Thread by @laralogan

For at least a month, Chinese nationals have been surging across the southern border, acc to law enforcement. Rio Grande station is receiving 50 - 70 every single day - a phenomenon they have never seen there before. The CCP usually sends it’s Chinese hackers to McAllen station.

McAllen is receiving apx double the number of Chinese they normally get with no end in sight. And since there is no repatriation agmt btwn the US & China, they are all released with a ‘Notice to Appear’ (NTA) to ICE on their own reconnaissance. So they are effectively let go.

To a military mind, this looks like what they would call “staging” - where you quietly put your forces in position in advance of an operation. There are no shortage of people in the Administration who know this & more, yet nothing is being down to address/stop this invasion.

On the contrary, many things are being done to facilitate/enable this, such as taking down intel/surveillance assets like the three aerostat balloons that have already come down in Texas while the rest are coming down at the end of this year - all due to a “lack of funding”.

This means agents on the ground have lost what they regard as their most significant advantage: their “eyes in the sky”. “It’s like 1924”, one told me, “We are tracking sign in the dirt & hits from ground sensors”. Essentially the US is now blind on apx 70 percent of the border.

At the same time, the ultra-violent & heavily armed Mexican cartels in control of the border are expanding their technology & tactics. Some nights they have so many drones in the sky, US air space is considered unsafe, grounding the helicopters border agents rely on.

This removes another US weapon from the southern border battlefield & further degrades any effort to counter the growing power of the cartels & their allies. Drones are so valuable to these cartels, they are paying people on the US side to inform them when stores get new supplies

& then they send their people in to buy the entire pallet of drones. The US is struggling/failing to counter these drones that can deliver any payload. One sector in RGV had 40 000 drone hits and managed to down only four.

And here’s something odd: the emergency beacons in place along the southwest border used to have instructions in 3 different languages for illegal immigrants in need of help, water etc. Those were English, Spanish & Mandarin. I saw that and filmed/reported on it first-hand. But…

Right after Biden took office, those instructions were ordered to be taken down & replaced with the exact same instructions in English & Spanish - Mandarin removed. Why? If funding is short, why spend money on something like that? if funding is too short to pay for surveillance

Which is critical to US National security, how can the Admin justify the millions & millions in taxpayer funds being spent on illegal immigration? This is an indication of priorities. Given the concern shared by all Americans re securing/protecting the country, a fair question

Would be: what is the priority of those in power today? And given the long, working relationship between Mexico’s cartels and the CCP, why is nothing being done about the surge of Chinese coming over the border today?

Acc to first-hand sources, these people are no longer running from US agents - they walk right to them secure in the knowledge they will be given immediate entry to the US - to what end?

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