US security must be made aware that their 2 great oceans are no protection anymore. 9/11 should have taught them that. If this story is true, this is a great failure, and sad that even after 9/11/01 this occurs. But then again, who knows what has been sneaking in from Mexico and Canada.
If this is true, this will get quite ugly.....
CNN reported last night that nearly half a MILLION illegal aliens have been picked up in the past month (or this summer, but whatever it was a short timeframe). HALF A MILLION!!! And that's just the ones they've caught.
Don't have to "sneak" in. My family and I returned from a trip to Costa Rica in January of 2003. Our flight originated in Costa Rica and we changed planes in Guatamala and then on to Dallas. At the Dallas immigration we, and the rest of several plane loads from South America, were waved through. They asked us if we had purchased anything and on we, and everyone else, went on our way. I'm not even back in the US according to my passport.
How's that for security?
They only check us in the US where I had to remove my shoes and have all my baggage emptied.
No ocean, moat of flaming oil or wall can do any good when there is an indifferent central government more preoccupied with world perception than the safety and well being of its citizens.
I have noticed that no "public official" elected, appointed or hired seems in the slightest interested in trying to explain why things are the way they are; other than the imcomprehensible, "there are too many now to deport", while allowing thousands of additional criminals to continue streaming in...