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  • Bangladeshi’s arrest prompts concern over border security

    12/10/2004 1:11:58 PM PST · by nanak · 34 replies · 563+ views
    The Brownsville Herald ^ | 12/10/2004 | SERGIO CHAPA
    December 10, 2004 — Last week’s arrest of a Bangladeshi immigrant trying to illegally enter the country has federal authorities concerned over the vulnerability of the U.S.-Mexico border to infiltration by terrorists. Federal court records show Fakhrul Islam, age unknown, was arrested Dec. 4 with 13 other undocumented immigrants as they tried to pass through a wooded area east of Brownsville. The records said a man later identified by Border Patrol agents as a member of the Mara Salvatruchas gang was traveling in the same group as Islam. The Central American gang has alleged links to al-Qaida. “This is alarming,”...