Posted on 12/04/2015 2:19:59 PM PST by jazusamo
Five young Middle Eastern men were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol this week in an Arizona town situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border, law enforcement and other sources told Judicial Watch.
Border Patrol agents spotted the men crossing a ranch property in the vicinity of Amado, which is located about 35 miles south of Tucson and has a population of 275. Two of the Middle Eastern men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks, JW's sources say, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for backup. A multitude of federal agents descended on the property and the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the FBI.
Only three of the men's names were entered in the Border Patrol's E3 reporting system, which is used by the agency to track apprehensions, detention hearings and removals of illegal immigrants. E3 also collects and transmits biographic and biometric data including fingerprints for identification and verification of individuals encountered at the border. The other two men were listed as "unknown subjects," which is unheard of, according to a JW federal law enforcement source. "In all my years I've never seen that before," a veteran federal law enforcement agent told JW.
The disturbing incident comes just days after six men--one from Afghanistan, five from Pakistan--were arrested in nearby Patagonia, a quaint ranch town that sits 20 miles north of the Mexican border city of Nogales. Federal authorities have confirmed the November 17 arrests and a local news outlet published a story that includes an official statement from the Border Patrol. Special Agent Kurt Remus in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Phoenix headquarters told JW that the agency's Joint Terrorism Task Forces vetted and interviewed the six men and determined that there were "no obvious signs of terrorism" so they were returned to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
However, Special Agent Remus told JW that there is no record of this week's incident in Amado and that he knew nothing about it. JW also put in a call to DHS headquarters, but received no response. In the last year JW has broken a number of stories involving serious terrorist threats on the southern border that were disputed on the record by various Obama administration officials. Among these is an April report--confirmed by high-level Mexican authorities--about ISIS operating camps near the U.S. border in areas known as Anapra and Puerto Palomas west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Last fall JW was the first to report on an Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) plot orchestrated from Ciudad Juárez to attack the U.S. with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). As a result of JW's reporting Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army base in El Paso, increased security. The threat was imminent enough to place agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies on alert. A few weeks later JW reported that four ISIS terrorists were arrested by federal authorities and the Texas Department of Public Safety in McAllen and Pharr.
Doesnt everyone who enters the country illegally come from the middle east and instead of clothes they carry stainless steel cylinders of stuff?
those are ALL RINO senators. Not one that can be considered a benefit to this country.
Something tells me it is designed to kill thousands quickly or quietly.
We don’t know what was in the tanks and we may never know. The real question to consider is the fact that anyone (Middle Eastern men or anyone else) can in fact cross our border successfully (even easily in some areas) carrying anything. Suitcase nuke (not likely), chemical weapons (still unlikely), bio weapons (possible), IED’s (maybe, but they can make them here), drugs, and the list goes on. I think most of us are right to be concerned about the border for many reasons including the “what if” factor. I have never understood how the nation who said we would put a man on the moon (and did) cannot build a physical barrier of multiple types of construction on the Southern Border. Maybe the fence won’t be effective everywhere, but a solid fence sure seems to have worked for Israel!
Everyone - rats or republicrats who has said “it won’t work” or “it can’t be done” is going to look like a fool when it happens - and it will.
Don't worry I am sure it is just "clock parts"...
Trump’s Wall can’t come soon enough!
Nicholas Cage with an oxygen tank?
Why would Americans beg Obama to stay in power considering he has brought us this mess?
BPA free water bottles!
I have a feeling that when the wall IS built, the naysayers will start crying that it is RACISS that we are keeping others out.
Halal Didgeridoo
Have a wonderful summer and enjoy the pleasant walks in the rolling hills of your winter nest.
They view the wall as racists and I view it as a necessary step towards security. Those who view a wall and border security as racist should never lock their doors because that is racist if another wishes to come into their house and onto their property illegally. That is essentially what they are telling us.... they should live like they tell everyone else to live - no locked doors, no fences around their yards and belongings, and they should keep their doors open weather permitting.
Pure and simple - I tell them to live it.
That a mortar?
Reminds me of the old Doonesbury cartoon where some reporter is talking to Duke about gun control.
“Don’t you realize Mr. Duke that most gun deaths are WITHIN the family!”
“Well sure - exactly!. I mean, if your wife is going to start shooting - you need to be able to defend yourself!”
The Senate should move to impeach her next week. Imagine if this had been said during WWII about not having a push back against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
The House impeaches. The Senate conducts the impeachment trial.
As Rush says....it's hard to beat Santa Clause.
Thank you for the correction. Either way, let’s get her out of there ASAP!
I also believe that the ONE knows we know this and is laughing himself to sleep every night knowing nothing we can do. Satan has one more year if we can make it.
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