Letter to the Editor

‘You Can’t Handle the Truth’

By Jeff Gliedman, Marlboro
Posted 10/17/24

Our First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or …

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Letter to the Editor

‘You Can’t Handle the Truth’

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Our First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Apparently, that right of free speech doesn’t extend to members of our Border Patrol. During the September 25th  House Homeland Security Committee hearing, the retired Patrol’s San Diego Sector Border Chief, Aaron Heitke, testified that he was “ordered to keep quiet about the drastic increase in arrests of illegal aliens with potential ties to terrorism, but he was also ordered to move illegal aliens out of sight of the media to avoid inconvenient public attention.” 

Retired Border Chief Heitke testified “Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10-15 per year. Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023 and more than that this year.” A Significant Interest Aliens is “a non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the United States”. The Biden-Harris administration does not want Americans to know about the dangers their open border policies have unleashed on our country.

He also testified in order to prevent the press from capturing images of large gatherings of illegal aliens he was ordered to move them out of sight of the public. The Harris election campaign doesn’t want any bad publicity while she visited the border last week and now claims she will be tough on the border which she has left open for the last 3 and a half years.

Apparently just as Jack Nicholson yelled out at Tom Cruise in the movie “A Few Good Men,” our current administration has decided the citizens of this country can’t handle the truth!