That the elite was pleased whenever the underworld frightened respectable society into accepting it on an equal footing. The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced their way into it. They were not particularly outraged at the monstrous forgeries in historiography of which all totalitarian regimes are guilty and which announce themselves clearly enough and totalitarian propaganda. – The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt 

Yeah. I forgot about that when I did the post the other day on the crisis at the US-Mexican border.

That map is courtesy of the Substack of former US Intelligence Agent, Capt. Seth Keshel and his spicy little article, The Sizzle: Do You Really Know What is Going On South of the Border? That was from early 2023 so his criticism is bi-partisan:

Cartel activity pushes its way over the border, which, as a whole, is woefully unprotected thanks to the unwillingness of Democrats to protect the nation, and Republicans to aggressively push for it when in power in the U.S. Congress, or at the executive level of a state.  Governors Greg Abbott (Texas) and Doug Ducey (former governor of Arizona) have been particularly derelict in their duty to use extraordinary measures to exhaust all resources in support of fortifying our southern border.

There’s another map showing how the cartels then move into American cities, with an example of a typical plan…:

4) Smugglers arrive at Border Point of Entry Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and await proper time for illegal entry into the United States.  Additionally, the smuggling team has picked up four children at a cost of $10,000.00 each for movement across the Rio Grande River into Laredo, Texas.

5) At 0400 hours, amid a personnel rotation and poor illumination, the team chooses a low point on the Rio Grande River and dashes across and takes shelter at the U.S. Primary Staging Area in Laredo.

6) Seeking to evade detection, the smuggling team boards an 18-wheeler and travels back highways away from I-35 as a viable Route of Egress From Border.

7) After a drive of nearly four hours, smuggling team arrives in Secondary Staging Area San Antonio, Texas, at a cartel safehouse for retooling and refitting from the long journey.  The team finds rest, food, shelter, clothing, and, if necessary, ammunition and supplies.

It’s all quite organised, as is this:

The different cartels operating in Mexican border cities are setting up their own “intelligence centers” equipped with cameras, communications and a rudimentary dispatch office from where they send information gathered by their cameras, lookouts or sources to their operators.

Criminal organizations like the Sinaloa cartel or the Jalisco New Generation cartel are setting up proper “intelligence bunkers” from where they keep a tight watch on authorities, citizens and “enemies” along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Mexican officials and cartel members speaking with Fox News Digital.

That includes drones, operated by hundreds of lookouts (kown as “halcones” – hawks in Spanish) settled at the entrance of various cities or on the top of the mountains around (“to watch over the gringos (Americans). We write down the shifts of the Border Patrol or if they catch some of the migrants we were smuggling,”). Plus sending backup for drug fights, and even hitmen against rivals and cops.

Then there’s this.

A Texas land developer has established a sprawling settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, raising concerns among experts and elected officials that the development 400 miles in the interior of the United States could become a strategic asset for cartels.

What do you mean, “could”. The cops told the journalists who bothered to investigate that the Gulf and Sinola cartels were early investors. Here’s a set of X-Tweets on the “development, including all the online marketing materials being shown to prospective “asylum seekers”.

Impressive no? It’s about the size of Washington D.C. in land area and only about 40 miles from Houston. Check out the rest of the story here. and here. Joe Biden wasn’t worried about this in mid-2023:

Joe Biden was asked about the situation at the southern border after Title 42 expired and he laughed. He poked a bit of fun at the media for reporting on the expected increase in the flood of migrants trying to illegally cross into the United States outside of a legal port of entry.

But who cares about murderous Mexican drug cartels when you’ve got terrorists to think about. Reporter Bill Melugin has been focusing on the border crisis for some time now and the videos of the waves of illegals on his X-Twitter account are astounding to look at. But then there’s this:

It took another few months but just the other day the FBI – well the retired FBI – finally issued a warning that right-wing blogs and news sources have been talking about for two years:

“The threat we call out today is new and unfamiliar. In its modern history the U.S. has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and, yet, one is unfolding now. Military age men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands – not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane bur rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected with ready access granted.”

The amount of single, military-aged males that have entered the country has also come from other regions of the world, not normally seen by the Border Patrol. More men are coming from regions and countries that are either hostile to the United States or have active terrorist groups operating within their countries. Further noting that since 2020, at least 2,000 people who are either known terror suspects or are on the terrorist watch list have been apprehended, and the consensus says that number is most likely far higher. 

Back on October 7, 2023, we saw what just a 1000 Hamas terrorists and their civilian (and UNRWA) enablers were able to do in Southern Israel. You think 2000 or more – small units of fighters scattered across dozens or even hundreds of American towns and cities.- could not pull off something even bigger in the USA?