More Bad Guys Sneaking Across Border

Are Terrorists entering from Mexico?

Worse enough that the illegal invasion continues to roll unabated with undocumented workers keeping wages down for all of us coming here through the US-Mexican broken turnstile; now comes news that terrorists are sneaking across our porous border. Perhaps it was only a matter of time. Below is a alarming summary of facts from piece by Kevin Mooney, of CNSNews.com.

• The chief law enforcement officers of several Texas counties along the southern U.S. border warn that Arabic-speaking individuals are learning Spanish and integrating into Mexican culture before paying smugglers to sneak them into the United States. The Texas Sheriffs' Border Coalition believes those individuals are likely terrorists and that drug cartels and some members of the Mexican military are helping them get across the border.
• Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County, Texas told Cybercast News Service that Iranian currency, military badges in Arabic, jackets and other clothing are among the items that have been discovered along the banks of the Rio Grande River.
• Although many of the non-Mexican illegal aliens are fluent in Spanish, Gonzalez said they speak with an accent that is not native.
• "It's clear these people are coming in for reasons other than employment," Gonzalez said.
• That sentiment is shared by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Co lo.): "For years, Muslims and other 'Special Interest Aliens' from places other than Mexico have been streaming into the U.S. across our porous border," Tancredo told Cybercast News Service. "These people are not paying $50,000 or more a head just to 'take jobs no American will do."
• "Terrorists are working round the clock to infiltrate the United States," he added. "Congress and this administration must address this gaping hole in our national security and they must do it now."
• Some of the more high profile pieces of evidence pointing to terrorist infiltration of the U.S. have been uncovered in Jim Hogg County, Texas, which experiences a high volume of smuggling activity, according to local law enforcement. They are seeing more and more “patches” on clothing extolling the virtues of extremism.
• "We see patches on jackets from countries where we know al Qaeda to be active," Gonzalez explained.
• The patches appear to be military badges with Arabic lettering. One patch in particular, discovered this past December, caught the attention of federal homeland security officials, according to Gonzalez and local officials familiar with the investigation.
  
• Sheriff Wayne Jernigan of Valverde County , Texas , told members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in March about one patch that read "midnight mission" and displayed an airplane flying over a building heading towards a tower. Translators with DHS have said some of the various phrases and slogans on the items could mean "martyr," "way to eternal life," or "way to immortality.”
• Gonzalez told the House International Relations Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation in July that the terrorists are getting smarter.
• "To avoid apprehension, we feel many of these terrorists attempt to blend in with persons of Hispanic origin when entering the country." Gonzalez stated. "We feel that terrorists are already here and continue to enter our country on a daily basis."
• Sheriff Arvin West of Hudspeth County, Texas, told Cybercast News Service that he believes some Mexican soldiers are operating in concert with the drug cartels to aid the terrorists.
• "There's no doubt in my mind," he said, "although the Mexican government and our government adamantly deny it."
• Statistics made available through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show more than 40,000 illegal aliens from countries "Other Than Mexico ," designated as OTMs, were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in the period ranging from October 2003 to June 2004, as they attempted to cross the southwestern border. An overview of border security challenges produced through the office of Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicates that almost 120,000 OTMs were apprehended while attempting to cross into the state from January through July 2005.
• Local authorities are particularly concerned about illegal aliens arriving from Special Interest Countries (SICs) where a radical version of Islam is known to flourish. Perry's office cites Iraq , Iran , Indonesia and Bangladesh among those countries. A Tancredo spokesperson said the list also includes Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen .
• "The Tri-border Region is a focal point of Islamic extremism," the report states. "Al Qaeda leadership plans to use criminal alien smuggling organizations to bring terrorist operatives across the border into the U.S. "
• Carlos Espinosa, a press spokesman for Tancredo, said his office is aware of a training camp in Brazil that actually teaches people from outside of Latin America how they can assimilate into the Mexican culture.
• "They come up as illegal aliens and disguise themselves as potential migrant workers," Espinosa said.

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Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico
By By Kevin Mooney
CNSNews.com Staff Writer

Our Take

We suppose it was only a matter of time before Terrorist started taking the freeway to America called the U.S. Mexican border. When will this country wake up and wise-up? It is like we are begging for another coordinated disaster like 9-11. Beyond the legal question of undocumented workers streaming into our nation, what is never mentioned is the interest of our national security. It would almost make you laugh were it not so frightening.