Posted on 11/16/2003 9:57:32 AM PST by texastoo
Diversification into new areas of crime is bringing people traffickers into contact with terrorists.
Migrant smuggling through Mexico into the United States has become a major national security risk, according to a report from the Interior Ministry.
The report says migrant trafficking organizations are diversifying into others areas of crime, which broaden their international connections and creates a national security risk.
"Connections between people trafficking and other crimes, relating to terrorism as well as trafficking of minors, organ smuggling, money laundering and forging documents," is creating a major national security risk, the report says.
Over 100 people-trafficking organizations, whose guides are known as "polleros," operate along the Mexico-U.S. border, according to the report. Corruption at the municipal, state and federal level provides cover for the smugglers as they move large numbers of migrants from other nations in central America through Mexico to the U.S. border. The report notes an escalation of false papers in circulation as polleros rely on them to help move migrants across the country.
The report comes as police have been breaking up a smuggling ring operating out of Tijuana that smuggles migrants into the United States. The Justice Department reported Friday that two more arrest have been made in connection with the ring.
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Earlier in the week, a former consul to Lebanon was arrested on charges of helping the smuggling ring.
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Pres. Bush: "That war [on terror] is my last choice, not my first choice, but I have obligation as the President to keep our country secure."
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These criminal felons are being pandered to by politicians on both sides of the borders, North and South.If these criminal elements are allowed to form voting blocks that will be predominatly liberal demoncratic in nature, it will produce a furthur out of control situation designed to destabilize and radicalize our Free Republic.
Our country is mandated to properly secure our borders and ensure that immigration is controlled. With all the multiple billions of tax money expropriated from loyal legal citizens on the tax rolls, we certainly have the capacity to use already developed technology and improve even more our capability to use high technology optics in the surveliance of our borders. Hunter Ellis on his show on the History Channel this week demonstrated optic technology that could identify a spot from over 200 miles in space down to about a meter with excelent resolution to the point of good facial resolution that biometeric information can be received. I was in the Air Force in the 1960's and saw pictures of russian trawlers and could see well enough images of personnel in one instance of wresteling a bear on the fantail! This was over thirty years ago and you know that technology has advanced in optics to such a point that what we know about has greatly exceeded this example. We are such a controlled society today it goes without saying that there is advanced technology out there we need to know about but will never be allowed to see and follow. The Patriot Act & Patriot Act II are in place to ensure that you never penetrate that barrier of Optics Technology the government is spending multiple millions & billions to keep you and me in the dark and out of the loop. Unfortunately the Black Operations Budgets are still siphoning off increasing amounts of Tax Money for "NATIONAL DEFENSE"....or National Surveliance!
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