TL;DR - Border security is effing important because Iran has been recruiting in Latin America with the purpose of infiltrating the US through it's southern border.

Iran's 'invisible army' in Latin America

Washington is concerned about Iran's supposedly growing influence in Latin America.

15 Sept 2013

When contemplating the logistics of a possible war with Iran, it is helpful to consult maps indicating the multitude of US military bases that already encircle a country under crippling economic sanctions.

No similar visual aids are available for Iranian bases in the vicinity of the US, for obvious reasons.

However, there are various ways to compensate for the lack of an apparent Iranian threat in the western hemisphere. One is to blame it on "invisibleness".

For example, a recent headline on TheBlaze tabloid news site proclaimed: "Iran aggressively recruiting 'invisible army’ of Latin American converts to infiltrate US through 'soft belly’ of the southern border."….

"…..According to TheBlaze, the "invisible army" is being forged via "one website in particular": islamoriente.com. As the site is currently inaccessible, it appears that the ruthless conversion campaign has been temporarily stymied, though the islamoriente Twitter account [Sp] continues to spew dangerous rhetoric such as "Oposición de la mayoría de estadounidenses a la intervención militar en Siria' ["Majority of Americans opposed to military intervention in Syria"].

TheBlaze article quotes a "US official" as reasoning: "Now what [Iran] desire[s] is a proxy terrorist group that can easily slip past US border security. Who’s going to suspect an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, Mexico, or anywhere else for that matter, of being a jihadist?"…..

"……Unnamed "US officials and experts" also star in an August Washington Post report titled: "With lure of religion classes, Iran seeks to recruit Latin Americans."

The article focuses on the trajectory of a former Mexican law student by the name of Carlos, who in 2010 travelled to Iran on a scholarship from the Iranian government for intensive Spanish-language instruction in Islam and Iranian culture……

Spanish-language instruction in Islam and Iranian culture.

Nisman's determination to hold Iran accountable at all costs has been repeatedly challenged by… Gareth Porter, who in a 2008 report for The Nation questioned Iranian motives for bombing Argentina when the two countries were engaged in negotiations to revive suspended nuclear technology contracts.

As the story goes, the seeds of the arrangement were sown when Carlos attended a reception at the Iranian embassy during his first year at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), "Mustering his courage, he introduced himself to Mohammad Ghadiri, the Iranian ambassador, and blurted out that he was interested in learning about Islam."

sauce: https:// www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/201391564446453467.html

>>915941

>>915966

Mexico’s Revenge

"…What Mexican analysts have called the “China card” is an extreme retaliatory option."

"….Once the threat of Soviet expansion into the Western Hemisphere vanished, the United States paid less-careful attention to Latin America. It passively ceded vast markets to the Chinese, who were hunting for natural resources to feed their sprouting factories and build their metropolises. The Chinese invested heavily in places like Peru, Brazil, and Venezuela, discreetly flexing soft power as they funded new roads, refineries, and railways. From 2000 to 2013, China’s bilateral trade with Latin America increased by 2,300 percent, according to one calculation. A raft of recently inked deals forms the architecture for China to double its annual trade with the region, to $500 billion, by the middle of the next decade. Mexico, however, has remained a grand exception to this grand strategy. China has had many reasons for its restrained approach in Mexico, including the fact that Mexico lacks most of the export commodities that have attracted China to other Latin American countries. But Mexico also happens to be the one spot in Latin America where the United States would respond with alarm to a heavy Chinese presence."….

sauce: https:// www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/mexicos-revenge/521451/

>>915845

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>>916284

Agreed. Very obvious nonsense in that article. Not surprising, given the source. But, once you know how to interpret their lies, you can make sense out of the nonsense. Things like what you pointed out - leaving all that out and instead diverting by suggesting nobody was paying attention.

We know damn well this plan was in the works for a loooooooong time.