Posted on 11/03/2010 8:31:19 AM PDT by AuntB
ATLANTA -- The U.S. Border Patrol has captured thousands of people they say are classified as OTM which stands for "other than Mexican." Documents show many of them are from terrorists nations like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan and Yemen. Federal authorities call those groups SIAs, which stands for "special interest aliens".
Federal officials have offered few details about the number of actual terrorists caught along the border.
Retired immigration agent Michael Cuttler says the actual threat is being covered up. "Incredibly the government is attempting to keep the citizens like a bunch of mushrooms. Keep us in the dark and feed us a bunch of manure."
Government officials have denied that terrorists have crossed our open border. Still, Channel 2 Action News has proof they have. Channel 2 Anchor Justin Farmer found documents filed in federal court in San Antonio, Texas, in May. They show an indictment against Ahmed Muhammad Dhakane for allegedly smuggling hundreds of people from Brazil to Mexico, then into the U.S. The federal indictment states it includes some Somalis from the terrorist group Al Shabob. Terrorism experts say the group is responsible for terrorist attacks and suicide bombings worldwide.
"To this day we do not know where those 300 Somalis are," said Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas. "We do know they are in the United States."
A 2009 Government Accounting Office report confirmed agents have picked up three known terrorists who crossed the southwestern border of the United States. No other information was released.
"There are many people not only being apprehended, but slipping through the cracks on our southern flank that are very dangerous," said McCaul.
Intelligence officials have admitted on record there is a terrorism threat. In 2007, former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell told the El Paso Times that terrorists have been crossing the border. He said there are many situations where people are alive today because the terrorists were caught.
Sheriffs along the southwestern U.S. border also are aware of the threat.
"There is (intelligence) we have that is very troubling", said Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz. "Things are not getting better, they are getting worse."
News reports, such as those for which I have provided for you below, along with links to the relating videos that aired on WSB-TV this evening, provide clear and convincing evidence of the duplicitous conduct of our government and many of our political "leaders."
Honest and effective reporting enlightens the citizens of our nation and this, in turn, will require that the government finally do that which the politicians and the political appointees have tried to convince us they have been doing all along, while lying through their teeth!
This is the true value of honest journalism and is the principle behind the First Amendment!
If our country is to survive and if our children and their children are to get their share of the "American Dream" the citizens of this nation must take their citizenship seriously!
We the People must be the best citizens we can be, citizens who are worthy of the gallantry demonstrated by our valiant men and women in the military, law enforcement and firefighters, who routinely go in harm's way in defense of this nation and our citizens.
My goal in writing this and other commentaries is to point out our nations many failings before more victims pay the ultimate price for the incompetence and ineptitude of our government.
The first step in problem-solving is to first identify the problems and vulnerabilities and then devise strategies to overcome them.
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/25599881/index.html
Channel 2 Raises Questions About Border Security
Posted: 5:02 pm EDT November 1, 2010Updated: 7:52 pm EDT November 1, 2010 ATLANTA -- Channel 2 Action News uncovered a report that raises questions about the U.S. Homeland Security Department's own goals for stopping the illegal flow of people into the United States along the Mexico border.
Justin Farmer traveled to Arizona to continue his investigation into the security threat along the border. He joined border agents on a night patrol near Arivaca.
Channel 2 Raises Questions About Border Security
Border agents use infrared technology that can scan 10 miles in any direction. One camera spotted a group of smugglers on the move. Farmer followed the agents as they tracked the group for three hours, but the smugglers got away.
Seventy miles north in Pinal County, Sheriff Paul Babeu told Farmer heavily-armed drug cartels are operating in the desert, not far from Phoenix.
"Squad-size elements, every day and every night coming through our border. Heavily armed (groups) that out-gun and out-man my deputies."
In a recent Government Accounting Office report, the Homeland Security Department listed its performance goals for 2008-2010. Those goals include to "detect and apprehend 30 percent of major illegal activity and criminals at ports of entry."
Retired immigration agent Michael Cuttler said that is unacceptable. "How would you like to get on an airplane where they tell you, you have a 30 percent chance of arriving alive at your destination?"
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano knows the border well. She served as attorney general and governor of Arizona. During recent U.S. Senate hearings, she said it is possible that terrorists could cross the southwestern U.S. border.
Napolitano also shocked many people in a CNN interview when she said, "crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil."
Title 1325 of the U.S. code states those who enter the United States illegally are committing a crime punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine.
A spokesman for Napolitano said she has retracted her statement.
State Sen. Russell Pearce wrote Arizona's bill 1070. It required that illegal immigration laws be enforced. He says the issue has become personal to him since his son, who is a sheriff's deputy, was wounded while serving a warrant on an illegal immigrant near Phoenix.
"Government is responsible for that," he said. "For their failure to secure our borders and enforce the law."
You know who will have a lot of blood on his hands.
OTM - Only Terrorists (not) Mexicans.
Article I, Section 10. If the Federal Government will not defend the border, the border states have a Constitutional duty to act. The mere threat of Section 10 action should be enough to get the Feds to defend the border. It is a brand new day (except in California and Colorado); time for the States to take back the Republic.
Thanks McCain and the RINO GOP in Texas.
Border Patrol are doing great work, it is the DHS and Big Sis that are screwing with the safety of this Great Nation.
>>Napolitano also shocked many people in a CNN interview when she said, “crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil.”
Title 1325 of the U.S. code states those who enter the United States illegally are committing a crime punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine.
A spokesman for Napolitano said she has retracted her statement.<<
Napolitano needs to resign.
McCaul knows it. You know it. I know it. Gov. Goodhair doesn't care. Yeah, and I re-elected him. It was either one who doesn't care or his sanctuary city opponent.
Government officials have denied that terrorists have crossed our open border. Still, Channel 2 Action News has proof they have. Channel 2 Anchor Justin Farmer found documents filed in federal court in San Antonio, Texas, in May. They show an indictment against Ahmed Muhammad Dhakane for allegedly smuggling hundreds of people from Brazil to Mexico, then into the U.S. The federal indictment states it includes some Somalis from the terrorist group Al Shabob. Terrorism experts say the group is responsible for terrorist attacks and suicide bombings worldwide."To this day we do not know where those 300 Somalis are," said Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas. "We do know they are in the United States."
A 2009 Government Accounting Office report confirmed agents have picked up three known terrorists who crossed the southwestern border of the United States. No other information was released.
How else can you take away American’s freedom if you don’t open your borders to increase the chance of more terrorist acts being perpetrated by them? Look at how Americans used to fly in freedom on the airlines before air terrorism? Now look at it today.
NM Ping List: Our Neighbor to the South and East........
And becoming more likely here, with the new smuggling corridor that the Feds are so thoughtfully planning up through the center of our state.
Time to seal the stinking border, deport ALL illegals, and stock up on more ammo......
It’s just a matter of time.
An American city held hostage, then two, then three..we already see the effects across the nation of silent killers.. invaders that come under the dark of night.. to work? hardly..
I do. They are driving cabs in and around the Raleigh/Durham area. You'll find them driving black minivans with green door magnets on the side.
“Gov. Goodhair doesn’t care. Yeah, and I re-elected him. It was either one who doesn’t care or his sanctuary city opponent.”
Well, there’s a lot of that going around today. I had to vote for McCain’s girls, Fiorina & Whitman, for all the good it did.
Would be nice if the GOP would give us some conservative choices once in a while.
Boy, this makes me angry. I had planned to retire in NM but am seriously rethinking...
As I have stated a dozen times, there are hundreds of terrorist cells already established in the US and additional cells and new members are entering via our southern border on a daily basis. If you have a ping list for this sign me up. I have been working part-time in the anti-terrorism education arena for about 10 years now and the situation grows worse when we have a dear leader who often sides with our enemies.
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