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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.

Rep. Biggs Warns of ‘Border Catastrophe’ After Ending Title 42

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Immigration

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-biggs-warns-of-border-catastrophe-after-ending-title-42_4418763.html

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) (2nd L) speaks during a news conference with members of the group, including (L-R) Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM), Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT), about immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border outside the U.S. Capitol on March 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

After Title 42 ends, the volume of illegal border crossings will more than double, straining the already overburdened Border Patrol and leading to an “almost impossible to believe scenario of a border catastrophe,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said on April 19.

Biggs recently took about 45 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives—many from non-border states—to visit the southern border. They traveled from San Diego to Yuma, Ariz., and visited three border sections, Biggs told NTD’s “Capitol Reports.”

“They come away, their eyes are wide open. They understand more than ever the ramifications of continuing to have an open border,” said Biggs, who represents a district in the border state of Arizona. “They’re resolved to make changes and to evangelize, if you will, around the world, around the country, and in Congress. [They] have some things that we can do, and we must do, if we’re going to secure the border.”

In Yuma, the representatives took “a nighttime spin” with some Border Patrol agents and saw two open areas in the fence about a mile-and-a-half apart. At each of them, there were between 40 and 50 illegal aliens who crossed the border from Mexico and were sitting there waiting to be picked up by Border Patrol’s transport, Biggs said.

Each group of illegals was overseen by only one Border Patrol agent, he said. The next morning they visited exactly the same gaps in the fence and saw different groups of illegal immigrants.

In a few hours, at each of those two locations, Border Patrol processed 200 individuals, Biggs said.

“That opens eyes, because it’s 24/7,” he said. “In both of those groups, we didn’t have anybody from Mexico or the Northern Triangle states. In one of those groups, everybody was either from Uzbekistan or Cuba.”

Illegal aliens aren’t just coming from south of the border, the congressman said. Last year, those who crossed the southern border illegally came from 157 different nations.

The Biden administration has announced that it will terminate the Title 42 public health policy that has been used for the past two years to quickly expel illegal immigrants at the southern U.S. border because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Title 42, which will end on May 23, was implemented under the Trump administration, and it was used by both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

During the congressional visit, Border Patrol apprehended between 8,000 and 10,000 people per day at the southern border, and it has been estimated that about 4,000 illegal aliens per day are not caught, Biggs said.

If no countermeasures are taken by May 23 when Title 42 ends, Border Patrol expects that the volume of illegal immigration could reach between 18,000 and 30,000 people per day in places where there are only 50 agents on duty, according to Biggs.

“But 40 of them are processing people and … six [of them are] transporting or [are] on hospital duty,” he said.

As a result, the border is wide open with nobody guarding it, Biggs said, noting that the Biden administration doesn’t plan to finish the border fence.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) told Newsmax earlier in April that the United States will be “basically a borderless country down on the southern border” when Title 42 ends.

Tiffany said the illegal immigration situation is “deliberate” and that “this is what some people want to have happen.”

Illegal immigration on the southern border is facilitated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Tiffany said. The IOM is part of the U.N. system as the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration, according to its website.

Tiffany said the World Economic Forum and its founder and chairman, Klaus Schwab, are promoting the Great Reset.

“America should understand that Great Reset includes getting rid of American sovereignty,” Tiffany told Newsmax.

International Organization Facilitates Illegal Immigration
Tiffany told EpochTV’s “Crossroads” in December that he traveled to Panama in 2021 and made three trips to the Texas border to research the issue of illegal immigration.

During his trip to Panama, he found that the IOM was “the chief facilitator of moving people up that first step of the pipeline to Panama.”

“I’ve seen, they [IOM] provide a variety of services from taking care of paperwork, for those that are seeking to come into the country, as well as getting them supplies,” Tiffany said.

When immigrants would come out of the Darien Gap in Panama during Tiffany’s trip, they would be in horrible shape, he said.

“Some people [were] being wheeled up in wheelbarrows to the medical tent,” he said.

Tiffany went to Darien Gap to see firsthand what was actually happening.

“People [are] coming from countries all over the world through the Darien Gap into Panama, and [then] they get in the pipeline and come to the United States,” he said.

Illegal immigrants go through a lot of misery. People die in these mass migrations, and women are sexually assaulted, Tiffany said.

“If [the] ‘remain in Mexico’ [policy] stayed in place, the border wall continued to be built, there was no ‘catch and release’ [policy], these things would not have happened,” he said.

Tiffany said there are quite a few Haitians in Bajo Chiquito, a village in Darien, but they didn’t come from Haiti. They had been living in Chile or Brazil for years, where their lives had been relatively stable. When asked why they decided to emigrate, they answered that this was their opportunity to get to the United States and it might not come again, the congressman said.

More than 91,000 immigrants, mostly Haitians, arrived at Darien Gap with the intention of reaching the United States, Canada, or Mexico during the first nine months of 2021, reported IOM, citing Panama’s government.

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