Posted on 11/13/2002 5:43:08 AM PST by madfly
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay (CNN) --The area of South America known as the tri-border region, which drew the attention of antiterrorism experts after September 11, has again become a point of concern.
Sources said the meetings, which took place in and around Ciudad del Este, were attended by representatives of Hezbollah and other groups sympathetic to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Terrorist alert
A group of Islamic terrorists is said to be working its way toward the United States from South America. The movement was reported within the U.S. intelligence community earlier this month and sent to law enforcement authorities around the country.
According to an intelligence report, the group of Islamic radicals is from the tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, which is known to be a haven for extremists. The terrorist group is said to be planning to enter the United States somewhere along the porous U.S.-Mexican border.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021018-26542240.htm
Indications of this have been noticed for a long time in Cochise County: actual apprehensions of Middle East illegal aliens, prayer rugs, documents, reports by ranchers, Mexican citizens in Mexico, and "unofficial" Border Patrol agent reports.
The Arizona border is a perfect ingress point because:
OK, So Now Let's Get With It.
Enough is enough! It's time to demand that Congress, and President Bush, get serious about controlling immigration. It is mortgaging this nation's future not only with terrorism, but balkanization, wage and living standard depression, the Malthusian nightmare of a billion people within this century, and the devastation of our natural heritage.
Sniper suspect Lee Malvo is just the latest in a long series of illegal aliens to have fallen into the custody of a bungling INS, only to be released, in clear violation of statute, back into the public to perpetrate violent crimes and acts of terrorism. This pattern includes not only the 9-11 terrorists, but their numerous predecessors in the first terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and elsewhere on U.S. soil.
Commensurate with an exploding world population of desperate billions, millions, including many with hostile intent, continue to pour across our borders annually with reckless disregard by Congress for the accumulating consequences, including the direct threat to our national security.
One year after 9-11, the illegal alien population, currently estimated at 13 million, continues to balloon higher. Over 300 hundred thousand of these, illegal aliens and potential terrorists who have been officially deported because of the elevated threat they pose to our society, remain at large, whereabouts unknown, because of an overburdened and dysfunctional INS.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, illegal immigration, now approaching an annual rate of one million per year, continues to spiral out of control rendering homeland security a farce.
Legal immigration, meanwhile, continues a decades long trend of ratcheting steadily higher, last year reaching a record 1.1 million.
In addition, an estimated 350 thousand "anchor babies" are born each year to illegal aliens according to a recent study by NumbersUSA.com.
David M. Bell, Chicago Herald
These numbers are not sustainable. The demographic consequences are frightening. Mass immigration on this scale is a clear and present threat to our national security and way of life.
It is mortgaging this nation's future not only with terrorism, but balkanization, wage and living standard depression, the Malthusian nightmare of a billion people within this century, and the devastation of our natural heritage.
What is the response from our political leaders, including President Bush, who claims to have made homeland security the highest priority? A woefully irresponsible, head-in-the-sand approach punctuated periodically only by outrageous amnesty schemes with euphemistic titles deceptively crafted to mislead the public while placating myopic special interests, such as cheap labor, and currying favor among immigrant voters.
Simply re-denominating the problem from illegal to legal with amnesties or guest worker schemes is not a solution.
Claims by business that our economy is dependent upon immigrant labor have been found false by independent investigations such as the one recently conducted by the National Academy of Sciences. Such schemes will only exacerbate the problem by rewarding such criminal behavior and begetting more of the same. The time for meaningful, substantive immigration reform is long overdue. Legal immigration needs to be reduced immediately to levels consistent with our historic average of 200 thousand per year, with zero tolerance for illegal immigration.
Furthermore, until such time that the federal government can get its act together by eliminating illegal immigration, an immediate moratorium on legal immigration is in order.
Generally, usually, always - most estimates are low. Cochise County, Arizona has a steady influx of over 1.5 million illegal aliens each year alone.
Ben Anderson
AzAnderson.org
Anyone wanting ON or OFF my border ping list, please freepmail me by "private reply" from the thread.
thanx
madfly
This should be a concern to us all. With a government in power that would have not been our choice in Brazil and the economic chaos in Argentina, it seems that the priorities are out of order. I would really prefer that Iraq's neighbors deal with the situations in that area of the world, and the US give more attention to the situations to our south.
No news like old news. After over 4 years it's important again.
I also believe those claims are false but even if they aren't, it doesn't justify illegal immigration and all the problems with it, there could be a guest worker program that lets screened applicants in legally who also go back home at some point. Or change immigration laws so that less elderly come in to get in on SSI and Medicaid and more workers get in.
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