Posted on 10/06/2022 1:13:45 PM PDT by tlozo
GAMBELL, Alaska (KTUU) - Village authorities on St. Lawrence Island notified the Coast Guard on Tuesday that two foreign nationals had landed near the community of Gambell in a small boat.
A spokesperson from Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office said the senator was made aware of the situation after being contacted by a senior community leader from the Bering Strait region early Tuesday morning. Sullivan’s office released a statement that read in part:
“Given current heightened tensions with Russia, Senator Sullivan then called the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and spoke to him as well as another senior DHS official. Since those calls, Customs and Border Protection is responding and going through the process to determine the admissibility of these individuals to enter the United States.”
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the men were taken to the public safety building in Gambell. Town Clerk Curtis Silook said the men were flown off the island on Tuesday. According to Silook, the men told villagers they had sailed their boat from the city of Egvekinot in Northeastern Russia, approximately 300 miles by sea. Other villagers said the men told them they were fleeing the Russian military.
On Wednesday, Governor Mike Dunleavy commented on the situation.
“These two individuals that came over from Russia in a boat and were detained in Gambell, my understanding is, they are in Anchorage now being dealt with by federal authorities,” Dunleavy said. “We don’t anticipate a continual stream of individuals or a flotilla of individuals. We have no indication that’s going to happen, so this may be a one-off.”
The situation is being handled by the Department of Homeland Security.
They’re spies, Jim.
Russian Mafia
In your zeal to post up the talking points for the day, you don’t use FR Search much do you?
‘Russians seek asylum in U.S. after landing on remote Alaskan island’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4098753/posts
Welcome to Drudge.
If they intend to harm Americans they will be welcomed
Nobody expects the Russian migration!
“I always wanted to see Montana.”
Travel by boat in the Bering Sea in October probably keeps out the riffraff.
They’re white so they will probably be booted out, only poc can be refugees doncha know.
It be turning cold out there
Most take the traditional route over the southern border.
So a foreign vessel was able to land undetected on US soil
good to know “Homeland Security” is on the job
Unless they are guaranteed dimocrat voters, they will not be allowed to stay.
Some parts of Russia are only 3 miles from the US aka
Big Diomede and Little Diomede islands
Anticipate hijack attempts in Siberia to try fly plane to US territory
Dodge the crab boats
In about a month, they can walk across!
Just beware of the polar bears.🙄
Yeah, these 2 guys will go through the “real” process for illegals, including swift deportation. No Martha’s Vineyard for them!!
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