House Rejects Border Security Bill

After approving a $61 billion foreign aid bill to Ukraine on April 20 in a 311-112 vote, the United States House of Representatives refused to pass a U.S.-Mexico border security bill.

Since the Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act was brought to the floor under a fast-track procedure that requires a two-thirds majority for passage, the bill failed even though 210 Republicans and 5 Democrats supported it. So the unprecedented migrant crisis along the southern border will continue.

Historic crisis: Border patrol agents have encountered more than 7.6 million illegal immigrants trying to cross the border since Joe Biden took office. That is more people than live on the island of Hong Kong (one of the most densely populated areas in the world).

This number does not count the millions of illegal immigrants who have evaded apprehension. House Speaker Mike Johnson believes the true number of illegal immigrants to have entered America under Biden’s watch is closer to 16 million people.

Prophecy says: In The United States and Britain in Prophecy, the late Herbert W. Armstrong showed how the English-speaking peoples are descended from the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim. This astonishing truth means end-time prophecies about these tribes are actually about the U.S. and British Commonwealth.

One of these end-time prophecies is in Hosea: “Ephraim allows himself to be mixed up with foreigners; Ephraim has become a cake unturned as it was baked. Foreigners eat away his strength, unknown to him; grey hairs are on him here and there, unknown to him. Israel’s pride shall confront and convict them; yet they will not come back to the Eternal their God, nor seek him, in spite of it all” (Hosea 7:8-10; Moffatt translation).

Hosea often refers to the northern 10 tribes of Israel, which split away from Judah, as “Ephraim,” the most prominent tribe, and “Samaria,” the capital. Yet the prophecies of Hosea were spoken to Ephraim and Manasseh jointly. They describe the immigration policies that are sapping the strength of these people.

Learn more: Read “The Intentional Border Crisis.”