Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding globally in an effort to “strengthen international security while preventing a terrorist attack, drug shipment, or human smuggling ring” according to a report by the New York Times.
An estimated 2,000 Homeland Security employees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and special agents to Transportation Security Administration officials are now being deployed to more than 70 countries around the world.
While the New York Times reports this is an effort under Trump, the reality is that this started in October 2010 under Obama, when nearly 190 countries signed a historic ICAO agreement that establishes a foundation for aviation security.
This effort to push U.S. immigration laws in European countries has created tensions between the U.S. and other nations.
In Germany, lawmakers have questioned the department’s counter-terrorism Immigration Advisory Program, where travelers at foreign airports are investigated and sometimes interviewed by plainclothes Customs and Border Protection officers before they are permitted to board flights into the United States.
While in Canada, Canadians flooded their prime minister’s office in August with letters and emails protesting legislation to allow American customs officers stationed at Canadian airports and train stations to question, search and detain Canadian citizens. Unnamed government officials told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the volume of mail received was “unprecedented” and surprised officials.
Fulfilling a requirement of the 9/11 Act, 100 percent of high-risk cargo on international flights bound for the United States is screened according to the DHS website. According to the U.S. this is needed to prevent drug/human trafficking.
A recent congressional report found that the cost of stationing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents overseas is about four times as expensive as a domestic post. And in September testimony to the House Homeland Security Committee, the National Treasury Employees Union raised concerns about plans to station additional customs officers abroad amid “critical staffing shortages at the nation’s ports of entry.” The union represents 25,000 Customs and Border Protection employees. So it’s not only violating other countries national sovereignty but it costs the U.S. more to continue this process.
Lawmakers have urged Homeland Security officials to assess the costs and benefits of stationing thousands of employees overseas while the department looks to hire 15,000 new ICE and border patrol agents in domestically in the United States as part of President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration as we reported before.
Further, the DHS wants to develop advanced facial recognition technology for use in airports, train stations and border checkpoints domestically. It’s not known if the agency also wants to utilize this technology in foreign countries where its Customs and Border Protection employees are stationed.
In fact, in the U.S. these facial recognition systems are already rolling out in some airports according to an account by Tanvi Misra, a staff writer at CityLab.
“What I thought was actually just a machine that was supposed to scan my boarding pass was actually a facial recognition machine,” Misra said, “And it was quite a surprise that that kind of process had been taking place without much communication about what it was, or what options I had.”
U.S. President Donald Trump seems to be expanding the global police state in the name of national security to protect against terrorism, human trafficking and the drug trade.
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So, another sequel to “The Matrix,” more slick, sophisticated, comprehensive. All corners being permeated.
The author concludes: “U.S. President Donald Trump seems to be expanding the global police state…”
Ya think?
And this: “While the New York Times reports this is an effort under Trump, the reality is that this started in October 2010 under Obama…”
Ahhh, the effortless passing of the torch, the smooth relay from tyrant to tyrant. This has gone way past “You’re papers, please,” and seems to be moving to an international directive of “Shelter in place.” In other words, stay at home, don’t go out your door, you’re bothersome, and until we eliminate you, please don’t trouble us. And don’t forget, we sell the drugs, not you. We do the trafficking. And we have big bombs.
Oh yeah? Well we have heart and conscience and truth and 2A and we’re growin’ in numbers every day. And nobody’s goin’ down without a fight.
(Aside: Henry, I’m tryin’ to get tougher but sometimes I hate that I have to. I’m much better at making soup.)
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Galen, nothing better that a delicious soup made with some true grit. 🙂
They prey on peaceful people. As distasteful as it is, its time to unleash the inner savage.
Arrgh!!
Well okay, I’ll have to order this t-shirt now:
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“Oh yeah? Well we have heart and conscience and truth and 2A and we’re growin’ in numbers every day. And nobody’s goin’ down without a fight.”
That works to an extent. Consider the dangers of unhindered free-flow “immigration” into the US. Take into account the birth rates of the cultures where most of the people come from compared to the birthrate of the US. Within a few generations there will be a majority of people with the ideals of the ones illegally pouring into the US (Europe too). This is a huge, largely unnoticed, problem for the US as we know it currently.
Yes, and in spite of all that, we still do what we can. Defeatism not an option. Nihilism not an option. Apathy not an option.
I wouldn’t say the problem is “largely unnoticed.” I’ve seen it covered extensively on many sites, especially here.
Glass half full.
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galen….when they come to your door offer them some of that delicious homemade soup…spiked of course…wink, wink
Douse that soup with a high dosage of atomic number 33.
exactly what I was thinking lol
LOL!
It’s another name for arsenic. I looked it up and it came up with another name for arsenic as Atomic Number 33. This sounded way more lethal than arsenic for some reason.
Okay, but I’d much have TRENCHERS over for soup.
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Did I mention I also make homemade bread?
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you gonna feed us regular or spiked? hahaha
Diner’s choice, of course. My own bowl will have an infusion of absinthe.
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“An estimated 2,000 Homeland Security employees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and special agents to Transportation Security Administration officials are now being deployed to more than 70 countries around the world.”
Hmm…Sending our employees to other countries and forcing that country’s people to obey them…..So how is this not an invasion of our country into someone else’s?
Oh wait, I have to pretend to think that it’s all for “our” and “their” security.
Unfrigginbelievable…..
This is nothing more than helping to set up a UN occupying security force. It would be no different than the Stazis stationed in every country and forcing us to obey them. Yet since it is the US, they must be the good guys this time, right?
Once again, unfrigginbelievable………