Anonymous ID: 7937e9 Jan. 23, 2021, 2:45 p.m. No.12687147   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7297 >>7430 >>7506

Taiwan Reports 13 Incursions By Chinese Air Force In One Day

 

During the final months of the Trump administration Chinese PLA military exercises near Taiwan grew as part of the tit-for-tat escalation of Washington moves in support of the self-declared Republic.

 

Lately Chinese jets have breached Taiwan's claimed airspace as part of ongoing 'show of force' maneuvers in the contested area. But on Saturday, a mere few days following President Joe Biden's entry into the White House, China's military undertook one of its biggest flyovers yet.

 

According to local press "Taiwan recorded no fewer than 13 incursions by Chinese military planes into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in a single day Saturday (Jan. 23), the most of any such incidents within one day so far this year." As Reuters adds, "Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone on Saturday, and Taiwan’s air force deployed missiles to 'monitor' the incursion, the island’s Defense Ministry said." Additionally, a Chinese Y-8 anti-submatine aircraft also entered Taiwan's ADIZ.

 

Taiwan reportedly scrambled its American-supplied fighter jets to "warn off" the Chinese formation.

 

"Airborne alert sorties had been tasked, radio warnings issued and air defense missile systems deployed to monitor the activity," a Taiwan military statement said.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-says-chinese-air-force-just-made-unusually-large-incursion-8-bombers

Anonymous ID: 7937e9 Jan. 23, 2021, 2:46 p.m. No.12687159   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7187 >>7226 >>7297 >>7430

Trump’s Former DHS Secretary Lobbies Senate to Approve Biden’s DHS Pick

 

Kevin McAleenan, former acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Trump administration, is lobbying senators to approve President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the agency, Alejandro Mayorkas.

 

In a letter leaked to CNN’s Jake Tapper, McAleenan writes to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee asking members to quickly approve Mayorkas’s nomination.

 

“Ali Mayorkas is … committed to the success of the Department, the people who serve in it, and he understands the essential role it maintains in protecting our homeland and our values. … I urge the Committee to complete its work and the Senate to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas as the next Secretary of Homeland Security,” McAleenan wrote.

 

The letter comes despite Mayorkas’s scandal-plagued background in the Obama administration where he was accused by the DHS inspector general of acting “improperly” for securing EB-5 visas for wealthy foreign investors.

 

During a hearing, Mayorkas defended his actions, saying he “fixed problems,” and promised to help Congress pass an amnesty for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens despite its potential to drive an uncontrollable mass migration to the United States-Mexico border.

 

McAleenan was one of a handful of Washington, DC, insiders from the national security establishment who was promoted to the top job at DHS while Donald Trump was president. Others included Gen. John Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen, Elaine Duke, and Chad Wolf.

 

Days before resigning, McAleenan gave an interview where he attacked Trump’s policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. McAleenan claimed the Zero Tolerance policy “went too far” and repudiated the term “illegal alien.”

 

McAleenan had also been accused of leaking the details of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to the establishment media in order to stop the operation. About a month after his announced resignation, a report alleged that McAleenan had led a quiet front inside DHS to stoke opposition to Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy.

 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who sits on the committee, has said he will oppose Mayorkas’s nomination.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/23/trumps-former-dhs-secretary-lobbies-senate-to-approve-bidens-dhs-pick/

Anonymous ID: 7937e9 Jan. 23, 2021, 2:47 p.m. No.12687169   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7297 >>7430

Biden Made America Less Safe with Single Pen Stroke, Says Former CBP Head

 

Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said President Joe Biden made America less safe within hours of being sworn-in on January 20. He said the new president’s executive orders ending the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocol and stopping construction of border wall systems places Americans’ lives in danger.

 

“With the stroke of a pen, President Biden made this country less safe,” Commissioner Morgan told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “It’s pure politics over public safety.”

 

Morgan said he was amazed at how quickly he transitioned on these issues without taking the time to talk to the experts in Border Patrol and CBP about the direct impact of the executive orders that ended border wall system construction and the highly successful “Remain in Mexico” program.

 

“Look, I know what our team said to the transition team,” the former commissioner explained. “I know the facts and data and analysis that was provided. I know what they told them and gave them that that showed that the wall works.”

 

“Again, it’s part of that multi-layer strategy of infrastructure, technology, and personnel that we’ve discussed,” he stated. “It’s not just a wall.”

 

Morgan said the ending of the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, also makes American’s less safe.

 

“So this was this is something we’ve been saying was the most dangerous thing that he’s been saying all along, that he was going to get rid of on day one, and that’s what he did,” the commissioner stated. “That policy alone attributed to the absolute reduction of [migrant] families coming up from Central America.”

 

From the peak of the migrant border in May 2019 to February 2020, CBP reported a 92 percent reduction in the number of Central American migrant families crossing the border from Mexico, Breitbart Texas reported.

 

During a press conference in March, Morgan told reporters:

 

Back in May, 61 percent of those we were encountering were families, the majority of those from the Northern Triangle countries. Because, again, they (transnational criminal organizations — TCOs) knew our system was broken. If you came to the U.S. with a kid you were going to be released into the interior of the U.S.

 

So, the major goal that we set out to do with the President’s strategy with respect to this was to decrease the flow of families from the northern triangle countries. We have succeeded nine months in a row those numbers, families from Northern triangles have gone down and continue to go down.

 

Last weekend, thousands of Honduran migrants forced their way across the Guatemalan border with an intent to make their way to the United States after Biden took office.

 

Morgan said this is a direct result of Biden’s “open border strategy.”

 

“Don’t take my word for it,” he said. “Listen to the migrants themselves. Quote, ‘Biden told us we have 100 days to get to the US border.'”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/01/23/exclusive-biden-made-america-less-safe-with-single-pen-stroke-says-former-cbp-head/

Anonymous ID: 7937e9 Jan. 23, 2021, 2:50 p.m. No.12687202   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7297 >>7430

FIREWORKS: Arizona GOP Meeting Erupts As Grassroots Disavow Ducey, McSally, Establishment Boos

 

"Any chairperson should be recalling Doug Ducey and recalling Rusty Bowers. Why don't you guys want to recall the man that certified a fraudulent election?"

 

The Arizona GOP’s annual meeting erupted into fireworks, as grassroots disruptors took to the stage, disavowing the state’s establishment Republicans like Governor Doug Ducey.

 

The main purpose of the annual Arizona GOP State Committee meeting, held in a church in Phoenix on Saturday, is to elect a number of party positions, including Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. What would likely have been a relatively uneventful meeting was interrupted by a number of grassroots individuals, who managed to get on the stage.

 

Secretary candidate Lisa Daniels, who was nominated only a short while before candidate speeches began, yielded her time to two grassroots pro-Trump activists, Daniel McCarthy and Steve Daniels, a decision that a number of the establishment supporters in the crowd seemingly disapproved of, booing them as soon as McCarthy began speaking.

 

“We will never succumb to communism in this country or in this state. I don’t care what Republican operatives you guys continue to produce, but in this room we have some remarkable people,” McCarthy, who ran in the Republican Primary last year against Martha McSally, said, before he was cut off by the crowd and officials.

 

However, Arizona GOP Chair Dr. Kelli Ward made sure that the two were still able to speak to the crowd. “I’m an advocate of free speech and that means here in the Republican Party,” Ward said. “It’s better for us to live the principles that we say we hold dear, in that more speech is better than less, and you all can make the decision about what they say, and how you feel about it!”

 

READ MORE: ARIZONA: Gosar Slams Establishment Republicans for Labeling #StopTheSteal Push for Election Integrity ‘Sedition’

 

Points of order were raised against the pair, including one asking if McCarthy was a registered Republican, due to him expressing his interest in creating a “Patriot Party” with President Trump on Twitter.

 

Better join the Patriot Party because we're going to actually fight the Biden agenda.

 

Hoping @GOP joins us in this fight. https://t.co/PGeO3dx9G8

 

— Daniel McCarthy for Arizona (@DemandDanielAZ) January 20, 2021

 

McCarthy proceeded to quote Thomas Jefferson, who “once said that once a Republic has become corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of its growing evils, but by removing the corruption and restoring it in its entirety. Every other correction is either useless or a new evil,” and slammed the “uniparty system” and controlled opposition candidates like Martha McSally and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey:

 

Do you hear what I’m saying? Our founders warned us of what’s going on. You have a uniparty system. I was blocked last year. They took a controlled opposition candidate [McSally] and spoonfed them to you. Martha McSally, Doug Ducey, they are controlled opposition and you know it! This party put Doug Ducey in office and Doug Ducey should be recalled by this party! Any chairperson should be recalling Doug Ducey and recalling Rusty Bowers. Why don’t you guys want to recall the man that certified a fraudulent election? You’re booing me! Constitutional conservatism IS the Republican Party!

 

McCarthy finished his speech by hoping that the Arizona GOP would re-elect Dr Ward for another two year term as chair of the party in the meeting, in order to crush the establishment Republicans and the “uniparty” system that he railed against.

 

https://nationalfile.com/fireworks-arizona-gop-meeting-erupts-as-grassroots-disavow-ducey-mcsally-establishment-boos/