Cartoon by Michael Ramirez, Los Angeles Times. Ramirez is the token conservative on the L.A. Times editorial staff. Figures...
Posted on 04/06/2005 7:25:43 AM PDT by seastay
MONTERREY, Mexico – Four Iraqis were detained at an airport in the border city of Mexicali for allegedly carrying false passports, and two more were caught at a highway checkpoint, authorities said Tuesday.
The four Iraqis arrived Friday at the airport in Mexicali, across from Calexico, California, on a flight from Mexico City and were detained after immigration officials discovered the Dutch passports they were carrying were false, said Abraham Sarabia, an attorney general spokesman in Baja California state, where Mexicali is located.
Alya Kiryakous Dawood Sako, an American citizen and the sister of one of the Iraqis, was also detained and questioned. Dawood was released after immigration officials determined her passport was legitimate but she was turned to immigration officials and is awaiting deportation, Sarabia said. Sarabia said immigration officials noticed the men became nervous during routine questioning and once in custody of federal authorities they confessed their true identities.
The men were carrying Dutch passports under the names of Richard Richters, who Mexican officials say is Yacer Yoser Hana; Mikel Leewen, who turned out to be Basam Kiryakous; Jan Pieter Drijfhout, who is Basam Toma Jou and Robert Schurtman, whose real name is Sabham Kamel.
"Once in custody they told authorities they intended to sneak into the United States," Sarabia said. "They said they started their journey in Greece, traveled to Spain and then to Mexico City."
The men were being held at a prison in Mexicali pending charges for using false documents.
Also Tuesday, soldiers detained two Iraqi men traveling on Greek passports at a roadside checkpoint near Mexicali.
The two men were traveling aboard a bus bound for Mexicali. However, the photo on one of the men's passport's had been altered; he was also held pending charges, while the other man was held pending deportation.
Mauricio Juarez, a spokesman with the Migration Institute, said none of the men appear on terrorist watch lists.
It was not clear whether the Iraqis were linked to the Chaldean Christians, who have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.
This is my wife's hometown.... they have discovered 3 tunnels leading to the US from Mexicali
Does anything embarass/shame this Government?
Send Rachel Corrie!
And financed. I can't even afford a trip like that!
Unfortunately the government will still not get a clue and secure the borders.
The question is out to where? Who would accept them? Much easier to get in the US, ( and stay here,) as an illegal alien.
Cartoon by Michael Ramirez, Los Angeles Times. Ramirez is the token conservative on the L.A. Times editorial staff. Figures...
Does anything embarass/shame this Government?
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Apparently not. A copy of this should be forwarded to Bush's office along with the Homeland Security boys -- just to show them WHAT THEIR PANDERING POLITICS is doing to this country. The example that this, and other incidents sets, is one of EASY PENETRATION IN THE U.S. for all type of criminals, be they looking to get their noses in the U.S. government tax dollar PIG TROUGH or to BLOW UP AMERICAN CITIZENS....the situation is beyond perverse.
Kiryakous is a Chaldean Christian name.
Unfortunately the government will still not get a clue and secure the borders.
And just how do you know they're not here to pick lettuce, or wash dishes, or mow our lawns? Ye of little faith...
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
"The men were being held at a prison in Mexicali pending charges for using false documents."
Hey, at least they weren't "undocumented immigrants."
"Send Rachel Corrie!"
Don't bother. She's flat out of time.
They caught these, how many have slipped through undetected?
nothing to see here.....move along please
"she was turned to immigration officials and is awaiting deportation,"
They're deporting an American citizen for trying to bring her brother into the country? Is this what they normally do to others, say originally from Mexico?
"Does anything embarass/shame this Government?"
Nope. They have (R) next to their names and thus can do anything they want and it's OK because hey - at least they're not Clinton.
Proving once again that rank amateurs can be discovered. Eventually. Maybe.
America, bless God before He finally stops blessing America.
Nope. They have (R) next to their names and thus can do anything they want and it's OK because hey - at least they're not Clinton
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I detected that same attitude on a Delay thread. Somebody got zotted for questioning his ethics.
If we don't address these problems now, Hillary will be given a chance. God help us all, then.
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