{"id":68165,"date":"2016-09-26T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68165"},"modified":"2016-09-26T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:48:41","slug":"border-security-overemphasized-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68165","title":{"rendered":"Border Security \u201cOveremphasized\u201d? Hardly."},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people claim that the US is wasting money on border security operations.\u00a0 In fact, some go so far as to say that we should have open borders, advocating an utterly ridiculous and nonexistent \u201cright to migrate\u201d \u2013 and thus don\u2019t need to control our border at all.<\/p>\n

Others say the threat from terrorism is \u201coveremphasized\u201d.\u00a0 In fact, some people openly proclaim both of these (no need for border security and the threat from terrorism being overemphasized) to be true.<\/p>\n

Well, \u201cRiddle me this, Batman\u201d: \u00a0just how many encounters were there in the US with known and suspected terrorists during the one-year period ending 20 July 2016?<\/p>\n

If you guessed more than 7,700<\/u><\/em>\u00a0 – or an average of more than 21<\/em> every day<\/em>\u00a0<\/span> – give yourself a gold star.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not joking.<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m normally a bit hesitant to use Breitbart as a primary source.\u00a0 But here, the author at Breitbart seems to have gotten access to bona fide<\/em> documentation of his claims \u2013 documentation, as in an official briefing prepared by the FBI\u2019s Terrorist Screening Center<\/em>.\u00a0 The 7,700+ figure comes from the FBI briefing.<\/p>\n

No, all of those known\/suspected terrorists weren\u2019t radical Islamists.\u00a0 And yes, some of the reports were doubtless false alarms.<\/p>\n

But in the one state for which the FBI gave detailed figures, over half were assessed to be Islamic radicals.\u00a0 And even if only 10% of the reports nationwide are accurate, that still means we have somewhere over 700 terrorists running around loose.\u00a0 Recent news (the San Bernardino massacre, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the NYC bombings, and possibly the WA mall shooting) certainly proves the number isn\u2019t zero.<\/p>\n

And if you’re wondering how this ties to border security:\u00a0 from looking over the sketchy data available, it certainly appears that a helluva lot of the foreign terrorists currently in the US likely came into the country by crossing the US border illegally.\u00a0 It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that preventing such illegal crossings makes getting terrorists into the US significantly more difficult.<\/p>\n

The biggest issue with US border security is not<\/em> that it\u2019s a waste of time.\u00a0 Rather, the biggest problem is that we\u2019re still in denial.\u00a0 We’re still<\/span> not taking it seriously enough.<\/p>\n

And I’m wondering how many more attacks \u2013 and dead US citizens \u2013 it will take until we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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