Fox Pulse: Terrorists being smuggled in from Mexico

Fox News via American Patrol Report ^ | July 11, 2002 | Geraldo Rivera

[Satadru]

We should give them amnesty, citizenship, welfare dollars, health care, education, and a place setting at the White House dinner table. Maybe then they will stop bombing our national landmarks, and vote for Bush.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

YIKES!

[PatriotReporter]

thanks for the post

[spycatcher]

ping

[Lysander]

At least it isn't pot coming in...

[sarcasm]

ping

[skeeter]

Importing hundreds of Iraqi operatives over the Mexican border seems like a real smart move by Saddam. It's the only way available to him to bring the war to us, once it starts.

[FITZ]

Yes, he can get many Americans killed by having a vast network set up and I'm sure he's been working away at it for the past 8 years or more.

[spycatcher]

Drugs are still getting in too thanks to corrupt Mexican troops (unfortunately our Border Patrol is also very corrupt when it comes to drug money)

My question is, since Arabs pay a few thousand more than other nationalities to be smuggled across the border, is the Mexican Army also being bribed to escort terrorists into US territory? If so we need to find out ASAP.

[Tancredo Fan]

Thanks for the ping, spycatcher and sarcasm. I caught this show last night. Personally I thought the part about the Mexican military "trying to do something about it and help the U.S." was bunk, because I suspect that corrupt mob is big part of the problem. This is no big surprise to many Southern Arizona residents. This has been going on for a long time. What's really outrageous is that, after all the time that has passed since 9/11, we have no military on the border..... for "cultural and historical reasons". What utter hogwash.

[PhilDragoo]

Almost immediately after his release, Tajirian began building his smuggling network, prosecutors said.

Let subsequent smugglers die resisting arrest.

[KansasGirl]

This may come back to bite Bush in the *ss.

[browardchad]

I thought the part about the Mexican military "trying to do something about it and help the U.S." was bunk

I had the same reaction, especially since Whoraldo was on Fox & Friends yesterday to promo the show, and told how the Mexican police confiscated a crewmember's camera, then gave it back for $250.

[bok]

Why should the politicians in the ivory hotel worry about the peasants down below? They're rich and live in gated communities and send their children to private schools.

[TomGuy]

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.

That still leaves 1640 (approximately) from non-Hispanic countries. And these are just the ones who were detained. What about the ones who slipped through? According to some reports, for every detainee between 4 and 10 slip through undetained. That could increase that 1640 number up to 16,400.

[Spiff]

The primary breach in the US/Mexican border through which all the illegals, drug smugglers, and potential terrorists are coming is in Arizona - Cochise County, Arizona to be specific. This area has been "represented" by RINO Rep. Jim Kolbe for 18 years. In that 18 years the border problem has become exponentially worse under his "representation".

Last week, RINO Kolbe visited his district and held a few Town Halls. Residents here soundly blasted him for his refusal to do anything about the border and his terrible voting record on the issue. Kolbe, himself, characterized the Town Halls as "contentious" because of the loudly expressed dissatisfaction with his "representation".

Those shouting Kolbe down had good reason to - just take a look at his voting record on the border issue:

March 2002 - RINO Kolbe voted with 182 Democrats (almost all of them) and against 123 Republicans for the Section 245(i) Amnesty for Illegal Aliens. This action excused the criminal status of hundreds of thousands (possibly up to 2 million) of illegal aliens in this country. It rewarded them for their illegal border crossing and it even excused them from the normal U.S. Embassy security screening in their home countries to become American citizens. Don't you think this rewarding if illegal border crossers is going to encourage more people to violate our borders and pour into our country illegally? Isn't this going to make the problem worse? This is not the first time the RINO Kolbe has voted to extend 245(i) amnesty to illegals.

September 2001 - After the September 11th attacks, one of the most obvious, necessary actions that needed to be taken was to secure our borders. RINO Kolbe voted against 191 Republicans and with 147 Democrats against an Amendment to HR2586 which would have authorized the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury to request that members of the Armed Forces assist the INS with border control duties. This is not the first time that Kolbe voted with the Democrats to keep the military from protecting our borders - see May 2000.

May 2000 - RINO Kolbe voted against 184 Republicans and with 151 Democrats against an amendment to HR4205 which would have authorized the Secretary of Defense to assign, under certain circumstances, members of the Armed Forces to assist the INS with border control duties.

A couple of weeks ago, RINO Kolbe announced his support for a measure that would create a new kind of student visa. This new visa would allow even "non-academic students" to come in to the country - "non-academic" as in flight school students.

It is clear that it is time for Kolbe to go. The good news is that he is being challenged in the Primary Elections in September by a true Republican who's primary focus is securing our border. Jim Behnke, a pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, conservative candidate is a decorated Viet Nam War veteran, a retired Lt. Colonel, an ordained Lutheran minister, and a father of two. This means that Republicans will now have an opportunity to get rid of the RINO that has been misrepresenting them in Washington and elect a true, conservative Republican.

You can find out more about Jim Behnke and offer your support and donations by visiting his website at www.behnkeforcongress.com.

[healey22]

This may come back to bite Bush in the *ss.

Just like the LAX terrorist shooter and his adjustment of status from illegal to legal under 245i (AMNESTY).

[Arthur McGowan]

When 500,000 aliens crossed into another country they used to call it things like "invasion" or even "blitzkrieg." We are not only at war, we are being invaded, and government policy prohibits talking about it.

[FITZ]

That's a very good point, the corrupt in Mexico (including drug cartels) do not care about lives of Americans or anyone. Money is the only thing that talks ---they'll bring any kind of drugs or terrorists if the money is right. Life means nothing at all to them, they only care about money.