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—Lou Dobbs
A nationally recognized security expert reveals the REAL Terrorist threat from the U.S. Southern Border and already INSIDE America. Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country reveals how radical, left-wing, liberal politicians and woke, progressive, "defund-the-police," and "stop-the-wall," nation-wrecking policies caused this crisis and the steps the country must take to combat crime, protect the homeland and its citizens and stop the growing existential challenge to Amercian freedoms and way of life.
Charles Marino outlines how and why Biden’s open border policies will ultimately destroy America from the Rio Grande up.
Some of the catastrophic problems created, enabled, or increased by weak borders include:
- Approximately 5 million migrants since the start of the Biden administration.
- Migrants from over 130 countries have been encountered.
- Over 100 migrants encountered on the terrorist watch list.
- Approaching 2 million “getaways” (unknown migrants who are not apprehended).
- Cartels are more empowered and funded than any time in history.
- Record breaking amounts of deadly fentanyl entering our cities.
- Increased violent crime, nationwide.
- Strain on infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, criminal justice systems, law enforcement, etc.
- Human trafficking/Sex trafficking.
- Erosion of American values and culture.
- Decriminalization of border and immigration laws.
Marino offers his expert recommendations—a step-by-step corrective and desperately needed policy roadmap—on how America can be saved. Before it’s too late.
THE THREAT IS NOT JUST ON THE BORDER, IT IS ALREADY HERE.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781630062828 |
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| Publisher: | Humanix Books |
| Publication date: | 05/14/2024 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Sales rank: | 58,616 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
The author lives & works in the Columbia metro area
charlesmarino.com
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America-Mexico Border Policy Timeline from TERRORISTS ON THE BORDER AND IN OUR COUNTRY by Charles A. Marino
1819: The Adams-Onis Treaty between Spain and America defines the border between Spanish property (now Mexico) and America’s Louisiana Territory.
1821: Mexico wins independence from Spain, and the border between Mexico and the United States becomes the southern boundary of the newly formed Mexican Republic.
1830: Mexico bans immigration from the United States to rid its lands of English-speaking people.
1836: The Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico, leading to the establishment of a disputed border between Texas and Mexico.
1845: The United States annexes Texas, further escalating tensions over the border.
1846-1848: The Mexican American War results in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty establishes the Rio Grande as the boundary between Mexico and the United States, with the U.S. acquiring vast territories, including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
1853: The Gadsden Purchase is made for $10 million, buying the United States additional land from Mexico for the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad. This purchase further solidifies the U.S./Mexico border.
1882: The Chinese Exclusion Act is passed, marking the first federal law that restricts immigration into the United States; border inspection stations are erected.
1904: Agents are assigned to patrol the border to better enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act
1910-1920: The Mexican Revolution takes place, leading to increased migration from Mexico to the United States, primarily driven by economic and political instability.
1924: The Immigration Act of 1924, (the Johnson-Reed Act) establishes a quota system for immigration, setting annual limits based on nationality and requiring fees for visas. It restricts immigration from Mexico; The U.S. Border Patrol is officially established.
1942: The Bracero Program is implemented, allowing temporary agricultural laborers from Mexico to work in the United States to address labor shortages during World War II and its aftermath.
1944: Title 42 (federal law) is crafted to prevent the spread of communicable diseases; it allowed the U.S. to deny migrants and/or asylum seekers entry if there is a national health crisis, pandemic, or other outbreak such as tuberculosis; Title 42 imparted no penalty on migrants for trying to cross the border illegally as Title 8 does today.
1947: U.S. and Mexico ratify the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance that says an attack on one nation is to be considered an attack upon the others. (America would later evoke the “Rio Act” after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.)
1954: Operation Wetback employs the U.S. Military to detain and deport illegal immigrants. The policy was quietly encouraged by the Mexican government who felt Mexico was losing too many laborers to the U.S.
1965: The Immigration and Nationality Act abolishes the national origins quota system and establishes a preference-based system focusing on family reunification and skilled labor. It results in increased immigration from Mexico and other parts of the world.
1969: The War on Drugs officially begins; U.S. installs agents on the border to inspect for illegal narcotics entering the U.S.
1973: U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) is established
1980: Congress passes Title 8 of the US Code of Federal Regulations that establishes official immigration laws and defines “aliens.”
1986: The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) is enacted, granting amnesty to certain undocumented immigrants who entered the United States prior to 1982; It implements penalties for employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers.
1994: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed to promote an economic partnership between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
2001: In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government strengthens border security measures and creates the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to bolster border and national security.
2006: The Secure Fence Act is signed into law, authorizing the construction of physical barriers along the U.S./Mexico border.
2008: The Merida Initiative anti-drug plan is launched; the U.S. provides Mexico with weapons, intelligence, training, technology, aircraft, and funds to combat importation of illegal drugs and the crime that comes with them.
2012: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is introduced by executive action; it’s designed to provide temporary relief from deportation for certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors.
2013: Merida 2.0 is launched.
2015: Nearly 700 miles of border fence is completed.
2016: Newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump promises to build a border wall.
2018: Due to an immigration surge largely spurred by the collapse of Central American economies, U.S. President Donald Trump launches the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) initiative, (also called “Remain in Mexico”) that forces asylum seekers who immigrate via Mexico to wait out their probationary period in Mexico rather than in the U.S.
2020: U.S., Mexico, and Canada sign USMCA, essentially NAFTA 2.0; Mexico passes a law that requires any Mexican official to get approval from a Mexican panel before meeting with U.S. agents. The law effectively cools drug enforcement relations between the two countries in that due to Mexican corruption, any such discussions/panel approval would likely compromise sensitive intelligence; Title 42 is evoked; it allows the U.S. to quickly turn migrants and asylum seekers away at the border due to Covid 19 fears.
2021: President Joe Biden takes office and signs several executive actions to reverse Trump-era immigration policies; The construction of the border wall is halted; Biden tries to end Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, but he’s overruled by the courts in 2022; southern border is reopened after Covid fears dwindle.
2022: Migration at the border spikes to a then-all-time high in May of 2022, when the U.S. apprehends 239,416 illegal immigrants in one month as they try to cross the border.
2023: Title 42 is lifted under Biden; in three years it was used more that 2.8 million times to deny asylum seekers entry. Immigration code reverts to Title 8; asylum seekers are now processed on U.S. soil of which an estimated 99 percent are allowed entry.
June 2023: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas vows to reinstate the left’s “Sanctuary Country” directive that protects most illegal aliens from arrest and deportation if caught.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS to TERRORISTS ON THE BORDER AND IN OUR COUNTRY by Charles A. MarinoSummary: China, Russia, the radical Left’s shift to authoritarianism, global pandemics. There are myriad threats to U.S. citizens right now, but few are neither as dire nor as close to home as those posed by Mexico’s ruthless cartels. From flooding the States with deadly fentanyl, to killing, kidnapping, and offering safe passage to illegal immigrants, MS-13 gangsters and jihadi terrorists, the cartels have become more than a pesky Bordertown problem but a genuine threat to America’s national security. Through 12 chapters, national security expert Charles Marino tells how the cartels came into power and exposes ongoing policy problems before outlining pragmatic, nonpartisan steps on how the U.S. can combat … the cartel threat.
Chapter 1. The Current Cartel Threat
- Anecdote: March 7, 2023, Americans Murdered in Matamoros.
- Overview of daily threats Americans face.
- Single biggest threat to U.S. national security.
Chapter 2. Mexico’s vast resources—and its longstanding tradition of corruption.
- Stats on Mexico’s GDP, resources, poverty, and crime rate.
Chapter 3. Politics & U.S./Mexico Relations
Chapter 4. The Dangerous Southwest Border
- U.S. crime, drug, murder, and immigration statistics at the border.
- Compare with interior U.S. and Canadian border stats.
Chapter 5. Defining the Cartels
- Who are they and how they operate.
Chapter 6. Specific Threats to US Citizens and the U.S. Itself
- Drug trafficking from cocaine to fentanyl.
- Kidnapping, crime, murder & extortion.
- South American-style gang violence via Mexico.
- Human trafficking.
- Jihadi terrorism via Mexico.
- The China connection.
- Economic destruction and strained infrastructure from illegal immigration.
Chapter 7. Why past U.S. & Mexican attempts at dismantling cartels have failed
- Government corruption.
- Weak law enforcement & judicial institutions.
- Treated solely as law enforcement problem.
- Decriminalization of drugs/demand.
Chapter 8. Blaming America for Mexico’s problems
- Mexico’s systemic poverty and corruption is root cause, not America’s prosperity.
Chapter 9. A New Approach
- Designate the Mexican Cartels as terrorist organizations.
- U.S. whole of government approach, unilateral if necessary.
- Simultaneous LE operations against cartel members living within the US.
- Focused fed, state, & local enforcement of fentanyl dealers.
- Enhanced penalties & sentencing.
Chapter 10. Bringing the Fight to the Cartels
- Use of law enforcement, intel, & military
Chapter 11. What we must do right now, before it’s too late
- Secure the border
- Increased budget & staffing
- Allowed to do the jobs hired to do
- Policies do not undercut operational statutory authorities
Chapter 12. Postlude
- Revisit the devastating effect that the Mexican Cartels have had on both Mexican and U.S. citizens.
- Provide the reader with the likely results of the new approach.
Preface
“We are not saying, ‘Don’t come.’ We are saying, ‘Don’t come now ….’”
With these calculated words from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during an official White House Press Corps address on March 1, 2021, the message was sent to the world that America’s Southwest border would soon be wide open to anyone wishing to enter.
Fifteen-year-old Maria and her tight knit family heard the news from small-town gossip and on social media: Incoming U.S. President Joe Biden promised to stop construction of Trump’s border wall immediately upon taking office and offer refuge to anyone who could reach American soil under a simple verbal claim of asylum. For millions of desperate folks from impoverished areas all over the world, this new messaging was an invitation—a welcome mat—compared to Trump’s policies that required immigrants to stay in Mexico while their individual cases were investigated.
Word on the streets of Chihuahua suggested that if Maria could just make it across the border, she’d be free to make a life in America. Her cousins who legally immigrated to California in 2005 urged her to come, insisting there’s be plenty of jobs available when she arrived. Getting there, however, would be on her.
As an “unaccompanied child” she was told she had little to worry about. She’d also heard that even if she was apprehended by Biden Administration authorities, her journey might simply be delayed for a few days as she was processed and released for a court hearing sometime in the years to come. And if for any reason she was expelled back to Mexico, under America’s new Covid rules there would be no penalties for trying again. For Maria, the odds were worth the risk. But like always, there was the money issue.
She’d lost her father to a motorcycle accident when she was 13 and had to drop out of school to help her mother feed her brother and sisters. They figured if she could make it to California where the poor are given housing, food, and healthcare, she could send money home and eventually bring the whole family to live with her.
So finally, with the help of small donations from extended family and some street wisdom garnered from two tough years of fending for herself, Maria felt she was ready. So, she Snapchatted an acquaintance who made a few calls. A week later she hopped a ride to a tiny town outside of Ciudad Juarez where she met up with a coyote who promised to usher her across the border.
Maria knew she’d made a mistake as soon as she saw him.
His body was laden with wicked tattoos, and when he turned, she saw the flash of a handgun partially hidden in his waistband. He looked her up and down like a meat inspector before sneering in approval. For young Maria, her natural beauty was both a blessing and a curse. The coyote’s wicked smile vanished as he demanded the money.
Maria was already in too deep; she had no choice but to reach into her backpack to fish out her life savings—$2,000 U.S.—knowing that she must pay the remaining balance of her bill within three months after reaching the states and that she would likely be forced to work for the Cartels even longer once in the country. What that “job” would entail was unknown and feared.
From the moment she handed him the cash and was shoved into a Ford pickup, she was not treated like a client paying for a service, but rather like a stock animal headed to auction. She was pleasantly surprised though when her trip across the Rio Grande somewhere near Guadalupe, Mex, was much less treacherous than the drowning nightmare she had anticipated; minutes later when she felt American soil under her feet, she started to relax a bit.
But her easiness was short lived; Maria would not taste the American freedom that she’d dreamt for another five tortuous months. Rather, her nightmare was just beginning.
As soon as she changed into dry clothes pulled from the only luggage she carried—a plastic bag—she was ushered up a steep riverbank, led across a few hundred yards of crop fields and finally onto a culvert beside a dirt road where they hid. An hour later or so another pickup appeared, into which she was ordered to lay down in its covered bed and not move. Lying beside her were several plastic containers filled with packaged cocaine–and as she would later learn—enough fentanyl to kill most of Dallas.
Maria was driven for several suffocating hours West on U.S. HWY 10 before the truck made its first and only stop. She thanked God that it was a relatively cool morning in March, or she surely would have baked to death. But before she could discern any of her new surroundings, she was blindfolded and whisked into a seedy windowless bedroom in a stash house somewhere in Tucson. She was pushed to a bed, given a sack of fast food, some Xanax pills and told she needed to rest awhile before continuing her journey to California and her new life.
But there would be no journey; For the next five months the young girl’s life was a haze of violence, drugs, sleep, and rape.
Maria was sold into prostitution—and used by cartel members—day after day, night after night. Like every kidnapping story you’ve ever heard, she was told that if she tried to run, therefore defaulting on her debt, she would be tortured and her mother and little brother back in Chihuahua would be killed. And she had every reason to believe them, as she’d witnessed their savagery on numerous occasions and overheard many of the vile deeds they’d done while they partied in the next room and bragged about their gangbanging exploits, including intentionally killing “stupid American teenagers” by selling them fentanyl-laced cocaine. And so, Maria entered survival mode, doing what she had to do to live, trying to block out all the rest, all while praying for an opportunity to escape her living hell—whenever she was lucid enough to do so.
Despite Maria’s life-altering physical and mental scars, she’s among the lucky; a raid on the stash house thanks to an informant tip landed her in DEA custody who promptly turned her over to ICE. Her whereabouts to this day are confidential.
As Americans, we all hope Maria is safe and somehow prospering, wherever she is. But the problem of illegal immigration on a mass scale is only getting worse … and will continue to do so until America’s immigration policies are enforced, and its messaging serves as a deterrent. What we do know for sure is that despite what President Biden’s incompetent and absentee “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris attempts to spin; the border is most definitely NOT secure. It’s an insult to the American people’s intelligence to even suggest otherwise.
The most sickening part is Maria’s story isn’t unique. Hundreds of thousands like hers have occurred since this crisis started. And human trafficking is just one horrific byproduct of America’s leaders losing operational control of our border: Other people sneak into America not for a better life or a more lucrative one selling illegal drugs and guns to its vast and wealthy markets; Rather, professionally trained, Middle East-bred terrorists come specifically to destroy it via bombs. At the time of this writing, news of hundreds of Chinese, Iranian and Russian nationals being caught at the southern border—some of them suspected of being foreign agents—is commonplace. Meanwhile, Central American-style gangs like the notorious MS-13 continue to fuel their ruthless criminal enterprises in American cities via drugs, theft, kidnapping and murder. On a less violent note, even well-intended illegal immigrants take jobs that could be filled by legal immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, all while not paying back into the system via taxes but rather fleecing it by sending their earnings home.
America's resources and infrastructure such as its welfare systems, housing, hospitals, schools, and police departments are all stretched like pawnshop guitar strings, while once-great American cities from coast to coast are morphing into virtual border towns before our very eyes. Still, elite, progressive leftists say America is incorrigibly racist and should be ashamed of itself for not letting everyone in.
President Biden and his administration claim its open-border politics are molded out of empathy for the world’s impoverished peoples. But where is that same empathy for low- and middle-class Americans who bear the brunt of unfettered illegal immigration? Biden’s reluctance to enforce the border and immigration laws of the United States demonstrates that abandoning their federal responsibilities has done nothing but endanger the lives of migrants and Americans and make the country a more dangerous place.
At the same time illegal immigrants are receiving free plane tickets, swank hotel stays, meals, smartphones, and healthcare, you might be surprised how many poor white kids in rural Oklahoma trailer parks don’t have toothpaste or access to medicine, much less a decent education or a half-ass chance at success. Yet we seldom if ever hear this Administration talk about helping them. Sioux Tribal members on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota have one of the highest poverty rates this country has witnessed since the Great Depression; the substance abuse and suicide rates are off the charts … but you seldom hear about it because it’s a progressive embarrassment—and because the Rosebud Sioux is a sovereign nation, so its statistics needn’t be reported as U.S. statistics. So, the media and lawmakers conveniently sweep them under the rug, all to continue the narrative they want to push.
As of late 2023, parts of Detroit look like the scene of a horror movie; Chicago averages 60 murders per month, and LA’s homeless situation is untenable. San Francisco is a real-life Gotham City with its “defund the police” movement installed that allows criminals to steal, loot, pillage, defecate and get high at will as business owners flee. Yet each day the news shows more immigrants spilling into the country from our southern border, unvetted, as tax-paying Americans can only watch and wonder how many more resources and opportunities their country can hand out.
These days many sympathetic Americans tend to forget that “asylum,” as the U.S. immigration law defines it, doesn’t mean “an escape from poverty.” Sadly, there are billions of innocent people around the globe suffering from abject poverty, and we can’t save them all. Rather, “asylum” means to provide special safe haven for those people who are fleeing dire government persecution due to race, religion, or other political reasons. We must remember this as we move forward.
Here’s another fact we must remember: A country cannot be considered sovereign or safe without secure borders. The leaders of every prosperous nation in the history of the world have known this, perhaps with the strange exception of the Biden Administration and the radical leftists in Congress and in universities. By 2023 America’s political divide has created a perfect storm, if we don’t circle the wagons now—specifically at the polling booths in 2024—our nation’s days of prosperity—the very reason people by the millions risk their lives to come here—will come to an end because its current trajectory simply cannot be sustained.
But before we can fully delve into border security, immigration policy and how to fix it, we should first take a truncated and unbiased look at the U.S. and Mexico’s relatively brief history as neighbors and the policy that resulted. After all, to ignore history is to invite ignorance into future planning.