“Governor’s Councilor Marilyn Devaney, who lives around the corner from the home raided this morning, said, “This is so scary. This whole laissez-faire immigration thing is putting everyone at risk.”
AMEN, lady!
Here’s a good article, sent out by NAFBPO today, which relates.
4 Scary Ways Terror and Immigration Are Tied Together
[snip]We can only hope that the Times Square near-bombing will focus our attention on the conventional wisdom surrounding from the left surrounding immigration reform. First there’s the belief that no attempt at reform can succeed without a generous amnesty. Then, there’s the belief that immigration “coyotes” and other scam artists do not associate with terrorists. And finally, there’s the misguided belief that our relatively open border with Mexico, and thus by default the rest of the world, is no big deal, and can be resolved through the simple act of issuing more work visas.
In my own conversations with experts on immigration, the drug cartels and terrorism, it has always been an article of faith that while drug cartels certainly use illegal immigration as a conduit for smuggling drugs, terrorists are not welcome among the coyotes that smuggle migrants and vice versa. But that is changing.
In the laptop captured from a top FARC commander, evidence was found of links between Chavez and Russia (from where weapons and explosives would come and be transferred) and Hezbollah and drug syndicates (where FARC would help Hezbollah blow up pipelines carrying Mexican oil for America).
I’m not concerned about the links between terrorism and immigration because it’s the issue of the day. And it’s not because Arizona has passed legislation that enables local and state law enforcement to actually “enforce” a 1940 federal statute dealing with whether legal residents but not citizens of the U.S. have to carry “papers” (they do). Nor am I focused on it because the Senate is, once again, considering bringing up “compressive immigration reform.”
No, the events that have made me even more concerned about immigration are four-fold.
Great post!!
Thanks for the post. I picked up on that statement by Governor’s Councilor Devaney earlier when adding this thread to tomorrow’s ping.
You got it “B”!!
Ping! to AuntB’s post...
” This whole laissez-faire immigration thing is putting everyone at risk.””
Gee, ya think? The 9-11 attack itself was a product of executive indifference to uncontrolled immigration. If we had had a competent chief executive in office his first concern would have been to address that problem, since it is the means by which terrorists can continue to come and go at will.