Two Domestic Jihadist Plots In Two Months
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 2:05 PM
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a32e3b1b-3504-4eee-936f-fbe6085000ee
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It must be time to issue probationary 601(h) visas to millions of illegals in the country regardless of their country of origin or their ideology.
The New York Times notices the deep split in the GOP ranks (and also reports that the Wall Street Journal’s Paul Gigot has rejected the National Review’s invitation to debate the immigration bill.)
The big split within the GOP is over the security provisions of the bill which are simply not serious, and the arguments in their defense which aren’t persuasive.
The Fort Dix Six and the Kennedy Airport Four (plus one TB patient) are illustrating in serial fashion that the U.S. has a huge security problem that begins with its porous borders. Legitimizing hundreds of thousands of hostiles in our midst —even though the vast majority of 601(h)ers are here just to work and raise families— is a non-starter to every realist about the terrorist threat facing the country.
I agree that illegals are certainly a security threat. But that doesn’t mean that we should turn this into an immigration thread, since illegality does not seem to be a problem with any of the people in this case.
IMHO, the real danger is that legal, naturalized or even native-born citizens are dabbling in this stuff. I think our next big attack here is probably going to involve some of our own, particularly from the Black Muslim or convert sector of Islam. So far, while they’ve tried, they’ve been too dumb and careless to actually pull it off. But one of these days they will.