It's An Invasion: Migrants Riot In Mexico; El Paso Port of Entry Closed

First up, "Next stop, USA! Moment huge group of migrants bursts through cordon and trample officials in Mexico as they demand expedited processing so they can get to the border more quickly." Migrants, described as Haitian nationals, trampled over each other as well as National Guard officers and local police when they rushed a refugee agency in Tapachula, Mexico on Monday. 

    The group, which also includes migrants from Cuba and Honduras, have grown frustrated with the Mexican government's ability to process their asylum requests. 

    Papers that they're seeking would allow them to travel freely and eventually reach the United States southern border region with Mexico.

So, no longer asylum seekers by the time they reach the U.S. border because they would have been granted asylum in Mexico. 

    Some people have complained that they have had to wait weeks just to get an appointment in Tapachula, a municipality in the southern state of Chiapas that borders with Guatemala.

    Miguel Argoten, of Cuba, told The Associated Press that he has been waiting in Tapachula for a week to begin his asylum process at the office, which recently has been inundated with up to 2,000 application appointments every day.

    'It's very complicated, there are too many people here, the Haitians get desperate,' Argoten said. 'They knock over the barricades and that only makes the process slower.'

And when they get to the U.S., they will knock over stores and old people.

    Andrés Ramírez, who oversees the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid, last week said that agency expects to receive 150,000 asylum requests this year, eclipsing the record of 129,000 that they came across in 2021.

    Through August they already had 100,000 - 25% above the same period in 2021. More than half of the requests were received by the agency at Mexico's shared border with Guatemala.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows border agents have reported 1,973,092 encounters with migrants for unlawful entry at the southern border in fiscal year 2023, which spans from October 2022 to September 2023. Figures for August have still not been released.

    And, moving north to the U.S. border: "Migrant surge forces Biden administration to SUSPEND entries as shelters reach capacity with border crossers in the THOUSANDS." This article reports:

    The El Paso port of entry with Mexico is shut down while personnel at that crossing point are diverted to assist with processing the massive surge of illegal migrants who arrived between entry ports in Texas.

    In a Friday statement, Custom and Border Protection (CBP) announced 'temporary suspension' at the busy Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) port shared between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.

    There was no specification in the statement on when the port will return to normal operation, just a note that SBP would do so 'as quickly as feasible.'

Defense spending accounts for 12% of the federal budget. If we can't defend ourselves from the barbarian hordes crossing the border, what is the point of even having a military or the intelligence agencies? Protecting against invasion is, after all, the fundamental purpose of having a military and spies. The Republicans should refuse to fund the military and the intelligence agencies--with no exceptions for critical functions or emergencies--until the borders are closed, immigration stopped, and illegals rounded up and expelled.

    Meanwhile, Ace of Spades reports: "Cartels Are Putting Border Towns Under 24/7 Surveillance to Spy on Their Enemies and Direct Hitmen to Their Positions; In Texas, They're Building a City of Illegal Aliens." 

    The different cartels operating in Mexican border cities are setting up their own "intelligence centers" equipped with cameras, communications and a rudimentary dispatch office from where they send information gathered by their cameras, lookouts or sources to their operators.

    Criminal organizations like the Sinaloa cartel or the Jalisco New Generation cartel are setting up proper "intelligence bunkers" from where they keep a tight watch on authorities, citizens and "enemies" along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Mexican officials and cartel members speaking with Fox News Digital.

Meanwhile, across the border inside the U.S., a company has set up a town that seems primarily intended for illegals. "Colony Ridge sprawls across nearly 60 square miles — about the size of Washington DC — and is 40 miles outside Houston." The cartels are supposedly early and significant investors in the project. The settlement will eventually house 200,000 people. Read more here.