Will U.S. Security Sub-Contractors Man a Gaza Checkpoint??

Read about it here, but frankly, I hit my limit for belief at this sentence: "It was unclear what would happen if the Americans were attacked or captured, or which nation's law would govern the contractor's actions." 

All of that has been unclear in every previous incident of armed contractors in war zones, so why would we have any clarity about it this time? It's not like we learn from past experience, after all.  

 

Are we really doing that again? No way, surely. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters)  A small U.S. security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, according to a company spokesperson and a recruitment email seen by Reuters, introducing armed American contractors into the heart of one of the world's most violent conflict zones.

UG Solutions - a low-profile company founded in 2023 and based in Davidson, North Carolina - is offering a daily rate starting at $1,100 with a $10,000 advance to veterans it hires, the email said. They will staff the checkpoint at a key intersection in Gaza's interior, said the spokesperson, who confirmed the authenticity of the email. 

Some people have been recruited and are already at the checkpoint, said the spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity. He did not say how many contractors were already in Gaza. 

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Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on Tuesday told reporters, without naming UG Solutions or the United States, that Israel had demanded that the deal include the use of a private security firm, working with "an Egyptian security company or forces" to help maintain security and humanitarian aid flows in Gaza. 

But, she said, it remained to be seen if the arrangement "actually works." 

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A separate source familiar with the deal said Israel and unnamed "Arab countries" that worked on the agreement are funding the consortium. The U.S. government had no direct involvement in the decision to include a security company in the ceasefire deal or in the awarding of the contract, the source said.

This genius scheme ought to come undone as soon as the USG acquires some direct involvement in that decision. 

About Those "Military Aged Males" Who Crossed Our Border: Hell No, They Won't Go! Or Will They?

Hey, Tom Homan, you're missing a good one here. It appears there is a new and very large group of alien criminal offenders who are prime for your attention.  

This story may have been lost amid all the other news about immigration enforcement lately, but it points out a surprising deportation predicate that's gone ignored, and, for those of us of a certain age, it's also a blast from the past. 

To wit, the fearsome draft card.

A top government accountability group will send a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Selective Service System (SSS) for data on illegal immigrants who did not register for the draft and therefore committed a felony.

By law, all U.S. males aged 18-26 must register with the SSS under penalty of felony conviction and $250,000 fine under the Military Selective Service Act of 1917, Howell’s group noted in their filing.

Additionally, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 makes failure to register with the SSS a deportable offense, and the SSS website clearly states undocumented aliens are required to sign up for the draft, Howell noted.

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In a Thursday interview, Howell and attorney Kyle Brosnan said SSS registration has been flat during the Biden administration as far as it relates to the obvious uptick in "military-aged males" crossing the border and being "caught-and-released" by federal immigration authorities.

"The absence of such a surge indicates that there is widespread criminal non-compliance by such aliens," they wrote in their FOIA request. "There should be a large increase in [SSS registration] with 10 million illegals that have come over the border in the last four years."

Well, well, well. When the Biden administration was processing and releasing all those male border crossers over the last four years, did it register them with Selective Service?

Rhetorical question, of course.

But if it did not, then what is there to stop the new administration from charging them with a serious crime and expediting their deportation?