What do you think of, when the phrase "Southern Border" is mentioned? Today's guest explains that we as a country are weathering the greatest mass migration crisis in our history. We've never seen this many apprehensions as what we are seeing right now. There have been more than 2.5 Million illegal entries since January 2021. Fact is, there averages about 160K to 180K people each month that we lay hands on. However, that's the number that we intercept. There are another approximately 40K to 60K people per month who are called "got aways." These are the people who were not apprehended but we saw their tracks in the sand or saw them via a surveillance video. So that gives an idea of the immense number of people who are not coming in the honorable, legal way, but are skirting the law, and ending up here illegally. These are criminals. Our guest tells us that we've never had numbers like this since we started keeping track in 1960. Its a massive problem. About 40% of these illegal aliens are from places other than Central America. Our border management systems are totally swamped and are in crisis mode.

Our guest explains the distinction between human trafficking and human smuggling. Smuggling is where the person being brought over the border, is paying for the service. So its consenting on all sides. While trafficking is forced - either sex trafficking or labor trafficking. These are two forms of illegal entry that are taking place on our southern border. There are weapons flowing over our border as well. But its not what we may think. Weapons by and large, flow from the US to the Mexican cartels.

Another area of risk is illegal entry of people who are on the FBI terrorism watch list, and/or on the No Fly list. Shockingly, these people are coming in too. This presents a national security element to our southern border problem.

Some of the people coming in, are members of extremely violent gangs in Central America, such as MS-13. We are seeing criminal aliens who have been convicted in their country as well as ours. One illegal that he mentioned, is a Lebanese-born Venezuelan. He is on the FBI terrorism watch list, and considered �high risk,� with substantial �derogatory intelligence.� Turns out, he was interrogated, but � but! The ICE headquarters ordered him released because he was overweight and was susceptible to Covid! This, despite an FBI recommendation that he not-be released because he is a flight risk. This likely terrorist is now running around Detroit, pursuing an asylum claim.

Think of this statistic: On D-Day, June 6, 1944, some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France�s Normandy region. OK. We�ve all heard of that.

But now consider that EACH MONTH, 160K to 180K illegal aliens are crossing our southern border. Many of these are young men of fighting age. Each month! We have a virtual invasion on our southern border.

As Christians we are obligated to preach the gospel, see conversions, baptize, and then teach them to obey everything that God has commanded. So we need to do both. We need to secure our southern border, so as to protect our own families and people. We also need to use the opportunity to evangelize.

Today's guest is with the Center for Immigration Studies. He is a Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow. Participants: Todd Bensman, Dan Elmendorf