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Ah, yes, it was a very good year for all of the bad guys (by beautiful mind Michelle Malkin)
HoustonChronicle.com ^ | 12/31/2004 | Michelle Malkin

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2004review; aliens; border; illegals; immigration; malkin; mexicanborder; michellemalkinlist; ms13; terrorism
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Our next/44th President of The United States of America

Tom Tancredo for President 2008: “Our Last and Only Hope to Save AMERICA”

1 posted on 01/01/2005 12:59:08 AM PST by nanak
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To: nanak

Congressman as President?

I doubt it. Unless he's been governor before, or something.


2 posted on 01/01/2005 1:24:54 AM PST by JWhipps (Religious conservatives... most hated by Liberals since 33 AD)
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To: nanak
Personally, I agree that without real immigration control America is all over but the shouting, I don't think that there is even a remote chance that changes in government can occur in time to prevent the end of America as we knew it.

That is, peaceful, prosperous, and safe. And over.

3 posted on 01/01/2005 2:05:37 AM PST by Iris7 (.....to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Same bunch, anyway.)
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To: Iris7
Hillary is testing the immigration waters. If we don't take a look at the problem, there is going to be a good sized drop in support.
4 posted on 01/01/2005 3:14:35 AM PST by blaze (Welcome to the Hotel Mexifornia (WWW.AMERICANPATROL.COM) Go to links and have a cry!)
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To: JWhipps
Agree. Tancredo disappointed me by not running for the open CO Senate seat.
Still, I'd love to see him in the primaries. Can't wait for the Clinton administration to end in 2009.
5 posted on 01/01/2005 3:20:05 AM PST by dagnabbit (Vincente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: Spok; Voice in your head; dirtboy; Jay777; fastattacksailor; Jasper; ZeitgeistSurfer; Uncle Vlad; ..

" The word is we're open. Wide open. What a way to ring in the new year."

Michelle Malkin bump!!


You have expressed interest in this subject in the past, please let me know if you want off this illegal immigration ping list. Thanks!


6 posted on 01/01/2005 9:12:53 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Conspiracy Guy; Stoat; CounterCounterCulture; Marauder; Brian Allen; rcocean; ConservativeMan55; ...

Michelle Malkin bump!


7 posted on 01/01/2005 9:32:42 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: nanak
our next vice president 2008 michelle malkin :-)
8 posted on 01/01/2005 9:40:50 AM PST by freepatriot32 (http://chonlalonde.blogspot.com)
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To: nanak

Is border control going to be left to the citizen militia?

Bump.


9 posted on 01/01/2005 10:24:23 AM PST by Marauder ("I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: nanak

BTTT


10 posted on 01/01/2005 10:26:58 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

<< Ah, yes, it was a very good year for all of the bad guys. [By beautiful mind, Michelle Malkin] >>

This article has legs.

So has beautiful mind, Ms Malkin.

Thank God for her!


11 posted on 01/01/2005 2:10:03 PM PST by Brian Allen (For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord -- Luke 2:11)
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To: Brian Allen

BTT


12 posted on 01/01/2005 2:29:45 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Recall

BTT


Malkin: Activists smear anyone who wants better borders
On News/Activism 12/03/2004 5:11:21 AM PST · 45 replies · 877+ views
Manchester Union Leader ^ | 12/3/2004 | Michelle Malkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293482/posts


13 posted on 01/01/2005 2:53:49 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: JustAnotherSavage

Michelle is so smart and so hot!


14 posted on 01/01/2005 4:16:53 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Pray for the millions of lives disrupted by tsunami.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

No kiddin'. She makes you want to reconsider human cloning.


15 posted on 01/01/2005 7:40:10 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("As frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: nanak

bumping and bookmarking. Excellant read!

Thanks for posting this nanak.


16 posted on 01/01/2005 8:36:11 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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To: nanak

This petite woman has the biggest, bravest heart! BUMP


17 posted on 01/01/2005 8:38:44 PM PST by Libertina (Here comes 2005 - get your pajamas ready!)
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To: freepatriot32

Head of Homeland Security I think...


18 posted on 01/01/2005 8:39:22 PM PST by Libertina (Here comes 2005 - get your pajamas ready!)
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To: HiJinx; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4.1O dana super trac pak; 4Freedom; ...
PING!!!

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."

19 posted on 01/01/2005 8:45:47 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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To: All
Our "secure" border fence, in Arizona, Source:
http://www.desertinvasion.us









20 posted on 01/01/2005 8:53:40 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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