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Afghan Man Captured Swimming Across Border [Texas Rio Grande]
KGBT4.com ^ | Aug 14, 2006 | Romeo Cantu

Posted on 08/15/2006 11:43:24 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

HIDALGO

An Afghan man remained in federal custody in the Valley Monday after being caught illegally entering the country.

U.S. Border Patrol officials told Action 4 News that the 30-year-old man was captured around 3:00 p.m. Friday about 1 mile east of the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.

As he swam across the Rio Grande, he was quickly apprehended by agents without incident, authorities said.

Because it is an ongoing investigation, Border Patrol refused to say much about the man other than that he was being detained and questioned by its agency and the FBI on charges of entering the country illegally.

The reason for the FBI interrogation is because the Afghanistan man comes from an area that is considered to be a country of special interest -- those countries with possible terrorist ties.

But on a larger-scale, the man from Afghanistan is considered to be an illegal immigrant from a country "Other Than Mexico", which the Border Patrol calls an OTM.

Already this year, agents have apprehended nearly 100,000 illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley sector, of those, about half or 49,000 are OTMs.

The big question is how are these OTMs getting into Mexico and crossing the U.S. borders, especially if they come from countries where they don't speak Spanish.

One theory, suggests these illegal immigrants that don't speak Spanish hide in large cities, like Mexico City, for about year and there take up the language and culture, trying to blend in.

Border Patrol agents said that during their questioning of the OTMs they're able to learn how these people are getting through Mexico and in the process agents are learning how to better protect the border.

Border patrol agents are conducting a background check on the Afghan man, but no word yet if he has any ties to any terrorist groups.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderpatrol; bush; captured; congress; corruption; illegals; jihadinamerica; otm; wot
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"Already this year, agents have apprehended nearly 100,000 illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley sector, of those, about half or 49,000 are OTMs."

How many did they NOT apprehend?

1 posted on 08/15/2006 11:43:25 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: SwinneySwitch

Rut Roh!!


2 posted on 08/15/2006 11:45:19 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
"Wet-Turbin?"
3 posted on 08/15/2006 11:45:37 AM PDT by msnimje ("Beware the F/A - 22 Raptor with open doors" -- Unknown US NAVY Raptor Pilot)
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To: msnimje

OOPS --- "Wet-Turban?"


4 posted on 08/15/2006 11:46:37 AM PDT by msnimje ("Beware the F/A - 22 Raptor with open doors" -- Unknown US NAVY Raptor Pilot)
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To: LongElegantLegs; radar101; RamingtonStall; engrpat; HamiltonFan; Draco; TexasCajun; ...

¿Quién sabe Ping?


5 posted on 08/15/2006 11:47:26 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Terroristas-beyond your expectations!)
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To: gubamyster

ping


6 posted on 08/15/2006 11:47:56 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: SwinneySwitch

Just someone with high morals wanting a job to provide for his poor wife and children. Nothing to see here. Move along.


7 posted on 08/15/2006 11:48:14 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: SwinneySwitch
I see nothing....nothing.

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8 posted on 08/15/2006 11:49:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Ah its ok George Bush just tells me they are here to pick lettuce.....


9 posted on 08/15/2006 11:50:08 AM PDT by democrats_nightmare
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To: SwinneySwitch

Judging from recent events, he could have been caught swimming across the Rio Grande with 1000 cell phones, an 'I love killing infidels' t-shirt and a bag full of dynamite and the Fed's would have let him go due to lack of evidence.


10 posted on 08/15/2006 11:50:29 AM PDT by keithtoo (Israeli defense strategy "Cogito Ergo Boom!")
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To: SwinneySwitch

To Gitmo


11 posted on 08/15/2006 11:50:30 AM PDT by omega4412 (Multiculturalism kills. 9/11, Beslan, Madrid, London)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Our reputation for having porus borders reaches all the way to Afghanistan, then.


12 posted on 08/15/2006 11:51:35 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: mtbopfuyn

"Just someone with high morals wanting a job to provide for his poor wife and children. Nothing to see here. Move along."

Could it be someone willing to do the terrorism Americans aren't willing to do?


14 posted on 08/15/2006 11:53:25 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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To: SwinneySwitch


Just wanting to kill the infidels that the Americans refuse to kill.


15 posted on 08/15/2006 11:53:45 AM PDT by houeto
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To: SwinneySwitch

Thanks for the ping Swinney.


16 posted on 08/15/2006 11:54:18 AM PDT by houeto
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To: SwinneySwitch

Achmed the Muslim wetback


17 posted on 08/15/2006 11:55:12 AM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: msnimje

Is that politically correct?


18 posted on 08/15/2006 11:56:49 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

It's amazing how fast word travels about that big sale at Walmart on cell phones...


19 posted on 08/15/2006 11:57:40 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Is that politically correct?

Absolutely not.
20 posted on 08/15/2006 11:57:45 AM PDT by msnimje ("Beware the F/A - 22 Raptor with open doors" -- Unknown US NAVY Raptor Pilot)
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