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Jeffery Epstein’s Medical Experiments and Transhumanist Agenda:
Whitney Webb (Investigative journalist covering the story)
· Arrested in 2007 in Palm Beach for sex trafficking
· Released from prison and started new companies in the Virgin Islands
· Targeting young children in the Virgin Islands
· Main company: Southern Trust
o Created in 2012
o Consulting services, data mining, biomedical and financial information
o DNA data mining firm
§ Searching for clients among big banks and big pharma
§ Using people’s genetic sequencing to determine which drugs which work best on them
§ Jeffrey Epstein's Outlandish DNA Startup Received Special Tax Breaks (businessinsider.com)
o Several other companies tied in with it
o Prominent banks such as the Edmond de Rothschild Group gave millions of dollars in contracts
Denise George:
· Former Attorney General of Virgin Islands
· Fired after filing Epstein & JP Morgan case
o Attorney General Denise George Has Been Terminated (viconsortium.com)
· Had another case targeting Epstein a few years prior
· Her lawsuit along with one filed by the New York Times referred to Southern Trust as a key part of Epstein’s criminal activities
o Not a part of what he was charged with in 2019
Epstein’s Testimony:
· Epstein said that he wanted to engage children early on to train them in specific programming that would run artificial intelligence servers meant to power the algorithms
· He did this by funding various initiatives in the Virgin Islands that targeted children
o Mentally ill youth
o Poor youth
o Autistic children
o Abused children
o Orphaned children
o Juvenile offenders
· Part of the testimony talks about how he wants to genetically sequence the islander population
· Also stated how that genetic information could be used to determine how to educate the children he wanted to recruit
· Epstein also referenced Africa, saying that he did a lot of work there and that it is “fertile ground for experimentation”
Google:
· Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page both subpoenaed by Virgin Islands
· Larry Page cannot be found
o Trying to go through Google parent company, Alphabet Inc. to find him as he is on the board
· Google had intelligence connections since its inception
· Julian Assange also pointed out that google is not what it seems and is operating as its own intelligence agency
· New Albany Company
o Created by Epstein on Les Wexner’s behalf
o Epstein was a partner and invested money into it
o Owner of land where a large Google data center sits
o About Us | The New Albany Company
o Southern Trust dealt with data mining (Was there a connection?)
In 1998, Epstein went to Russia and visited high schools and elementary schools, scouting out children who were gifted in math and science.
Benjamin Goertzel:
· Has ties to lab created in Ethiopia which was funded by Epstein
· Epstein also funded Goertzel’s work
· Head of Humanity Plus
o Formerly the World Transhumanist Association
o Also funded by Epstein
· Chief scientist at Hanson Robotics
o Produces human like robots
o One of those being Sophia
· Also teamed up with blockchain company Cardano
o Seeking to offer Digital ID
o Gave digital IDs to 5 million Ethiopian school children with intention of harvesting their data
§ Parents in Ethiopia have to choose between their children getting an education and participating in the program.
o Goertzel said that this data is being used to feed the AI that powers robots like Sophia
Bill Gates:
· Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was not mentioned in his testimony, but it was involved in his efforts to finance education in the Virgin Islands and in the United States.
o Also does work in Africa
· Has ties to: ID2020 | Digital Identity Alliance
o Also targeting vulnerable populations
o Worked overtly with a charity that was accused of child abuse and child sexual assault
o Utilized digital ID program for stateless people in Southeast Asia
o If the stateless people wanted to access food or medical care through the charity, they had to participate in the digital ID program and surrender their biometrics
o This is the same type of thing they have been doing in Ethiopia
Epstein was trying to have genetic data, education data, financial data, and medical data all tied together.
All of this is still going on even after Epstein’s death and there are many other companies out there who are pushing for the same agenda.
Wellcome Leap:
· Homepage | Wellcome Leap: Unconventional Projects. Funded at Scale.
· Previously the Welcome Trust
· Trying to create a DARPA equivalent
· During the Obama administration they brought in the head of DARPA, Regina Dugan
o Used to run Google’s DARPA equivalent
· Has a program that is trying to map infant and children’s brains by subjecting them to eye tracking technology and other invasive surveillance procedures
· Trying to make artificial intelligence that is just like a child’s brain
· Jeremy Farrar
o Founder of Wellcome Leap
o Now the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization
· Goertzel heavily interested in this type of technology and Epstein likely was as well considering he funded much of his work
How the CIA made Google
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.
THIS IS PART ONE. READ PART TWO HERE.
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, western governments are moving fast to legitimize expanded powers of mass surveillance and controls on the internet, all in the name of fighting terrorism.
US and European politicians have called to protect NSA-style snooping, and to advance the capacity to intrude on internet privacy by outlawing encryption. One idea is to establish a telecoms partnership that would unilaterally delete content deemed to “fuel hatred and violence” in situations considered “appropriate.” Heated discussions are going on at government and parliamentary level to explore cracking down on lawyer-client confidentiality.
What any of this would have done to prevent the Charlie Hebdo attacks remains a mystery, especially given that we already know the terrorists were on the radar of French intelligence for up to a decade.
There is little new in this story. The 9/11 atrocity was the first of many terrorist attacks, each succeeded by the dramatic extension of draconian state powers at the expense of civil liberties, backed up with the projection of military force in regions identified as hotspots harbouring terrorists. Yet there is little indication that this tried and tested formula has done anything to reduce the danger. If anything, we appear to be locked into a deepening cycle of violence with no clear end in sight.
As our governments push to increase their powers, INSURGE INTELLIGENCE can now reveal the vast extent to which the US intelligence community is implicated in nurturing the web platforms we know today, for the precise purpose of utilizing the technology as a mechanism to fight global ‘information war’ — a war to legitimize the power of the few over the rest of us. The lynchpin of this story is the corporation that in many ways defines the 21st century with its unobtrusive omnipresence: Google.
Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck, and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US military-industrial complex.
The inside story of Google’s rise, revealed here for the first time, opens a can of worms that goes far beyond Google, unexpectedly shining a light on the existence of a parasitical network driving the evolution of the US national security apparatus, and profiting obscenely from its operation.
The shadow network
For the last two decades, US foreign and intelligence strategies have resulted in a global ‘war on terror’ consisting of prolonged military invasions in the Muslim world and comprehensive surveillance of civilian populations. These strategies have been incubated, if not dictated, by a secret network inside and beyond the Pentagon.
Established under the Clinton administration, consolidated under Bush, and firmly entrenched under Obama, this bipartisan network of mostly neoconservative ideologues sealed its dominion inside the US Department of Defense (DoD) by the dawn of 2015, through the operation of an obscure corporate entity outside the Pentagon, but run by the Pentagon.
In 1999, the CIA created its own venture capital investment firm, In-Q-Tel, to fund promising start-ups that might create technologies useful for intelligence agencies. But the inspiration for In-Q-Tel came earlier, when the Pentagon set up its own private sector outfit.
Known as the ‘Highlands Forum,’ this private network has operated as a bridge between the Pentagon and powerful American elites outside the military since the mid-1990s. Despite changes in civilian administrations, the network around the Highlands Forum has become increasingly successful in dominating US defense policy.
Giant defense contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton and Science Applications International Corporation are sometimes referred to as the ‘shadow intelligence community’ due to the revolving doors between them and government, and their capacity to simultaneously influence and profit from defense policy. But while these contractors compete for power and money, they also collaborate where it counts. The Highlands Forum has for 20 years provided an off the record space for some of the most prominent members of the shadow intelligence community to convene with senior US government officials, alongside other leaders in relevant industries.
I first stumbled upon the existence of this network in November 2014, when I reported for VICE’s Motherboard that US defense secretary Chuck Hagel’s newly announced ‘Defense Innovation Initiative’ was really about building Skynet — or something like it, essentially to dominate an emerging era of automated robotic warfare.
That story was based on a little-known Pentagon-funded ‘white paper’ published two months earlier by the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington DC, a leading US military-run institution that, among other things, generates research to develop US defense policy at the highest levels. The white paper clarified the thinking behind the new initiative, and the revolutionary scientific and technological developments it hoped to capitalize on.
-Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence
REPORT: Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Slave Turned Accomplice ‘Missing’ Following Release of Documents
Image Credit: Nadia Marcinko and the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were shown in an undated photo. (Photo: MEGA)
Nadia Marcinko, the elusive former associate of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has vanished from her Upper East Side home following the release of court documents related to Epstein’s scandalous activities, according to The New York Post’s recent report.
Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nada Marcinkova, is a former commercial pilot and Gulfstream Girl. Marcinko is a Slovakian-born pilot, flight instructor, and the CEO of Aviloop, an aviation website. She has three rating certificates, including various Gulfstream business jets.
Marcinko was brought to the United States from Slovakia by Epstein when she was fifteen years old.
Jeffrey Epstein had reportedly referred to Marcinko as his “sex slave.” She had spent years by his side and even traveled on his private plane, known as “The Lolita Express,” which was notorious for transporting young girls.
Photo: Aviloop
Nadia Marcinko in the cockpit of a Gulfstream jet. (Photo: Nadia Marcinko/Flickr)
It remains unclear whether Marcinko continued to serve as Epstein’s pilot after obtaining her FAA certification as a commercial pilot and flight instructor. She has been accused of participating in the sexual abuse of young girls and procuring victims for Epstein, although her lawyers have denied these allegations, asserting that she was a victim herself.
“Ms. Marcinkova was specifically identified by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida as a “potential co-conspirator of Epstein” in the non-prosecution agreement it executed with Mr. Epstein as part of his guilty plea. She has relevant information because she observed the recruitment of underage girls for sex and, in fact, participated in sex acts with minors. She was also on numerous flights with Defendant (in contradiction to Defendant’s testimony),” according to court document.
Marcinko was granted immunity from prosecution in 2008 as part of Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement with Florida authorities. Despite the controversy surrounding her involvement with Epstein, she remained loyal to him and visited him numerous times when he was in jail.
Photo: David McGlynn for NY Post
In recent days, Marcinko has been absent from her longtime residence on the Upper East Side of New York City. According to a neighborhood source, she has not been seen for the past three days, coinciding with the release of the court documents.
“I haven’t seen her in three days,” the source told The Post.
Marcinko’s testimony, in which she invoked her right against self-incrimination 42 times, was revealed as part of the documents made public from a settled defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of Epstein who was convicted of sex trafficking.
Nadia Marcinko’s current whereabouts and her response to the document reveal remain unknown.
-Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit
EPSTEIN DOCS: Hillary Clinton Sent Henchmen to Intimidate Victim – FOOTAGE OF CLINTON SEX TAPES BACKED UP ON USB STICKS – PAYOUTS FROM CLINTON FOUNDATION, FBI COVER-UP
Another batch of documents from a defamation lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein were released on Monday morning.
The Gateway Pundit obtained the 17 new documents on Monday and they are explosive!
The new documents, which were reviewed by this reporter, reveal there are alleged sex tapes of Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson.
“When my friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filed on each separate occasion by Jeffery,” said the witness, Sarah Ransome.
BILL CLINTON, PRINCE ANDREW AND RICHARD BRANSON’S FACES ARE ALL CLEARLY IDENTIFIABLE IN THE ALLEGED SEX TAPES.
“THANK GOD SHE MANAGED TO GET A HOLD OF SOME FOOTAGE OF THE FILMED SEX TAPES, WHICH CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE FACES OF CLINTON, PRINCE ANDREW AND BRANSON HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER.”
credit Techno Fog
According to the witness, Sarah Ransome, Hillary Clinton sent her henchmen to intimidate her friend after she went to the police in 2008 to report she was forced to have sex with Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and Prince Andrew on video.
“She was made to feel like a dirty whore and liar and wasn’t taken seriously,” Sarah Ransome said of her friend.
“A couple months later, she was then approached, by Special Agents Forces Men sent directly by Hillary Clinton herself, in order to protect her presidential campaign in 2008. The heavily intimidated her, ruffled her up (luckily she took photos as evidence) and was then forced to sign a confidentiality agreement which ensures that she can never come forward publicly implicating her husband,” the witness said.
Also according to the witness, her friend was given a “substantial payout directly from the Clinton Foundation to keep her quiet.”
“She was then given a substantial payout, directly from the Clinton Foundation to keep her quiet. She is 1000% certain that the FBI did a cover up and she has the individual names of Hillary’s Special Agent Officers involved in intimidating her. She was then forced against her will to sign a legally binding confidentially (sic) agreement on Hillary’s behalf for her eternal silence. If she breaks this agreement, she is dead,” the witness said.
The witness alleged she has footage of the Clinton, Branson, Prince Andrew sex tapes “backed up” on “several USB sticks” and said she has a kill switch just in case something happens to her.
“Unfortunately, I cannot send you the footage without her consent due to massive consequences to her safety but I can confirm that I do have footage in my possession. I have backed up the footage on several USB sticks and have securely sent them to various difference locations throughout Europe with only one other person close to me, knowing where their locations are, just in case anything happens to me before the footage is released,” the witness said.
-Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit
BREAKING: Another Round of Epstein Docs Released – AND THERE ARE ALLEGED SEX TAPES OF BILL CLINTON WHICH CLEARLY IDENTIFY HIS FACE
This is a developing story…please check back for updates.
Another batch of documents from a defamation lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein were released on Monday morning.
The Gateway Pundit obtained the 17 new documents on Monday and they are explosive!
Judge Loretta Preska on Wednesday unsealed the first cache of documents from lawsuits related to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse which potentially included names of over 150 people.
The first set of documents detailed Ghislaine Maxwell’s recruiting techniques, Prince Andrew’s abuse of the trafficked victims, and Bill Clinton’s fondness for “young” girls.
A second cache of Epstein docs was unsealed on Thursday.
According to the second tranche of documents obtained by The Gateway Pundit and reviewed by this reporter, one Epstein victim, a minor teen dubbed “Jane Doe 3,” said she was trafficked to “prominent American politicians” to “obtain potential blackmail information.”
The Gateway Pundit obtained the third round of Epstein documents on Friday.
According to testimony, computers from Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion were removed before the FBI conducted a search of the property.
The new documents reveal there are alleged sex tapes of Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson.
“When my friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filed on each separate occasion by Jeffery.”
BILL CLINTON, PRINCE ANDREW AND RICHARD BRANSON’S FACES ARE ALL CLEARLY IDENTIFIABLE IN THE ALLEGED SEX TAPES.
“THANK GOD SHE MANAGED TO GET A HOLD OF SOME FOOTAGE OF THE FILMED SEX TAPES, WHICH CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE FACES OF CLINTON, PRINCE ANDREW AND BRANSON HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER.”
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In July 2022, Gateway Pundit lawyers Marc Randazza and Jay Wolman of the Randazza Legal Group, along with GP General Counsel John Burns, filed a motion to intervene in the Guiffre v. Maxwell case in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
As a media intervenor, TGP requested the Court to unseal all records identifying Epstein’s Sex Clients.
** See HERE for GP’s Opening Appellate Brief.
-Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit
Donald Trump named in latest Epstein documents: Sarah Ransome said he had sex with 'many girls' in email where she also claimed pedophile had tapes of the ex-president, Richard Branson, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton
Jeffrey Epstein kept blackmail videos that showed Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Richard Branson having sex with women he supplied them with, according to the latest bombshell claims in newly-unsealed court documents.
In the latest dump of papers - made public on Monday - are emails sent by Epstein victim Sarah Ransome to DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan in 2016. At the time, Callahan worked for The New York Post and was reporting on Epstein.
Ransome claimed in those emails that Trump had sex with 'many girls', including a friend of hers who is not named, who she says also slept with Bill Clinton and Virgin billionaire Richard Branson.
She retracted all her claims, telling Callahan she wanted to 'walk away from this', citing fears for her family.
In 2019, The New Yorker said Ransome admitted to 'inventing' the tapes.
It is claimed that Epstein filmed each of these sexual encounters - and that the woman involved also obtained copies of the tapes.
No such footage has ever been publicly uncovered. The FBI is now under pressure to release hundreds of items of evidence that was photographed during a raid on Epstein's mansion in 2019 but that was never seized.
Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in February 2000. Trump has repeatedly denied having any involvement with Epstein's seedy lifestyle
In a 2016 email, Epstein victim Sarah Ransome told Maureen Callahan that her friend had sex with Trump, Clinton and Richard Branson. She claimed Epstein took videos of the encounters that she had seen the footage.
Ransome claimed to have a friend who had slept with Donald Trump. Her description of their encounters is above.
There are also claims of Sergey Brin visiting Epstein's island with his fiancée Anne Wojcicki.
Ransome said she wanted to ensure neither Hillary Clinton nor Trump won the 2016 election. 'I will take down Epstein and his bunch of cronies myself!' she said, adding that she had also contacted a Russian newspaper.
In her October 23, 2016 email, Ransome told journalist Maureen Callahan that she did not wish to go public. She cited her fears over what would happen to her family.
'She confided in me about her casual 'friendship' with Donald,' Ransome said of the unnamed friend, whose age is not revealed.
Ransome claimed to have been sent footage by her friend that showed her having sex with Clinton, Trump and Branson, but said she could not share the videos without her friend's consent.
Trump denied the allegations through his spokesman.
'These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit,' Steven Cheung, Trump spokesperson, said today.
A spokesman for Branson's company Virgin also denied the allegations.
'In a New Yorker report published in 2019, Ransome admitted that she had “invented” the tapes.
'We can confirm that Sarah Ransome’s claims are baseless and unfounded.'
Clinton, who was named in other papers last week, has not responded to the fresh claims. His representatives continue to refer to his 2019 denial of any association with Epstein's victims.
In her email to Callahan retracting the claims, Ransome said: 'I want to walk away from this...I shouldn't have contacted you and I'm sorry I wasted your time. It's not worth coming forward and I will never be heard anyhow and only bad things will happen as a consequence of me going public.
'This will just create pain for my family and I and they have already helped me pick up the pieces once before. I can't ask them to do that again.'
-Jen Smith, Daniel Bates, and Germania Rodriguez, The Daily Mail
New 'Microwave' Tech Claims to Quick-Cook Chicken That Doesn't Taste Like Rubber
Image Credit: The Sevvy uses a slightly modified version of microwave technology to make food similar to sous vide in a fraction of the time. David Watsky/CNET.
Sevvy is a "new" type of oven that uses a novel method to cook everything from brownies to chicken breast in mere minutes, and without the notorious rubber effect of overcooked meat or baked goods you can bounce off the floor. I spoke with Sevvy founder Kamiel de Leur at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, and he described the Sevvy's cooking method as "slow-cooking done fast."
Like, really fast.
The brains behind the Sevvy were showing off the oven's cooking and baking prowess on the showroom floor. Before I could introduce myself, someone manning the Sevvy booth handed me a moist square of blueberry cake that had been baked in the oven. Though the team wasn't doing live cooking demos, I was promised the bake was finished in under four minutes. Compare that to a traditional convection bake, which could take closer to 30.
For some real talk, decent-tasting microwavable cake isn't new, and so we're more interested in seeing how the Sevvy handles speed-cooking chicken, beef, fish or vegetables, when the brand chooses to show off those skills.
Image Credit: One drawback of the oven we saw was the small cooking capacity. However, it's not clear if this version will go to market or something else that utilizes Sevvy's proprietary cooking technology. David Watsky/CNET.
So how does it work? Sevvy's patented technology for cooking at low temps uses integral electric heating with heat waves ricocheting back and forth inside the chamber. If that sounds familiar, it's because microwaves operate similarly. But the Sevvy waves penetrate food in a highly controlled and even manner -- something microwaves famously struggle with -- thanks to AI-powered cooking programs. The food inside retains flavor and nutrients at a higher rate than most cooking methods.
Sevvy's integral heating is achieved with the use of electricity. The ingredients inside are heated precisely and evenly, resulting in "perfect" cooking. The food heats up faster and doesn't get any hotter than necessary, which can have a tendency to dry things out.
And there's no rubber effect, at least in the cakes I tasted, as you get with dishes cooked in a microwave. (Sidenote: we don't suggest cooking much of anything in a traditional microwave. In fact, nuking food isn't even the best way to reheat leftovers -- try this instead).
One obvious drawback is the cooking capacity. Sevvy oven is fitted with two relatively small cooking chambers where food is loaded, presumable a meat in one and a vegetable or starch in the other. Or, if you're like me, desserts in both chambers.
The technology used by Sevvy leans on elements of existing technology but is ultimately a novel way of cooking. There is no timetable on when this oven will become available but the brand hopes to license to strategic partners, including larger kitchen appliance manufacturers.
-David Watsky, CNET
Introducing Apple Vision Pro
It’s Official: 50 Texas Counties Declare Border ‘Invasion’ Due to Biden’s Policies
The Constitution is clear on what the role of the federal government is when it comes to illegal immigration.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence,” Article IV, Section 4 declares.
As we’ve seen, President Joe Biden’s administration and his Democratic enablers in Congress don’t want to meaningfully protect U.S. citizens from the invasion of illegal immigrants and criminal cartels at our southern border. They don’t want to protect voters in border states against the flood of fentanyl and lawlessness with anything except words.
So, Texas counties are taking it into their own hands — and now, 50 have declared that the border crisis rises to an “invasion.”
“The latest to do so are the judges and commissioners of Bandera, Schleicher and Uvalde counties,” the conservative news outlet The Center Square reported on Friday.
”Officials in Bandera and Schleicher counties signed nearly identical resolutions in November as Crockett County’s. Crockett County declared an invasion after its county judge’s family members were killed by an alleged human smuggler. Uvalde County officials signed their invasion resolution in July, when they also joined a coalition led by Atascosa County Judge Weston Cude.”
The counties have invoked both Article IV of the U.S. Constitution as well as Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution.
In that document, the Lone Star State governor is given the power to command its military forces to “suppress insurrection and to repel invasions.”
And leftists love suppressing “insurrection,” don’t they? Oh, only when it involves former President Donald Trump and/or those present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
On the other hand, those whose very act of entering the United States constitutes a crime are fine.
Texas officials don’t agree.
“The invasion is unsustainable and threatens the lives of our citizens,” resolutions adopted by the counties declaring an “invasion” state, according to The Center Square.
To put this into context, this means that almost 20 percent of the 254 counties in Texas alone have declared the border crisis in their state an “invasion.” What’s more, the three new counties come on the heels of seven counties that declared an invasion in November, The Center Square reported.
“The Biden administration created the border crisis, county officials argue, with an estimated 10 million people illegally entering the country since 2021. An unprecedented 1.9 million illegal entered Texas in fiscal 2023 alone,” the outlet noted.
The counties that have declared an invasion are (deep breath):
Atascosa, Bandera, Burnet, Chambers, Clay, Collin, Crockett, Ector, Edwards, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Frio, Goliad, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Hood, Hunt, Jack, Jasper, Johnson, Karnes, Kinney, La Salle, Lavaca, Leon, Liberty, Live Oak, Madison, McMullen, Medina, Montague, Navarro, Orange, Parker, Presidio, Schleicher, Shackelford, Somervell, Terrell, Throckmorton, Tyler, Uvalde, Van Zandt, Waller, Wharton, Wichita, Wilson and Wise.
Furthermore, 58 counties have issued disaster declarations. There isn’t a 1:1 overlap, likely because Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a state disaster declaration for counties in 2021.
So, what’s the Biden administration doing about it? Everything except convincing Texas voters that they should count on Washington officials to do their job and repel the ongoing invasion.
In December, Gov. Abbott signed a law that allowed Texas law enforcement officials to arrest and deport illegal immigrants taken into custody in the state, among other things. Last week, Biden’s Department of Justice challenged the ruling, arguing that “Texas cannot run its own immigration system.”
-C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal via The Gateway Pundit