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.
What about the "invisible fence?"
Is it feasible? Maybe each border state could be responsible for the implementation?
If they can build interstate highways even through mountains, seems like this would be possible.
I'd like to get some ideas on this.
Actually as I've already implied, it seems that the American electorate likes the current level of BIG government -- that's not lower and that's not higher.
What I ought to do and what we all ought to do is quit preaching to the small government choir and instead go out and change the minds of the -- BIG government electorate.
See post #425 for "invisible fence" info.
Then please add to the discussion. Thanks.
Thankyou! I spent a year wanting to do one, thinking about it, looking for things, learning html and getting a lot of help from devolve. I'm pleased with it myself.
Perhaps a better name would be the Mexibuttlickin Party? ;^)
"Yep. Fortunately, they are readily identifiable. They are usually seen holding "John Kerry for President" signs or similarly silly things"
The rest of them (liberal doper wack offs) work for Hollywood porn kings aka producers of mainstream entertainment.
I think you nailed it!
.....and other fancy stuff.....
As I said "horrendous threat." I am not arguing they aren't a threat, but given their serious lack of logistical support and their need to compartment it is extremely difficult to pull off one big massive attack. If you read about the planning for the 9/11 attacks those men spent three years planning it and there were signals everywhere of what was going on. The problem was we weren't looking for them. Had we been, we would definitely have stopped them as soon as we discovered Arabs wanting to learn to fly an airplane without landing or taking off. I don't fear huge numbers of terrorists, I fear the one or two with a nuclear weapon or some unique plan to wreak devestation that we have not thought of or gotten wind of. Why do you need hundreds of men when 15 can bring down the World Trade Center? As for illegal aliens, they can just as easily slip in on international flights using fake documents.
"I'm hoping Bush will do something when he no longer has to worry about the vote."
I'd suggest reading some of the things Bush says when he meets with Fox, speaks before LULAC, etc. etc. It's clear that the so-called "Hispanic vote" is just a smokescreen. He's high on the Open Border Kool-Aid.
If he wins, it's only going to get worse, probably much worse.
The time to force him to do the right thing is now, when he's worried about people voting for him. If he doesn't do the right thing, write in Tancredo.
Well, you figured wrong as usual. Goes with the lavender liberal modernist territory. Now buzz off and stop stalking and posting to me.
I have already indundated the White House with demands. I have also written numerous letters to my representatives. So far I have received about 50 letters back including one from Bush saying that he will continue to push 245(i) through congress. That letter was dated September 2002.
Everyone of our representatives in Washington (including President Bush) know that almost 80% of Americans want tighter border controls, less immigration, and no amnesty. These numbers include democrats as well as republicans. This is not just a republican issue. But our representatives do nothing.
Take a look at New York today. It looks like a war zone with all of the armed guards there. Why are they there? To protect the convention from terrorist. And who are the terrorist? All or most of them are people that are here on passport or visa violations. Some are here illegally because they just walked across the border.
So, this administration will protect itself from these people but what are they doing to protect us? Absolutely nothing!! They could care less about our families being victimized by these people. If they cared they would have done something about our borders in the opening days or months of the presidency. But they didn't, and they won't. As long as they are safe they could care less about you and me.
Bush needs to get it through his thick head that he is sworn to uphold the laws and the Constitution of the United States. Why isn't he doing it?
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