America's Enemies Are Already Here | Mike Glover
SDN Episode 799 Companion Article
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BLUF
The invasion your leaders spent four years arguing about already happened. It just didn’t look like one. While Washington fought over walls and asylum courts, hostile states and their proxies moved people, money, and capability into American neighborhoods through both borders. Iran’s networks, jihadist operatives, and cartel muscle aren’t massing on the far side of a fence. They’re renting houses, holding jobs, and mapping the soft targets your family walks through every week. When Tehran or its proxies decide the cost is worth paying, the first strike won’t come at a port of entry. It’ll come at street level, in a community that never built a baseline and never saw the surveillance. Your safety now depends on what you notice, not what the border stops.
I break this down in tonight’s episode. Catch the full panel broadcast below.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND
The numbers stopped being abstract a long time ago. The National Counterterrorism Center has identified roughly 18,000 known or suspected terrorists with jihadist ties who entered this country under the last administration. Agents on the northern border are arresting a watch-list terrorist nearly every week and have caught crossers from 78 nations. Since 2021, more than 2,500 Iranian nationals have been arrested inside the US, and Hezbollah networks have run surveillance in American cities since the 1980s.
Last week Washington added the Juárez Cartel and Los Viagras to the terrorist list. Eight Mexican cartels now carry that designation, formalizing the pipeline between terror money and the smuggling routes feeding your county. Infiltration doesn’t look like an invasion. It looks like a lease, a job, and patience, one block from the substation that feeds your street.
The X is believing the border is still the battle line while the operatives are already inside and the soft targets in your daily life sit unwatched.
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EARLY WARNING INDICATORS
Cameras pointed at infrastructure. A vehicle idling by the substation while someone photographs the fence line isn’t curiosity, it’s target development. Hostile surveillance follows a pattern: photograph, note response times, return. If you know your block’s baseline, you’ll catch the second visit, and catching the second visit puts you ahead of their timeline.
Drones where they don’t belong. Repeated drone passes over your church parking lot, the county fair, or the water plant map crowd flow and security posture. One pass is a hobbyist, a pattern is reconnaissance. Logging dates and flight paths gives you evidence worth handing to your sheriff instead of a vague feeling nobody acts on.
The rental nobody can explain. Covered windows, traffic at odd hours, and tenants with no ties to anyone on the street form the classic pre-positioning footprint. Operatives need a place to sit, and they count on neighbors minding their own business. A street that quietly knows who belongs will spot the house that doesn’t within a week.
