Twinkle Cavanaugh, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission, has joined the growing list of state legislators and leaders calling for tougher measures at the southern border to clamp down on the mass illegal immigration currently taking place there.
Cavanaugh called for immediate action and said that the crisis at the border is no longer a crisis — but an “invasion!”
This is no longer a border crisis; it’s an invasion! https://t.co/np61xQas0z
— Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh (@TwinkleforAL) January 27, 2024
A recent letter sent by 10 former high ranking FBI officials to the U.S. House and Senate, appears to corroborate Cavanaugh’s claim.
“In its modern history, the US has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and yet one is unfolding now,” wrote the officials in the letter, including former Terrorist Screening Center Director Timothy Healy, FBI Assistant Directors Kevin Brock and Chris Swecker, and Mark Morgan, the former acting commissioner the U.S. Customs and Border Protection who also a former FBI superintendent.
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“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 — not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected and with ready access granted,” continued the officials.
The group also warned that an attack like Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel is very much a possibility now due to the years long lax security at the southern border.
“It is stark to say so, but having a large number of young males now within our borders who could begin attacking gatherings of unarmed citizens, in imitation of 10/7 and at the behest of a foreign terror group, must be considered a distinct possibility.”
Customs and Border Protection recorded 2.4 million migrant encounters at the southern border in 2023 with more than 302,000 of those occurring in December.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.
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