Posted on 07/16/2004 5:51:28 PM PDT by John Jorsett
Congressman John Culberson (R - TX), speaking on the John and Ken show in Los Angeles, tells the hosts that he's now authorized, for the first time anywhere, to disclose that Middle Eastern men with Al Qaeda links have been mixing with the stream of illegal aliens coming in via the Southern US border. Having changed their names from Islamic to Hispanic ones, and having obtained authentic Mexican Matricula Consular ID cards using faked Mexican birth certificates, the men are paying up to $30,000 to obtain entry into the US among the flow of Hispanic illegal aliens crossing. They're choosing this path because the screening process the US is using on incoming airline passengers is becoming increasingly effective. Once in the US, these men are burrowing into small towns, posing as doctors, lawyers, CPAs, and other professional occupations which are scarce in these communities, making them more accepted and welcome. These "sleeper agents" then await activation for terrorist acts.
Culberson says he was informed of this by federal prosecutors in Texas (he gave the name of one of them, but I didn't write it down. I'm recording the show and will get the name when I play it back), and will have a letter with these facts in his hands on Tuesday. Culberson adds that he's also been told that an Al Qaeda attack before the November election is "100% certain."
Well the U.S.Armed Forces were on the Mexican border in 1916, 1921, and 1929:
When General John J. Pershing led his small army into Mexico to find and capture the bandit Pancho Villa, tensions soared between the two countries, making war seem inevitable. On 6 May 1916, the War Department dispatched the National Guard of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to the border, while Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916.
At home during 1919 and 1920 Army forces continued the guard on the border of Mexico required by revolutionary disturbances in that country.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-19.htm
March and April 1929, revolution in Mexico threatened American lives along the border and Brigadier General Frank S. Cocheu set up headquarters at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to patrol the border, using 18 airplanes in addition to his troops
Buenas Dios Senior Customs Agent. My name Miguel Achmed Rodrigez. I'm not here to blow you up.
Now we're allowing those 'revolutionary disturbances' into this country unfettered. Sad...
Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:39 PM ET
I would think that this was not just for illegal Mexicans searching for work.
Do you remember a few months ago when hundreds of illegals were discovered in a couple of houses in Arizona and apprehended. It was reported then that some among them had paid thousands (an enormous amount)of dollars to gain access into the US. It was stated then that no one would pay this amount of money in order to come here and work for $5.00 an hour.
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Lot's Middle Eastern men living in my little town, guess I will put my bar on high alert.
It's very true!! I have lived in Arizona for 18 years now, and it has always been a problem, but about the last ten years, the flow of illegals has been progressively getting worse. They have found Muslim prayer rugs in the desert south of Tuscon. (This was on "Breaking Point" on FOX news recently) The illegals pay around $5000 to a "coyote", which is a "guide" to bring them across the border. For $30,000, those "coyotes" would bring them across in a limo!~sarcasim~ Tom Tancredo, Colorado (R) has been pushing to do something about this...it seems to no avail. They also dig tunnels from one side of the border, to end up inside of a house, on the US side!! I've asked my State Officials about it, and all of them...Republican, and Democrat, will do nothing!! Pisses me off!! It's a very serious problem, with serious consequences.
Lot's Middle Eastern men living in my little town, guess I will put my bar on high alert.
Are you serious? If they're recently arrived, I'd say that is cause for high alert. A Middle Eastern male moving to some little town in Texas without any family would be extremely suspicious. That's not a likely location to settle in for a Middle Easterner who's taking up residence alone.
There are lots of them in my little town (pop 5000) the richest person in the town is a M.E. that owns a ton of little convinence stores, 3 in my town alone. There is are new faces at the convince store 2 or 3 times a year. So if my town is any indecation then yea, lots of ME men moving into the little towns of Texas.
The new GOP logo is "Better Mexican than Muslim", let the mexicans flow baby! Hey if some terrorists get in so what?
I don't think we can stop BOTH parties in their continued efforts to keep our borders uncontrolled in a time of war.
On the other hand it is true that we havn't been hit since 911. Does that mean an open border is ok? Really what do you all think.
BLC!
What is scary is that Texas City is a 20 minute drive (lots and lots of refineries) and the Huston Ship Channel (huge refineries and lots of them) is a 40 minute drive. Also one of the largest producing nature gas thingy (in the USA) is 3 blocks away.
There are middle easterners in small towns in Texas in droves. They operate gas stations and laundromats and motels and pizza places. Some 7-11-type chains have made arrangements with real estate agents that they will purchase land and put up buildings for these places if they can bring in Pakistanis to operate them. I know, a friend of mine is a real estate broker and went through one of these deals. On trips through Texas every small town I stopped at for gas had a Paki running the gas station.
It struck me when I read this that the Border Patrol should simply make sure that illegals spoke Spanish with a Mexican accent to make sure they weren't AQ agents before they entered the country. Then the absurdity of that thought hit home.
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