Police claim US-Mexico border has ‘eerie parallel’ to Israel-Gaza
A group of US police officials visiting Israel this month in the wake of the 7 October Hamas invasion said the experience left them with worries about the US-Mexico border.
Jonathan F Thompson, executive director and CEO of the National Sheriff’s Association, said he saw “eerie” parallels between the Israel-Gaza boundary and America’s southern border.
“We don’t know about those coming into our country as we speak,” he told The Independent.
“The cartels are organised, violent beyond words,” he added. “Hamas is organised, militant, violent beyond words... The reasons why they want to undermine the country aren’t so terribly important in this case. It’s that they can, have a desire to, have the willingness, have the means, have the methods and the knowhow to do so.”
Sheriff Jim Skinner of Collin County, Texas, said he had a similar takeaway during his time on the trip to Israel, which was organised by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), a national security advocacy and research group.
The apparent ease with which Hamas punctured Israel’s so-called “Iron Wall” left the Texas official concerned that the militant group, or those like it, could easily enter the US.
“These people are murderers and if their leaders mean what they say and our borders are in the situation that they are, I don’t think it’s too hard to come to the conclusion that if they wanted to, these people could enter into the US, and it makes me fearful to what kind of attack they could mount,” he told . “That goes for anybody that hates Americans,
