Like any good “conspiracy theory,” give it some time and lo and behold it becomes true.
The Rolling Stone’s Miles Klee wrote on October 9, 2023 that “Trump and MAGA Allies” were pushing a “conspiracy theory about Hamas crossing the southern border.”
“Donald Trump and far-right allies are using the [October 7th attack] to push a familiar anti-immigration narrative back home. According to MAGA world, Hamas won’t stop at launching a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza — they’ve also infiltrated the U.S. via the Mexican border.”
“Never doubt the ability of Republicans to make a foreign war all about their anti-immigration agenda,” Klee continued, later adding that, “To suggest that a significant number have escaped the region, crossed half the globe and then secretly traversed the hazardous Mexico border into the U.S. is far-fetched in the extreme.”
Klee wasn’t alone mocking Republicans for rightfully worrying that the same ideology found in the radical Islamists who carried out the horrific October 7 attack would be found in other foreigners — including those infiltrating America.
The New York Times’ Jazmine Ulloa wrote on October 19, 2023 “For Republicans, All Roads Lead to the U.S.-Mexico Border.”‘ Ulloa said that Republicans sounding the alarm about Hamas sleeper cells invading the U.S. via illegal immigration lack any facts.
“Homeland Security officials have said they have found no specific or credible threat to the United States tied to Hamas,” Ulloa wrote, later admitting, however, that while “experts do not completely rule out the threat of a terror attack launched from the southern border, they described it as unlikely.”
Meanwhile The Los Angeles Times’ Andrea Castillo “fact-checked” Trump’s claims that “thousands of terrorists” are entering the United States in an October, 2024 piece.
“Government data suggests the numbers are considerably smaller, and that domestic terrorism, such as that inspired by white supremacy, poses a far greater terrorism threat today than foreign-born extremists,” Castillo wrote.
Despite the propaganda press’ insistence that such a possibility was a “conspiracy” theory, on Sunday 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman was arrested after he allegedly attacked a group of peaceful demonstrators calling for the release of the remaining hostages being held by Hamas. Chanting “Free Palestine,” Soliman allegedly threw Molotov cocktails and burned several protesters.
Soliman, an Egyptian national, overstayed his visa after entering under the Biden administration and was supposed to leave on Feb. 2, 2023, according to Fox News. The Biden administration later gave Soliman a work permit, according to the report.
The propaganda press ran with the “conspiracy theory” narrative to try and delegitimize concerns about mass migration — both legal and illegal. In their world, no one is allowed to question whether the people coming to this country are compatible with Western civilization (whether they came here legally or not).
But as it turns out, that question of compatibility is the fundamental question — otherwise we’re left with terrorist attacks carried out by radical foreign nationals against our Western values and culture.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
