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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

China - Border Crossings

Monday, July 24, 2023

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF News ASCF Articles

Comments: 0

Panama

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military-age males are illegally crossing into America. They are joining the millions of other illegal aliens who are crossing our Southern Border.

Michael Yon, a war correspondent, states that thousands of young, physically fit Chinese males are heading to the U.S. after passing through the Darien Gap jungle, which separates Columbia from Panama. After emerging from the jungle, they often spend one night at the UN/US-funded San Vincente camp, or Hotel Tonosi, before boarding luxury buses heading north toward Mexico. Yon observed one group at the Tonosi Hotel following a CCP Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) ritual of drinking raw chicken blood to celebrate an event (passing through the Darien Gap?)

Some migrants are almost certainly members of China's PLA, said Representative Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, at a press conference. Green also noted that a Border Patrol sector chief informed him that some Chinese migrants at the southern border have "known ties to the PLA.”

Escaping from China is not easy. What routes are used to leave China and arrive in the Americas? Who finances the trip, which can cost thousands of dollars? The CCP has declared unrestricted war against the United States. It is entirely reasonable that the CCP would insert sleeper cells into the U.S. to cause havoc in the event of hostilities between the CCP and the U.S., such as an invasion of Taiwan. There is no need to look for further proof than the 2020 BLM/Antifa riots in American cities or the January 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C., to see what havoc small, dedicated groups can accomplish. Small, trained military groups already embedded in the U.S. could inflict major damage to water supplies, energy infrastructure, communications, and military installations.

According to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Ca), over 5.5 million illegal aliens have been encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021, with more than 2.1 million released into American communities. Over 1.5 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. without being apprehended by the Border Patrol.

There is no way to accurately estimate the number of terrorists and criminals who have entered the U.S. However, Newsweek reported that ninety-eight FBI watch-list terrorists were apprehended at the border in 2022. But what about the 1.5 million aliens who escaped contact with the Border Patrol? Federal prosecutors in Ohio indicted an Iraqi ISIS fighter living in Ohio for plotting to smuggle eight of his old ISIS comrades through the Darian Gap into the U.S. to assassinate former President George W. Bush. The recent ambush murder of a Fargo, South Dakota policeman by Syrian Mohamad Barakat, who entered the U.S. in 2012 as a political refugee, is another example of immigrant terrorism.

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and non-profits such as Catholic Charities receive hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to aid migrants reaching the U.S. border. And once the migrants are in the U.S., more government funding is disbursed. The Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbied for a total of nearly $30 billion in appropriations of American taxpayer dollars just for the fiscal year 2024, related to addressing the rising cost of immigration in the U.S. By using non-profits, the government hides how much money is going for illegal immigrants and the total cost to local communities (housing, food, medical, etc.) Meanwhile, American cities are facing a homeless crisis of American citizens.

CCP fentanyl and other opioids are crossing our border in joint venture operations with Mexican drug cartels. Over 100,000 Americans last year died from opioids. The drug culture endemic to American culture must be denigrated and degraded. Sadly, our political and cultural leaders are absent in the fight. Hollywood seems to glorify drugs, and our political leaders are absent. Where is the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in educating our youth against the dangers of drugs? A national effort is needed to stop the flow.

CCP internet/media companies are crossing our internet border, stealing intellectual and military secrets, poisoning our culture, poisoning our youth, and poisoning our election process. Recently the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that Beijing-linked hackers accessed the email account of Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China, in an espionage operation thought to have compromised hundreds of thousands of U.S. government emails. Daniel Kritenbrink, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was also hacked in a broader spying operation disclosed this month by Microsoft.

Summary

The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to protect the nation. A person elected or appointed to an office in the civil service or uniformed services takes an oath to “solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Article Four, Section Four states that the “United States shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion.” In other words, even if the federal government chose to exercise no additional power, it must, under the Constitution, provide for the common defense. Our federal government is not doing its duty of defending America from invasion.

A nation without borders is not a nation. An unsecured border, where millions of people cross illegally without proper vetting, leads to a nation where lawlessness prevails, economic standards decline and the American culture of freedom and opportunity is diminished.

Actions:

●Secure the border. Elect government representatives
who will close the border to illegal aliens and
drugs.
●Stop funding NGOs that promote illegal immigration.
●Decouple the economy from the CCP. Raise tariffs to fund domestic investments.
●Restrict CCP TikTok and other CCP social media internet access to the U.S.

Peace Through Strength!

Laurence F. Sanford
Senior Analyst
American Security Council Foundation
www.ascf.us

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