Posted on 06/14/2007 11:58:15 PM PDT by Baladas
"America is still the land of opportunity," Sen. John McCain recently said. "And we're not going to erect barriers and fences."
Unlucky us.
Along with Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, the Arizona Republican co-sponsored immigration legislation currently stalled in the Senate. McCain should recognize that without a barrier or fence, the U.S./Mexican frontier will keep welcoming Islamic extremists pledged to America's doom.
This is not hypothetical.
"Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered the United States across our southwest border," declares "A Line in the Sand," a January report of the House Homeland Security subcommittee on Investigations, then-chaired by Texas Republican Michael McCaul.
The study cites FBI Director Robert Mueller's March 2005 congressional testimony confirming that "there are individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish, and pretending to be Hispanic immigrants."
Zapata County, Texas, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez told House members last July: "If smugglers can bring in tons of marijuana and cocaine at one time and can smuggle 20 to 30 persons at one time, one can just imagine how easy it would be to bring in two or three terrorists or their weapons of mass destruction across the river and not be detected."
In fiscal year 2005 alone, 3,308 aliens got caught sneaking into America from nations the State Department considers state-sponsors of terrorism: 3,262 Cubans, 25 Iranians, four North Koreans, four Sudanese and 13 Syrians. Assuming the Cubans all were pro-American anti-communists, 46 people remain from terror-supporting nations. A group that size could staff another Sept. 11 twice over, or populate seven more Lackawanna Six Islamic-fanatic conspiracies.
Others who were collared that year departed nations in which terrorists thrive, though without government assistance: three Saudis, seven Lebanese, seven Yemenis, 11 Algerians, 15 Afghans, 17 Egyptians, 22 Somalis, 25 Indonesians, 27 Jordanians and 101 Pakistanis. Let's hope these 235 individuals tried to break into America to harvest broccoli.
Of course, these are folks the Border Patrol arrested.
"Federal law-enforcement entities estimate they apprehended approximately 10 to 30 percent of illegal aliens crossing the border," that House report states. If true, aliens from terrorist-laden nations successfully penetrated America's perimeter in numbers three to 10 times those above.
May those we have missed be unlike those we have caught:
-- Mahmoud Youssef Kourani pleaded guilty in March 2005 to providing terrorists material support. After bribing a Mexican diplomat in Beirut for a visa, Kourani and another Middle Easterner's Mexican guides shepherded them into America. Kourani settled in Dearborn, Michigan's Lebanese-immigrant enclave, where he raised cash for Hezbollah.
-- Federal agents arrested Neeran Zaia and Basima Sesi in September 2004 for smuggling more than 200 Middle Easterners -- mainly Iraqis, Jordanians and Syrians -- through Latin America into the United States. Zaia previously was convicted of alien-smuggling.
-- Tijuana cafe owner Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was arrested in December 2002 for smuggling into America more than 200 Lebanese, including suspected Hezbollah associates.
-- Beyond Islamic prayer mats among the cacti, Jim Hogg County, Texas, Border Patrol agents found a jacket with Arabic-language patches. One reads "martyr" and "way to immortality." The other depicts a jet flying into a skyscraper.
Despite Congress' September 2006 vote to fence off 700 miles of the southern border, the Senate now backs only a 370-mile partition. This is especially discouraging, since that frontier's condition is, officially, dismal:
"DHS does not as yet have a wholly satisfactory methodology of determining whether a portion of the border is considered under control from a system-wide, defense-in-depth, and continuously enforceable perspective," laments a May 1 Homeland Security congressional update. "In the end, gaining control of the border requires gaining control of the entire border, so that as illegal immigration is stopped at one location along the border, it can find no alternate crossing point."
In the end, Congress quickly must stitch the gaping wound across America's underbelly. While the U.S./Canadian boundary is worrisome, 1/24 as many illegals traverse it, versus its southern counterpart. While most illegals come here to work, which presents its own challenges, others endure extreme heat and dodge Gila monsters to come here and kill us.
It remains Washington's solemn duty to stop them.
This ought to make you sleep better tonight, a wide open border, don't want to inconvience Mexican nationals, now do we?
Angry, horrified, disgusted, disillusioned, I’ve officially run out of words to describe my hatred for these bastards
I’m sick of McCain. He’s gone kookoo and he’s not going to stop opening that gaping maw of his and letting the insanity controlling his brain to leak out and poison our our political process and our hopes of a stable, safe and prosperous America.
Regardless if illegals are good or bad. This congress has a NO CONFIDENCE vote from me.
Bush Jr lost his chance for the high road when he did nothing for our border guards that were sent to prison because they did their job. He is the continuance of this problem and it equates to an embezzler being in charge of payroll because he has another idea. His and the Congress ideas have gotten this country in this mess and they have lost the right to fix their problem. THE ONLY THING I AGREE TO IS “FIX” THE FENCE and stop illegal immigration. We will not talk about legalization until this is COMPLETE. period, end of sentence.
Anyone who applies logic and makes the move to open their eyes will see what is happening. Trust that god will bring everything to light that is hidden, He’s doing his part and those around us are not. These mental giants are going to one day realize how minimized they have become.
People better unite on one platform, a constitutional one before the final bell rings.
I have a vote of NO CONFIDENCE for our current congress and vote that no immigration be discussed until the border is secure. Illegals stay illegal.... NO CONFIDENCE
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
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CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
I think it’s a little late trying to keep terrorists from crossing the border. The ones who want to do us serious harm are already here. All you can do now is try to contain and limit the damage they will do. If we were really serious about protecting this country we would have closed it down on 9/12. They could erect a fence in a month or two. They appropriated funds for it last year. Where is it? I think it will be up to the citizens now to protect ourselves and our families. Our government has lost it’s ear to it’s citizens.
I have a vote of NO CONFIDENCE for our current congress and vote that no immigration be discussed until the border is secure. Illegals stay illegal............
Sign everything
NO CONFIDENCE
If this simple term can get attention in 1 loud voice, we may be able to turn their hand around. No discussion, WHERE’S THE PROMISED FENCE, and NO CONFIDENCE says it all
America's Surrender of Sovereignty
Read the link entitled "Al Qaeda Tours and Travel" - and look closely at the number of Pakistanis caught.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.
"This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI's budget.
In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border, telling the House committee: "That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.”
Hezbollah was responsible for the single most deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. before 9/11 - the Oct. 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.
In November, an al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist watch list was captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, according to Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.
"A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail," Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI."
I have run out of pejoratives.
We should of closed the BORDERS after 9/11 but it is not too late! Remember that Central & S. America have a large and growing coalition of Narco/Islamic Terrorist and Gangs that flow freely thru the border supported by the increasingly Leftist governments.
This Amnesty will make it impossible to even touch the ones that come thru....the failure to control our Borders is a present and increasing danger to all.
American traitors work to Chappaquidick, and drown, America with their perverted, criminal, unConstitutional
'Infectious Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Morgellons disease, Typhoid, Cholera, Plague, Measles,
Syphillis, Mumps, Leprosy, Dengue fever, Polio and Felon Importation Act of 2007.'
Where are the 6,000 National Guard troops, President Bush??
Isn’t it funny that media asshats like this Murdock clown, were not worried about our porous borders until shamnesty was on the table?
ping
Thanks for the link; excellent post.
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