I saw this in the Gertz/Scarborough column INSIDE THE RING (....Pentagon that is) from todays 'Washington Times':
Arab illegals
U.S. border agents since October have picked up five Arabs trying to cross into the United States illegally from Mexico, according to U.S. officials. The arrests are raising new concerns that al Qaeda terrorists are trying to enter the country from Mexico.
However, officials at the Homeland Security Department's Customs and Border Protection section - formerly the U.S. Border Patrol - were quick to dismiss as erroneous an Internet report this week that said a "flood" of Middle Eastern men were caught recently trying to sneak into the United States across the Mexican border with Arizona.
The officials said the report probably was based on the recent arrests of a group of people from a small southern Mexican Indian tribe. Known as the Oaxacan, the tribesmen were caught trying to cross the border. The Oaxacans speak a very different Spanish dialect and completely different indigenous language that was mistaken for Arabic, the officials said.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inring.htm
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................
"The officials said the report probably was based on the recent arrests of a group of people from a small southern Mexican Indian tribe. Known as the Oaxacan, the tribesmen were caught trying to cross the border."
Total BS!
In 1985 when I was waiting for a passanger at Brown Field, San Diego, the border patrol agents that I was talking to in the bar/restaruant at the airport said that around 20% of the illegals trying to cross the border were from Asia and the Middle East coming through Mexico.
I'm sure nothing has changed!
Hmmmmmm, indeed. The last time I saw the list for October thru March, it already said 332. It even had them broken down by country of origin.
We get plenty of indios from Xoahaca and Chiapas passing through here; nothing special and the Border Patrol is used to dealing with them.