Oh please! I get on here to defend legal immigration quite often. But this is a clear case of illegal imigration. You are making quite a leap from the mother not being deportee to her being here legally. I would rather ask how someone admits to arriving with a boatload of illegals and remains outside deportation proceedings?
This is all a perfect example of how illegal immigration in all forms leads to increased risk from terrorism linked to Jihadist organizations and goals. The LAX shooter, the Bosnian bus slasher, and other supporters of terror are often here illegaly. This is a clear case of if the INS had done their job, several good innocent hard working people with families and kids would be alive now. If I were family of a victim, I would want to know who dropped the ball on this case.
I may as well direct the response to you, as you've been more civil than many others on the thread, and are thus likely to respond civilly.
The point is that this is NOT a perfect example of illegal immigration leading to increased risk of terrorism, and it is silly to claim that it is a good example.
For this to stand as an example of increased risk, we would have to claim that the idea and execution of the sniper attacks was mostly Malvo's doing, and that he jumped ship in order to carry it out.
This requires us to ignore the existence and influence of American-born, crime-committing, Army-trained, sharp-shooting, Islamic-converted, America-hating, 9/11-celebrating, and Farrakhan-guarding (have I left anything out?) John Allen Williams Mohammed. AND we would have to speculate that without Malvo's influence, John Mohammed wouldn't have done something like this anyway.
But of course it's much more reasonable to speculate that he probably would have done something like this, in one form or another, even had Malvo not been around.
It doesn't wash. It is NOT a good example of a connection between terrorism and illegal immigration. Yet Malkin (and many here) will nevertheless argue that it's a good example. That tendency is the reason Michelle Malkin's opinions on illegal immigration are not trustworthy: as I said previously, she is not above bending facts to suit her agenda.
As for her agenda itself, there are enough real problems associated with illegal immigration. There's no reason to base the case on false examples like this one.