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After decades of attempting to dam the flow of Mexican immigrants crossing into the United States illegally, federal agents say a new crisis is emerging along the southern border and they are helpless to stop it. Non-Mexicans are spilling over the border in record numbers - some from countries with terrorist ties - and most are set free soon after being captured. Already this year, the number of non-Mexican apprehensions has far outpaced last year's total in just eight months. And while they are still a relatively small percentage compared with the number of illegal Mexicans, critics say the federal...

U.S. officials are probing the possibility the al-Qaida terrorist network sought to infiltrate a Texas company in order to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military. A high-ranking al-Qaida operative provided information leading authorities to nearly a dozen illegal immigrants working for the McAllen, Texas-based Wornick Co., the largest supplier of the meals, according to McAllen's The Monitor newspaper. The firm that places the workers at Wornick has been charged with conspiring to make and use false employment eligibility verification forms. U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby explained, "Immediately after the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2002, U.S. forces on...

The FBI reportedly joined a fundraising dinner for a prominent "civil rights" group whose leadership openly supports Hamas. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says "a representative of the local office of the FBI," whom it did not identify, attended the San Francisco Bay Area fundraiser on October 11. CAIR made the statement in a news release dated October 12. The Center and others have been critical of the FBI leadership for bad judgment by lending political legitimacy to groups that claim to oppose terrorism, but whose leaders speak out in support of US-designated terrorist groups abroad, and who work...