Border Lines

Here in Texas the southern border is always important to us. But maybe more than usual lately, since the Supreme Court said, “Sure, if your way of securing the border is to cut through and remove barriers, you can do that,” and sort of failed to point out, “If you’re actually securing the border, that is.” Anyway, here we are in the state with the biggest border—and big in every way—and our president is kind of threatening war against us citizens of Texas.

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There’s a demonstration of sorts going on this week. Truckers are gathering. I think as of Thursday they're already in Texas and will be splitting up into three convoys, one going down to Eagle Pass, the furthest going to San Ysidro, on the border in California, and a third to Yuma, Arizona.

Glenn Beck talked with Donica Hudson, the media liaison for the Take Our Border Back Convoy on his Wednesday radio show. After the setup that was J6, people are wary of a trap. But she assured him they’re being careful. This is a call for prayer down near the border. And they’re stopping 20 miles or so from the actual border, so they can’t even accidentally get in the way of the work of border agents and national guard troops. They are threatening to sue for defamation anyone who accuses them of violence or criminal intent. And they are making sure everyone understands the peaceful purpose and excludes anyone even talking about violent actions.

Jason Buttrill shared footage of the convoy from Tuesday night.
It seemed to be mostly family vehicles, rather than tractor trailers
at that point. People were cheering with flags from the roadside.
Screenshot from here.

Will that be enough to protect them? I hope so. We should see within a few days whether it’s possible for patriots to still do a peaceful demonstration in this country.

But there’s reason for concern.

On Monday’s weekly Onward podcast, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, of 2000 Mules fame, were talking about their recent visit to the border. Engelbrecht is a native Texan (she started True the Vote here in Houston, but lives somewhere rural now). So after all that was going on, they decided to go see for themselves what the border looked like. They started the story with this:

Gregg Phillips: We met people that were down there that are deeply involved in the protection of the border. And, uh— But they were also very candid. And, um, there was this definite feeling that there was a deal that had been made—

Catherine Engelbrecht: We were told, unequivocally, we were told that was the term that was used: “There has been a deal made.”

Phillips went on to call it a “military deception. It was an intel op.” He said they created a stage, or circumstances, to look a certain way when they brought in celebrities, which included Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in this case. (Catherine laughed at the idea she was considered a celebrity.) What they didn’t see on this visit was a lot of border crossing traffic, and it made them wonder what was going on. As you might expect, this was not normal.

He said that, later, they learned a lot of things. First he talked about the wall. There are pieces of it, 20 feet high, that didn’t fully keep out determined invaders. Those were built around 2008, when George W. Bush felt pressure to do a little something about the border before the end of his presidency. The top was such that it didn’t deter climbing, so those are no longer made. Trump walls were 30 feet tall, with barriers atop them, and fewer gates (gates are used by landowners to get from one side of their land to the other, when the wall is built a mile or so inland from the border or river). But the interesting part was about the “deal.” Here’s Gregg Phillips’ telling of the story:

Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht talk about their
trip to the Texas border. Screenshot from here.

GP: What happened was, a deal had been made between the Biden administration, potentially the state of Texas, and the Mexican government to keep the migrants back for a while, to create this photo op, to tamp down the situation where— It was military deception, is what it was. And they’re not supposed to do that in the United States, but they were.

He said that the soldiers and border patrol were already working together; there isn’t a big standoff happening. And, during this visit, there wasn’t even the usual daily expected crossings.

GP: Well, guess what. There were 15,000 of them at the southern border of Mexico that were released last Saturday, to come north. So, what they’re setting up there, in our opinion—in my opinion; maybe Catherine will want to speak for herself—what I believe they’re setting up here is, this truckers’ convoy that arrives at the border sometime this weekend, and I think there’s some movement in the other states as well, but let’s just talk about Texas for a minute. Many many many trucks, and many many people and patriots are going to go to the border, a little bit like we did, just to see— You know, stand up for, not just Texas, but for the United States.

So, think about what’s happening here. While all these photo ops are going on, there’s nothing. So, the Biden administration kind of gets a win with that. Maybe even the Tex— I don’t know who wins, but this was basically a fake win-win scenario. The fact that no one was there, coming through that open gate, or swimming through the river, or anywhere else that we could find. The reason was, the Mexican government held 15,000 of them up at the southern border.

Now they’re coming this way. So you can imagine how we feel, at the confluence of events, knowing that many of our friends, people we know, people we admire, people we support, are getting ready to pack up, get in their trucks, and head on down to the border. And, with this idea that, well, it’s softening a little bit; everything’s OK. They’re going to get down there and all of a sudden 15,000.

Not just 15,000 suddenly showing up, but 10,000 Chinese. Reporter Michael Yon is their source on this:

Up to 10,000 Chinese came through the Darien Gap in Panama in the ten days prior to us getting down there. So, from last Friday [January 26], the ten days prior, 10,000 fighting-age Chinese came through the Darien Gap, and up through Columbia, up through Panama, up through the Gap—it’s a jungle area, one of the most dangerous places in the world.

Chinese emerging from the Darien Gap, December 30, 2023,
footage filmed by Michael Yon, screenshot from here

Michael Yon, Catherine adds, has been “putting up maps of what he’s seen, and explaining the movement in Panama, which will give more context to what Gregg is saying.” They’re building camps to house them in before they come across. Phillips goes on:

GP: You’ve got 10,000 potential Chinese. You’ve got a total of 15,000 people that were released at the southern Mexico border to come north, toward the United States. They’re all going to collide at the same time in some of these points of entry, particularly Eagle Pass. And both north and south of there. And it just feels like, it feels like chaos at this juncture, and that they’re trying to sow chaos. And our concern for all of our friends heading down there is, it feels a little J6-ish to us. It feels like, you know, Biden needed a win; Abbott needed a win; the Mexican government needed a win; and the Chinese need to get their people up here. It just seems like a bit of a perfect storm.

They’re concerned for national guard troops, for the border patrol agents—both sides in the supposed conflict, but regardless of orders are both about protecting the border.

Gregg Phillips takes what seems like a tangent to talk about Secretary of DHS Mayorkas, which is actually related.

GP:  Mayorkas, before he—we’re going to pass more information on this—but before he became Secretary of DHS, he was on the board of an NGO. That NGO has an office building at the Darien Gap, literally 50 yards from what’s called euphemistically “China Camp,” where all the Chinese are coming up through the Gap and being facilitated by this NGO. Mayorkas has been seen down there on drone footage, arriving at the camp, going to the NGO, and then back again.

Just speculation here, but it looks as though the US head of the Department of Homeland Security is facilitating the movement of fighting-age male Chinese to come to the US border and enter our country. That’s what it looks like. Phillips calls him “a complete bad guy” and deserving of impeachment, if anyone ever was. He also believes Mayorkas is the one who “concocted this whole scheme to get the win for Biden, the win for Abbott, the win for Mexico, and create this environment where there’s going to be a potential conflict at Eagle Pass sometime next week, or later this week, when all the truckers and all the patriot types get down there.”

People have been asking Gregg and Catherine what patriots can do, so they asked their contact down at the border. His answer was one they agree with:

GP: The only thing that’s going to stop this— It’s not going to be razor wire on top of unused containers—although that’s pretty— I’ve walked around that for a bit; that’s pretty effective. But the only thing that’s going to stop this is some president—President Trump—actually deporting these people. As soon as they start deporting the people that are somehow making their way across, sending them back wherever they came from, back to China, back to Nicaragua, back to wherever they’re going—Venezuela, Cuba, wherever they’re coming from—only deportation is going to stop this. Mark my words. Nothing else will stop this.

They want a war. They want an internal war over this. But even that isn’t going to stop what’s happening. The only thing that’s going to stop it is putting these people back on a plane, and instead of flying them to Chicago, fly them to Caracas.

You have to wonder why a thinking person would want invaders to flood in across our borders, and would hope something might spark a kinetic war. But, then, we don’t have a thinking person in the White House. We have a power monger there, surrounded by power mongering minions.

Anyone going to the border, be careful. Be on the lookout for traps. Be nonviolent. Putting pressure on government bad guys could be a good thing. It brought needed attention in Canada and The Netherlands. But neither of those places ended well for the truckers or farmers, because of the tyrants in power. We live in what is supposed to be a constitutional republic, with the rule of law. But we have tyrant leaders right now as well. So, if you’re bravely joining others to make your voice heard, again, just be aware and be safe. We want to see you safely back home afterward.

On a side note, the Harris County sample ballot is finally available. There are 13 propositions at the end of the Republican ballot. Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 12 all relate to illegal immigration and border security. The people of Texas are trying to get this message across—peacefully.

Additional Resource:

·        “How China and the UN are Fueling the Invasion of America” Tucker Carlson interviews Bret Weinstein, February 1, 2024.