Posted on 12/16/2004 9:23:29 AM PST by FBD
Good evening.
In August, The Investigators on Eyewitness News 4 first reported the possible threat of terrorists using the Arizona/Mexico border to cross into the U.S.
While local government officials and immigration advocates questioned the validity of such a threat, our report, "Terrorist Alley," gained national attention.
Just a few weeks ago, high-level sources told a Washington newspaper that Chechen terrorists have entered the U.S. through our state.
Now, we've uncovered even more evidence that the threat along our border is real.
"The story you did was 100% accurate. It showed what's happening on the border on a daily basis. It was completely accurate," says a Border Patrol agent.
This Southern Arizona Border Patrol agent came forward to talk with The Investigators about his concerns regarding homeland security along the Arizona/Mexico border. He does not want to be identified, but we've verified his employment through pay stubs and high-level sources.
As our cameras had captured this day, hundreds of illegal entrants sneak into Arizona from Mexico.
Items left behind, like a Muslim prayer rug and a diary written in Arabic have led some to believe not all crossers are from Central and South America.
In our original story.sources. including a former Border Patrol supervisor, say people from terrorist-related countries are crossing the border at will.
This agent says it's certainly happened, describing one incident with a detainee near Naco, Arizona.
"So they took him back to the Naco station for further investigating there, and when they entered his fingerprints into the AFIS database, which is maintained by the FBI, several minutes later they received a phone call from someone on the other end -- I'm not sure who it was."
"and they stated, whoever is working on this particular terminal, they need to separate that gentleman right away. He was later determined to be from Pakistan. And he had affiliations with a terrorist group. It wasn't al-Qaida, but it was another terrorist group and this gentleman was wanted out of France for trafficking in heroin."
And he details another incident.just a few months ago.
"We received intel that seven males of Middle-Eastern descent had entered the United States illegally, and they were here to carry out a terrorist attack on this country. I'd never seen the agency go to the level that we did as far as treating it with such urgency."
"and when we got that information we immediately sent agents to patrol the highways. We had never done anything like that before. And like I said before, within a week, there I am, watching the nightly news, and the terror threat was raised, and they actually showed pictures of these seven men who had reportedly entered the country. And that's when it kinda really hit me for the first time that it's really happening."
"We were told specifically that these people had terrorist pasts and they were coming here specifically to carry out a terrorist attack."
As far as we know, no arrests were ever made in that case, but this Border Patrol agent says he's been told that other terrorists are, perhaps, lying in wait south of the border.
"We know it's happening. We've seen it. We've actually received hard intelligence that they're there in Mexico. It's just a matter of trying to keep them from coming north."
This agent says, if terrorists want to cross, it's become too easy for them because of a severe lack of manpower in the Border Patrol.
"And there's just complete areas of fence that are missing, roads that lead north, well-traveled. I mean, you can tell the tire sign. A vehicle was there within the last day or two. Where they're going, who knows. And the worst part is what are they carrying. I would like to think it's just marijuana, because we can deal with that, but what if it's not?"
And he says other resources are desperately lacking and keeping agents from adequately protecting our border with Mexico.
"Over 50% of our vehicles at that station are out of service, or deferred for maintenance. If our cameras worked, which I would say well over 50% of them do not work at night, the infrared lenses are not functioning."
Even before new agents are deployed, he says, they're not prepared to fight illegal entry into this country.
"Some of our training, it lacks in that department. At the Academy we do three hours of training to determine if somebody is carrying fraudulent documents. And I can tell you from working the checkpoint, there are times people have given me documentation that I have absolutely no clue, as sad as it is to say that, what I'm looking at."
This agent says there's enormous pressure to rush people through checkpoints, and he says agents can't take adequate time to check out suspicious individuals because there are too many of them and too few agents.
He says the Border Patrol is at the mercy of bureaucrats in Washington who either don't realize the extent of the terrorist threat or who choose to deny it.
"Before September 11, I tell people 'yeah, you can make arguments for anything you wanted 'cause we were relatively safe, or we thought we were. After September 11, everything changed, and to continue to do business as if September 11 never happened, which is what we do in our agency, I don't think that's acceptable and I think people in Arizona need to know what's really happening
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As you might imagine, the Border Patrol has plenty to say about this agent's claims, and we'll talk with Arizona Senator Jon Kyl about what you just saw and heard tomorrow night at 10.
I'm not, as long as you pay for it.
Yeah, we'll pay for a wall, if your ilk will pay for the crimes committed by illegals...and the social services hat they are provided.
I don't have a ping list, sorry. here's a link to add to your list:
(desert visions) check out their new film clip: "Port of Entry"
http://www.desertvisions.us/entry.html
Tonk,
Can you ping your list? Thanks! -- E
bttt
Old news - Posted a month ago -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1276205/posts
"....plan the invasion and takeover of Mexico."
LOL -
The worst thing that would happen is that we would win - then it would be OUR problem ...
Do you believe there is any remote chance that those bureaucrats really do not understand the problem? I don't know which is worse, incompetency or corruption. Either way, the most of us are in deep trouble.
How about a boycott also for big biz that contributes to outfits, like MALDEF who is trying to get rid of Ariz. prop 200 and killed 187 in California....companies such as McDonalds, WalMart, FannieMae, AARP, etc? I'm contacting them all to let them know why my family will not patronize them.
According to the Time Mag report, enforcement of employers hiring illegals has gone down 90% since 1990. These are the big political contributors, it's a scratch mine and I'll scratch yours deal.
Yes, we still have to have everyone fill out an I-9....if the government keeps us busy enough they think we won't notice.
Illegalize illegals: Time for showdown in open frontier
HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Dec 15, 2004 | William F. Buckley Jr.
Posted on 12/16/2004 1:17:16 PM PST by atomic_dog
Illegalize illegals: Time for showdown in open frontier
By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
The new intelligence law, courtesy of 9/11, is mystifying because it does not face directly what is the most prominent threat to homeland security. It is: inimical action by non-Americans. All the people who participated in 9/11 were foreigners, here under various auspices. And yet the bill that has evolved from the findings of the 9/11 commission reads like an elocutionary exercise by a national committee to avoid saying anything unpleasant about unpleasant people born abroad.
Specifically, the threat at this moment is from foreign terrorism. The day may come when there are native-born Americans who join in such a threat, such as the Weather Underground types we experienced during the '60s.
But at this point, the terrorists come from abroad. "Last May," writes National Interest editor John O'Sullivan, "illegal aliens from Malaysia, Pakistan, Morocco, Uganda and India were released without bond. They are now at large in the U.S."
What happened is that as the intelligence bill crystallized, a fear developed that it might be construed as xenophobic. Somewhere along the line the word came down from the White House that for the president to be able to sign the bill, it had to be plucked clean of any suggestion that an illegal Muslim fundamentalist should be treated at all differently from an illegal Christian evangelist. Remember the odd deportment of Norman Mineta, who has been reappointed as transportation secretary? He went to extraordinary lengths several years ago to insist that security personnel at airports should pay no greater attention to 30-year-old Near-Eastern Muslims called Mohammed than they would to Shirley Temple.
Snip.....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302935/posts
I just checked out their website... It is shocking that major corporations are contributing to this political activist group. Not only are they fighting for driver's licenses for illegals, against implementation of Prop 200, "racial profiling" in terrorism security, and for illegal alien amnesty, but also against the gay marriage amendment.
Top contributors (from 2003 annual report)
Platinum Partners: (100,000+)
Anheuser Busch
Ford Foundation
James Irvine Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Sandler Foundation
Soros Foundation
Washington Mutual
So George Soros, Anheuser Busch, and Washington Mutual. Interesting crowd.
Soros says it all.
Yep. Very interesting crowd. Many of the same people we conservatives have been blaming for supporting the Dems all these years. They won't get a cent of my money. The kids aren't real happy, the list has every fast food place on it!
BTW, many who love the OBL have an interest, generally stock in those companies.
You should post a boycott alert on the front page, maybe along with a news article of MALDEF's latest exploits (fighting Prop 200, fighting enforcement of city ordinances in Redondo Beach, CA.)
Sponsors ranked by contribution on page 14:
http://www.maldef.org/publications/pdf/2002-2003_Annual_Report.pdf
I would pick the top two or three corporate contributors (WaMu, etc.) It's harder to target a boycott against hundreds of firms.
Front page here? Good idea, why don't you do it and I'll help you.
I've got only a short time before going to work. Thanks.
thanks for that good info, you two.
I'd go for a boycott, but it's getting hard to find places to shop, what with just about every major corp. contributing to this.
Regards
I know it's been posted, but a lot of FR folks didn't see it.
Plus, it's relevant with the incoming new cabinet. I'd like to see some changes, and the only way to do that, is to keep it on the front burner.
regards
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