National Security At the Border(Bush & others just don't "get it!")

humanevents.com ^ | 02/19/2008 ET | Robert Spencer

[kellynla]

Three Afghanis were arrested Wednesday at an international airport in India’s Kerala state for flying with forged Mexican passports. They had just arrived there from Kuwait, where officials examined the passports identifying them as “Antonio Lopez Juan,” “Javier Sanchez Alberto,” and “Atonio Lopez Ernesto,” and found that they didn’t understand any Spanish. Maybe they were also suspicious of these inept attempts to ape Spanish names.

“Antonio,” “Javier,” and “Atonio” insisted they were trying to get to France, but given their newly-minted Mexican identities, that seems about as likely as the possibility that Hillary Clinton will cede the Democratic nomination gracefully to Barack Obama. Now what could Afghan nationals who don’t speak Spanish want with Mexican passports? Maybe they were really tired of Afghan fare and were craving some enchiladas. Or maybe they were hoping to craft a new brand of Afghan/mariachi music.

From the general level of concern exhibited in official Washington after other evidence of jihadist attempts to cross into the U.S. from Mexico, one might reasonably assume that nothing more worrisome than mariachi is going on. But in the real world, this incident is yet another indication of the national security aspect of the immigration issue.

The warnings have been coming in for years. In June 2004, border patrol agents arrested 77 “Middle Eastern” men attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Congressman Solomon Ortiz (D-Tex.) said that such attempts are “happening all over the place. It’s very, very scary.” In October of that year, intelligence officials began investigating allegations that 25 nationals from another hotbed of jihad, Chechnya, had crossed into the country across the Arizona border. And the next month, a captured Egyptian jihadist named Sharif al-Masri told interrogators about Al-Qaeda’s plans to “smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico,” where “operatives would carry material into the U.S.” A Bangladeshi Muslim, Fakhrul Islam, was arrested in December 2004 while trying to cross into Texas from Mexico. With him were members of the Central American Mara Salvatruchas gang, which some officials allege has ties to Al-Qaeda.

In June 2005, the FBI uncovered an operation dedicated to smuggling Iranians into the United States from Mexico. Five months later, Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-NC) said: “They just arrested, down on the border, a couple of weeks ago, three al-Qaeda members who came across from Mexico into the United States.” And in December of that year, immigration crusader Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) revealed that 51 illegal immigrants were arrested on terror-related charges between October 2004 and December 2005. In November 2007, the FBI issued an advisory about a plan by jihadists in league with Mexican drug lords to cross the border via underground tunnels and attack the intelligence training center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, twenty miles from the border with Mexico. “The Afghanis and Iraqis,” one official explained, paid the Mexicans $20,000 or “the equivalent in weapons” for their help in getting into the U.S., and “shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners.”

If all this isn’t an argument for border security, what is? Perhaps the most curious aspect of these stories that are two and three years old is that they didn’t get national attention, and didn’t result in genuine action to secure our borders. But with the latest incident in India, McCain, Hillary, and Obama should be asked pointed questions about their immigration policies, and asked to go beyond the dismissal of immigration controls as “racism” to address the genuine national security issues involved in the continued porous state of our southern border.

There is no way to estimate how many jihadists may already have crossed into the U.S. from Mexico. But the time to play politics with the border issue is long past. The shallow sloganeering and race-baiting that have dominated the national debate about border controls should be recognized as what they are: hindrances to sane and sensible national defense measures.

Why should we stand idle while those who have vowed to destroy us cross the border with relative impunity? And why isn’t such a question being asked of our presidential candidates at every stop they make on the hustings?

[kellynla]

Thanks to GWB's refusal to secure BOTH borders and deport ALL illegals & foreign muzzies, he has failed miserably to protect Americans and America.

And after the next muzzie terrorist attack in America, Bush can bend over and kiss his legacy "adios!"

Semper Fi, Kelly

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

After eight years, Forest Gump would “get it.”

Not even Jorge the Mexican is that stupid.

Stupid can not explain what they are doing to us.

[mtbopfuyn]

Thanks to el Presidente Jorge and his minion Senora Hutchinson (RINORAT, TX).

[af_vet_rr]

I’m in Texas and I’m not worried!! Rick Perry is guarding Texas with webcams!!!!

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

HOORAY Robert Spencer!
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
HOORAY Robert Spencer!

[jetson]

Stupidity my as*! Not protecting our borders is treason!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Any politician unwilling to secure the border immediately should not be able to run a campaign on any sort of national security claims. Period.

You said it correctly: 'after the next muzzie terrorist attack in America'. It is a matter of when, not if, and heaven help if it can be shown that the perpetrators entered this country by sneaking across (particularly) the southern border.

Yet I wonder if anyone will wake up even then.

[Southack]

Border Fence Nearly Doubles

Fewer Crossing Border Due To National Guard And Drones

Illegal immigration drops sharply along US-Mexico border

Once easy, Illegal Immigration Now Risky:President Bush Builds 12 ft Tall Steel Fence Along Mexican Border From The Pacific Into Arizona, Plus Around Major Populated Areas In Arizona and Texas

Illegals Deported By The Planeload Now

"The president cited a 66 percent increase in border-security funding since he took office, along with a 42 percent increase in interior-enforcement spending and a total of 6 million illegal aliens caught and returned home." http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060326-123457-5749r

DHS Announces CBP Border Patrol Agent Deployment Schedule
Washington, D.C. – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced today the fiscal year 2006 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent deployment schedule. In a significant increase in personnel, an additional 1,700 CBP Border Patrol agents will be assigned to the southwest border.
http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/archives/2005_press_releases/0122005/12072005.xml

[EagleUSA]

Stupid can not explain what they are doing to us.
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And it does not — this country is the victim of globalist-elitist mentality, typified by El Presidente Jorge, et al, whereby they feel that violating the Constitution, destroying our soverignty, setting to legal standards in America, and radically dividing our nation, to say nothing of the security risks and the billions in tax dollars WASTED -— is the way to payback America for its support.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

But they still have hacks out there defending them.

[kittymyrib]

I hope someone will mention this incident to our globe-trotting Commander-in-Chief when he gets back from handing out our tax money to African despots.
9/11 was Clinton’s fault. A nuclear device set off in a US city will be George W. Bush’s fault. Shame on both of them for not upholding their chief duty as President: To protect and defend the USA from its enemies, both foreign and domestic.

[Greg F]

Bingo.

George Bush has an agenda regarding illegals that is more important to him than security against terrorists or protection of American citizens. He is not a stupid man. Maybe above average, in the sense of “not a genius” if you tested him, but Bush is not stupid.

We can all poke around the theories of what that agenda is. Maybe it is a conspiracy of the elite to integrate North America. Maybe it is simple business boosterism; help the employers rather than the employees. Maybe it is a political calculation that our culture will inevitably be swamped by Mexican immigrants and demographically the Republican party must adjust or die. Maybe it’s fear of political correctness and being called a racist. Maybe a combination; but, something is trumping national security and protection of our national culture.

[ishabibble]

One of Duncan Hunter’s campaign planks was a solid vow to build a double border fence across the entire Southwest during the first six months of his Presidency. I didn’t hear anyone else say anything like that, and also, Hunter quit the race on a Friday, and on Monday morning he was back in D.C., back at Congress, re-introducing the legislation for the fence that Kay Bailey Hutchins and the other traitors had gutted.

No matter what happens in this election, I already know who DESERVES to be the POTUS.

[houstonman58]

"The president cited a 66 percent increase in border-security funding since he took office,"

And after 9/11 that should have been a 6,000 percent increase in border security funding. Under Bush's watch millions more illegals have tramped over our border and settled their criminal arses on our land. It's time for the Bushbots to take a hike, the man has done nothing to secure the southern border. In fact, all he's done is criminalize our border patrol agents for going after drug smugglers. Can you say "Compean and Ramos"???????? Can you say "vigilantes"?????

If bush really recognized the southern border and illegal aliens as being dangerous to America he'd have stopped his nationally unpopular campaign to grant amnesty to 20 million unknowns, and the fence would have been completed long ago, along with thousands more armed guards to patrol it.

[houstonman58]

Oh, one more thing. Can you say “See you at the signing”???

[Southack]

"the man has done nothing to secure the southern border."

That's incorrect. He's more than doubled our border fence already. See the links in post #8.

Likewise, keep in mind that your argument needs to cite facts, not fancy.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Come on, Jorge built another seventy something miles of fence in his eight years. He’s really serious about defending the nation.

[Dante3]

Bush could possibly not be this stupid. So why does he support an invasion of this country by terrorists and other riff-raff?

[houstonman58]

"Come on, Jorge built another seventy something miles of fence in his eight years. He’s really serious about defending the nation."

LOL

[Sybeck1]

Where’s the Juan Hernandez picture?