Posted on 11/25/2004 4:52:30 AM PST by Ginifer
What price will we pay in future terrorist attacks because of our continued failure to protect our borders? How many terrorists are slipping into the U.S. along with the millions of illegal aliens? No one knows, and federal officials are trying to keep this explosive scandal under wraps. In June, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, a local newspaper in Tombstone, Arizona, reported that on June 13, 2004, Border Patrol agents had encountered a group of approximately 158 illegal border crossers near the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains. Only 71 members of the group were apprehended. According to the Tumbleweed, among them were 53 males of middle-eastern descent. An unnamed Border Patrol agent told the newspaper: [W]e discovered they spoke poor English with a middle-eastern accent; then we caught them speaking to each other in Arabic.... This is ridiculous that we dont take this more seriously, and were told not to say a thing to the media, but I have to.
Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame responded to the story with a categorical denial. There were no middle-easterners in the group, said Mr. Adame. Every single one of them was Mexican.
Shortly thereafter, as if to prove Mr. Adame wrong, another incident occurred. The Tumbleweed reported: On or about the evening of June 21, 2004, agents from the Willcox Border Patrol station apprehended 24 members of a larger group of Arabic-speaking males located just east of the Pierce/Sunsites area of Cochise County. At least half of the males escaped capture and disappeared into the United States.
A retired Border Patrol agent, who has been a longtime reliable source, informed The New American that a local law enforcement officer confirmed that arrests of Middle Eastern men in Cochise County had indeed taken place. The retired Border Patrol agent, who is still active in law enforcement, said that he recently learned of similar occurrences in New Mexico. It appears that the smugglers, known as coyotes, have developed a system of using Mexican aliens for cover. According to the retired agent, the Border Patrol has been losing the Arabs because they were lagging behind the Mexican groups that were being led in by the coyotes. It seems that the Border Patrol grabs the Mexican group, loads them up and leaves while the Arabs lag behind and get away. However, when Middle-Eastern aliens are arrested, they are immediately taken by the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol agents. Local law enforcement are told to be quiet about it for national security reasons. The Bush administration, ever anxious to put a happy face on our deteriorating border situation, does not reveal the national origin of those arrested.
However, the Border Patrols Andy Adame did release a very alarming footnote. Adame reported that from October 2003 through June 2004, Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector alone had apprehended 5,510 illegals from countries other than Mexico or other Central or South American countries. Adame described them as people from all over the world.
Catch and release program.
Welcome to the United States of Islam.
Very disturbing.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations),
San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
I wonder how many thousands of MEs the klintoon admin graciously welcomed with open arms, voter registration forms(demo-commie) and public assistance? I am not buying into this leftist propaganda. The 9/11 terrorists, did they cross the border illegally? Freepers beware of the subterfuge of the DNC/Klintoon commie supporters. I wonder about this so called former border patrol agent. Why would he put intell/procedures out for others to know? Cover-Up? maybe he was thinking of OKC, Waco, and TWA 800 as starters. Those were ther real cover-ups in America under commie klintoon&reno. I wonder how many times this (BPA) voiced his opinion openly during the klintoon admin?
Read and you might understand why the invasion is so successful, we call it a Stealth Invasion. This is not about National Security; it is about the lack of a protective force on our borders, turf wars, the red tape to send these aliens back. The AZ border is the funnel because of Janet Reno and no one has corrected it. McCain and Kolbe should be screaming and they are not - they are part of the problem...WHY?
I'll tell you one thing. McCain should be screaming "bloddy murder" about the porous border with Mexico because this is going to be a major issue in 2008 and if McCain hopes to be President he needs to get involved in this issue pronto; the most porous border is in Arizona, McCain's home state. Hillary Clinton has already recognized this problem and is moving very quickly to make it the centerpiece of he campaign...in fact, she is moving to the right of the GOP, if you can believe that!
As I've said before - we're giving 80 year old Iowa farm wives the full body search at the airports, meanwhile this islamic terror pours across the border. I can't seem to get it through my head why we allow this. Islam kills everywhere it grows! and it's coming to a community near you.
McCain? The Manchurian Senator? Does anyone out there know what this guy's motivation is?
As far as border security is concerned, this Bush administration will go down in history as eight completely wasted years.
The insatiable greed for power.
The problem has been well defined now, and I'm not hearing anything from this current administration of any effort to remedy the problem of the southern border. We best not be on our way to another 4 years of silence, or we cannot boast that Bush did anything better than Klintoon about the issue.
They know about the problem. How they chose to (or not to) enforce our border protection is another issue. It quite possibly will take even more deaths of our US citizens on our soil for them to even act like they are interested in protecting our borders.
I'm not even hopeful at that.
Very good. But we all know she's lying like hell about it, just to attract the votes. She'd never follow through with it, lol.
Do you truly believe that Republican politicians can do no wrong?
Slap yourself back into reality as fast as you can!
WHY? WHY? WHY?
Is the President waiting for another terrorist attack so that he can get our idiotic legislators to approve Patriot Act II in a blind rush?
>I think of this guy:
I wonder how much sense it makes to blame the Clintoons for the illegals that are now crossing. I wonder if it makes sense to be in denial about the failings of the Bush administration to do anything about it for the first term. The truth be known, neither administration has accepted the responsibility to protect the American people from foreign agents who want to come into the United States. Political affiliation will not protect you when the terrorist strikes. Bush backers will die just as readily as the oppositon. They don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat, you're supposed to be an American.
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