The @WhiteHouse has been releasing videos of U.S. forces blowing up drug-smuggling boats as if they’re Superbowl ads.

They’ve quietly mobilized additional military assets to Puerto Rico.

But drug smuggling may not be the full story—or the real motivation.

A far more concerning pattern is emerging.

Here’s how a small Venezuelan island (Isla de Margarita), Iranian-backed terrorist groups, and U.S. housing may all connect within a sophisticated people-transportation network into the United States.

A 🧵 At a House hearing on March 20, 2013, lawmakers were briefed that Isla de Margarita (Margarita Island) was being used by Hezbollah to train Venezuelan cartel members.

This partnership isn’t new.

It’s more than a decade old.

And the island has been strategically used as a hub to exchange training tactics and likely much more.

congress.gov/event/113th-co…

I’ve spent half a decade studying how adversarial foreign governments, including China, Russia and Iran quietly acquire U.S. land, homes, and strategic properties.

I’ve recently been to the Capitol - meeting with members of Congress and the Senate - about how they’re thinking about this threat.

What I heard alarmed me.

Today, I’m going to explain why DC is missing the scale of this problem, why the public is only getting fragments of the truth, and what the real landscape looks like.

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https://x.com/jasonlewris/status/1988642459837251726

This morning, news broke that China secretly purchased a trailer park that shares a fence line with the base housing one of America’s bomber fleets.

On July 8, USDA rolled out a farmland monitoring initiative.

I shared my concerns then about why this approach fundamentally misses the threat.

https://x.com/jasonlewris/status/1942735523292012766

I've been studying how Russian, Chinese and Iranian governments buy American land and residential housing for half a decade.

I'm going to break down why the USDA is grossly unprepared for this renewed effort with their announcement today on "National Farm Security Action Plan" and why this won't work.

I'm going to share cases of property next to nuclear research facilities, sophisticated networks and strategies used, and how we can actually address this problem.

Let's begin. @SecRollins announced today alongside @SecDef, @AGPamBondi and @Sec_Noem a National Farm Security Action Plan

They shared the map at the bottom.

The map at the top is the actual state of affairs.

So why the difference and why are they unprepared for this task?

I decided to look at the top 100 housing markets in the country in a multi-dimensional space using hundreds of housing stats from @ParclLabs data.

The machines found some very interesting patterns.

Let's dig in. Why did I do this? Because housing is substantially more complex than can be interpreted in excel or a line graph.

So what did I do? I aggregated 100's of indicators about housing markets and put the machines to work.