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Miguel Antonio Azcona pleaded guilty recently to a single count of theft of government funds.....running a NJ food stamps-for-cash scheme that cost the government more than $800,000 over two years. Law enforcement officials estimate $20,000 a month in food stamps was moving through the market. Authorities say the market charged fake sales to the cards to get money out of the recipients’ state accounts. DHS officials have not yet calculated the losses of the long-running fraud

It was as authorities began to look into the store's wire-transfers (remittances) that things got interesting. They all seemed to trace back to one or two accounts in Mexico City. Cooperating with Mexican Authorities, it soon became apparent exactly what the laundered money was being used to finance.

“Among the terror jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border from Mexico into the US is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas,” authorities reported.

“Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year,” according to information provided to Judicial Watch by a source identified only as “a high-ranking Homeland security official in a border state.”

According to the intelligence, Khabir now provides training to thousands of jihadis – mostly from Syria and Yemen – at a base in near Ciudad Juarez, which is located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.

“Staking out U.S. targets is not difficult, and Khabir actually brags in an Italian newspaper article published last week that the border region is so open that he ‘could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.’”