See: This is exactly the type of alarmist nonsense I was talking about. I used to work in the WTC, so don't talk to me about complacency. Opportunists who try to milk tragedies make me sick. How many of the 9/11 terrorists wore a sombrero or had a "z" on the end of his last name?
the "immigrants as terrorists" card is being used by both sides of the immigration debate. The pro-immigrant organizations are stressing that Mexican illegals are workers, not terrorists - as though being an illegal alien were some kind of virtue. Look at the California drivers license issue - both Schwarzenegger and Latino legislators are good with the idea as long as the appropriate security provisions are in place, without even addressing the idea that a DL is a reward to lawbreakers and an enticement to attract more illegals. The press, US government, and Mexican government almost universally states that amnesty would have happened if not for 9/11 and that the reason it didn't was because of security concerns. The real reason it didn't happen is because Americans don't want our country flooded with illegal aliens and because we don't want to shoulder the burden of the social costs that their own countrymen and politicians are unwilling to bear.