Are you sure Bush is keeping you safe?

From Bill Gertz in the Washington Times comes "Chechen terrorists probed":

U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.
The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports.
Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The intelligence report was supplied to the U.S. government in late August or early September and was based on information from an intelligence source that has been proved reliable in other instances, one official said.
A second U.S. official said the report is being investigated, but said it could not be determined whether the group of Chechens actually entered the country, as the intelligence source reported.
"We don't know whether or not that report is true," this official said.
A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that the intelligence report was provided by another government agency, but said Border Patrol agents were unable to verify its accuracy...

Up to three million people will cross our southern border this year.

If only a few people were crossing, groups like that above would stand out. But, we aren't ever going to be able to reduce the flow that sharply. However, we could reduce it as much as possible in order to make the job of the Border Patrol that much easier and to make those trying to cross stand out as much as possible.

The way to do that is to start fining those employers who are putting the rest of us at risk and to reduce the other incentives to being here illegally, such as free healthcare and driver's licenses. However, because of Bush and many others that is not being done.

If terrorists do attack the homeland after coming over the border, look through my immigration categories for the companies, groups, and politicians that are to blame.

Comments

The only way to take pressure off the border, is to betray the net taxpayer even further with some stolen money diverted to Mexico? What about landmines; Mexicans are not too stupid to read a sign in ideograms, telling them not to step on an explosive device. There are at least dozens of other approaches, none of which is the only way.

The only way to take the pressure off the border is that life gets better in Mexico. The people in power and the rich people in Mexico have no interest in making things better for the poor.

And; the money the US gives Mexico in aid does not get to the poor -- it justs maintains the current government and the established rich. Hate to put it as a rich/poor class issue; but, nothing is going to change unless we put pressure on Mexico to do something about their social problems.

How could they resist the opportunity to attack now, just before the election? It would be their hugest coup ever, much bigger than the disruption of the Spanish elections. The fact that these possibilities are being spoken of, and investigated, already demonstrates that these terrorist elements are at the pinnacle of global influence, or near to it. Their influence on world politics is greater than China and India combined, and this is mainly because the government is locked in the customs of 100 years ago, when ethnic bloc politics was the way to build up support, and there was no national security threat on the horizon. No need to say what corrupt influence holds them in that pattern.