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.
The reason we need closed borders and controlled immigration is the same reason that Isral cannot allow the right of return. Wake up !
It sure is.
I'll never go with the open border with Mexico idea. I love the Mexican people and have done a lot of travel deep into the country by car, but they have a corrupt culture.
I've never been able to understand how a Catholic country has so much corruption!!
Might help this article to do a little bit of fact checking. It mentions all these "Arab-speaking males" in the first sentence, then in the second sentence, mentions they are of "possible Syrian and Iranian descent."
First of all, the language is Arabic. The ethnic group is Arab. Second, Iranians do not speak Arabic. They speak Farsi. Furthermore, Iranians aren't Arabs, so lumping them in with one Arab country is a bit odd. While the article doesn't directly state that the Iranians were speaking Arabic, it certainly implies that.
This doesn't mean that there isn't a problem on our southern border. But when an article comes out of the gate like this, it places their credibility into question.
As long as he is under 270 EV, he's nowhere.
"He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la"
- Lennon/McCartney
Maybe the faster we go broke and empty social security, and the dollar falls, maybe the faster people will wake up. Let's let the Canadians in too, they must have some needy people there.
No I havent Netizen, and I do get irritated at the President because of it. NOTHING could make me vote for a Democrat though and I'm hoping Bush will do something when he no longer has to worry about the vote.
Why not just close off all the free services to the undocumented and let the market readjust?
People thought the same thing after the last election. Hopefully he'll do something afterwards. Didn't happen. :(
See, I wasn't even familiar with those!! I would think our country would be suspicious of any 'paintball camp' that was full of Mideastern men, LOL, otherwise it is hopeless!
You wake up. Make a phone call to your congressman. Better yet, visit him in person and make your opinion known. Hmmmm.... even better yet, visit him in person with an assembly of a couple two or three thousands of your fellow citizens and deliver a petition (and ask your neighbors in other districts and in fact in every district of every state to do the same thing at the same time). The Constitution empowers your congressman to regulate immigration. He'll fix it up for you. And if he's a Republican and he doesn't immediately fix it to your complete satisfaction, vote him out of office. Let the Democrats have a shot at it. Hey, this stuff is easy once you set your mind to it.
I take it this goes for every office except the Presidential one?
Superb idea. I wish I'd a thought of that.
Well, they just closed another emergency room in the San Fernando Valley. It's hard to stay in business when no one can afford to pay the bills.
I took that very poll in 1978
I wonder if it is a hoax being perpetrated, but the story we had then was it was from a Navy officer who was a friend of one of our officers
We don't have the 'safehouses' here, that we know of, but we are the route to all the other big cities.
We are where all the illegals were found dead in the tractor-trailor!!
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