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FOUR STAR ACTIVE DUTY GENERAL: BORDER CRISIS THREATENS U.S. EXISTENCE

John Joseph.

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The illegal immigration can be halted in about 5 days by doing what

President Truman did after WWII and President Eisenhower did after the

Korean War, when they employed the federalized National Guard to seal the

border. The Governors of Texas and Arizona and law enforcement officials

across the nation have asked the Obama administration to seal the border.

Unfortunately we are the only country in the world that has a wide open

border allowing about 800.000 illegal Immigrants, terrorists, drug dealers,

human smugglers, Middle Easterners, Chinese citizens. and criminals to enter

the nation each year.

The numbers of Illegal immigrant children being encourage to illegally enter

will increase to 160,000 next year-there is no excuse for this lawlessness

on the part of the Obama administration. Each child is carrying notes on

them that tells the Border Patrol Agents where they want to be sent to meet

up with Illegal Immigrant relatives in the US.

The crisis at the border is not an insignificant issue. No country in the

world under competent government would allow its borders to become utterly

useless in protecting its citizens from harm (just try to enter Mexico

illegally and see how quickly you land in jail). This manufactured crisis

is about failed governance, it's not about poor innocent children who are

being used as pawns.

Joseph R. John, USNA '62

Capt USN(Ret)

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

<http://www.combatveteransforcongress.org/>

http://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will

go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

-Isaiah 6:8

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FOUR STAR ACTIVE DUTY General: Border crisis threatens U.S. existence

Top commander worries about what's 'easily' smuggled in

author-image <http://www.wnd.com/author/dzahn/> Drew Zahn

Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly

America's porous southern border and the recent surge in illegal immigration

is more than just a "humanitarian crisis," claims the top U.S. general in

charge of Central and South America, it's a threat to the United States'

very existence.

Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly is commander of the U.S. Southern Command, or

SOUTHCOM, charged with responsibility for the Caribbean Sea and all lands

south of Mexico.

Particularly in regards to the drug trade, murder rates and terrorist

activity brewing in Central America, Kelly says, the waves of Latin

Americans sweeping through Mexico and illegally into Texas presents a threat

to the U.S. every bit as serious as Iran or North Korea.

"In comparison to other global threats, the near collapse of societies in

[this] hemisphere with the associated drug and [illegal immigrant] flow are

frequently viewed to be of low importance," Kelly said in an interview with

Defense One. "Many argue these threats are not existential and do not

challenge our national security. I disagree."

It isn't the first time Kelly has sounded the alarm. In

<http://www.southcom.mil/newsroom/Pages/Budget-shortfalls-reversing-SOUTHCOM

-gains,-commander-says.aspx> testimony before the Senate Armed Services

Committee in March, Kelly complained that budget cuts in recent years have

handcuffed the military's ability to shut down many drug and human

trafficking corridors.

"Last year, we had to cancel more than 200 very effective engagement

activities and numerous multilateral exercises," Kelly said, explaining that

a full 74 percent of "actionable illicit trafficking events" simply go

unanswered, because he doesn't have the funds or resources to do anything

about it.

"I simply sit and watch it go by," he continued. "And because of service

cuts, I don't expect to get any immediate relief, in terms of assets, to

work with in this region of the world."

Worse yet, he continued, with smuggling routes wide open for business, it's

far more than cocaine or children seeking a better life getting a free pass

across the border.

"Clearly, criminal networks can move just about anything on these smuggling

pipelines," Kelly said in

<http://www.southcom.mil/newsroom/Documents/2014_SOUTHCOM_Posture_Statement_

HASC_FINAL_PDF.pdf> testimony before the House Armed Services Committee in

February. "Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same

smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our

citizens or even quite easily bring weapons of mass destruction into the

United States."

SOUTHCOM's intelligence assets reveal the possibility is far more than just

crying wolf.

"Supporters and sympathizers of Lebanese Hezbollah are involved in both

licit and illicit activities in the region," Kelly told Congress. "Members,

supporters, and adherents of Islamic extremist groups are present in Latin

America. Islamic extremists visit the region to proselytize, recruit,

establish business venues to generate funds, and expand their radical

networks. Some Muslim communities in the Caribbean and South America are

exhibiting increasingly extremist ideology and activities, mostly as a

result from ideologues' activities and external influence from the Middle

East, Africa, and South Asia. Mr. Chairman, we take all these activities

seriously."

Threat spreads through U.S.

As America's top military eye on Central America, Kelly is also warning that

the recent spike in illegal immigrants moving from countries like Guatemala,

El Salvador and Honduras across the U.S. border presents another level of

threat. Those three countries, he noted, are all among the Top 5 nations

worldwide in homicide rates, in part because of their rampant gang activity.

"Although there are a number of other countries I work with in Latin America

and the Caribbean that are going in the same direction," Kelly told Defense

One, "the so-called Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras)

is far and away the worst off."

Since October, tens of thousands of migrants have made the dangerous journey

north from Latin America to the United States border. Many are children, and

statistics show the vast majority of the immigrants in the recent influx are

unaccompanied minors who have traveled from Central America's "Northern

Triangle."

And between rampant drug trafficking and human trafficking of Central

American youngsters, Kelly warned Congress, cartels and gangs that have

already spread throughout the U.S. will only grow more dangerous.

"Chairman, gone are the days of the 'cocaine cowboys,'" Kelly testified.

"Instead, we and our partners are confronted with cocaine corporations that

have franchises all over the world, including 1,200 American cities, as well

as criminal enterprises like the violent transnational gang Mara

Salvatrucha, or MS-13, that specialize in extortion and human trafficking.

"The FBI has warned that MS-13 has a significant presence in California,

North Carolina, New York, and northern Virginia, and is expanding into new

areas of the United States, including Indian reservations in South Dakota,"

he concluded.

Roger Noriega, an American Enterprise Institute fellow and former assistant

secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs during the George W. Bush

administration, was quoted last month in the Washington Free Beacon putting

a fine point on how gang activity and arms smuggling could create problems

not just along the border, but anywhere in the country.

"There's going to be a time when MS-13 fires an RPG into an Alexandria [Va.]

police car, and [Americans] are going to say, 'What the hell happened?'"

Noriega said.

Kelly concluded his appeal before the House Armed Services Committee by

arguing the U.S. needs to call upon and equip the military to protect our

southern border, now more than ever.

"Some of my counterparts perceive that the United States is disengaging from

the region and from the world in general," Kelly said. "We should remember

that our friends and allies are not the only ones watching our actions

closely. . And in the meantime, drug traffickers, criminal networks, and

other actors, unburdened by budget cuts, cancelled activities, and employee

furloughs, will have the opportunity to exploit the partnership vacuum left

by reduced U.S. military engagement."

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