It’s February, and More Turks Have Entered the U.S. From Mexico This Year Than In All of 2021

In these enlightened years of Biden’s handlers’ administration, the “Southern border” has become more of a concept than a reality, as anyone, literally anyone, no longer how long his criminal record or extensive his terrorist connections, can cross into the United States in hopes of a new life of peace, prosperity, and high living off the American taxpayer. The latest recipients of our forced generosity are Turkish nationals, who have been crossing into what has hitherto been known as the United States of America from Mexico in record numbers. And really, what could possibly go wrong? They’re coming to take the jobs Americans don’t want and become loyal, stable, productive members of American society, right? Right?

Fox News reported Thursday that “the number of Turkish migrants encountered at the southern border so far in FY 2022 already outpaces the number encountered in FY 2021 – a sign of the increasingly global character of the U.S. border crisis, which is now moving into its second year.”

Crisis? There’s no crisis. The border is working in exactly the way Biden’s handlers want it to: as a conduit for massive numbers of migrants who will come to America, become clients of the welfare system and dependents of the government, and reliably vote for Democrats.

“There have been 1,523 encounters of Turkish nationals so far in FY 2022, which started in October,” according to Fox. That’s already more than the 1,409 migrants encountered in the entirety of FY 2021.” That’s more in six weeks than there were in twelve months, and this isn’t the first exponential expansion of arrivals from Turkey: “However, that 1,409 was itself a massive increase from FY 2020, when there were just 109 encounters of migrants from Turkey, where low numbers would be unsurprising given the geographical gulf between the two countries.”

Meanwhile, on January 27, five Syrians were apprehended in Hidalgo, Texas just after they crossed the line formerly known as a border. Turks and Syrians: what could they possibly have in common? Might there be a reason why they want to enter the United States that doesn’t have to do with getting a good job and living in peace?

On December 20, 2021, Fox reported that “a ‘potential terrorist’ with links to a number of ‘Yemeni subjects of interest’ was captured in Arizona late last week after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol officials announced Monday.”

Rep. John Katko (R-NY), ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, distributed a fact sheet in October 2021 warning that “known or suspected terrorists are crossing the border ‘at a level we have never seen before.’” When Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott retired in August 2021, he released a video message in which he said: “Over and over again, I see other people talk about our mission, your mission, and the context of it being immigration or the current crisis today being an immigration crisis. I firmly believe that it is a national security crisis. Immigration is just a subcomponent of it, and right now it’s just a cover for massive amounts of smuggling going across the southwest border — to include TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That’s a real threat.” The TSDB is the Terrorist Screening Database. Scott was referring to people who are on the database crossing the Biden regime’s essentially nonexistent Southern border.

Biden’s handlers may be trying to cover up such incidents. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced last April that “U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested two Yemeni men within the last two months that were identified on a terrorism watch list.” However, the day after the CBP released that press release, it replaced it with an “Access Denied” notice, and it never returned. Were Biden’s handlers nervous that wide distribution of such information would expose their border policy even more than it was already exposed for the monstrous act of national betrayal that it is? Unfortunately for them, however, CBS-Los Angeles had already picked up the story, as well as Reuters and VOA.

“The first incident,” the CBP reported in its now-spiked release, “occurred on January 29, at approximately 1:10 a.m., when agents assigned to the El Centro Station arrested a man for illegally entering the United States.…Agents conducted records checks, which revealed that the man, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Yemen, was on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List as well as on the No-Fly list.” Then on March 30, “at approximately 11:30 p.m., when agents assigned to the El Centro Station arrested a man for illegally entering the United States,” agents “conducted records checks, which revealed that the man, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Yemen, was also on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and on the No-Fly list.”

And now Turks are streaming in, from a country that has been discarding secularism and readopting Sharia. If you express any concern about the possible catastrophic ramifications of this, you’re a racist, bigoted Islamophobe.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.