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.
There are a few fools around.
Personally, I don't have a problem with immigration. It's a good thing--if nothing else, it will alleviate the Social Security shortfall to some extent.
But ILLEGAL: that's another thing. I cannot understand what this President is trying to do...or NOT do.
Halliburton is behind it all! This could be really 'series'!
Understandable desperation on your part, considering that your state graced the national political scene with Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. The rest of the country calls you "fruits and nuts" on the West Coast for a good reason, boyo.
And did you ever intend to answer my question about how you "knew" that "the whole place (Oregon) was crawling with illegal aliens"? Or were you just going to keep throwing whiny titty-baby fits?
And yes, only a fool wouldn't be disturbed and alarmed at millions pouring into our country illegally, unabated.
Tramp tramp tramp tramp ... they're coming in the night on little cat feet. For you.
Some Freepers trust the government enough to allow it to take just such action.
I'm sure President Hillary would never abuse such power, now would she?
If he comes out for closing our porous borders, you ping me.
So, you propose giving the government the power to exile citizens based on their religion? Be careful what you wish for.
Uncontrolled, unexamined, unenforced immigration is not immigration, it's unopposed invasion.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
I hope not Brownie. I believe Bush to be a good, moral man, I do not believe Kerry to be a good, moral man so there is no choice in my mind about who to vote for.
After the election we need to inundate the White House with demands about the border to head off any amnesty bills.
Discrimination on the basis of religion.
Interesting. I always figured you for a big government guy.
You mean as in "Islam, religion of peace"?
I give up. There are no illegal aliens in Oregon, or Texas, Tennessee, California, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Colorado etc etc.
It's all just my imagination. Being a native from California, I wouldn't know an illegal alien from an enchilada. They are just to hard to spot.
They are all probably in America with their 6 or 7 kids on vacation, maybe a nice fishing trip. They people we visited in Oregon that have live their for 35 years were probably lying when they told us they've had it with the illegals up there. And the illegal that just raped a 4 year old girl in Oregon is nothing but lies too. All those we saw speaking Spanish, *everywhere* we went were probably just up from Mexico on vacation, maybe a nice family drive or a fishing trip.
You folks in Arkansas know best.
After all, there are no illegals in Arkansas either!
Dianne seems to be keeping a low profile these days. It used to be that she'd be braying to every camera she saw. I don't know what her real thoughts are. I found it interesting, though...
So anywhere you travel (presumably, including Oregon), you see illegal aliens. As far as the eye can see. Waves and waves and unremitting brownish-gold waves of them. As high as the corn reaches an elephant's eye. I get it now.
Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Why the coy specificity in relation to Oregon?
Well, er yeah.....As a matter of fact, I do. LOL!
LOL, I treasure your reply, and the little guy!! Apparently Jim Robinson didn't enjoy it as much as you and I did!!
Ps, I have that little guy saved too!
You've got it!
Our immigration scandal goes waaay beyond your knee-jerk blame of Clinton. It is, in fact one in which the tweedledee and tweedledum parties share about equally in the shame. Here's a very brief review.
The Immigration Act of 1965 represented a major reform of all previous immigration laws. It abolished quotas that discriminated against nationalities, substituting an overall limit of 170,000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 immigrants from the Western Hemisphere.
In 1990, the Immigration Act increased the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States by nearly 40 percent.
Today, the United States admits approximately 900,000 legal immigrants every year, and annual immigration is swelled by another 300,000 people who illegally cross the borders of the United States. The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that about 5 million illegal aliens currently reside in the United States. Both legal and illegal immigrants contribute to dramatic changes in the racial, ethnic, and cultural composition of the country.
I suggest you try sticking your head a little deeper that the Arkansas soil.
Even if this "army of terrorists" could sneak across the border, I don't believe such huge numbers of illegals could communicate and meet to plot this attack without being detected or giving themselves away.
This article reads like a grade B SciFi movie.
It is much more likely that a small number of al Qaeda members would enter the country legally and attack as we saw on 9-11.
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