Posted on 08/28/2004 6:49:37 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
Is there is an invisible army of terrorists gathering in America today? The mainstream media and the Bush administration do not want to talk about it.
In July, Defense Watch reported that, in Arizona, an area called the Naco Strip has become a primary route of illegal entry by “significant numbers of Arab-speaking males.” It took a small town weekly newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to reveal that, “males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have been detained in the past few weeks.” Since October 1, 2003, 5,510 illegal aliens designated “Other Than Mexican” (OTM) have been apprehended while crossing the Arizona terrain. These OTM’s are not here to pick vegetables, mow lawns, pluck chickens, or wash cars.
Just do the math. If only five Muslim terrorists crossed the border every day for a year that would add up to 1,825 people ready to do the bidding of Osama bin Laden. If this has been going on for just the years since 9-11, that’s an army of 5,475. Then, too, there are an estimated 2.9 million Muslims in America. Extremists, worldwide, are estimated to be about ten percent of the overall population. Applied to the U.S., that represents a potential 290,000 American Muslims sympathetic to the Islamist cause. No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, it suggests that a substantial threat exists and is exacerbated by the failure to stop terrorists at our borders.
They constitute a virtual army of terrorists who, if not apprehended, could create a day of havoc from coast to coast when al Qaeda gives the signal. When that day comes, remember that you read about it here first.
Or, as some argue, there’s no proof that any al Qaeda operatives have crossed the border. If, however, any were captured, normal counter-terrorism procedures would be to deny this and seek to extract information from those in custody.The 9-11 operatives were here thanks to sloppy immigration procedures and, in the case of illegal aliens, the estimates are that eight to twelve million live among us. That is a huge margin for error.
The topic the Bush administration wants to stay away from until after November 2, Election Day is immigration. Some have called the Bush administration immigration policies “schizophrenic”, but they are not. They are globalist, i.e., the views of someone for whom national borders should be regarded as outmoded while we all join hands in one big, global neighborhood.
One can understand the “schizophrenic” label, given the hue and cry about Bush’s so-called unilateralism and willingness “to go it alone”, but this is the same administration that supports a variety of policies that are globalist, most of which come straight out of the United Nations. The way civics is taught in our schools today is designed to create generations of globalists for whom our national sovereignty and the Bill of Rights are just a bunch of 18th century “ideas.”
There are a number of problems with this see-no-evil immigration policy. On August 10, Jerry Seper of the Washington Times, reported that, under President Bush’s guest-worker program, “Millions of illegal aliens in the United States would be free from arrest and deportation, have access to tax-deferred savings accounts and Social Security credits, and get unrestricted travel to and from their home countries.” This constitutes a massive dollar transfer to Mexico.
Homeland Security Undersecretary, Asa Hutchinson, responsible for the nation’s borders and transportation security, has apparently lost his senses. In a recently reported response to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hutchinson supported the Bush immigration policies while acknowledging that the “incentives” being offered illegal aliens are generous to a fault. The National Border Patrol Council that represents 10,000 of the non-supervisory agents called the guest-worker plan a “slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States."
In January 2004, the Mexican government acknowledged that the number of their people entering the US illegally had increased 66% from 1990 to 2002. Naturally, Mexico’s president, Vicente Fox, wants Bush to grant de facto amnesty to an estimated eight to eleven million illegal aliens already working in the United States, the majority of whom are Mexican. Amnesty and any other program of this nature is simply a reward for breaking the laws of the United States of America. There are even some voices suggesting they should be given the right to vote!
One little discussed cost of the open door policy being pursued by the Bush administration is the increase in the cost of law enforcement where illegal aliens gather in numbers. Right now, according to Seper, “About 80,000 illegal criminal aliens, including convicted murders, rapists, drug dealers, and child molesters who served prison time and were releases, are loose on the streets of America, hiding from federal immigration authorities.”
They don’t have to hide that hard. According the figures for 2002 from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 375,000 known illegal aliens have been ordered deported, but have disappeared pending immigration hearings. Lee Boyd Malvo, the sniper who terrorized the Washington area, was one of them.
Recently, Brazil agreed to step up the policing of the Triple Border Area with Paraguay and Argentina. According to a Washington Times editorial, “It has long been identified as a fund-raising, training and procurement haven for diverse terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and Hezbollah.” The ease with which terrorists could be infiltrated into the US from these South American strongholds cannot be underestimated.
When the facts are examined, there are few good reasons to permit the massive daily influx of Mexicans and other illegal aliens, but there is one very good reason to shut it down completely.
Mulch for the alligators?
If Kerry were President would I have to have a swift boat exp. that I talk endlessly about? Cause I get motion sickness severely and my stories would be all GI related.
Send them all back from whence they came? Mexicans to Mexico. Arabs to Arabia. Indians to India. Irish to Ireland. English to England. Okies to Oklahoma.
If they're illegal, yes.
Yes, the GWB conspiracy crap is just that; crap. But the problem is bigger and more important than the goofy folks who use it to bash the president.
Criticize them, and justly so, but it is not right to make light of the real problem. The very same could have been laughed at if timely concerns had been raised about that nice Mohammed Atta boy and his friends in Florida. But they weren't, and 3,000 good Americans lost their lives and an estimated $3,000,000,000,000 were slammed out of the American economy.
Wait! Greenland is hugeh, with very few people. Put 'em all on a big boat to Greenland.
What better place than Arizona, for new army recruits to be trained? One would think that national defense has something to do with guarding a nation's borders, eh?
My suggestion is to put positive pressure on the Administration --and starting November 3, add the not so positive pressure, as necessary.
Why not just close off all the free services to the undocumented and let the market readjust?
Why not jail and confiscate the property of those hiring Illegals? They'll deport themselves. Cost to Americans...peanuts. Gain for Americans..literally billions.
Oakies to OK? what the hell, whats next, Californians to Vegas??. The Brits are ok to send back, my ex married a Brit.
Definetily the Brits go back. :))
After the electin is fine. But, for God's sake, we must pray and act not to let Johnhammed al Qerry get elected. (shudder)
Could of used you guys this morning when the PO was trying in frustation to tell the spanish only speaking woman at a local business to reset the burgalar alarm.
I get a kick at how unofficial the tone gets over the scanner when there is a language barrior.
The other night a spanish only speaking woman called in a domestic dispute in the apt complex.
Our dispatch (911) could not tell if "C" meant yes or was that the Apt. letter.
And I don't even want to start thinking about the logistical support these legions will require. They gotta eat. Gotta sleep. Gotta have doctors and nurses. Gotta have transportation pools, typists, computer guys, road builders, heli-ports, aircraft, helicopters, buses, trucks, hummers, artillary, guns, ammunition, pants, belts and belt buckles. Gotta have services along thousands and thousands of miles of remote border areas. Camps, kitchens, toilets, shower facilities, concentration camps for the detainees.
Detainees? Detainees? Ooops. Gotta house and serve the detainees and tend to their medical needs and their children. Children? Oh, oh. This is a whole new ballgame. They have needs and rights, right? Rights? Oh, no! Back to the lawyers. If the detainees have rights, now we're gonna need legions of government supplied defense lawyers to battle the legions of government prosecutors that will also be needed to prosecute the detainees. What am I missing?
Gotta love it!!.
Oh yeah, and a specialized Department of Motor Vehicles.
OK. Well that's all very funny, but what is your solution? Do you care? I'm not being snippy, I just really want to know. I think you are more serious than this, if you can get past the stupid first line of the article.
Do you not believe there are terrorists in this country?
Seal the border! Build a fence! Arm the guards! To arms, to arms! Hmmm... I think this is where I came in....
Yes, and as we do I think we'll find that his candidacy was dropped by a shot from a POW about week ago. I don't think he'll lead in the polls again.
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