'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico

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President Bush urged Congress to extend a deadline for illegal immigrants to remain in the United States while they pursue legal residency.

Bush blasts anti-immigrant forces .....wants more immigration

"You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."
George W. Bush - Source

This is not just a war on terrorism

Boy, isn't that the truth

Iraqi reportedly smuggled hundreds from Middle East across Mexican border

The New York Times
Oct. 25, 2001 10:05:00

EL PASO - An Iraqi-born smuggler led hundreds of illegal immigrants from the Middle East across the Mexican border into the United States in the 1990s, prosecution documents filed in a federal conspiracy trial here say.

The Iraqi, George Tajirian, who forged an alliance with a Mexican immigration officer, smuggled Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni and other undocumented immigrants through Mexico and into the United States, sending them to wade across the Rio Grande or pass border checkpoints with counterfeit travel documents from Greece, Mexico and other nations, the prosecutors said.

Tajirian appears to have had no political or other agenda, and prosecutors have provided no evidence that any of the people smuggled by him had terrorist ties. But prosecutors said he had paid little heed to whether his clients were criminals, merely raising his smuggling fees when he became aware of such complications.

The record of prosecution proceedings against Tajirian and Angel Molina Paramo, the Mexican official who prosecutors say was a major confederate, suggest that the Mexican border has been a thoroughfare for hundreds of Middle Eastern migrants crossing illegally into the United States.

Tajirian, who is a naturalized Mexican citizen, was arrested in Miami in 1998, pleaded guilty to smuggling undocumented foreigners in a plea agreement that erased conspiracy and other charges, and is serving a 13-year sentence. Molina was extradited to Texas this spring. A federal judge here accepted his guilty plea last week, also the result of a plea bargain, and sentencing is set for next month. Tajirian's wife, who is a Mexican citizen, and a fourth suspect, a Lebanese woman who ran Tajirian's travel agency in Quito, Ecuador, are fugitives.

The documents pertaining to Tajirian's smuggling operations were presented to the court as part of the case against Molina and the two fugitives. Among the documents was one in which prosecutors said they collected evidence on 132 illegal immigrants Tajirian smuggled into the United States from 1996 through 1998.

The prosecutors estimated that since he began to build his smuggling organization in 1980 he had led more than 1,000 Middle East natives across the southwest frontier.

Tajirian showed "no scruples" in deciding whom he would smuggle into the United States, Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Brandy Gardes wrote in a brief before Tajirian's sentencing in 1998. One citizen of Yemen whom Tajirian brought to the U.S. in December 1997 was wanted for genocide in South Yemen, the prosecutors said. Tajirian, the prosecutors said, was aware of this and, accordingly, raised his fee. A Syrian native who was smuggled across the frontier in September 1996 had a criminal record in Germany.

"The tightening of our borders and our internal security," Gardes wrote, "is a priority and the desire of the American public. The defendant's criminal activity, through its sheer magnitude and cavalier attitude, struck deeply at these goals."

In documents presented to the court, prosecutors said Tajirian routinely charged clients $10,000 to $15,000 or more. They documented earnings of $230,000 from 1996 through 1998, and estimated that he grossed as much as $2 million during that period. Prosecutors say Tajirian is 60 years old. He says he is 70.

Statistics gathered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service suggest that citizens from countries with majority Islamic populations seek to gain entry to the United States illegally much more frequently at the Canadian border. Last year, American agents detained 254 undocumented immigrants, from 16 Middle Eastern countries, Sudan, Pakistan and Malaysia, at Canadian border checkpoints, according to the INS statistics.

By contrast, at the Mexican border, agents detained 90 undocumented immigrants last year from countries with majority Islamic populations: Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Pakistan. The Mideast migrants were moving in a human tide that was overwhelmingly Latin. Some 99.9 percent of the 1.64 million undocumented immigrants detained at the southwest border last year were from Mexico and 16 other Latin countries.

The documents presented here detail more than any other case the nature of the smuggling pipeline by which illegal Middle Eastern immigrants cross the Southwestern border.

Tajirian, who was born in Baghdad, came to the United States and settled in Detroit, where he was convicted in the late 1970s for illegal possession of visas and served eight months in prison. Almost immediately after his release, Tajirian began building his smuggling network, prosecutors said.

He recruited Middle Eastern clients in Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Greece, the prosecutors said, and he established travel agencies in Havana and Mexico City as well as Quito. In a typical smuggling transaction, Tajirian would recruit his clients, arrange lodging for them in Greece, Havana, Quito and Mexico City, and eventually arrange for local smugglers in northern Mexico to bring them into the United States, usually at El Paso or Laredo in Texas or through Tijuana, south of San Diego.

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U.S. Encourages Immigration From Terror-Sponsor States

Human Events
By Joseph A. D'Agostino
The Week of October 1, 2001

The U.S. State Department runs a quota system designed to encourage immigration from all seven countries on the department’s own terrorist watch list.

The "Diversity Immigrant Visa Program" has the goal of issuing highly prized permanent residence visas to 50,000 foreign nationals from countries that send relatively few immigrants to the United States. These visas are specifically designed to increase the diversity of the U.S. immigrant pool and are in addition to the employment- and family-based permanent visas that are granted each year.

All seven of the nations listed by the State Department as "state sponsors of international terrorism"—Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan—are included in the program. "This was a program created by Congress," said a State Department official, and "1995 was the first year we had it."

Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which requires the State Department to run the program, was sponsored by Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.) in 1990 and signed into law by President George Bush.

Countries that have sent 50,000 or more immigrants to the United States in the last five years, such as Britain, Canada, mainland China, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Pakistan, and the Philippines, are excluded from the program.

Applicants to the diversity program "still have to meet the same requirements as other applicants for permanent residence visas," a State Department official said. "Those requirements include copies of police records, interviews."

The application requirements, the official said, enable State to screen out dangerous people such as terrorists. "No one country may have more than 7% of the visas, but there is no minimum," she said. "No country is guaranteed to be able to have applicants approved under this program." Applicants enter a lottery each year, she said. Requirements include a high school diploma or a history of skilled work experience.

Thirteen million people filed applications for the 50,000 slots available next year. Of these, three million applications were ruled invalid. Of the ten million remaining, 1,703 people from Iran were awarded visas, 117 from Iraq, 67 from Syria, 26 from Libya, 757 from Cuba, none from North Korea, and 1,820 from Sudan.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, had already introduced legislation to abolish the program before the September 11 attacks. Now he says he will include its abolition in the immigration reform package he plans to introduce after the House has passed the President’s anti-terrorism package. He said he expects that it will be difficult to get this reform package to the House floor.

Jack Martin, special projects director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), said he doubts that terrorists use the diversity immigrant visa program because obtaining permanent residence visas is such a long process that includes a more thorough background check than that involved in getting a temporary visa (for business, tourism, or study).

7,000 Men Recently Entered from Al Qaeda 'Watch' Countries - Between late October and December 1, the State Department granted nonimmigrant U.S. visas to at least 7,000 men from countries in which al Qaeda is active.

Let's repeat that. "After" the World Trade Center attack. "Between late October and December 1, the State Department granted nonimmigrant U.S. visas to at least 7,000 men from countries in which al Qaeda is active."

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) says it has no plans to round up the 250,000 to 300,000 illegal aliens that it admits are still in the country even though they have already been ordered deported by federal judges - October 22, 2001

Preparing for The Next Pearl Harbor Attack (re: Homeland Security)

POLICE STATE

IF VOTING MADE A DIFFERENCE, POLITICIANS WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL

BUMP for all of reply #113.

Legalizing millions of illegal immigrants in the US is tantamount to legalizing illegal immigration into the US!!

The issue of the White House backing legal immigration from Mexico and legalizing illegal immigrants from Mexico is what cost the White House backed candidate Riordan the primary election for governor in California last week. Californians are already overloaded with a tax burden to support illegals in schools and welfare. They voted for Simon, the conservative candidate that spoke out against the White House bad immigration policies and proposals endorsed by Riordan.

They also know that terrorists come in through Mexico into California who could blow up LA or poison food and water there with small pox, anthrax, chemicals, and dirty radiation bombs.

In my opinion the Bush administration is either stupid or hypocritical or both for promoting the very immigration that aides and abets the terrorists coming into the US that the administration claims they are trying to stop by having Americans give up more of their freedoms.

The Bush immigration policies and proposals in my opinion end up being a game of "chicken" played with the safety of Americans. Bush sends in NEST and Delta Force teams to search for nuclear devices the very cities that Bush allows terrorists to enter with the nuke devices because of his bad immigration policies and proposals. INS has admitted the INS can not keep track of all the legal or illegal immigrants or students or workers with visas allowed into the US some of whom can easily (and have been) terrorists coming through Mexico and Canada. Bush immigration policies and legalization of illegals would absolutely swamp an undermanned INS, the border patrol and the FBI and CIA making it impossible to adequately screen these people for terrorists.

I hope that Bush is not so stupid as to deliberately allow terrorists with weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) come into the US as immigrants from Mexico so the FBI and CIA can follow them around and to catch them just in time before they release WMDs?? The FBI and CIA say they tried this failed approach with their informant Ali Mohammed (set up Alqaeda cells in US for Bin Laden to do WTC and Kenyan and Tanzanian attacks) and Mohammed Atta (9/11 hijacker pilot the FBI followed since before 1999 in the US).

Louis Freeh bragged before COngress in May 1995 that the FBI was allowing and helping known Abu Nidal terrorists to enter the US with student visas (the FBI took advantage of a weak and overloaded INS in my opinion) so they could track their movements for years into Abu Nidal cells in Dallas , LA and Virginia. Abu Nidal met with Saddam Hussein and Hezbollah and ALQaeda and Islamic Jihad representatives twice last year to coordinate and cooperate on a global scale.

Danny Defenbaugh the SAC of the FBI in Dallas had the FBI follow AlQaeda cell members (including Bin Laden's secretary el Hage and Ali Mohammed) in and out of Dallas for years starting in 1997 using Dallas police officers.

The problem with these failed policies of following these terrorists around for years without arresting or deporting them is that the FBI and CIA lose track of them and get double crossed (so they claim, but they keep on with the same failed policies anyway). Abu Nidal (3 cells according to Freeh), AlQaeda (5 cells according to Bob Woodward of the Wash Post) and Hamas (OKC cell who planned the 1993 and 2001 WTC attacks) cells are still allowed to operate in the US so the CIA can follow them around and but then lose track of them right before their next terror attack with WMDs.

Part of the world government plan according to their proponents is to eliminate sovereign national borders at any cost by open immigration (and making illegals legal) so long as they can monitor your every move with precision (national/international ID card) and you pay a global tax to pay for it. One theory is that using terrorists to infiltrate as immigrants (made legal) into the US is a way to keep a loaded gun pointed at US citizens to coerce them into giving up more freedoms, their borders and for accepting a global tax and world government for their protection(?).

The subject of the WND article of this thread is the flow of ME terrorists into the US from Mexico through Cochise COunty. I just received the following urgent message about the serious potential for terror attack on the US via illegal imigrants who are ME terrorists now coming though Cochise COunty as of March 9, 2002. THis is vitally important to the safety and security of all Americans. What possible weapons of mass destruction could some of these terrorists be smuggling into the US?

From: Ranch Rescue Texas (Jack Foote)

[SMTP:volunteer@ranchrescue.com]

Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:22 PM

To: David Stoddard (Mr. Dave Stoddard is a former Border Patrol Agent 29 year service)

Subject: ALARMING Info, please pass it along

I am not one to be an alarmist, so please take what follows very seriously.

About an hour ago, at about 0930 Texas time on Saturday 9 Mar 2002, one of our members, who I know to be a reliable source, phoned me at home from Georgia with some alarming information. He is an attorney who has the ear of a high-level INS official in his state, and . The INS guy told our member to let the members of Ranch Rescue know about this.

The following has not been made public for obvious reasons. The jail space in Georgia is full, mostly with aliens, many of whom are of Middle Eastern origin. The INS cannot beg, borrow, or steal jail space from anywhere in the state right now. The INS official's description of the FBI was "panicked". They know that something big is about to happen.

Cochise County, Arizona was mentioned by name as the source for the sudden influx of Middle Eastern aliens. . The number of Middle Eastern aliens that are being caught in Cochise County has skyrocketed, but the BP and the INS are deliberately concealing the numbers for fear of a public panic. This appears to be an army being put in place within the USA, using Cochise County as the conduit. The FBI's analysis is that there is an event coming that will be larger than 9-11, but they don't have any way of stopping it. The event will most likely be someplace other than Cochise County, but that's the route these terrorists are using to get into the USA. The immediate threat is to the landowners in the rural parts of Cochise County, as the feeling is that the terrorists that are coming across right now are very determined and well-funded. They ain't coiming here to work at the car wash, Mildred. Any landowner who happens to run across these types is going to face a very real threat.

These aliens are well-funded enough to have begun a widespread campaign of buying up real property, both in the border areas and elsewhere, using quick-claim deeds to avoid having the transaction become visible to the government. They are avoiding the usual taxes associated with real estate transactions by foreign nationals, and thus avoiding official scutiny.

There exists right now a very real danger to the rural landowners in Cochise County, as well as a threat to the rest of the USA from the large numbers of aliens that are coming through that county. Where this is heading I do not know, but I assure you that it means that something big is coming.

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