Thursday Illegal Migration Open Commentary

La UE entregará $7 millones a Ecuador a favor de los migrantes ...

Southern Border Expert Tells Ben Shapiro Humanitarian Organizations ‘Helping To Line The Pockets’ Of Drug Cartels

Ben Shapiro interviewed a leading expert on the southern border crisis, Anthony Rubin, one of the only journalists to have ever traveled and documented the entire mass migration route from Quito, Ecuador, to the U.S. border.

Asked about the route, Rubin, the founder of muckraker.com, stated, “The whole world is flying into Quito, Ecuador, because it’s got the easiest entry requirements basically of any country in the world. And then from there, they are crossing into Colombia illegally and trekking all the way up to the United States, country by country, crossing through the Darien Gap Jungle … making the way all the way up here aided by the United Nations and associated organizations along the way.”

and,

“And so it’s always kind of shifting and evolving,” he continued. “But as far as the groups that bring you through, the groups that brought us through the Darien Gap, there are many routes that you can take through there. The route that we took was the route that is used by special interest aliens. That would be anybody that’s coming from countries that perhaps harbor terrorists, that have state-sponsored terrorism.”

plus,

And what’s incredible is you have the United Nations and associated organizations that are handing out maps, ‘migration route maps’ to say ‘Here’s where you need to cross into Mexico. Here’s the route you’re going to take or the routes you can take through Mexico. Here’s the different crossing points of the United States.’ And all of those points are controlled by the cartel. It’s known that if you’re going to cross at any of those points, you’re going have to pay a human smuggler that is associated with the drug cartel … that’s the only way you’re actually going to be able to pass through. And so these, quote-unquote, ‘humanitarian organizations’ are really lining or helping to line the pockets of the cartel with millions, perhaps billions of dollars. That’s not an estimate that I made up. Those are legitimate estimates by people who have studied this and crunched the numbers.”

RTWDT.

 


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43 responses to “Thursday Illegal Migration Open Commentary”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    More required reading and I’m not going to have the time this morning to check it out.

    BTW; I wonder if anyone knows who is in this picture?   😉         But first I need coffee.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Graveyard Dead! Am I good or what?

    Well we’re off to Kalifornia this morning see y’all on the flip side.   😉

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Pablo Escobar and a DEA agent; I don’t know who the other guy is.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Anyone who has given the AI subject any thought should not be surprised by this.

    Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal information, and almost all of them sell or share the data they collect.

    “To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends and boyfriends are not your friends,” said Misha Rykov, a Mozilla Researcher, in a press statement. “Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.”

    All these maturity-stunted, emotionally damaged Gen-Zers and incels are going to be giving up ALL their personal information.

    One of the more striking findings came when Mozilla counted the trackers in these apps, little bits of code that collect data and share them with other companies for advertising and other purposes. Mozilla found the AI girlfriend apps used an average of 2,663 trackers per minute, though that number was driven up by Romantic AI, which called a whopping 24,354 trackers in just one minute of using the app.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Is there no one in California who knows this woman and will call mental health authorities and try to get her some serious help ?  Does she have any real friends ?

    Comedian Kathy Griffin took to social media to post an unhinged message on Wednesday, reminding the public that she is getting a divorce, adding, “F*** Valentine’s Day and f*** all of you.”

    (It hasn’t been that long since the proper term for a female in this profession was comedienne.  Apparently, no one cares anymore since gender has become so fluid, as they say.)

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #1 SD

    That was at a company party of a law office my wife was office manager, mid nineties I believe. Rumor has it these guys got a little carried away and mooned everyone from the far side of the pool. Wife felt that was a little beneath the character traits a manager’s husband should have and is still mad about it. 😀

  7. bsue54 Avatar

    Texpat, from what I’ve seen/heard, that sounds like a normal day for that particular performer – I refuse to call her any name to do with comedy because she’s one of the least funny performers I’ve ever heard.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Coffee and Covid

    There was some chatter about a looming National Security Threat in the news yesterday and today.  I think the real threat to the deep state is this binder that details all the federal government crimes against Trump and his associates during the Crossfire Hurricane debacle.  The exact location of said binder is in question at this time.  Some speculate that the raid on Mar a Lago was an attempt to retrieve said binder and had nothing to do with retention of classified documents.

    Total corruption and heads should roll; that or the gas chamber.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Sally Kornbluth is the only one standing after her role in the Three Female Stooges Testify skit before Congress and the nation.  

    Claudine Gay is gone and so is Liz Magill of Penn State, but this useless dishonest dips**t is still in office at MIT drawing some ungodly salary.

    She needs to be kicked out now.

    Last fall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth tapped a group of Jewish faculty members to advise the school on a new initiative meant to combat campus anti-Semitism. The participants were “hopeful,” they said in an email to fellow MIT staff, that the move would help them “more effectively influence the decision making to reduce the tensions on campus.”

    Shortly thereafter, in January, an announcement from MIT chancellor Melissa Nobles dashed those hopes.

    The school’s “Standing Together Against Hate” (STAH) initiative, Nobles said, would include four panels: one on anti-Semitism, one on “campus freedom of expression,” one on Islamophobia, and one on “anti-Palestinian racism.” Omitted from the speaker series was any talk on racism or hatred targeting Israelis and Zionists.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    There is speculation that the Rooskies are building a nuclear-powered/armed satelite killing, space-based weapon.  This threat is being used to attempt to force through the latest spending bill to secure Ukraine and Taiwan’s borders; the same bill does not even address our southern border.

    Is the above just a blizzard of BS to cover for the ‘missing’ binder about Crossfire Hurricane?  If the binder becomes public there will have to be widescale prosecutions with serious jail time.  These trials can not be in DC as there is no reasonable judge or jury available in that place.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I would pay money to see John Brennan and James Clapper be sentenced to federal prison.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I posted about this yesterday and here is more from Cdr. Salamander.  I left his links in to follow and there is an image of a letter from the President of Palau there.

    Remember all those island groups we had to fight through in WWII?

    The planet still looks the same and the importance of geography has not changed.

    Cleo Paskal posted on X a Letter from President of Palau, Surangel Whipps, Jr. about the huge problem we have because the USA has not passed Compacts of Free Association.

    From this seat, this obtuse strategic malpractice by DC is almost as if executed on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.

    Read the letter and then ponder what is going on in DC that we are giving this gift to the PRC.

    How bad is the blackmail of Joe Biden by the Chicoms ?

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Beege Welborn has the story and justifiable outrage at HotAir.

    What are these useless guards doing there ?

    Climate activists pour red powder on the case holding the original US Constitution at the National Archives in Washington DC. For now, it’s unclear if the document was damaged, but they were allowed to go about their protest for a time without arrest.

    Unbelievable video at the link.

    Like Glenn Reynolds said: There was a time not long ago when others in the room would have beat the hell out of these childish imbeciles.

  14. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I would pay money to see John Brennan and James Clapper be sentenced to federal prison.

    as the Kenyan hovers in the cosmos above all creation.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    8 Dr Phil Good

    Heh.

    Evan Thomas:

    He is the son of Anna Davis (née Robins) and Evan Welling Thomas II, an editor who worked for HarperCollins and W. W. Norton & Company.  His grandfather, Norman Thomas, was a six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

    The stupid runs in the family.

     

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    SuperDave

    BTW; I wonder if anyone knows who is in this picture?  

    Well at first glance I thought it was Texpat on the left and Shannon on the right.  Rumors that is me in the center are greatly exaggerated.

  17. Tedtam Avatar

    Finally parking my ample behind at the computer.  I finished with my asparagus bed this morning, spreading the bags of dirt that Hubby purchased for me yesterday, and collecting many, many leaves to put a thick mulch layer on top of all that.

    I’m doing more gardening from a chair these days, but that’s what it takes.  I’m amazed what a little ingenuity fueled by necessity can accomplish.

    By then I was hungry and I needed to hard boil some eggs.  I’m giving up my chocolate sweets for Lent, adding a rosary a day for my spiritual development (gonna focus on the Luminous mysteries: The Baptism of the Lord, Wedding at Cana, Proclamation of the Kingdom, Transfiguration, and the Institution of the Eucharist).  The keto fake fudge recipe a friend gave me is like crack to me, and I really have a craving for it now. So, that’s my sacrifice for the season.  To replace that, I need to have some other keto-friendly snacks available, so it’s gonna be hard boiled eggs.  I may make a batch of deviled eggs to keep handy, but then I hafta beat Hubby off with a big stick.  Or hide them way back in the fridge.

    Today is busy: catching up with some requests from the CPA, bookkeeping, certified mail a notice to an about-to-be-former tenant, and do my Lenten retreat reading that the Catholic Daughters are going through this Lent. And Latin class tonight.  I feel very guilty that I haven’t touched my Latin in days.  I was trying last night, but by the time I cracked the book, I couldn’t focus and had to call it a night.  Oh, and I guess I have some shopping to do today, since I have to go to the post office.

    I thought today would be slower, but….nope.  I lied to myself.  I think I’m going to move my bead work to the evening, which will conflict my usual Latin study time.  I like starting out my day with beads and prayer, but that means I don’t get productive with other stuff until late in the morning. /sigh/  I guess that’s something I’m going to have to figure out.

    I hope I have time to do the required reading for today.

    Off to the races!

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The headline article I posted about Ecuador and the illegal alien trail has some hair-raising accounts by the subject of Shapiro’s piece.

    It’s not long and well worth the read.

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Are we there yet? Well no, we had an unusual later flight that blasts off about 1 PM so we left home around 9, stopped at Vittles Cafe and had breakfast then drove down here to PCB Intl. Wife’s bag was 2 Lbs over and they wanted $100 bucks for that extra weight so we opened both bags and shuffled things around and got hers down to 48. BUT together they weighed 85 Lbs so why wasn’t 2 = 85 OK but 1 = 52 not OK? FWIW; This is the first time she’s had a problem and I blame her new huge bag, it’s 13 Lbs heavier than the old one empty. She used to always weigh her bag but for some reason didn’t this time.

    Oh and people watching sure is fun….. Whoa, look at that tall Filly, I better watch myself.    😀

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sorry bout the down time.  Unfortunately the Bible plugin was corrupted and it killed the blog.  I deleted the plugin.  Everything should be okay now.

  21. Tedtam Avatar

    I wondered who tripped over the cord.

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I am glad that there is no reincarnation.  I’d end up returning as computer/web site tech over and over again.

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Thank you Mr. Squawk for your diligent efforts.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    My pleasure Bones.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I wonder if our command staff of the armed services have learned a single thing since this event?

    I don’t think encouraging trannies counts as a positive. . .

    I’m putting the link here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xfHkmxplo8Q    because the text did not light up.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Squawk:  This is a report, not a complaint.  I think the link button is broken.

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I haven’t done anything at all today. Got up late, fed cats, spent a couple of hours reading animal rescue stories on Facebook, went back to bed.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve pretty much ignored the Fani Willis story from the beginning, not knowing any of the details other than there was an affair and she’s in real trouble for lying to a court about financial improprieties with her hired Stud.

    Ace has extensive coverage about her testimony in a court hearing today. Lot’s of live clips.

    If you’re interested.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Somewhere in Houston today a guy was walking around a neighborhood trying to kick in doors to burgle homes.

    He came to the wrong door and a home-alone 14-year-old opened the door and blew him away.

    Bang, bang, out go the lights.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #23 Shannon:  It is tragic that a 14 year old had to terminate a miscreant.  He should be hailed as a hero for helping to cleanse our society.

    The bullet catcher will not be a parasite on society anymore.

  31. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Teenager was probably disappointed it was not near as exciting as a video game.

  32. Tedtam Avatar

    I got a reprieve on my Latin class for tonight, it’s been cancelled.

    Good, ‘cuz ah’m tahrred and haven’t had a chance to crack my book in three or four days.

  33. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hello Hamsters,

    Have been away from posting for about 4 days because we had been entertaining the visit of spouse’s brother and wife from DeForest, Wisconsin, a small city near Madison.  It is one of several smaller satellite towns that are growing as more folks want to live close to but not in Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin and second largest after Milwaukee. Cost of living there is more than in the outlying towns that are relatively short drives into the city, perfect for students at the main campus of the University of Wisconsin, my and spouse’s alma mater.

    We saw no reason why either of us should attend a university elsewhere when UW in Madison has an excellent reputation in the Big Ten (+ 6) and elsewhere in the academic world.  We both grew up there, attended different grade schools and high schools but knew each other through friends. Spouse decided that the Physics Department of UW had one of the best nuclear physics departments to be had, so why go elsewhere when you have excellence in your back yard?  Being practical was not dull at all.  🙂

     

     

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bones

    Squawk:  This is a report, not a complaint.  I think the link button is broken.




    ‘Which link button where?

  35. Tedtam Avatar

    I can only imagine that phone call:
    /phone rings/
    Dad: “Hey, son! Everything all right?”
    Teen: “It’s all good now.”

    Mom: “What do you mean ‘now’ ?”

    Teen: “I shot a guy, but it’s okay.  He deserved it.”

    Dad: “What the ****!?”

    Teen: “I’m explaining it to the cops.  Boy you should’a seen his face!”

    Mom: “Whose face?  The cop’s?”

    Teen: “Him, too.”

    Dad: “Would you please explain what happened?” (“Waiter, bring the check NOW, please.”)

    Teen: “He was kicking in the door.  By the time he got through I had Betsy loaded and ready. I don’t know which surprised him more, seeing a kid or seeing Betsy.”

    Mom: /moans softly/

    Dad: “We’ll be there as soon as we can get there. Don’t say anything.”

    Teen: “Don’t really  need to, Dad.  The neighbors are giving the cops a lot of information.”

    Mom: “But you’re okay?”

    Teen: “It’s okay, Mom.  I’m vertical.  He isn’t.”

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Attended the funeral of a special friend this evening

    It doesn’t get any easier.

    But knowing that he was a Christian always helps.

    A lot.

    Rest In Peace, Mike Satterwhite, you “old bastard.” 🙂

  37. Tedtam Avatar

    Shannon, so sorry for the loss of your friend.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m running out of old friends.

    Old Friends they shine like diamonds
    Old Friends you can always call
    Old Friends Lord you can’t buy ’em
    You know it’s Old Friends after all

  39. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon #32

    Me too

    Old friends, they mean much more to me than the new friends,Cause they can see where you are,And they know where you’ve been.

     

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I must say that the high point of the evening was when my last BFF showed up at the funeral with a dozen homemade venison/pork tamales.

    And a bonus dozen yard eggs.

    So I guess you know what’s for breakfast tomorrow around here.

    Life goes on.

  41. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Shannon, condolences on the loss of your dear friend.  May pleasant memories help ease the pain of mourning.  This is a difficult time.

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