{"id":330546,"date":"2021-08-26T06:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/afghan-terror-at-us-mexico-border-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T03:02:50","slug":"afghan-terror-at-us-mexico-border-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/afghan-terror-at-us-mexico-border-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Afghan terror\u2019 at US-Mexico border: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a253cf8dd352\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a253cf8dd352\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/afghan-terror-at-us-mexico-border-devine\/#Gov_strikes_right_note_by_releasing_true_nursing-home_COV_toll\" >Gov strikes right note by releasing true nursing-home COV toll<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#\u2018Afghan terror\u2019 at US-Mexico border: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s Afghanistan debacle shows us how much damage one president can do. But why would it stop there?<\/p>\n<p>The lack of contrition from the president or anyone in his administration leads to the alarming conclusion that they haven\u2019t learned a thing. If you fail to show humility in the face of your own mistakes, it means you are destined to repeat them. And unfortunately for the rest of us, we are along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>At least with the self-inflicted disaster in Afghanistan, even the left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> have held the administration to account. The criticism is an unfamiliar feeling for Biden and the pampered likes of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, as you can see from their shell-shocked faces.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt normal programming will resume soon, once the last US military plane leaves the Kabul airport and a Taliban-ordered media blackout descends. The administration\u2019s unforced errors will again be explained away by silver-tongued scribes and its gaslighting accepted as gospel truth.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another humanitarian crisis that had been unfolding quietly right on our doorstep for months before Biden\u2019s foolhardy decision to close Bagram Air Base \u2014 the unchecked flow of illegal migrants over the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>It is no stretch of the imagination to see the national-security threat of Afghan terrorists newly freed from prison by the Taliban making their way to Mexico and slipping past overworked border agents.<\/p>\n<p>They would just be following in the path of others named on the terror-watch list, such as the two Yemeni men caught crossing into California in recent months. Even as Psaki tries to reassure Americans that every person flown out of the chaos in Kabul will be carefully vetted before setting foot in the US, what\u2019s the point of having a functioning front door when your back door is wide open?<\/p>\n<p>Who will do the vetting, anyway? The overloaded Department of Homeland Security as it is can\u2019t keep up with the influx over the southern border.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Taliban-fighters-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 23, 2021.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-19249478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Taliban-fighters-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Taliban-fighters-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Taliban-fighters-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 23, 2021.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cVetting\u201d is just kabuki theater. You may as well fly the Afghans straight to the southern border from Kabul and save on red tape.<\/p>\n<p>The good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> is that the Supreme Court this week reinstated the Trump-era \u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy and even suggested the Biden administration had violated federal law by rescinding it.<\/p>\n<p>If enforced, the policy would require aspiring migrants to stay in Mexico pending a court hearing of their asylum case. Homeland Security says it will comply with the order but it has vowed to keep fighting it. Why? How does it serve American citizens to keep the surge over the southern border going? It is not even compassionate since it lures vulnerable people \u2014 and children \u2014 into the arms of criminal people smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>The border has become a magnet for opportunists all over the world, and the flow will never end without tough resolve and competence we don\u2019t see in the Oval Office. Why wouldn\u2019t you try your luck if you come from one of the broken-down countries whose nationals are swelling the ranks of South Americans at the border?<\/p>\n<p>Remain in Mexico was effective, but only as one element of a suite of border-protection measures put in place by the Trump administration that had slowed border crossings to a trickle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Border-Agents.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Border Patrol agents process Central American families who crossed the Rio Grande river into the US in Roma, Texas on July 30, 2021.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-19249498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Border-Agents.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Border-Agents.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Border-Agents.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Border Patrol agents process Central American families who crossed the Rio Grande river into the US in Roma, Texas on July 30, 2021.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Go Nakamura\/File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Building the border wall was another element, and yet on Day One of his presidency, Biden canceled all construction projects. Senate Republicans have estimated the cost of stopping construction at $2 billion \u2014 more than it would have cost to complete the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Biden administration has talked about sending the funny money it has \u201csaved\u201d as cash payments to residents of Northern Triangle Central American countries to, ahem, address the \u201croot causes\u201d of migration, Kamala Harris\u2019 fanciful mission.<\/p>\n<p>Great idea. Now more people will be able to afford to pay the cartels to smuggle them over the border.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to know how Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas can sleep at night. He knows what\u2019s going on, as you can hear in leaked audiotape obtained by Fox News of his comments to Border Patrol agents this month. The border crisis is \u201cunsustainable,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to lose .\u2009.\u2009. We can\u2019t continue like this. Our people in the field can\u2019t continue and our system isn\u2019t built for it.\u201d Cheery chap. Why he doesn\u2019t resign in protest is a mystery. He has been given an impossible job, since the first act of Biden\u2019s presidency was to dismantle Trump-era border protection.<\/p>\n<p>While the administration makes a show of extending border restrictions with Canada, it blithely keeps the southern border open. While it whips up COVID panic with vaccine mandates and mask mandates on little kids, it turns a blind eye to the superspreader event spreading across the country from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>It bases its cynical media management around the gaslighter variation of an old philosophical question: \u201cIf a tree falls in a forest and no one hears the sound, did it ever exist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If there is a crisis at the southern border and most of the media ignores it, is it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening at all?<\/p>\n<p>No news is good news from the Biden perspective. Only ice cream reports \u00adallowed.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gov_strikes_right_note_by_releasing_true_nursing-home_COV_toll\"><\/span>Gov strikes right note by releasing true nursing-home COV toll<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>New York\u2019s new governor, Kathy Hochul, got off to a good start in her first day on the job by coming clean on the state\u2019s true COVID death toll.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s grim news that New York suffered nearly 12,000 more deaths during the pandemic than Andrew Cuomo would \u2019fess up to.<\/p>\n<p>But Hochul understands that accounting for her predecessor\u2019s callous order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients last year \u2014 and the subsequent coverup \u2014 is the unfinished business of his sorry reign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Kathy-Hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul\" class=\"wp-image-19249529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Kathy-Hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Kathy-Hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Kathy-Hochul-7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. Kathy Hochul is already cleaning Andrew Cuomo\u2019s mess by releasing the state\u2019s true coronavirus death tally.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe public deserves a clear, honest picture of what\u2019s happening . . . Whether it\u2019s good or bad, they need to know the truth. And that\u2019s how we restore confidence,\u201d said Hochul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a breath of fresh air. 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