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.
It's curious that everybody knows terrorists are coming across our porous borders and no one in the government will do anything.
When (not if) the terrorists strike, will Americans let the politicians spin it?
It's more than curious...it's downright bizarre.
I imagine there will be plenty of people who will be ouraged. If it's Republican administration, the Rats will be outraged, and vice versa, if it's a Rat administration.
Personally, I just want results, don't care what party finally gets up the courage to take this issue on.
I like Pres Bush, and I voted for him, but this has been his one major failure. The only thing I can think of is it's pressure from big corps, who love the cheap labor.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why we have a Mexican border without a nonstop wall, (of course with legal entry points) from one end to the other. If the Chinese could do it, with total manual labor, a millenium ago, there's no reason we couldn't do it today.
Rather's story was fake. You trying to tell me; this story is now fake?
Also, you posted a link with a total of 17 posts to it. Look at all the people on this thread who hadn't seen it yet. Plus, there are a lot of pertinent links, and info that weren't on that one.
My agenda is to let this get as much publicity as possible. I want our borders protected.
What's yours beef with that?
regards
Here's another scary thing, which can't even be stopped with a secure border:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302149/posts
"My agenda is to let this get as much publicity as possible. I want our borders protected.
What's yours beef with that? "
Post it in opinion, or blogers, or editorials -
If you had something NEW regarding any activism about the subject it might even fit, but simply restating the same thing with YOUR opinion as a comment adding a gazillion pictures on it is not news/activism - it is an attempt to game the system.
... Clintonesque
wow, interesting info. Now, as you related with UAV's, infrared night vision, etc. it would be very easy.
I don't agree with using land mines though. Just build a wall! I know I sound like a broken record about that. But I guess it is just too damn logical for politicians to figure out how much sense a secure border makes.
BTW, Ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302149/posts
Special Report EIR (Executive Intelligence Review) March 10, 1981
Investigations by EIR have uncovered a planning apparatus operating outside the control of the White House whose sole purpose is to reduce the world's population by 2 billion people through war, famine, disease and any other means necessary.
LOL
Using illegals to do your dirty work for you ...
I like Bush too and I voted for him, twice.
This is indeed, his one biggest failure.
If it continues, will it make any "wins" he makes,moot?
:^D
Yup. cheap labor!
regards
" Yup. cheap labor! "
Keeps the farms of American working,
and since they don't have a guest worker program so they can go home easily and come back next season - they line up by Home Depot, sleep in the woods, and add to our crime rate.
"MEXICO CITY - For the first time, Mexicans would be able to vote in the United States for the president of Mexico under a bill nearing approval in that country's House of Representatives.
If the measure becomes law, it will likely set off a fierce battle for millions of potential voters in Arizona and other states and will allow Mexican presidential candidates to campaign in the United States.
Mexicans would be able to register to vote in the United States and cast their ballots at polling stations, probably set up in consulates around the country."
Why? This is just another "Bush is a traitor because he won't kick all the Meskins out of the country so send your money to Buchanan/Tancredo" thread.
Would you be proud to show your grandchildren this mob support group you have joined and point with pride to your posts?
So? Americans living overseas can vote in American presidential elections. What difference does it make to you?
... and the problem with this ?
Voting booths for our people in Iraq would be a good idea to me ...
I thought it was an interesting article...did you see where I said anything yay or nay about it?
Yeah, sure. That's why you post pictures of Hispanic looking youths. Are you afraid of Mexican laborers? Is that what you want protection from?
I'd be ashamed to admit I was jealous/afraid/inferior to the people of whom you've posted pictures. Pathetic.
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