Tag: safety

We Are All Vulnerable

Almost anyone in this world can be exposed to some form of vulnerability. You don’t even have to know that you are vulnerable in order to be taken advantage of by someone or something. We know this because the internet is full of phishing scams. It can be incredibly difficult for some people to actually know that a threat is present especially if their health or safety is compromised.

We have all probably heard a terrible story about a person being scammed out of their money because they trusted an email or text. This might have happened to a person you know in which case you might also understand just how awful the person felt after being scammed. The solicitation seemed so true and the scenario so honest that it didn’t feel right not to act on it. In the age of technology all of us must be aware of our vulnerability. But technology is not our worst threat.

The greatest scam happening in our country today is being perpetrated by government officials who exude misguided empathy. Think about the time when many cities implemented sanctuary policies for their immigrant population. How long after this did we discover that many immigrants who had been arrested for crimes had been given lenient punishment, arrested for another crime, let go again, wash, rinse repeat? Not only is the general population at risk for crimes against them but so are legal immigrants who typically live among these criminals. I understand the thinking behind the sanctuary policy was to encourage immigrants to come forward to report crimes against them, however when you combine this policy with the other policies that reduce the punishments for crime these sanctuary cities have left everyone vulnerable to the perpetrators.

But what about the vulnerability of the criminals? Didn’t they resort to criminal behavior because of the inequalities in our country? These questions are the misplaced empathy that liberal and progressive leaders cannot seem to solve with their new policies because the two forms of “vulnerable” populations (perpetrators and victims) are not able to help each other achieve justice…Leadership has failed their experiment. This is also true for the homeless, the mentally unstable and those who are drug addicted. No one can be helped therefore everyone is allowed to suffer. Asylum seekers suffer, the legally settled migrants suffer, the impoverished suffer, and the population at large suffers. No individual is immune because even the wealthy and well connected lose their empathy in this game of politics as the perpetrators eventually come for them.

So what can be done? Easy. Follow the federal and state laws that were put in place before the sanctuary cities decided their own laws. Disbar the Soros funded DAs who ignore or reduce criminal charges. Impeach judges who play politics with the law instead of implementing the law. Our representatives in Congress have the power to make this happen, but will they? If not then we the people must hold elected leadership accountable. We may be vulnerable, but we don’t have to be victims of their abuse of power.

Sadly, We Forgot

The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and consolidated several agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, into the newly formed ICE. This is Federal law. Can Congress change this law? Of course it can…but it won’t. Just like it won’t change immigration laws. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 and our current immigration laws go hand in hand. The Act tightened immigration policies in order to never repeat what happened on 9/11.

We forgot that the people who overstayed their visa twenty-four years ago were able to manipulate our systems in order to carry out the worst terror attack ever on our own soil. Twenty-four years is enough time for a whole generation of Americans to not understand the horror of that day.

Our federal government is responsible for our homeland security. It had egg on its face when security systems before 9/11 were so lax that the communication between the agencies failed to identify abuse by a terrorist threat. Foreign individuals conspired and organized the attack on 9/11 by accessing the means necessary to infiltrate airport security, flight training, and flight crew access…The tight measures we now experience to travel by plane continue to this day because of it. The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, passed by the 107th Congress and signed on November 19, 2001, established the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

In 2021 the new Administration under President Biden redirected Border Patrol duties to handle the influx of immigrants that were crossing the border into the United States from every possible unsecured access point. It doesn’t matter how the news media spins the narrative…The border was porous and the number of crossers were extremely high to the point where Border Patrol were acting as processors and not enforcers. Catch and release had to be used because there was no way to build enough containment facilities for the large numbers crossing each day. And while Border Patrol was acting as an intake agent it is certainly clear that they were not acting to find those illegal migrants who were crossing undetected.

The undetected illegal immigrants who crossed our border are the problem and there are many!! They could be the worst of the worst and DHS would not even know that they are in our country. These worst of the worst can conspire to commit another terrorist attack. Thankfully the current Administration has not forgotten what took place on 9/11. Our State Department will use every lever within their authority to find and control any threat to the American people.

Yet many in the Democratic leadership announce wholeheartedly that our ICE agents are out of control and must be stopped. Stopped by whom? Ideological radicals and anarchists roaming wildly wherever federal agents are doing their work? We have already seen guns being used against our ICE agents. This behavior is what is out of control, and it could get worse. We must not forget how radical ideologies beget terror. Never again is now!