Texas | September 8, 2021
Get Ready for the Blackouts
Texas | September 8, 2021
Texas | July 20, 2021
‘They Are Our Enemies’: Rep. Roy’s Bill Seeks to Block CCP Members From Buying US Land Over National Security
Texas | July 20, 2021
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) says that his bill that blocks members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from acquiring U.S. land is necessary to protect the nation’s national and economic security.
The bill (pdf), named the Securing America’s Land from Foreign Interference Act, was introduced on July 9. It would block members of the CCP from purchasing either public or private land in the United States.
Roy told The Epoch Times that the legislation will prevent individuals with links to the CCP from exploiting vulnerabilities to the detriment of U.S. national security and interests.
“There have been a number of disturbing stories in the recent years … where we’ve seen the land being acquired in the United States of America by Chinese interests … and very obvious ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” the lawmaker said….
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Arizona, Texas | June 28, 2021
542 Percent Increase in Convicted Sex Offenders Arrested at Border
Arizona, Texas | June 28, 2021
DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents have arrested 353 illegal aliens with sex-related criminal convictions so far this fiscal year. A large number of the detainees had prior convictions for crimes involving a minor.
In all of fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 156 criminal sex offenders, and 58 total in fiscal 2019.
The number of criminals illegally crossing the southwest border has spiked in tandem with the border crossing surge this year. Convicted criminals are the most likely population of illegal aliens trying to avoid capture by Border Patrol.
Border Patrol has detected more than 250,000 illegal aliens who have evaded capture so far this year, according to the newly-appointed Acting Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on June 24. It’s impossible to estimate how many have evaded Border Patrol without detection.
“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t read a paper or a report from my agents that talks about criminal aliens, sexual offenders that they’ve apprehended out there,” Ortiz said during an event in Del Rio, Texas.
“Those folks aren’t getting released in these communities. Guess what happens to them? They go to jail. When they get out of jail, they go back to their country of origin.”…
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)