit violence against Americans. Moreover, it is insane to think that most Gazans who would enter and live in the U.S. if President Biden decides to give the go ahead are anti-Hamas. Nearly three quarters of Gazans surveyed in a poll conducted this past March by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research registered their support of Hamas’ genocidal attack in Israel on October 7th.

As outrageous as it is for President Biden to even consider such a reckless plan, it is not surprising at all. On President Biden’s watch, America has experienced the illegal entry of millions of immigrants, as well as the smuggling of records amounts of deadly fentanyl, into the United States, all facilitated by Mexican cartels. An invasion of America is already underway. But President Biden is giving serious thought to making things even worse by admitting Gazans into the U.S. without any assurance that Hamas terrorists and their supporters will not be amongst them.

Nearly two-thirds of the American people agree that “the situation along the Mexican border should be called an ‘invasion,’” according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey published on April 10, 2024. But not the left-wing progressive arbiters of politically correct language. They condemn the use of the word “invasion” as a dog whistle to the racist xenophobes to whom the MAGA Republicans supposedly cater, according to the Left’s deceitful narrative. The word that most accurately depicts the unprecedented flood of illegal immigrants and fentanyl into the United States since President Biden took office should be taboo, say the open border activists and other leftists.

An article published by the New York Times on April 26^th entitled “Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech,” written by a self-described reporter, is an example of leftist newspeak. The author of the article wrote that using the term invasion to describe illegal immigration “echoed demagoguery in previous centuries targeting Asian, Latino and European immigrants.” She added, “Historians and analysts who study political rhetoric have long warned that the term dehumanizes those to whom it refers and could stoke violence, noting that it appeared in writings by perpetrators of deadly mass shootings in Pittsburgh, Pa.; El Paso, Texas; and Buffalo, N.Y., in recent years.”

Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama administration official who now leads the homeland-security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, was quoted by the New York Times article as saying that “An invasion by its very definition is a hostile entrance or a hostile encroachment. You are automatically perceiving people who are fleeing their countries for a million reasons — most of them not hostile — as enemies.”

Ms. Kayyem may be thinking of military hostilities by an aggressive enemy, but that is too limiting in defining what constitutes an invasion. An invasion can also take place when vast numbers of people are organized to enter a country without the legal right to do so and cause serious harm to people and property in the destination country, whether they are declared enemies or not. That is precisely what has been happening since President Biden took office and he rescinded by executive order virtually all the border protections that former President Donald Trump had put in place.

The Mexican cartels have organized the human trafficking of millions of illegal immigrants. The human traffickers have lured people from poor countries to the U.S.-Mexico border with false promises and have helped them cross the border into the U.S. illegally for a steep price. The smugglers, along with open border activists who helped organize huge immigrant caravans headed to the U.S.-Mexico border for illegal crossings, teach the immigrants how to manipulate America’s loophole-filled asylum system.

The phony asylum-seekers, released by the Biden administration pending their asylum hearings years down the road, then settle in cities and towns across the country where they drain vital resources away from law-abiding Americans. Gang members from Venezuela and other countries such as El Salvador, who have managed to slip through the border one or more times, rob, rape, assault, and murder innocent Americans.

Aside from their human trafficking revenues, Mexican cartels are also making enormous amounts of money from the smuggling of illicit drugs, particularly lethal fentanyl, into the United States. The cartels have an increasing presence within the United States to recruit local drug dealers and gang members. Violence linked to cartel members themselves or to thugs whom they have recruited to operate in the United States has spilled over into the border states and the interior of the country.

“The influence of Mexican cartels on America’s streets is an increasingly important issue for American law enforcement officers and leaders,” Leon Boyer, a retired United States Border Patrol Agent, wrote in an article published last year by Police1.com. “From the distribution of drugs to the perpetration of violence, these cartels are impacting the safety of communities across the United States.”

The Mexican cartels’ smuggling of lethal drugs into this country, together with the cartels’ role in helping millions of illegal immigrants, including criminal gang members, to infiltrate the United States, amount to a large-scale, organized invasion.

Border patrol agents have also reported encountering an alarming number of Chinese nationals, mostly single adults, entering the United States illegally during the first half of fiscal year 2024. Some of the Chinese nationals have relied on Mexican cartel smugglers for assistance. From October 2023 through March 2024, there have been 41,920 such encounters nationwide, including 35,638 encounters with single adults. This is more than double the number of total encounters with Chinese nationals during the same period in fiscal year 2023 and 51 percent more than the entire 2022 fiscal year. Many have been released into the country with court dates for their asylum hearings.

This surge is raising alarm bells in national security circles. “We know that China is using everything that they have, every bit of espionage, to spy on our military and our high technology,” Rebecca Grant, Ph.D., a national security analyst at IRIS Independent Research, warned last year. “And we know China’s government is not our friend, so this dramatic upswing, I think it could definitely present a potential national security risk.”

China has also played a major role in sending chemical components of fentanyl to Mexican cartels who use them to manufacture the synthetic drug that they then smuggle into the United States.

The border invasion that President Biden’s open border and catch-and-release policies have enabled is directly contrary to the guarantee in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution that the United States will protect each state against invasion.

Texas and other border states have the constitutional right, pursuant to Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution, to engage in “War” against the ongoing invasion and “such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”

The fact that President Biden is giving serious thought to admitting Gazans into the United States and offering them a path to citizenship is sheer madness. This would be on top of the invasion of illegal immigrants and deadly drugs smuggled into the U.S. by Mexican cartels that Biden’s policies have unleashed. The American people have a chance to save America from further harm with their votes in this year’s presidential and congressional elections.