The Illegal Alien Flood Has NOT Reduced. How Many Are Potential Terrorists?

Illegal Immigrants Surge Across the US Southern Border at Record Rate

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By Loren Gutentag   |   Monday, 23 Nov 2015 09:19 AM

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Illegal immigrants, specifically non-Mexican children, have been caught crossing the U.S. southern border at an alarming rate according to recent Border Patrol statistics.

With nearly 5,000 unaccompanied children caught in October and almost 3,000 caught in the first half of November, The Washington Timesreports that it signals how smuggling cartels and would-be illegal immigrants are paying close attention to the careless border enforcement in the U.S.

"The greatest existential threat to this nation right now is this administration's open-border policy. This is no longer about immigration, it's about the president and DHS keeping open the corridors on the southern border that are accessible to anyone in the world," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.

"We can defend our country against another country's navy, a missile threat and even repel a conventional military invasion. But the president's policy of allowing anyone into the nation as students or refugees presents a serious threat," he said.

Of course, concern for the southern border is growing at a time of heightened international danger, the Times reports.

According to KGNS, five Syrians were stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday, bringing the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the U.S. via "the Gateway to the Americas Bridge" up to 13.

The Department of Homeland Security noted that the family of five Syrians were taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection where the agency "checked their identities against numerous law enforcement and national security related databases."

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The statement by the CBP added, "Records checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals. CBP turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further processing and placement in an ICE facility."

Eight Syrians were also taken into custody by the CBP last Tuesday, KGNS reports.

Despite the recent apprehension of the 13 Syrians at the border, The Washington Times reports that "some 25,000 illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have been caught in the first seven weeks of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1 — an increase of 58 percent.

"The number of Chinese, Brazilians, Indians and, strikingly, Cubans, has each surged by more than 100 percent, and the number from Pakistan, while small overall, has spiked from 6 at this point last year to 31 now — an increase of more than 400 percent."

While officials were optimistic in their efforts to stop the flooding of immigrants earlier this year, border patrol officials in Washington have yet to comment on the recent surge — a vast contradiction from previous reports.

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Traditional Family Is A Thing Of The Past, Supreme Court Lack Of Decision Guarantees It. What's Next You Being Able To Marry Your Dog? Man/Boy Marriages? Does Everything Go Now?

This Supreme Court Decision Will Wreak Havoc on Traditional Family Values Across the U.S.

•  CONSTITUTION, FEATURED, IDEALS, NEWS
•  SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SUPREME COURT

The Supreme Court has just refused to hear cases related to the issue of same-sex marriage. Cases from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin were rejected. As a result, those states must now begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Applications for marriage licenses began to pour in immediately after the rejection. CNN reports Virginia began issuing the marriage licenses at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.

The CNN report continues:

Experts say its refusal to hear the cases from those five states also means that six more states — West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming — could soon have to lift their bans on same-sex marriage, because they are covered by the same circuit appeals courts that initially struck down the prohibitions.

Once that happens, the number of states permitting same-sex marriage would jump from 19 to 30. At issue is whether gay and lesbian couples in all 50 states have the same equal protection or due process right to marry that opposite-sex couples have.

In Utah, just hours after word from the high court came down, Gov. Gary Herbert said at a press conference that he felt “surprised” and “disappointed” that there was no “finality” on the issue of same-sex marriage. The state would comply with Monday’s order, he said, and same-sex marriages would move forward.

The court’s inaction presages a future time in which they may declare a new standard, based on evolving laws in individual states. A similar logic was used in the case of Lawrence v. Texas (2003), in which SCOTUS waited seventeen years to overrule Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), a challenge to the state’s sodomy law.

In Lawrence, the court said Bowers was no longer valid because of “an emerging awareness that liberty gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex.” Justice Scalia opposed the decision on the grounds the state still regulates “prostitution, adult incest, adultery, obscenity, and child pornography.” He continued, “Constitutional entitlements do not spring into existence because some States choose to lessen or eliminate criminal sanctions on certain behavior.”