[FoxNews] Chinese nationals are typically charged more by human smugglers.
Border Patrol apprehensions of Chinese nationals crossing into the U.S. illegally are currently up more than 800% when compared to the same time last year, Fox News has learned.
A senior Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source said that apprehensions of nationals from China are up 800% compared to the same period last fiscal year when including January — the numbers for which have not yet been released.
According to CBP statistics, there have been 1,862 Border Patrol encounters with Chinese nationals between October, when the fiscal year began, and the end of December. That’s compared to 229 in the same period in FY 2022, which would be a more than 700% increase.
In December, there were 931 Chinese nationals encountered, compared to 64 in December 2021.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source told Fox News that as of Wednesday, the Rio Grande Valley sector had 15 Chinese nationals in custody, all of whom are adults ranging in ages from their 20s to their 50s.
Fox is told that they are typically processed for expedited removal unless they claim to have a credible fear of persecution if returned to the country — where the Chinese Communist Party holds power.
As a result, many are claiming that fear and are subsequently being released into the U.S. on their own recognizance and with a notice to appear for a court date for their immigration hearings.
The DHS is on the lookout for potential Chinese spies and other national security threats arriving at the southern border.
Last week, three Chinese nationals who each paid human smugglers $35,000 were apprehended in Texas. Smugglers typically charge Chinese nationals a higher rate.
The U.S. southern border is in the throes of a historic migrant crisis, with more than 251,000 migrant encounters in December — although Fox is told that number dropped to around 150,000 in January, something for which the Biden administration is linking to recent border measures unveiled last month.
Nationals from at least 170 countries arrived at the border last year.
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But, but... I thought all the illegal immigrants were just poor people fleeing the violence and poverty of their home countries. Why are there any Chinese nationals at all?
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Any chance these Chinese are Uighurs or other jihadi types versus Han just in it for the improved lifestyle or anticipating the Communist conquest?
[NYPOST] More than 100 of New York’s Finest packed a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday as the career criminal accused of fatally shooting off-duty cop Adeed Fayaz
...a Pakistani-American who came to America at the age of five, and by middle school had decided he wanted to become a New York City policeman...
faced a judge for the first time on the murder charge.
Randy "Popper" Jones, 38, wore a Tyvek suit as he was arraigned on the first-degree murder rap and ordered held at Rikers Island without bail by Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Dale Fong-Frederick.
The hearing came the day after Fayaz, a 26-year-old married father of two, departed this vale of tears at Brookdale Hospital, where he had been on life support since the Saturday evening shooting.
Prosecutors said Jones — who has a lengthy rap sheet — had an outstanding traffic warrant and was wanted in a statutory rape case in Virginia when he allegedly shot Fayaz in the head during a botched robbery in East New York.
Fayaz, a five-year veteran of the NYPD, had gone with his brother-in-law, a livery cab driver, to meet the seller of a Honda Odyssey advertised on Facebook Marketplace shortly before 7 p.m. Feb. 4, when he was ambushed.
It would have been an easy money scam, but it became murder instead.
"When Officer Fayaz and his brother arrived, the defendant whipped out a rod, demanded money and then shot Officer Fayaz when they didn’t produce the money, which they had left in the car along with the bill of sale," Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Leila Rosini said in court.
“Tragically, and unbeknownst to the defendant, the $24,000 in cash was in their car, just not on their person and he did not wait,” she said.
“He just shot.”
Fayaz’s relative then grabbed the young cop’s gun and fired off several rounds at their attacker, leaving a bullet hole in the getaway BMW SUV as it sped away, prosecutors said.
Jones, of Harlem, was on the lam for two days before cops tracked him down at a Days Inn hotel in Nanuet in Rockland County on Monday, where he was holed up with his girlfriend.
He was taken into custody with Fayaz’s handcuffs and hauled back to Brooklyn.
Jones was hit with charges of murder and robbery Tuesday evening following Fayaz’s death.
The fallen officer received a traditional “transfer of remains” ceremony at the hospital, as flags were flown at half-staff at his Borough Park precinct in his honor.
TALIBAN MAKE NEW PLEAS FOR SANCTION RELIEF AND RECOGNITION – In what appears to be a coordinated effort, the Taliban Minister for Justice and the Taliban spokesman (Zabiullah Mujahid) called on international leaders to both recognize the IEA as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and to lift travel sanctions that have been imposed on Taliban leaders. It is unlikely that either request will be seriously considered after the backward bans on women’s education/work and the inhumane punishments imposed by the Ministry of Justice for low-level offenses.
$40 MILLION IN AID ARRIVED IN KABUL – Da Afghanistan Bank officials said the cash package arrived on Wednesday and was deposited into a commercial bank. Several international news organizations and other humanitarian aid groups have called into question the economic aid program in Afghanistan and have suggested it is being diverted to Taliban leaders and officials. The United Nations has pushed back against any criticism and continue to state the Taliban have no access to the funds. Two ongoing investigative reports by anonymous journalists claim to have secured proof that the Taliban are enriching themselves off the economic aid and plan to release their reports in March or April.
SELECT NEWS WEBSITES BEING CENSORED IN AFGHANISTAN – Reporting from various Provinces suggest that several websites have been blocked by privately owned carriers who provide cellular service in the country. The websites affected include Voice of America and Radio Free Europe (Dari and Pashto sites). The BBC and Voice of America’s English language sites continue to work. The companies which have reputedly implemented censorship bans for the Taliban are Afghan Wireless, Roshan, and Etisalat Afghanistan. The websites continue to work through the internet and have always been accessible by using a virtual private network (VPN).
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DUTCH SEISMOLOGIST WHO PREDICTED EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY AND SYRIA SAYS AFGHANISTAN IS NEXT – Frank Hoogerbeets accurately predicted the deadly earthquake that struck Southern Turkey and Northern Syria, days before it happened. He now says seismic activity suggests an earthquake with a potential magnitude of 7.8 will strike Afghanistan and will run through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. No date was specified in his latest prediction but international agencies are taking precautions and issuing alerts to field staff in both countries. THIS WEBSITE OFFERS SOME UNIVERSAL PREPAREDNESS TIPS FOR SURVIVING AN EARTHQUAKE we are searching for a Pashto and/or Dari document on the subject and will publish it when available.
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday said that a total of 76 suspected bad boyz were potted during military operations while 235 people were arrested for various criminal offences between January 25 and February 9, 2023.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, disclosed this during a biweekly media briefing on Armed Forces of Nigeria’s Military Operations held at Defence Headquarters, Abuja.
Danmadami said that within the period under review the Nigerian military denied oil thieves a total of N128,260,990.00 in the South-South Region, while assorted weapons were recovered across the six geo-political zones.
He said that Nigeria military deployed both kinetic and non-kinetic during the operations which in some operations involved other security agencies.
A breakdown of the operational success shows that in south-south region, the troops destroyed 40 illegal refining sites, 10 bags & 5 x 25 liters jerrican of AGO, 136 storage facilities, 12 Metal drums, 10 Dugout pits, 47 Cellophane bags of illegally refined products, 136 storage facilities, 66 Metal ovens, 39 Wooden boats, 1 Generator, 11 vehicles and 2 tricycles.
Danmadami, however noted that while 53 suspected economic saboteurs and three suspected criminals were arrested, the troops equally recovered "1 double barrel gun, 222,000Litres of suspected Crude Oil, 83,000Litres of illegal refined AGO and 1000 Litres of DPK."
In the South-East, the defence front man said that the troops killed four alleged turbans and arrested five members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Items recovered include: "3 AK47 Rifles, 5 Rounds of 7.62mm special, 1 Pump action gun, 31 Rounds of cartridges, 1 SMG, 1 Teargas launcher, 6 Local pistol, 22 Rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 11 AK47 magazine, 260 Rounds of 223 Remington ammo, 15 Fragmental jackets, 2 Vehicles, 3 Motorcycles, 1 Local IED, 2 Solar panels, 1 Wi-Fi device, 3 Hand held radios, 12 Mobile phones, and gun powder and Charm."
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[HodhodYemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News] A high-ranking military commander loyal to Saudi-led coalition forces was killed on late Wednesday during military confrontations with Yemeni armed forces (Sana’a forces) in the southwest of the city of Ma’rib, Yemen Press Agency reported, citing local sources.
According to the sources, the commander of the military police, Hajjah branch, Colonel Mansour Siraj, was killed along with a number of officers and recruits when they tried to advance towards the military locations of Sana’a forces in al-Akad area east of al-Balaq Mountain.
The coalition forces of Evil also launched artillery shelling on the same area, the sources said.
[HodhodYemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News] Dozens of Saudi military and armored vehicles left on Wednesday al-Wadiah border crossing towards Yemeni territory.
Sources familiar with the matter said that the countless vehicles left the al-Wadiah crossing, likely heading towards the city of Aden, and Seiyun, the capital of the districts of Wadi Hadhramaut.
The sources pointed out the Saudi reinforcements towards Yemen indicates dangerous developments in the southern military scene, after Riyadh established the forces of the so-called "Dera al-Watan forces" (Shield of the Homeland) belonging to bad boy Salafist groups from the southern provinces.
On Tuesday, Mohammed Taher Anam, a leader of the "Salafi Rashad Party" and an advisor to the Supreme Political Council in Sanaa, confirmed that Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... ’s formation of those Salafi-jihadi forces a studied intelligence step to complicate political solutions in Yemen.
Earlier, The head of the UAE’s Center for Political Studies, Khalid al-Shamiri, confirmed that the forces established by Saudi Arabia "Dera al-Watan forces" (Shield of the Homeland) are composed out of bad boy Salafist group linked to al-Qaeda and the Moslem Brüderbund.
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Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a former New York stockbroker-turned-Islamic State group militant has been convicted of becoming a sniper and trainer for the extremist group during its brutal reign in Syria and Iraq.
The trial of the Kazakh-born U.S. citizen is the latest in a series of cases against people accused of leaving their homelands around the world to join the militants in combat, according to a statement on the U.S. Ministry of Justice website.
“Today’s verdict in an American courtroom is a victory for our system of justice” and against the Islamic State group, Brooklyn-based U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement. Asainov’s lawyers had no immediate comment.
A one-time broker who doted on his toddler daughter, Asainov converted to Islam around 2009 and later quit his job and started watching radical sermons online, his ex-wife testified. He abruptly left his family in Brooklyn in December 2013 and made his way to Syria as IS stormed to power.
In a case built largely on Asainov’s own words in messaging apps, emails, recorded phone calls and an FBI interview, prosecutors said he fought in numerous battles and built a notable profile in IS by becoming a sniper and later an instructor of nearly 100 other long-range shooters.
“The evidence has shown that people died as a result of the defendant’s conduct. It is time to hold him accountable,” prosecutor Douglas Pravda told a Brooklyn federal court jury in a closing argument.
Asainov, 46, didn’t testify, telling the court he was “not part of this process.”
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Jurors, whose identities were kept confidential, found Asainov guilty of offences that include providing and attempting to provide material support to what the U.S. designates a foreign terrorist organisation.
The jury also concluded that his actions caused at least one death, a finding that means he faces the potential of life in prison. His sentencing is set for June 7.
IS fighters seized chunks of Iraq and Syria in 2014, sweeping millions of people into a so-called caliphate ruled according to the group’s iron-fisted interpretation of Islamic law, enforced through massacres, beheadings, sexual slavery and other atrocities.
The group’s bloody campaign attracted tens of thousands of foreign fighters; at least scores of them were U.S. citizens, according to a 2018 academic report from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.
[Dawn] The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) foiled an attempt of sabotage in the twin cities and arrested two ’most wanted terrorists’ of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) on Thursday.
The arrested suspects belonged to the Haji Faqir group of TTP and wanted to carry out suicide kabooms in the twin cities.
A front man for the CTD said with the help of other security agencies the CTD conducted an operation in Rawalpindi and arrested the two suspected terrorists. He identified them as Hayatullah and Wakil Khan.
The front man said during an investigation the suspects revealed that they wanted to target the Police lines headquarters in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and a cop shoppe and the district courts of Rawalpindi and other sensitive places.
They had scanned the places and sent its pictures to the TTP commander in Afghanistan, he added.
The front man said the Haji Faqir group was operating from Afghanistan. A case has been registered against the suspects and further investigation is in progress, he added.
TTP plot foiled by Police in Rawalpindi when two TTP turbans from the Haji Fakir wing were arrested before carrying out a terror attack against the Saint Paul Church and Covenant School as well as several courts in Rawalpindi.
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[Dawn] Armed bully boyz stormed Hathala checkpost of the Kulachi cop shoppe here on Wednesday. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... no casualties were reported.
A police front man, Syed Yaqoob Bukhari told Dawn that bully boyz were armed with sophisticated weapons. He said that the police retaliated to the attack, forcing the attackers to flee.
Soon after receiving information about the incident, district police officer Mohammad Shoaib Khan along with a heavy contingent of police reached the spot and launched a search operation in the area.
[Dawn] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Wednesday to have killed a member of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) in an encounter in Khanewal.
A spokesperson claimed that the Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... CTD got a tip-off that members of a group involved in heinous terrorist activities, including attack on law-enforcement agencies (LEAs), were present in the vicinity of Chak 40/10-R in Khanewal.
He said the suspected bandidosmurderous Moslems were planning to carry out a major activity against the LEAs.
Acting on the information, he said, a CTD team reached the spot and tried to arrest the suspected terrorists.
The spokesperson said that on seeing the personnel, the suspects opened indiscriminate fire on them. The CTD team, taking cover, retaliated the fire in self defense, using modern operational techniques, he said, adding that the crossfire continued for 15-20 minutes.
As the firing stopped, the CTD team searched the area and found a suspected terrorist, identified as Irfanullah Afridi, a resident of Kurram district, lying dead, while two to three other unknown suspects managed to escape, taking an advantage of darkness.
He said a case was registered against the suspects at the Multan CTD cop shoppe, and investigation was launched.
The CTD team also recovered one Kalashnikov, two hand grenades, 11 bullets with a magazine and a flag of the banned TTP from the spot.
A high-level leader of the TTP was reportedly killed in a shootout in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... on Thursday near Khanewal. Irganullah Afridi (from Kurram District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province) was killed after police surrounded his hideout. 2 other suspected TTP turbans expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
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[Dawn] The Counter-Terrorism Department on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a man linked with hard boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
"Acting on a tip-off, [RING!] Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking! Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse... the CTD conducted a raid in Korangi Industrial Area and arrested Abdul Malik," a police spokesperson said, adding that he was an Afghan national who had been living in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... since long.
He used to collect ’donations for IS’ in Ramazan and sent the money to Afghanistan.
"Vital information has been obtained through his cell phone, which is being analysed by forensic experts," the spokesperson added.
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[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says Adam and Mohammed Abu Taha, residents of Tel Sheva, supplied 150,000 rounds of ammo, dozens of weapon parts to terror group in Jenin
The Shin Bet security agency on Thursday said two Israeli brothers from a southern Bedouin town were arrested for allegedly supplying Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... operatives in the West Bank with firearm parts and ammunition.
In December 2022, Border Police troops detained Adam and Mohammed Abu Taha, residents of Tel Sheva, as well as Majdi Amarna, a Paleostinian from the West Bank village of Yabed, near Jenin, over the suspected illegal arms trade.
According to the Shin Bet, the Abu Taha brothers supplied some 150,000 rounds of ammunition and dozens of weapon parts to Islamic Jihad terror operatives in the Jenin area. A complete M16 rifle was seized from the two men during their arrest.
The pair also allegedly sold weapon parts to criminal elements in southern Israel.
Amid the investigation, two more Israeli civilians from the Negev area in southern Israel, Khaled Alaasem and Mughanim Alaasem, were detained over their alleged involvement in the case.
Indictments were filed against the Abu Taha brothers on Thursday at the Beersheba District Court, charging them with various weapons and security offenses.
Prosecutors said the pair knowingly assisted terror operatives: "This is not a one-time event, but rather a methodical and continuous course of action over a period of time that included ongoing and intensive contact and many meetings with PIJ operatives."
An indictment against Amarna was to be filed at a military court in the coming days, and the two additional Israeli civilians were to be charged at the Beersheba court in the coming days too, the Shin Bet said.
"The Shin Bet and Israel Police take extremely seriously the involvement of Israeli citizens in security offenses, while providing service and assistance to terror organizations and their operatives, including the supply of weapons and ammunition, which has the potential to directly and substantially harm the security of the state," the agency said in a statement, adding that it would work to foil such attempts "and bring those involved to justice."
[IsraelTimes] Military says suspect was ’neutralized’ after approaching troops with knife near al-Fawar refugee camp, near Hebron
A Paleostinian man who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday was shot by troops, the military and medics said. He later died of his injuries.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the suspect, armed with a knife, approached troops at a guard post near the al-Fawar refugee camp and tried to stab them.
"The forces fired at him and neutralized him," the IDF said in a statement, attaching a photo of the knife.
Images from the scene showed the suspect being treated by army medics before being taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service said his death was declared there.
The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry named him as 22-year-old Sharif Hassan Rabaa.
No Israeli soldiers were hurt in the incident, the military said.
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[FoxNews] Chinese nationals are typically charged more by human smugglers.
[NYPOST] More than 100 of New York’s Finest packed a 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
