The government need not wait for a terror attack to be carried out in order to be put on high alert

Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Muslim terrorists have been apprehended trying to cross our Southern border. And who knows how many of them have already succeeded, given how wide-open our southern borders have been?

Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and Daniel Greenfield in more detail here. Still more on this latest threat to American national security — the attempt by operatives of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to cross our southern border –can be found here: “CBP memo sounds alarm on Hamas, Hezbollah fighters potentially using southern border to enter US,” by Adam Shaw and Bill Melugin, Fox News, October 23, 2023:

A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) memo is warning staff of the risk that foreign terrorist fighters engaged in the Israel-Hamas conflict could soon be attempting to enter the United States via the besieged southern border.

In a Friday [Oct. 20] memo by the agency’s San Diego Field Office’s intelligence unit, obtained by Fox News, the agency warns 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 the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.”

The memo, first reported by the Daily Caller, specifically mentions Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hezbollah.

A Customs and Border Protection memo warns about the risk of foreign terrorist fighters coming to the border.

It warns of possible indicators, including military-age males, the possession of military gear, single travelers, an undetermined return plan and an association with the [Middle East] region….

Official numbers released Saturday show that there were a record number (169) of people encountered by Border Patrol agents at the southern border on the terror watch list in FY 23 – surpassing the numbers encountered in the last six fiscal years combined. The encounters between the ports of entry by Border Patrol are eclipsed by those who are encountered at the ports themselves. Overall, there were 564 encounters at ports of entry, just slightly higher than fiscal year 2019, when there were 538….

The government need not wait for a terror attack to be carried out in order to be put on high alert. Washington should be pouring money and manpower into interdicting every Muslim attempting to enter the country illegally. If our government can provide Ukraine with nearly $173 billion (including the $60 billion just announced by Biden) in military and economic aid since 2022, it can certainly spare $10 to $20 billion to finish the wall at our southern border, now that we have been warned about this terrorist menace. In delay there lies no plenty. Mr. Biden; “build up that wall.”