June 2024. Blues Vol 40 No.6
FEATURES/COVER 80 NATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN’S DAY 86 ADAM’S LEGACY DEPARTMENTS PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS EDITOR REX EVANS THOUGHTS GUEST COMMENTARY - DOUG GRIFFITH GUEST COMMENTARY - PAT DRONEY GUEST COMMENTARY - PAT DRONEY GUEST COMMENTARY - DANIEL CARR NEWS AROUND THE US MIGRANT CRIME BREAKING NEWS CALENDAR OF EVENTS REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES WAR STORIES AFTERMATH HEALING OUR HEROES DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS BLUE MENTAL HEALTH DR. LIGHT BULB AWARD ADS BACK IN THE DAY PARTING SHOTS BUYERS GUIDE ISD PD JOB LISTINGS NOW HIRING BACK PAGE
FEATURES/COVER
80 NATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN’S DAY
86 ADAM’S LEGACY
DEPARTMENTS
PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS
EDITOR REX EVANS THOUGHTS
GUEST COMMENTARY - DOUG GRIFFITH
GUEST COMMENTARY - PAT DRONEY
GUEST COMMENTARY - PAT DRONEY
GUEST COMMENTARY - DANIEL CARR
NEWS AROUND THE US
MIGRANT CRIME
BREAKING NEWS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES
WAR STORIES
AFTERMATH
HEALING OUR HEROES
DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS
BLUE MENTAL HEALTH DR.
LIGHT BULB AWARD
ADS BACK IN THE DAY
PARTING SHOTS
BUYERS GUIDE
ISD PD JOB LISTINGS
NOW HIRING
BACK PAGE
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16 The <strong>Blues</strong> - <strong>June</strong> ‘24<br />
partment of Homeland Security<br />
(DHS), which has reduced the<br />
number of vetting questions<br />
asked of Chinese nationals from<br />
approximately <strong>40</strong> to only five.<br />
By so doing, DHS is prioritizing<br />
“processing efficiency” over<br />
national security, which causes<br />
massive vulnerabilities that<br />
could be exploited by bad actors,<br />
such as China, to embed espionage<br />
agents or worse within the<br />
country.<br />
The Federalist lays the blame<br />
for the focus on “processing<br />
efficiency” on Biden’s nonexistent<br />
border policies, with border<br />
patrol agents being so overwhelmed<br />
with illegal crossings<br />
and bogus asylum requests that<br />
standard national security measures<br />
have been mothballed.<br />
What can only be described as<br />
a cold war with China escalated<br />
this week when Biden slammed<br />
economic and trade sanctions on<br />
Chinese goods, including aluminum,<br />
computer chips, lithium-ion<br />
EV batteries, and other<br />
products. The irony in the EV<br />
batteries cannot be overlooked,<br />
since the administration is forcing<br />
draconian emission standards<br />
on American automakers<br />
to force the companies to focus<br />
on electric and hybrid electric<br />
vehicles. Many states are likewise<br />
trying to phase out the sale<br />
of gasoline-powered vehicles by<br />
the early 2030s.<br />
The sanctions are expected<br />
to see Beijing ramp up its doctrine<br />
of “unrestricted warfare,”<br />
“which advocates for the use of<br />
various tactics including economic<br />
pressure, cyber-attacks,<br />
and ideological infiltration.” The<br />
lack of proper screening and the<br />
high volume of Chinese nationals<br />
entering the US is therefore<br />
deeply concerning. Fears are not<br />
only that the Chinese nationals<br />
may engage in nefarious activities,<br />
but given the current<br />
nationwide demonstrations in<br />
support of Hamas, with many<br />
Asians participating, it may also<br />
be a goal to further social chaos<br />
in the U.S.<br />
There is also the issue of<br />
fentanyl, with the CCP supplying<br />
Mexican drug cartels with<br />
the precursor materials for the<br />
manufacture of the deadly drug,<br />
along with other synthetic opioids.<br />
Moreover, the CCP is also<br />
assisting cartels with money<br />
laundering and financial transactions<br />
by using Chinese banks,<br />
businesses, and networks to<br />
move and hide their illegally-gained<br />
profits. They have also<br />
begun to engage in extensive<br />
illegal marijuana production and<br />
distribution networks, run by socalled<br />
“snakeheads”--Chinese<br />
organized crime that operates<br />
under the CCP<br />
The use of drugs is nothing<br />
new, The Federalist reports.<br />
Famous Chinese dictator Mao<br />
once declared that “drug warfare,<br />
obtaining sudden and huge<br />
profits by spreading disaster in<br />
other countries” was part of the<br />
“three great campaigns” of the<br />
Chinese revolution. It has long<br />
been suggested that the CCP<br />
was behind a number of “armed<br />
insurgencies and terrorist groups<br />
in Southeast Asia, Latin America,<br />
and Africa by providing drugs<br />
and weapons in exchange for<br />
loyalty and influence.”<br />
According to The Federalist<br />
citing U.S. Customs and Border<br />
Protection, over 10,000 Chinese<br />
illegals have been apprehended<br />
since October 2022, contrasted<br />
with only 500 in the same period<br />
in 2021. And that only accounts<br />
for encounters and apprehensions,<br />
not so-called “gotaways.”<br />
Some of that increase could<br />
be attributed to economic and<br />
social uncertainties in China,<br />
the demand for cheap labor in<br />
the U.S. and the effectiveness of<br />
smugglers already embedded in<br />
the U.S. Still, it is difficult to just<br />
“walk out” of China.<br />
Law Enforcement Today has<br />
previously reported on the number<br />
of so-called Chinese “police<br />
stations” in cities throughout the<br />
U.S., including New York, Los Angeles,<br />
San Francisco, and Houston.<br />
The “stations” are staffed by<br />
so-called “volunteers,” who we<br />
are told help Chinese nationals<br />
with services such as renewing<br />
drivers’ licenses or passports.<br />
However, as we have reported<br />
and as The Federalist confirmed,<br />
these “police stations” are run by<br />
the CCP and operate as “overseas<br />
repression operations,” with<br />
the goal of “locating, intimidating,<br />
and silencing dissidents,<br />
activists, and critics of the regime.”<br />
It is also believed that due<br />
to Chinese law requiring Chinese<br />
nationals to engage in espionage<br />
wherever they are, these “police<br />
stations” ensure that they do so.<br />
The Federalist also noted that<br />
through allied United Front organizations,<br />
they also serve to<br />
“undermine the credibility and<br />
legitimacy of the U.S. government<br />
and its institutions, creating<br />
division and conflicts among<br />
Americans.”<br />
China has a strategy of “hybrid<br />
warfare,” which includes<br />
implementing various means “of<br />
coercion, pressure, and desta-