Breaching America - Part 1;
Because all but a tiny fraction of those arrested crossing the southern border are Mexican or Central American, issues of border security get framed accordingly and cast in the image of America's neighbors to the south. Right or wrong, in this country the public face of illegal immigration has Latino features.But there are others coming across the Rio Grande, and many are in Boles' image.
People from 43 so-called "countries of interest" in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa are sneaking into the United States, many by way of Texas, forming a human pipeline that exists largely outside the public consciousness but that has worried counterterrorism authorities since 9-11.
These immigrants are known as "special-interest aliens." When caught, they can be subjected to FBI interrogation, detention holds that can last for months and, in rare instances, federal prison terms.
The perceived danger is that they can evade being screened through terror-watch lists.
It isn't just the southern border...
Mahmoud Kourani, convicted in Detroit as a leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah. Using a visa obtained by bribing a Mexican official in Beirut, the Lebanese national sneaked over the Mexican border in 2001 in the trunk of a car.Nabel Al-Marahb, a reputed al-Qaida operative who was No. 27 on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list in the months after 9-11, crossed the Canadian border in the sleeper cab of a long-haul truck.
Farida Goolam Mahammed, a South African woman captured in 2004 as she carried into the McAllen airport cash and clothes still wet from the Rio Grande. Though the government characterized her merely as a border jumper, U.S. sources now say she was a smuggler who ferried people with terrorist connections. One report credits her arrest with spurring a major international terror investigation that stopped an al-Qaida attack on New York.
The government has accused other border jumpers of connections to outlawed terrorist organizations, some that help al-Qaida, including reputed members of the deadly Tamil Tigers caught in California after crossing the Mexican border in 2005 on their way to Canada.
Part 2, 3, 4.
Via Hugh Hewitt.
shhhhh!
I plan to sneak across the northern border and take advantage of the new amnesty program. All I'll have to do is pay the 5K and lie when they ask if I was there before DEC. 31, 2006. After that I'll be able to move my wife, kids and extended family down where they'll get an automatic citizenship as well! Can you say "Z" VisasBaby! WOOHOO!!!
the last one is a Tamil Tiger , maybe a terrorist down in the USA , but a Liberal support group and charity up here in Canaduh. exPMPMs riding if I recall correctly.
one mans terrorist is anothers campaign pledge.
one man's terrorist immigration is another man's excuse to impose martial laws
one man's illegal immigrant cheap labor pool is another man's campaign fund guarantor
No need to watch our border for Tamil tiger terrorists. Just watch any Liberal's property when they are having a BBQ/fundraiser.
wonder if the liberals consider the tamils an upgrade from the mafia fundraising tables at the old tequila sheila riding.
shows diversity along with importing romanian strippers.
one mans riding association is anothers cause to send the emergency water supply to a tamil stronghold after the tsunami after dithering for weeks.
It's amazing for me how little attention the millions of illegals get from American security agencies! If so many Americans, Japanese or Germans sneaked into the former USSR, KGB head would have committed a suicide just to not to report to the Central Committee on the issue...
Why make things so complicated? Sneak into this country from Portugal, then claim refugee status because you are a Jehoover's Witness. (Over 14,000 pulled that stunt- a Globe & Pail reporter went to Portugal to check into this, and learned that the Jehoover's Witness Church in Portugal NEVER HAD more than 2500 members!)
Duh!
Look how our former king KING WILLIAM sent in his imperial stormtroopers into the home of ALEIAN GOZALUS so they could sent him back to cuba while the open the borders to thosands of illegal aleins and terrorists