Former Feds: Open border ‘clear and present danger’ to Americans

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says a newly released letter from former FBI, Homeland Security and other law enforcement officials “describes the chilling reality of why Biden’s open border is a clear and present danger to America.”

In a letter obtained by the Wisconsin Law Journal, Congressional members of the intelligence and homeland security committees received a scathing letter from former FBI agents.

“As former senior executives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with deep experience combatting dangers to the nation, we write to express our concern about a current, specific threat that may be one of the most pernicious ever to menace the United States,” the retired agents wrote.

“Military aged 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,” the former agents wrote.

According to a 2023 House Committee on Homeland Security document obtained by the Wisconsin Law Journal, in the final month of FY2023, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) recorded 269,735 encounters at the Southwest border, “marking another unprecedented milestone under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Joe Biden’s open-borders policies.”

According to the congressional committee, In FY23, CBP recorded more than 2.4 million encounters at the Southwest border and more than 3.2 million encounters nationwide.

Just in one fiscal year, 169 individuals on the terrorist watchlist were apprehended attempting to enter the country illegally, and at least 1.7 million known ‘gotaways’ have evaded apprehension since FY2021.

In just only a part of FY2023, CBP has arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members.

Comparing FY2021 to FY2023,  officials noted there in FY2023, there was an increase of more than 40% since FY2021 of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, according to the committee.

In FY2023, CBP, including Air and Marine Operations seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl, coming across the Southwest border—enough to kill more than 6 billion people, the committee noted.

“In light of such a daunting, unpresented penetration uninvited foreign actors, it is reasonable to assert the country possess dramatically diminished national security at this time,” retired federal agents wrote in the letter.

“This is particularly alarming in light of the Hamas terror attack on Israel last October 7. Those of us who have fought terrorism know that, historically, successful terror attacks invite mimicry,” the former agents added in the letter.

The retired agents concluded the letter by calling for greater Congressional Attention to the threat.

“The government will have failed grievously in its duty to protect,” the retired agents concluded.

On Tuesday, 40,000 truckers are headed from Virginia to the Southern Border to protest the lack of border security, according to various media reports. 

As previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, officials on the North Shore of Milwaukee have been silent on enacting similar migrant ordinances to those ordinances being passed by multiple municipalities on the North Shore of Chicago.

Ten former Feds signed the letter.