The border crisis in America blares across the news constantly now, so I decided to take a look back. The US declared war on Mexico in 1846 over territorial disputes. That war lasted two years, Mexico lost about 1/3 of it’s territory when the dust settled and many of America’s top Civil War generals in the 1860s, cut their eyeteeth on war during that Mexican-American War.
Since that 1840s conflict, US-Mexico territorial disputes flared up many times In 1914, Mexico was in the midst of a revolution and a Mexican revolutionary leader/guerilla fighter, Pancho Villa, launched a raid on Columbus, NM, which led to the US invading Mexico. President Wilson picked General John J. Pershing to lead the US retaliatory attack on Mexico. By 1917, the US entered World War I and General John J. Pershing became the commander of the US Expeditionary Force, leading US forces in World War I. Pershing’s previous war experiences also included serving in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the Philippine-American War in 1899.
From the Library of Congress:
“Mexican immigration in the 20th century came in three great surges of growth. The first surge began in the 1900s. Revolution in Mexico and a strong U.S. economy brought a tremendous increase in Mexican immigration rates. Between 1910 and 1930, the number of Mexican immigrants counted by the U.S. census tripled from 200,000 to 600,000. The actual number was probably far greater. El Paso, Texas, served as the Mexican Ellis Island–a gateway to a different life for Mexican immigrants and a powerful symbol of change and survival for their children and grandchildren.”
So, what’s going on now with this massive increase of illegal immigration flooding across the US southern border? Is this similar or dissimilar to previous surges of illegal immigration at the border?
Well, I’m of the belief this is very different and a deliberate, orchestrated asymmetrical attack on the United States of America, just like I believe the “Syrian Refugee Crisis” was a deliberate, orchestrated asymmetrical attack on the West, to flood in refugees to destabilize Western countries. Certainly, criminals, like the Mexican drug cartels are opportunistically involved in this invasion of the US too, flooding in Chinese fentanyl and other drugs. China is on the move in Central and South America, setting the stage for a larger economic war and, I believe, more asymmetrical attacks on the US.
Certainly, amidst the hordes of illegal immigrants flooding into the US, there are likely many people just seeking a better life here, but these caravans transporting illegal immigrants from Central America and through Mexico paint a much more ominous bigger picture. The same liberal activist crowd (including the Obama crowd) aided and abetted the Syrian Refugee Crisis and they’ve aided and abetted this invasion of our southern border, that’s happening now. All sorts of NGOs operate to facilitate this invasion, just like there were NGOs involved in facilitating the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Here’s a 2021 quote from UNHCR, Syria Refugee Crisis – Globally, in Europe and in Cyprus:
“European countries host over 1 million Syrian asylum-seekers and refugees, with the 70 per cent being hosted in two countries only: Germany (59 percent) and Sweden (11 percent). This makes Germany the fifth largest host country globally, hosting over 1 million in total, of which over half (560,000) are Syrians. Austria, Greece, the Netherlands and France host between 2 to 5 percent, while other countries host below 2 percent.”
Unfortunately, the political people on the right, from Trump, to Abbott, to any Republican leaders, only talk about symmetrical actions to secure the physical border, not ways to defeat the much larger asymmetrical war taking place. A large part of this asymmetrical war is like everything else the far-left global transformers embark on – it’s largely dependent on controlling public opinion and yes, it’s the spin information war.
The right, including Trump, are presently winning the spin war battle on illegal immigration. Polling consistently shows Americans want US borders secured and they don’t want to pay for millions of illegal immigrants to live off of US taxpayers or to be rewarded with benefits for illegally entering the US.
I think Trump will be the GOP nominee and stands a good chance of winning in November, while the Dems are in disarray at the moment. I believe former President Obama is pressuring Biden to step aside. There’s a media drumbeat about Michelle Obama being the magic ticket for Democrats and certainly the liberal media would galvanize to promote her. Gavin Newsom is another possibility, who’s talked about frequently. I won’t be surprised if Biden steps aside in the next few months.
With this being the current state of politics, I feel certain Democrats and their global elite transformers will try to stir up crisis after crisis at the US southern border, to create a media firestorm about the Republican physical efforts to secure the border. And China, Russia, Iran and their allies will be trying to foment chaos in the US anywhere they can this year. During that Syrian refugee crisis, there was a global media effort to pressure Western leaders to accept more and more refugees – the drowned Syrian boy became the face of that crisis. I remember this, because of the orchestrated way media stuck microphones in the faces of European leaders and demanded they respond about this child drowning.
I feel the same sort of situation is developing at the Texas border and so far we’re hearing about drownings and razor wire constantly. I feel it’s a terrible idea for random Americans and groups to show up at the border to help secure or defend the border. It feels like playing into the hands of the global transformers (many of whom are American liberals) to have untrained and unorganized people showing up, to exacerbate an already chaotic situation.
I wonder why Tucker Carlson encouraged this – then again, I believe he’s a total fraud.
All it takes is for one incident of a “patriot” to shoot an illegal immigrant, then Trump shooting off his mouth in support of it, and the global media will be amplifying that non-stop and it could quickly dissipate support for Republicans on the handling of the border issue. It’s almost like Tucker Carlson is manipulating the right (and Trump) into the most self-destructive approach to fighting smart against the asymmetrical attack at the border. Carlson bragged he talked to Trump too. It feels like Carlson is trying to nudge (sabotage) Trump into saying bombastic things and support extreme policies, which could topple his current strong position to win in November.
I know there are many Trump supporters, who also have 100% trust in Tucker Carlson and buy into everything he says, so I expect there will now be pressure for Republican officials to embrace Carlson’s stupid idea. It’s stupid to encourage vigilantism with no plan to organize, train or utilize them in a coherent manner. It just encourages another J-6 chaotic type outcome, where angry people who consume too much right-wing social media, hyperventilating, then heading to TX or as in the J-6 protest, some unbalanced people too. And of course, it would give the feds another opportunity to utilize informants in the most radical right-wing groups and then prod more craziness, like the kidnapping Governor Whitmer plot.
Bottom-line is there is nothing strategically beneficial to an effort to secure the border with mobs of angry Americans showing up. And even more than that, there is nothing strategically beneficial for Trump to get behind this kind of vigilante effort Carlson is pushing.
I wrote two blog posts on “militias” in early America back in 2022, I can’t believe I’m writing about militias and The second part on militias. I was interested in this topic since 1976, the American Bicentennial, when I found out one of my ancestors was a captain of a local militia in the Northampton territory of northeast PA. Militias were organized by local governments. They operated under the auspices of the territorial authorities. My ancestor was tasked with recruiting 82 men. Many of those militias later were part of the Continental Army, which fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Unorganized mobs and individuals showing up at the border isn’t a plan – it’s a recipe for more chaos and for Republicans to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in November.
Note: the most successful effort to sway public opinion and change the entire national debate on the border invasion has been Governor Abbott’s effort of transporting illegal immigrants to Democrat-run “sanctuary cities.”
Currently, over 20 Republican governors are supporting Governor Abbott’s border efforts in TX and I feel more State vs. Federal challenges would be way more effective than a call to arms of untrained and unorganized citizen (vigilante) efforts. Republicans need to win in the court of public opinion, in order to win in November. There is no way a bunch of random armed citizens showing up at the Texas border will help Republicans keep winning in the court of public opinion or win in November.
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