Every State Is Now A Border State

With so many illegal crossings every state is impacted.

The border crisis we now face has become chaotic at best and highly destructive at its worst. The rise in border crossings can be correlated to an increased effort toward globalism and crashing financial disparity throughout much of the world. Still, this surge of humanity does not improve the economy within the United States as it brings an increase in criminal activity; we are now exposed to an endemic rise in overdose deaths from fentanyl, as well as increased sex and human trafficking and other crimes/diseases by a displaced population that has made every state a border state due to the lackadaisical approach from our president.

This administration does not want you to know what is happening at the border. This situation is a total case of the “Emperor has no clothes”; it is a believe what I say, not what you can see problem. If you travel down to the border, you can see with your own eyes how bad the problem is. People from nearly 100 different countries are crossing the border regularly. The media wants you to believe that we are just coming down hard on South Americans, but the reality is that more and more countries from Africa and eastern Europe are using Mexico as a crossing point. People from India, Bangladesh, Turkey, and even China are known to cross with south American groups. In July 2022, the ICE contract detention center in Aurora, Colorado, had over 200 detainees from Turkey, double the number of Mexican nationals in custody.

The Border Patrol has reported that nearly 100 people on the terror watch list were encountered and arrested from October 2012 to September 2022 at the Mexico Border. However, past government reports show that from 2017 to 2020, only 11 were encountered. These were the ones that were caught; what about the ones the Border Patrol missed while being severely overwhelmed and forced to process cases instead of conducting patrols and surveillance?

And what about the issue that no one seems to be talking about? The spread of infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, tuberculosis, dengue, ebola, cholera, and influenzas such as the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, Avian Influenza A, and many others. The situations many of these migrants are coming from are severe health risk environments, and we have scant quarantine protocols that are currently being followed.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has identified the Mexican cartels’ efforts in obtaining chemical precursors from China as a leading cause of the creation of synthetic opioids. Fentanyl is mass-produced and trafficked through an open border. In contrast, the Border Patrol struggled to process and release into the interior of the United States hundreds of thousands of migrants in the last year alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that more than 107,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses between January 2021 and January 2022. Eighty thousand five hundred ninety of those deaths, or nearly 75% of those overdoses, involved opioids, with 71,000 being exclusively fentanyl. Colorado alone saw a 70% rise in fentanyl deaths between 2020 and 2012, with more than 900 deaths. Drug deaths are now rolling through every neighborhood in America; the border-collapse is a national concern.

There is no want or effort to drive up mass hysteria in talking about this situation. We have laws and regulations to help abate these problems and find solutions. In writing this, I have to clarify that I want people to immigrate to the United States. I want people from all walks of life, all colors, religions, and cultures to be here. One of the things I loved the most was witnessing citizenship ceremonies, and I witnessed over a dozen of these ceremonies in my time with ICE. As a military veteran and someone who served this country for over 30 years, I absolutely love to see people from all over the world raise their right hand, swear allegiance to this country and watch the pure tears of joy stream down their faces when they finish those words of citizenship. I want sensible immigration to continue, BUT I WANT IT LEGALLY, and I want it controlled at the ports of entry so we can try to keep this country safe. I believe that immigration makes this country stronger, but I do not think that illegal immigration does the same.

Denver County’s refusal to work with ICE because of House Bill 19-1124 further exasperates the issue. The recent influx of migrants that arrived by busload and, as far as we know, were not processed by Customs and Border Protection shows a complete lack of adherence to Congressionally approved immigration laws. The current presidential administration and the leadership of the state of Colorado pick and choose which immigration laws they believe to be relevant. What are we witnessing here? What is the end goal of this administration? Is it to ignore the border and allow the free flow of narcotics and migration to continue? Is it to turn their backs and claim that there are more important issues at hand, just like President Biden claimed as he toured a computer chip factory in a border state yet failed to visit the border?

In the end, suppose we don’t take operational control of the border soon and get congress to pass a comprehensive immigration bill that allows and encourages immigration growth and the following of our laws. In that case, we will quickly reach a breaking point where there is no return.