Posted on 09/16/2007 7:56:30 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A South African woman arrested in McAllen and deported three years ago had ties to a Pakistani terrorist group that smuggled foreign nationals across the border, the state’s top security official said.
In a speech Wednesday before the North Texas Crime Commission in Dallas, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw held up Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed as one of several terrorism suspects caught entering the United States through Mexico.
McCraw’s remarks come three years after several federal agencies vehemently denied Ahmed’s purported connections to terrorism.
(Excerpt) Read more at themonitor.com ...
There is an important lesson to be learned from this- you can’t serious about national security unless you’re serious about border security.
There is a important lesson to be learned from this- if you keep trotting out this 3 year non-story about a 50 year old woman, you lose your credibility.
Really, Ben? Well how about all those here who insist there's no problem with terrorists coming across the Southern border for those 3 years?
How's their credibility??
Exactly. The greatest threat to this country come from the open borders and the hordes of illegal aliens who have invaded this country.
You heard it many, many times in the echo chamber, so it must be true. Since it was bumped up and cross-linked, it must be even more true.
Ben, the story of Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed was as true the day it was first posted as it is today. And if you look at the rest of the story - to which I just pinged you - you will see that Ahmed is just a part of what Texas Director of Homeland Security, Steve McCraw, is saying in the related article.
Like it or not, the fact is that hundreds if illegal gate-crashers have entered our country from countries that support terrorists and terrorism.
Belittling those who try to keep that fact in the forefront of peoples' minds is just plain bad form.
Aunt B....I’ve learned to take Ben with a grain of salt.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_4016983?source=most_emailed
From the article:
SAN DIEGO - Narcotics syndicates operating along the southern border are a threat to the security of the United States, and not enough is being done to close the nation’s borders to would-be terrorists, government witnesses told U.S. congressional leaders Wednesday.
The House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Non-proliferation held the first of several field hearings on border security and terrorism at the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station in San Diego.
During testimony, law enforcement agents, researchers and federal officials said they lack the funding, manpower and technology to fully secure the nation’s northern and southern borders.
“Drug cartels, smuggling rings and gangs operating on both the Mexico and U.S. sides are increasingly well-equipped and more brazen than ever before in attacking federal, state and local law enforcement officials,” said subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Fullerton, at the opening of the hearing.
“Border Patrol agents are being assaulted in increasing numbers. Some border areas can be accurately described as war zones.”
The millions of undocumented immigrant crossings put agents at a disadvantage because they cannot focus on their primary mission, which is national security, said TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing more than 10,000 border agents.
“Of course, the lack of conclusive evidence that terrorists have successfully entered the United States in no way proves that they have not done so,” Bonner said. “It merely proves that we have not been successful in interdicting any of them. This is hardly something to boast about.”
[snip]
“We cannot fight terrorism on the border when the Border Patrol itself is terrorized from within the Department of Homeland Security, coerced into silence and afraid to tell the truth,” Ramirez said.
But then was end of story.
As for me belittling McGraw, I would say he has already been belittled in Texas. In fact, that is probably why he is trying to hype this non-story.
I apologize.
For what?
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