Posted on 01/01/2005 12:59:07 AM PST by nanak
The year 2004 was a good one for terrorists, violent gang members, law-breakers and fraud artists seeking safe haven in America. Let's reminisce:
The rise of MS-13. The savage El Salvador-based gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has now penetrated more than a dozen states. In May, a Fairfax, Va., teenager had his fingers chopped off in an MS-13 machete attack. In November, Washington, D.C.-area police received warning that MS-13 is plotting to ambush and kill them when they respond to service calls. Active in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, MS-13 members in America have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, carjackings, extortions and rapes. The gang has also been linked to efforts to help al-Qaida infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico border.
The path of least resistance. Border Patrol officers and local investigative journalists in the Southwest reported on increasing numbers of Middle Eastern males entering illegally from Mexico. Muslim prayer books and Arabic diaries were discovered on "Terrorist Alley" in southern Arizona. Suspected al-Qaida operative Adnan Shukrijumah, a fugitive Saudi pilot who reportedly met with MS-13 earlier this year, is believed to be in Mexico.
In April, a suspected al-Qaida agent arrested in Queens, N.Y., revealed a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the U.S.-Mexico border. In July, two alert Border Patrol agents apprehended Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed at the McAllen airport. She was carrying an altered South African passport, muddy jeans and dirty shoes. She confessed to having entered the country illegally by crossing the Rio Grande. Court documents showed that she had entered the United States up to 250 times.
Upon news of Ahmed's arrest, intelligence experts reported that suspected terror agents are acquiring passports from South Africa and other non-suspect countries; flying to the al Qaida-coddling "tri-border area" in South America; learning Spanish; traveling to Mexico; and doing the backstroke into America. Lawmakers in Texas warned that the feds are arresting and then releasing thousands of other suspected terrorists classified as "Other Than Mexicans" because of lack of jail space.
President Bush said "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." I repeat: Neither do the Islamofascists.
Bungling Washington bureaucrats. In the skies, federal air marshals continue to be hampered by director Thomas Quinn's moronic "professional" dress code (no athletic socks or jeans allowed). Although he no longer oversees transportation security, underperformin' Norman Mineta remains in charge of the Department of Transportation, where he maintains an absolutist opposition to homeland defense profiling. And kowtowing to civil liberties Chicken Littles and Muslim lobbyists, the Bush administration canceled the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System out of fear of privacy and discrimination lawsuits.
In July, the Department of Homeland Security rebuked Border Patrol agents in Southern California for conducting interior enforcement sweeps because they did not bow down to the "sensitivities" of open-borders radicals. In September, DHS Border Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson stated publicly that it's "not realistic" for his own officers to try to do their jobs and deport law-breakers.
Morale among rank-and-file enforcement officers has plummeted. The botched Bernie Kerik DHS nomination and the refusal of the Bush administration to support common-sense immigration enforcement and secure identity measures in the "intelligence reform" bill (which ended up containing more non-intelligence than intelligence provisions) didn't help.
Amnesty, shamnesty. The year ended as it began, with President Bush dangling his abominable proposal to grant a mass governmental pardon to millions of illegal alien workers and their employers. First floated last January, the White House also pushed through a Social Security "totalization" program with Mexico, which will dispense billions of dollars to illegal alien workers who used counterfeit Social Security cards and stolen numbers to secure illegal jobs.
Announcement of the Bush plan led to a spike in illegal alien apprehensions at the border during the first three months of 2004 — 25 percent higher compared with last year. Those are just the ones who got caught. T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told the Washington Times in April: "People were coming up to our agents and saying, 'Where do we sign up for that guest-worker program, or that amnesty?' Word travels like wildfire down there."
And around the world. The word is we're open. Wide open. What a way to ring in the new year.
>Personally, I agree that without real immigration control
America is all over but the shouting.<
I couldn't agree with you more, Iris7. No borders lead to regional government which, in turn, leads to one world government. We must do all we can to delay this tragedy.
Your ancestors and mine have fought and died for the freedom and sovereignty of this nation from it's very beginning. We owe it to them to future generations to continue the fight. Our God is with us, as He was with them, so do not fear.
Any chance Bush could get stricter regulations on border crossing, temporarily until the war on terror is won? We could always make it renewable at a specific # of years?
I don't have a doubt in the world he could get it, but I
really don't think he WANTS it.
Why??? I know they are all cowtowing, and afraid of lawsuits, but what is going to take.
Why, indeed! I don't think trying to be "politically correct" has anything to do with it.
>What's it going to take?<
It's going to take following the immigration laws that have been on the books for a long time. It's going to take piling the illegals into a semi and sending them back to where they came from. It would probably be much more comfortable than the way they got on our side of the border anyway, and save the American taxpayer millions of
dollars over the long haul. Muslim Mexican-look alikes
should be incarcerated and retained stateside for the
duration by "Homeland Security".
The ACLU would never allow it, and the courts would support them.
The law is the law. To H3!! with the ACLU. (Sorry, but
if we don't begin to start fighting the Commies in our own country then we deserve what we get).
Who are you, gidget7, and what is your philosphy on maintaining the sovereignty of our country? Surely you must have some ideas. Otherwise, what are you doing here?
What a stupid statement. America has never been better.
The economy is spectacular.
Unemployment is lower than the average in the 90's and continuing to drop.
Crime is down
The standard of living of Americans has never been higher.
More people own houses than ever.
There have been two major tax cuts and another is planned.
Home ownership is at an all time high.
Church attendance is up and drug use down.
Patriotism and support of the military at an all time high.
Abortion support is declining
......
But there will always be chronic losers in every society regardless of the opportunities surrounding them. And they will always find some excuse or scapegoat for their personal failures.
Illegal laborers just happen to be the scapegoats de jure.
Okay, gidget, I am encouraged to read your last post.
As I've pointed out on other posts and on other threads, I feel that, as President Reagan said "a country without borders is no longer a country". For many years I worked against regional government, formerly CRAG, now renamed
METRO - a governing, taxing body non-elected and not accountable. Regional government divides the country,
Canada and Mexico into blocks of Regions to be governed, not states. This is the foundation for One World Government.
I fear this is the ultimate goal of the open border policy championed by our President. It was certainly the goal of his father. I sincerely hope I am mistaken, but it's time we stop burying our heads in sand and become vocal and exersize our power in the voting booth concerning this vastly important issue. Vigilance was never more needed.
bttt
She makes me think of a more traditional way of reproducing. Dang vasectomy. What am I saying I never had a vasectomy 23 years ago. I am good breeding stock. Does Micelle like Irish Cherokees I wonder?
BTT
; )
She is a bit hotter than Therezzzza, ain't she?
oh yeah just little bit. Iwould go so far as to say she is 1.5 degrees hotter then the sun :-)
There you go again...posting your racist posters.
Really....I can't understand why people don't see this. Is Survivor that damn important?
You're gonna need to know how to eat bugs if the Socialists are successful in distributing our money to the bottom 25% of Mexico's population.
hehehe.
Already picked my Utahn road names for my house...
Anne Coulter Highway for the frontage and Michelle Malkin Way. You're going to have to take Anne Coulter south from my house, and turn left on Michelle Malkin Way to get to the range.
Oh, man. Imagine polygamy with the two of them in the house...
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