Arabs still enter U.S. illegally from Mexico

WND ^ | 11-15-03 | Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin

[JustPiper]

While President Bush considers a broad-based amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., there is growing evidence the Mexican border continues to be used as a covert entry point for the smuggling of Arabs into the country.

An Arab-smuggling ring was broken up just last month, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, an online, premium intelligence newsletter published by WND. The seven-member ring included a former Mexican diplomat who worked in Lebanon's consular ministry office and gave out passports.

The newsletter also reports convicted Arab terrorists involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center and other acts of sabotage have used the porous Mexican border as an entry point and have also capitalized on previous amnesty programs to establish residency in the U.S.

Foreign-born Islamic terrorists have continued to use almost every conceivable means of entering the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, inclduing every aspect of penetrating the U.S. immigration system.

Militant Islamic terrorists have come into the U.S. as students, tourists and business visitors. They have sneaked across the border illegally, arrived as stowaways on ships, used false passports, and have been granted amnesty and citizenship. Terrorists have even used America's humanitarian tradition of welcoming those seeking asylum, reports G2 Bulletin.

And there is no question Arabs have used the porous border between the U.S. and Mexico and the immigration problems it poses for Washington to its advantage.

Mahmud Abouhalima, a leader of the 1993 Trade Center bombing, was legalized as a seasonal agricultural worker as part of the 1986 amnesty. Only after he was legalized was he able to travel outside of the country, including several trips to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where he received the terrorist training he used in the bombing. Abdel Hakim Tizegha, involved in the millennium plot, sneaked across the border posing as a Mexican migrant.

It's not just a question of Arab terrorists buying their way into the U.S. with the cooperation of border "coyotes." There is also a political alliance developing between separatist Hispanics and Muslim radicals.

Arabic journal found on Mexican route to U.S.

On its website, a group called "La Voz de Aztlan," the Voice of Aztlan, identifies Mexicans in the U.S. as "America's Palestinians." Many Mexicans see themselves as part of a transnational ethnic group known as "La Raza," the race. A May editorial on the website, with a dateline of Los Angeles, Alta California, declares that "both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories."

But the threat of secession is not merely from groups that might be considered on the fringe. Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said in a 1997 speech in Chicago to the "National Council of La Raza," a Hispanic advocacy group, that he "proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this."

Zedillo said that because of this fact his government proposed a constitutional amendment that allows Mexican citizens to hold dual citizenship. Spencer believes that the objective is to enable Mexicans in the United States to vote in the interest of Mexico.

Ultimately, many Mexicans hope for a "reconquista," a reconquest of territory lost when Mexico signed the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War.

The U.S. has tripled its border patrol budget over the past five years, but the flow of immigrants has barely changed. At the same time, Mexican President Vicente Fox has pressed for an eventual erasure of the southern border and encouraged Mexicans who seek work in the U.S.

According to a survey conducted in June 2002, a healthy majority of Mexicans claim that their country rightfully owns much of the southwestern United States, while most Americans believe Washington should adopt stricter immigration standards and deploy U.S. troops along the border. The Zogby International poll found a majority of Mexicans say the U.S. Southwest "rightfully belongs to Mexico," and that Mexican citizens should be able to come into those areas freely, without U.S. permission. The poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "The territory of the United States' southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Zogby said 28 percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren't sure.

President Bush says he wants to see a Palestinian state carved out of Israel. It may be very difficult for him some day to explain why an Aztlan state should not likewise be carved out of America.

Activists who quite literally see themselves "America's Palestinians" are gearing up a movement to carve out of the southwestern United States – a region including all of Bush's home state of Texas – a sovereign Hispanic state called the Republica del Norte.

"There are great similarities between the political and economic condition of the Palestinians in occupied Palestine and that of La Raza in the southwest United States," explains an editorial from earlier this year in La Voz de Aztlan in Los Angeles, the city seen as the future capital of the new Hispanic state – much like Jerusalem is seen by Palestinian Arabs as their capital.

The editorial goes on to draw analogies between the Arab uprising in Israel and gang violence in Los Angeles. It's the same thing, the activists claim. This is not crime and punishment, according to the La Raza (literally, "The Race") activists, this is the birth of an independence movement by young Hispanics.

"The similarities are many," says the editorial. "The primary one, of course, is the fact that both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories. The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements occurred 100 years apart. For La Raza, it happened in 1848 when Mexico lost the southwest at the end of the Mexican-American war and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidlago. For the Palestinians, it occurred in 1948 when the Zionist Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and signed the 'Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel' on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired."

[JustPiper]

4. Simply kissing Fox's @$$

[Looking4Truth]

So when will the 2nd AMERICAN Revolution begin? Are we going to let the gov't just give this country away?

[taxed2death]

GWB needs a wheel barrow to lug his nads around after saying somehing as stupid as that. He signed L1 visa program into law, to bring foreigners here to take jobs Americans had in the IT business.

[Light Speed]

Meanwhile..in the neighbourhood...in the old..*misdirection modus oporendi.

Red China: Gatekeeper of the Panama Canal

The Gate Keeper

Li Ka-shing: New Ruler of the Information Superhighway Global Crossing, Enron's evil twin, is about to be "rescued" by a Chinese billionaire with ties to the People's Liberation Army. Why not? He already controls the Panama Canal. Will it threaten national security to have a Chinese company controlling the fiber-optic network our defense department uses to communicate and store data?

The Encrypted Keeper

Missles while you work...

Everything is Stratagem....

Wars are decided In the Temple... long before Generals take to the Battlefield...Sun Tsu

[ask]

. It also included many from Middle Eastern `countries of interest' like Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon." The official adds: "It was shocking to see how extensive the list was." U.S. officials believe that the Venezuelan government is issuing the documents to people who should not be getting them and that some of these cedulas were subsequently used to obtain Venezuelan passports and even American visas, which could allow the holder to elude immigration checks and enter the United States. U.S. officials say that the cedulas are also being used by Colombian subversives and by some Venezuelan officials to travel surreptitiously.

[Jim Cane]

"Never darken this door again, Tancredo, unless of course you come across the southern border. In that case, welcome! Welcome terrorists, welfare leeches, illegals, criminals..."

[ask]

Posted on Mon, Dec. 15, 2003

IMMIGRATION
Immigration officials to upgrade system
Upgrades to a popular Internet-based service will allow people to cancel appointments and specify what help they are seeking.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
achardy@herald.com

Federal immigration authorities are planning to upgrade an Internet-based system that allows people to set up appointments online.

Until now, InfoPass -- as the Web-based system launched six months ago is known -- has allowed people to set up appointments, but they could not cancel. Starting Friday, people also will be able to cancel and reschedule appointments and provide more detail about what help they are seeking.

InfoPass, which is available only for appointments at immigration offices in Florida, has virtually eliminated the dreaded lines outside the immigration building near Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 79th Street. Immigration officials say they have scheduled 100,000 appointments through the system, which can be accessed at www.bcis-fla.com. http://www.bcis-fla.com/

The number of daily appointments that can be made through Infopass has been increased from 300 to 700, but the system did not permit people to cancel.

Jack Bulger, district director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Miami, said 25 percent of the people who make InfoPass appointments do not show up and have no way of telling immigration officials of their cancellation.

Besides allowing people to post cancellations, the upgrade also will provide a menu of choices about the type of assistance they are seeking -- including questions about work permits, replacing green cards or speaking to an immigration officer about their case.

In addition to the upgrades, immigration officials also have added a new service at the immigration building: a walk-up window for people to pick up forms.

The window on the 79th Street side of the building is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.




http://www.bcis-fla.com/

[texastoo]

I wonder who the "WE're" that Bush is referring to?

Too bad that this immigration policy is not open to the opinions of the American taxpayer. You know, those of us that have to pay for and live with this mess.

Looks like Bush is working on that patch work quilt that will eventually become a blanket.

[PhilDragoo]

Clinton pulled our recalcitrant ambassador and dispatched Carville to insure the election of the right crooks.

The bidding was rigged to hand the prize to Li Kashing despite the lower bid of the American consortium.

Global Crossing paid Anne Bingaman a record two mill for six months' lobbying the FCC.

[JustPiper]

I guess it will call for us to organize a massive march on DC ourselves, everything else we're doing is apparently not working

[JustPiper]

Not just the Panama Canal but Long Beach shores too!

[JustPiper]

25 percent of the people who make InfoPass appointments do not show up and have no way of telling immigration officials of their cancellation

[JustPiper]

The poll on WND today of over a million polled by Savage said 96% want illegals to stay Illegals! Probably do no good, but I emailed it to the President, I've emailed him several days in a row.

[tracer]

It would be downright wrong to deny them equal access.... 8~+

[endthematrix]

Oh that's funny because I had worked for the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) to purge/update old records. Well, the church takes those who want to learn theology to the USA and provides their education and sends them back to spread the His Word back to places in Africa and small pacific islands etc. Well after reading some of those files....You'd think those men of the cloth would be nice to return to their home countries to spread the Word, right? WRONG! Once they get a taste of America, you can't get them back. Do you blame them? From living in a hut to a big city, supermarkets and fast cars? These people gave every excuse not to go back then faded into oblivion.
The one BIG problem with this is that Schools and Churches are responsible for the paperwork. The government doesn't know whats going on?

[Cacophonous]

I will not believe the President is serious about making America safe until he does something about the illegals. And I don't mean waving a wand and suddenly declaring them legal.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[JustPiper]

There are a few dozen of us here who have committed to a camPAIN to write-in Tom Tancredo in March and possibly beyond. They told a few dozen and so on...

[JustPiper]

Are we going to let the gov't just give this country away?

No freakin' way!!!

[JustPiper]

Congress will stop him! Also IBM and Warner are giving jobs away. IBM to China and Warner to Mexico!!! Per Lou Dobbs last night.