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Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists (Still) Entering US from Mexico
CNS ^ | August 21, 2006 | Kevin Mooney

Posted on 06/12/2011 9:07:37 AM PDT by STD

Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico

The chief law enforcement officers of several Texas counties along the southern U.S. border warn that Arabic-speaking individuals are learning Spanish and integrating into Mexican culture before paying smugglers to sneak them into the United States. The Texas Sheriffs' Border Coalition believes those individuals are likely terrorists and that drug cartels and some members of the Mexican military are helping them get across the border.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: aliens; domestic; illegals; terror
heriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County, Texas told Cybercast News Service that Iranian currency, military badges in Arabic, jackets and other clothing are among the items that have been discovered along the banks of the Rio Grande River.

The sheriff also said there are a substantial number of individuals crossing the southern border into the U.S. who are not Mexican. He described the individuals in question as well-funded and able to pay so-called "coyotes" - human smugglers - large sums of money for help gaining illegal entry into the U.S.

Although many of the non-Mexican illegal aliens are fluent in Spanish, Gonzalez said they speak with an accent that is not native. "It's clear these people are coming in for reasons other than employment," Gonzalez said.

That sentiment is shared by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) "For years, Muslims and other 'Special Interest Aliens' from places other than Mexico have been streaming into the U.S. across our porous border," Tancredo told Cybercast News Service. "These people are not paying $50,000 or more a head just to 'take jobs no American will do.'

"Terrorists are working round the clock to infiltrate the United States," he added. "Congress and this administration must address this gaping hole in our national security and they must do it now."

Some of the more high profile pieces of evidence pointing to terrorist infiltration of the U.S. have been uncovered in Jim Hogg County, Texas, which experiences a high volume of smuggling activity, according to local law enforcement.

We see patches on jackets from countries where we know Al Qaeda to be active

"We see patches on jackets from countries where we know al Qaeda to be active," Gonzalez explained. The patches appear to be military badges with Arabic lettering. One patch in particular, discovered this past December, caught the attention of federal homeland security officials, according to Gonzalez and local officials familiar with the investigation.

Sheriff Wayne Jernigan of Valverde County, Texas, told members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in March about one patch that read "midnight mission" and displayed an airplane flying over a building heading towards a tower. Translators with DHS have said some of the various phrases and slogans on the items could mean "martyr," "way to eternal life," or "way to immortality."

Gonzalez told the House International Relations Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation in July that the terrorists are getting smarter.

"To avoid apprehension, we feel many of these terrorists attempt to blend in with persons of Hispanic origin when entering the country." Gonzalez stated. "We feel that terrorists are already here and continue to enter our country on a daily basis."

Sheriff Arvin West of Hudspeth County, Texas, told Cybercast News Service that he believes some Mexican soldiers are operating in concert with the drug cartels to aid the terrorists.

"There's no doubt in my mind," he said, "although the Mexican government and our government adamantly deny it."

Statistics made available through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show more than 40,000 illegal aliens from countries "Other Than Mexico," designated as OTMs, were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in the period ranging from October 2003 to June 2004, as they attempted to cross the southwestern border. An overview of border security challenges produced through the office of Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicates that almost 120,000 OTMs were apprehended while attempting to cross into the state from January through July 2005.

Local authorities are particularly concerned about illegal aliens arriving from Special Interest Countries (SICs) where a radical version of Islam is known to flourish. Perry's office cites Iraq, Iran, Indonesia and Bangladesh among those countries. A Tancredo spokesperson said the list also includes Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.

As Cybercast News Service previously reported an internal audit of DHS that combines the number of illegal aliens arriving from SICs with the documented instances of illegal aliens arriving from countries identified as being state sponsors of terrorism (SSTs) yields a grand total of over 90,000 such illegal aliens who have been apprehended during the five year period from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2005.

The border security report delivered by Perry's office focuses attention on the "Triborder region" of Latin America, which spans an area between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

"The Triborder Region is a focal point of Islamic extremism," the report states. "Al Qaeda leadership plans to use criminal alien smuggling organizations to bring terrorist operatives across the border into the U.S."

Carlos Espinosa, a press spokesman for Tancredo, said his office is aware of a training camp in Brazil that actually teaches people from outside of Latin America how they can assimilate into the Mexican culture.

"They come up as illegal aliens and disguise themselves as potential migrant workers," Espinosa said.

Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico By Kevin Mooney CNSNews.com Staff Writer August 21, 2006

1 posted on 06/12/2011 9:07:42 AM PDT by STD
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To: STD

But...but...Incompetano says the border is more secure than ever!


2 posted on 06/12/2011 9:09:02 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: STD
Posted in early 2006, records are no longer being kept by Big Sis and Homeland Sig Hiel Security
3 posted on 06/12/2011 9:10:21 AM PDT by STD ('Be Ye holy, for I am holy')
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To: STD

Tom Clancy “Teeth of the Tiger”.

Mexican Drug cartels exchange Islamic Terrorist access to the U.S. for better access to European drug markets.


4 posted on 06/12/2011 9:19:29 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Avoiding_Sulla; AuntB; Liz; calcowgirl; mkjessup; NFHale; Gilbo_3; ..
Posted in early 2006...

  

Right in the middle of amnesty.

FUGWB! FUJM! FULG!

5 posted on 06/12/2011 9:23:20 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: STD

All according to presidential plans Obama took over where Bush left off.


6 posted on 06/12/2011 9:27:37 AM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: STD

When they start bombing and shooting, most Americans will be “blown away” by the violence. Then, the American riflemen will be unleashed on our enemy (islam).


7 posted on 06/12/2011 9:29:04 AM PDT by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: beethovenfan

instdems


8 posted on 06/12/2011 9:32:43 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: G Larry

Actually $60,000 is the going rate for Middle Eastern men or women. Much more than the $2,000 - $3,000 norm because of the effort (Teaching them Spanish etc.) and risk.


9 posted on 06/12/2011 10:11:50 AM PDT by Tornillo
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To: STD

Maybe Hussein can ask Eric Holder to step in and arrange to have ATF agents escort them in over the border, on their way back from selling those guns to the drug cartels.

Surely it would be more efficient to put them to work in both directions.


10 posted on 06/12/2011 10:42:05 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: rabscuttle385

Look we’ve been told how to fix this, and yet our present government hasn’t been willing to do it.

I have it on very good authority, that you don’t have to put troops on the border to stop the illegals from flooding across it. What you do is register the illegal aliens. Then they can remain here and be productive members of our society.

All we need to do is register these Narco Terrorists.

I can’t believe you haven’t seen this incredible solution mentioned before.

Wake up bud! /s


11 posted on 06/12/2011 11:25:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Muslim Brotherhood (renames itself) the Liberty and Justice Party. NOT A JOKE.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!


12 posted on 06/12/2011 3:58:44 PM PDT by HiJinx (Old Cold Warrior)
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To: STD

Dont piss me off anymore than I want or need to be pissed off this Monday a.m. here in Japan.....this is outrageous. It is treasonous.


13 posted on 06/12/2011 5:35:42 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Sign of a good, decent FREEPER: Promoting your own GOP candidate & not disrupting threads of others')
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To: STD
Has anyone seen any political party take a strong stand against this insidious threat?
14 posted on 06/12/2011 7:41:39 PM PDT by BJungNan (Spend yesterday's money good, today's money ok. Never spend tomorrow's money)
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To: STD

bttt


15 posted on 06/13/2011 4:15:49 PM PDT by Dante3
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