More than a third of those attacks have occurred in the last month, marking a clear surge in violence against U.S. forces in the region. ..."If Iran continues to threaten our troops in Syria and Iraq, the right response militarily would be, in my view, to hit the IRGC training bases and infrastructure inside of Iran," Graham said.
Reference: www.voanews.com
a Tucson supervisory border patrol agent arrested an armed person on the U.S. side who had a loaded AK-47 rifle, two loaded AK magazines, loose rounds and a handgun. ...
Reference: www.foxbusiness.com
U.S. forces have come under attack 97 times by missiles and attack drones, in Syria and Iraq since October 17...A missile strike on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad last week was an uptick in the attacks after Iran-backed Kata'ib Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian militias had previously targeted only military bases and troops.
Reference: www.ynetnews.com
Nearly 60 U.S. troops at military bases in Syria and Iraq have been injured in 56 missile and drone attacks launched in the last month by Iran-backed militant groups, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Militant groups in the region began increasing attacks on U.S. bases in the two countries in mid-October, within two weeks after Hamas militants from Gaza launched a surprise attack on Israel that killed hundreds of civilians. Since then, American troops have been targeted dozens of times at bases in Iraq and Syria. ...
Reference: www.stripes.com
American forces targeted with rockets, drones in Syria, Iraq...A U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday that there have now been 46 attacks on American military bases since Oct. 17 – about a week after Hamas launched its war on Israel.
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The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Sunday reluctantly agreed with an Air Force general’s prediction that the United States would go to war with China in 2025 over Taiwan. ...war is likelier if President Biden is in office and “projecting weakness.”
Reference: nypost.com
Vice President Kamala Harris is supposedly the White House point on the border surge...“root causes” Harris has stopped pretending to do anything about it, after a few Central American photo-ops...Despite the issue being at the top of the list of crises facing the country, it’s obvious no one in the White House wants to touch the growing disaster. After all, the real Biden approach here is “let ’em in,”
Reference: nypost.com
...while working Americans are struggling to make ends meet amid soaring inflation, President Joe Biden’s deputies are “flooding the labor market with one foreign worker for every young American who joins the economy.”...In December, federal data showed that Alejandro Mayorkas — the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Biden’s border chief — let 120,562 single adult migrants into the States, compared to just 5,592 single adult migrants allowed in by President Donald Trump in December 2020.
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...bused to the Big Apple from Texas won’t face deportation — unless they’re convicted, sources and legal experts said Tuesday. ...charged with stealing more than $12,000 in merchandise from Macy’s Roosevelt Field... are getting a break because they are asylum seekers, not illegal immigrants who crossed the US border. “They are given the benefit of the doubt because they have a pending application with the [US Citizenship and Immigration Services],” Queens-based immigration lawyer Luis Nicho told The Post.
Reference: nypost.com
...arrested and charged with domestic terrorism and criminal trespass near a police training center under construction in Georgia, according to officials. Officers located and removed approximately 25 campsites belonging to protesters. Officials said they recovered mortar style fireworks, multiple edged weapons, pellet rifles, gas masks and a blow torch. ... "Officers gave verbal commands to the man who did not comply and shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper." Police returned fire on the man, who died on scene.
Reference: abcnews.go.com
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is suffering a nationwide technical outage and order
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...the U.S. will accept 30,000 people per month from the four nations for two years and offer the ability to work legally, as long as they come legally, have eligible sponsors and pass vetting and background checks. Border crossings by migrants from those four nations have risen most sharply, with no easy way to quickly return them to their home countries. ...the newly minted Republican House majority has promised congressional investigations on the matter. The new policy could result in 360,000 people from these four nations lawfully entering the U.S. in a year, a huge number.
Reference: time.com
Snippet of Article: "...A new memo from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on worksite enforcement of immigration laws garnered some media and political attention because it prohibits ICE from conducting worksite raids for illegal aliens. But the memo is more than just the latest in a series of anti-immigration-enforcement directives by this administration. Rather, it represents the Left’s rejection of the very concept of illegal employment. ...Mayorkas’s new memo, on the other hand, is concerned almost exclusively with protecting illegal-immigrant workers. focusing on unscrupulous employers who exploit the vulnerability of undocumented workers” [my emphasis], mentioning specifically “illegal acts ranging from the payment of substandard wages to imposing unsafe working conditions and..."
Source: Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
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El Paso, Texas is overwhelmed by the mass influx of migrants ... two years ago, Joe Biden set out to ... destroy El Paso and make it much more like Juarez. To do that, the administration opened America's southern border to the world. No place in our country was hit harder by that decision than El Paso, Texas. ...illegal immigration into El Paso has risen by over 280% – undreds of thousands of foreign nationals streaming in, jobless, penniless, anonymous. ...media ignores it. No one even covers it. Most Americans have no idea your city has been destroyed.
Reference: www.foxnews.com
A wave of terrorist attacks on electric grid substations across the country, including six in the Pacific Northwest, have federal emergency responders on edge and local power entities eying security upgrades. The attacks, which occurred in late November and early December, brought arson, guns, break-ins and more to high-voltage substations ...
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