Terrorism-related Immigration News Archives Digest
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September 29, 2008
According to this, U.S. Customs and Border Protection chief Ralph Basham said this in a radio interview: 'If Iran has sleeper cells here, "we'd be doing something about it," ...I don't think we can sit here and give you a definition of exactly where the threat would come, what the...
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March 30, 2008
From the first of a three part series on this issue: The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies — including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage — raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an...
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February 27, 2008
From this: Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal government documents obtained by ABC News. "Some of the very same conditions that allowed the 9-11...
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From this: Two men on the "national terrorist watch list" have been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following a routine traffic stop... [Patagonia, Arizona Police Chief Ed Dobbertin said] that the men were of Middle Eastern descent and had been residing in Sierra Vista. ..."They were...
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February 19, 2008
From this: Three Afghanis were arrested Wednesday at an international airport in India's Kerala state for flying with forged Mexican passports. They had just arrived there from Kuwait, where officials examined the passports identifying them as "Antonio Lopez Juan," "Javier Sanchez Alberto," and "Atonio Lopez Ernesto," and found that they...
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February 11, 2008
From this: In a major policy shift aimed at reducing a ballooning immigration backlog, the Homeland Security Department is preparing to grant permanent residency to tens of thousands of applicants before the FBI completes a required background check. Those eligible are immigrants whose fingerprints have cleared the FBI database of...
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November 20, 2007
From this: A video made during an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office shows a stream of Mexicans strolling through the border into the U.S. as federal Custom and Border Patrol agents sit staring at "information on computer screens." On another of the videos recorded at eight entry points...
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November 13, 2007
Based on the response to Rep. Tom Tancredo's ad about terrorism, one thing is clear: the nutroots/netroots (like Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, etc.), supposed mainstream bloggers/pundits (like Matt Yglesias), and the MSM just don't take border security that seriously. Some Democratic politicians might not go that far, and some...
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November 12, 2007
Some largely unimportant lefties are up in arms (link) about the following ad from Tom Tancredo that depicts a 24-like scenario with a backpack bomb being left in a shopping mall. After a quick walk, I believe I've stumbled upon the reason why: the loud bang at the end shocks...
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September 22, 2007
The Diversity Visa Lottery is a Teddy Kennedy-hatched plan that was designed to increase the numbers of immigrants admitted from Ireland and other European countries. Each year around 55,000 applications are chosen at random from around the world with minimal qualificatons. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that nearly...
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September 13, 2007
I don't think I noted this when it appeared on March 30, 2006, so here it is: 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...
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From this: [Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw] said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years. ...Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, said Wednesday she was unaware of any...
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August 08, 2007
From this: Islamic extremists embedded in the United States - posing as Hispanic nationals - are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a [2005] Drug Enforcement Administration report. ...These terrorist groups, or sleeper cells, include people who speak Arabic, Spanish...
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July 17, 2007
Brian Ross of ABC News says that an "FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force" says that a group based in Chaparral, New Mexico is smuggling Iraqis and other Middle Easterners across the border. Few other details are provided, and things like this aren't exactly...
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July 03, 2007
One of the frequent claims from supporters and profiteers of illegal immigration is that illegal aliens are just here to work, and no Mexicans/Central Americans have been involved in terrorist attacks. First, that's false: two of the 9/11 hijackers were able to get Virginia driver's licenses with the assistance of...
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May 11, 2007
Not only were three of the "Fort Dix Six" illegal aliens, but they had multiple arrests and sanctuary policies - or lack of DHS funding combined with unwillingness to deport people - may have played a role in allowing them to remain here. According to this, Howie Carr says they...
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May 09, 2007
Per this: The three brothers being charged as part of the alleged Fort Dix terror plot may have been smuggled across the border, FOX News has learned. Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23, were in the United States illegally. Federal investigators were...
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February 26, 2007
From this: Illegal immigrants say they were working on a military housing project outside Buckley Air Force Base within days after a major immigration raid there last year. Immigration officials said at the time that they were protecting national security and sending a message to employers with the Sept. 20...
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January 20, 2007
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has released details on the January 3 encounter between National Guard troops and an armed force from Mexico: According to the statements, the armed group [of eight people] wore bulletproof vests and carried automatic weapons as they approached an entrance-identification site manned by the four National...
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January 04, 2007
Last night, a group of armed border crossers stormed a National Guard encampment between Nogales and Lukeville in Arizona. Apparently no one was hurt and the four Guardsmen retreated and called for backup rather than firing on those who'd stormed them. They don't know what the goal was, and the...
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December 29, 2006
In September, one Miguel Alfonso Salinas and three other illegal aliens were arrested by the Border Patrol in New Mexico. After investigation, they discovered that wasn't his real name and he was actually a Muslim from Egypt [see also 2004's "Congressman: Terrorists are infiltrating the U.S. via Mexico"]. They haven't...
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November 29, 2006
Via this comes this: One of two Houston men accused of training to fight with the Taliban pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court. Kobie Diallo Williams, 33, a U.S. citizen who was a student at the University of Houston Downtown, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist a terrorist group....
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October 12, 2006
From Reuters: Mexican and U.S. agents are investigating a group in Mexico that they believe is funding Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, two newspapers reported on Thursday. Mexico started the investigation three months ago on a request from the United States, which is helping in the probe, the daily El Universal said....
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August 24, 2006
From Sara Carter: An estimated 75 percent of applicants for immigrant benefits - green cards, work visas, and a host of other documents - at a major federal processing center were not screened through the U.S. terrorism watch list over the past four years, the Daily Bulletin has learned. The...
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August 21, 2006
This is a couple weeks old, but from this: Almost half of the illegal aliens arriving in the U.S. from terrorist-sponsoring or "special interest" nations in the past few years have been released into the American population following their apprehension. This key finding is published in an internal audit of...
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August 15, 2006
From this: In a seven minute Full Disclosure Network Video News Blog United States Attorney Debra Yang and retired L. A. County Sheriff Sergeant Richard Valdemar discuss the problems of gang members and illegal foreign nationals working as airport baggage handlers and in high security areas of airports and who...
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August 12, 2006
From this: A leading terrorism expert says Canada's liberal open-door immigration policy is a "death wish" for an attack on home soil. David Harris, a former top CSIS official who's now a senior fellow with the Canadian Coalition for Democracies, believes a bloated influx of immigrants and refugees poses a...
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August 09, 2006
There's no word on any terrorism connection, but a man from the Republic of Georgia is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison under orders of ICE after admitting to being an illegal alien. He and a compatriot (who wasn't held) had in their possession: $4200 in cash, 15 pre-paid...
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August 04, 2006
The Derb attended a soiree about immigration and has an interesting roundup. I've numbered them and bolded bits: 1. Of GOP '08 serious prospects, only George Allen looks as if he understands the immigration issue. (Unless you think Newt Gingrich is a serious prospect.) 2. Quote on GWB: "He loves...
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July 23, 2006
Twenty five illegal aliens were arrested working at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. They were working in construction and landscaping, and this report from China's People's Daily Online has no word on what country they were from. The Communist China newspaper also reports: The Barksdale Air Force Base, home...
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July 22, 2006
Les Kinsolving asked Tony Snow about border security: "The president has made his views on border security well-known... and my question: Would the president make border security a higher priority if he were convinced it was being used as an entry point by terrorists like those who are part of...
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July 19, 2006
From this: Federal agents conducting a sweep aimed at illegal immigrants detained 58 civilian workers Tuesday as they tried to enter Fort Bragg with suspected false or fraudulently obtained identification, officials said. Almost all of them were construction workers, officials said... Some of the people detained were from Mexico, Guatemala,...
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July 18, 2006
From Kris Kobach: One important lesson our country learned on Sept. 11, 2001, is that state and local police can make the difference between an unsuccessful terrorist plot and an attack that kills nearly 3,000 people. But some in Washington, D.C., still have not absorbed this lesson. The immigration bill...
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June 14, 2006
From this: The U.S. immigration system is so broken that it can't be fixed, a former top security official at the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) told NewsMax in an exclusive interview. "Internal corruption at CIS is so pervasive that hostile foreign governments have penetrated the...
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June 09, 2006
From this: [A DHS] report [dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/OIG_06-33_Apr06.pdf] reveals that 45,008 aliens from countries on the U.S. list of state-sponsors of terror (SST) or from countries that protected terrorist organizations and their members (SIC) were released into the general public between 2001 and 2005, even though immigration officers couldn't confirm their identity....
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June 05, 2006
Doing a little bit of journalism, KNBC's Kelly Mack spoke to an unidentified whistleblower who works for Customs and Border Protection. Here's the full interview with video, and here are some of the quotes from the agent: A lot of [illegal aliens] we encounter down at the fishing docks... management...
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May 23, 2006
From this: The Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office intercepts 54 illegal immigrants just 90 miles east of El Paso, and among the group are two former Mexican soldiers. The arrests were part of Operation Linebacker. Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West said it shows how local law enforcement can be another line...
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There are several reports listed here, including this recent one: Watch this video of an ongoing investigation done by the news team from KGRV TV serving Harlingen-Weslaco-McAllen -Brownsville, Texas. (Video will open in your media player - it's a news segment.) It is part of an ongoing series highlighting the...
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April 28, 2006
From this unverified entry: In connection with a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press, the Pentagon released thousands of pages of documents transcribed during tribunal hearings for the hundreds of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There is a lot of interesting information in those documents, including the allegations...
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March 22, 2006
From this: Federal agents arrested three Guatemalan nationals and one Colombian national who were all working illegally for AID Maintenance, a Rhode Island-based company that provides contract cleaning services to both the the Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the Naval Station in Newport R.I. In Monday's operation, Immigration and Customs...
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February 28, 2006
One of the cherished talking points of supporters of illegal immigration is that illegal aliens who come here for economic reasons don't post a terror-related threat to the U.S. That's usually applied to Hispanic illegal aliens. And, as the latest example shows, it's frequently used by racial advocates: someone named...
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February 12, 2006
The Dugway Proving Ground in Utah is a top-secret base where the U.S. Army does research into biological and chemical weapon defense. Nine illegal aliens were caught working there recently. "Just by saying you're working for a subcontractor, you can access one of the most highly top secret installations in...
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February 05, 2006
From this: A deputy sheriff warned federal lawmakers Friday that drug traffickers are helping suspected terrorists cross from Mexico into Texas. Val Verde County chief deputy Terry Simons offered little evidence publicly of his claims before congressmen at a meeting in Houston. The FBI couldn't immediately confirm the lawman's account....
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February 04, 2006
From this: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., expressed concern Thursday that the southern border has become a "major gateway” for Middle Eastern terrorists in a hearing with National Intelligence Director John Negroponte and other top intelligence officials. Feinstein noted that law enforcement officials captured 155,000 non-Mexican illegal aliens in 2005, more...
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January 30, 2006
MEXICO CITY - Mexican federal agents have arrested four Iraqis trying to sneak into the United States without proper documents, the government said Monday. Wasim Francis Schamoun and Ivan Yalda, both 23, and Refon Chlil Oraha and Thaer Salem Yelda, both 27, were found on a bus in the northern...
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January 24, 2006
From this: Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas on Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI. Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the...
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January 22, 2006
From this: Court documents in a Brownsville, Texas drug-smuggling case cite a wiretapped telephone conversation by one of the smugglers who said that "Osama's people" are ready to be transported across the Mexican border into the U.S. The Brownsville Herald reported earlier this week ["Infiltration from the south feared"]: "[Paperwork...
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December 14, 2005
From this: Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) today revealed figures which show that since October, 2004, 51 persons who have crossed into the U.S. illegally were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The figures, part of a Department of Homeland Security response to a inquiry by the Congressman, document the national security...
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November 22, 2005
From 11/20/05: An al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist watch list was recently captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said on Friday. "A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster...
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November 17, 2005
Maybe Rep. Sue Myrick was partly right: "Lawmaker: Terror war spilling across border"....
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November 16, 2005
Last week, North Carolina Rep. Sue Myrick made a shocking aside when speaking about a bill she sponsored: "Al-Qaida ops busted at Mexican border?" Needless to say, none of the reporters there at the time followed up. Now, comes this: Trouble is, Myrick's claim -- that three al-Qaida members were...
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November 11, 2005
The Charlotte Observer recently published the following quote from U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) concerning a bill to prevent illegal aliens from getting driver's licenses in her state: "This isn't aimed at any one race," said Sue Myrick, who is being mentioned as a potential candidate for governor of the...
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November 10, 2005
From this: [Legal immigrant Sam] Malkandi has said that he was approached at Northgate Mall [in Seattle] by an Arabic-speaking stranger named Ahmed Bawarth soon after arriving in Western Washington. The two became friends, Malkandi said, and about a year after they met, Bawarth asked Malkandi to assist him in...
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October 31, 2005
A couple years ago, I visited the White Sands Missile Range museum, right outside the gate of that military base. Obviously, it would be foolish for almost anyone who doesn't belong there to try to sneak onto that secure military facility. "Almost anyone", because dozens of illegal aliens (i.e., citizens...
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October 22, 2005
From the AP: Scores of illegal aliens working as cooks, laborers, janitors, even foreign-language instructors have been seized at military bases around the country in the past year, raising concerns in some quarters about security and troop safety. I don't know exactly how to parse the "some quarters" bit. Shouldn't...
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October 18, 2005
See "Violent gang with Central American roots expands deep into U.S." for the scoop. See "Can you trust the Las Vegas Sun?" for more on that paper....
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October 14, 2005
Back in May 2004 I posted "[Navy] Base security scrutinized over illegal-immigrant workers" about one Miguel Ramos-Amaya. He was accused of importing illegal aliens - including MS-13 gang members - to work on the Navy base in Norfolk, VA. As in, the United States Navy, the one with those ships...
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October 06, 2005
From "Language teachers arrested at U.S. military base": Two Indonesians and a Senegalese who worked as foreign language instructors for elite U.S. special operations troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, have been arrested on immigration charges, authorities said on Wednesday. The Army said the three worked at the John F....
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September 16, 2005
Three kind-hearted undocumented friends from Vicente's country were stopped from entering a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT in Nebraska. It's bad enough when good-hearted folks end up workin' at Navy bases, but when they work at something that could lead to a "China syndrome", perhaps even our "American" president might consider waking...
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Mahmoud Maawad has been in the U.S. for six years, working for cash at a convenience store. He's undocumented. And, he's a student at the University of Memphis. With that information, both George Bush and Nina Bernstein would probably start feeling their compassion welling. But, hold off for a second,...
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September 03, 2005
From this: Members of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamist missionary group that the United States accuses of links to Al-Qaeda, are in Argentina with the possible aim of recruiting local Muslims for terrorist activities, a newspaper has said. Citing sources in the intelligence community and the foreign ministry, the La Nacion...
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September 01, 2005
The Bush administration has ordered the Border Patrol to move some personnel and equipment from the border to deal with Katrina, NewsMax reports: ...According to [the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency], however, plenty of its scarce resources are now committed to rescue and law enforcement support in the multi-state...
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August 30, 2005
The CIS has released a new study written by Janice Kephart, former counsel for the 9/11 commission: "Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff report on Terrorist Travel". From the AP report "Study: Terrorists Exploit Immigration Laws": Suspected or convicted foreign-born terrorists have routinely exploited federal immigration laws over the last decade...
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In fiscal year 2004, 1483 Chinese (as in Red China) nationals were detained by the Border Patrol... just in the Rio Grande Valley sector. The report doesn't mention the numbers for other sectors in Texas, only saying that it's small. And, it doesn't mention the figures for other states. But,...
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August 23, 2005
From "Texas sheriffs seek aid fighting illegals": County governments in Texas, overwhelmed by a flood of illegal aliens and rapidly increasing border violence, want the federal government to come up with $10 million to help them pay for manpower increases, rising fuel bills and much-needed vehicles and equipment. Zapata County...
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From "Kilgore sticking to gang concern": Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jerry W. Kilgore yesterday said law-enforcement officers would be foolish to assume that there is no link between the al Qaeda terrorist network and the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha. "MS-13 is the most violent street gang around, and Homeland Security has...
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August 19, 2005
From this: An anonymous tip triggered an investigation of undocumented workers at Camp Lejeune, resulting in 40 people being detained and a federal investigation, a base spokesman said. Camp Lejeune officials detained 27 people at base gates during security checks Wednesday and another 12 at various construction sites Monday... Details...
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August 15, 2005
Leo Banks offers a long article about ranchers directly on the border entitled "Images From the Battleground". It includes this: The Border Patrol doesn't release a by-nation breakdown of those it arrests, and the agency is particularly tight-lipped about arrests of special interest aliens, known as SIAs. These are individuals...
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July 28, 2005
Like Los Angeles, New York, (reportedly) Denver, and several other major cities (and terrorist targets) Houston has a sanctuary policy that prevents their cops from asking about someone's immigration status. HPD Captain Bruce Williams explains how this works: "If the citizen can come to us and know that we're going...
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July 26, 2005
From this: FBI and law enforcement officials told ABC News the five men — four illegal immigrants and one law enforcement fugitive — were arrested Sunday night following a tip to the Newark Police Department. In addition to the subway maps and video, the men had train schedules and $8,000...
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July 18, 2005
Knight-Ridder outlines a somewhat fantastic plot involving Los Zetas and a Mexico-based Arab people smuggler joining forces: "FBI bulletin outlines possible terrorist plot at Texas border". The Arab will get to smuggle explosives in trucks into the U.S.; the Zetas will get help freeing a cartel leader. However, this information...
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July 16, 2005
Forty or so illegal aliens were recently arrested in a sting at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina. Previous coverage starts in "Why the left is untrustworthy and weak on national security, Part #43823294". Now, to drive that point home, comes the NYT with "Immigration Sting Puts 2...
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From "Former FBI Official: Canada's Immigration Laws Too Lenient": A former FBI official who currently specializes in international terrorism, counterintelligence, and foreign counterintelligence is warning that Canadian immigration laws are too lenient and make Canada a perfect destination for would-be terrorists. Speaking at the 15th World Terrorist and Disaster Management...
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July 14, 2005
The AP has the scoop: Illegal immigration is contributing to a growth in gang activity in north Georgia, U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said Wednesday after a law enforcement summit addressing the problem. Nahmias, federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Georgia, said the past few years have seen a "serious...
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July 03, 2005
The AP has a long report on Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican-Lebanese people smuggler: ...A report released by the Sept. 11 commission staff last year examining how terrorists travel the world cited Boughader as the only "human smuggler with suspected links to terrorists" convicted to date in the United States....
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June 13, 2005
FWIW, see "Mexico's blind eye to al-Qaida activity. Intel sources see porous border posing major terror threat to U.S.": ...Gen. Jorge Serrano, the head of the Attorney General Office's special terrorism investigation unit, says no Muslim terrorists have been found living in Mexico. Yet intelligence sources in the U.S. and...
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In something that apparently hasn't been covered by the U.S. press, American and Mexican legislators met in Rhode Island over the weekend to discuss issues of importance to the two countries. Similar annual meetings have been occuring for decades, and this year's event was apparently focusing on immigration matters. Details...
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June 04, 2005
26 employees of a subcontractor of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Operations in Pascagoula, MS have been arrested for working illegally in the U.S., falsely claiming to be U.S. citizens, and other violations. NGSS builds and repairs commercial ships as well as military vessels for the U.S. and other countries. The...
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June 03, 2005
It's not difficult to find MSM propaganda supporting massive illegal immigration. What's harder to come by is MSM articles discussing such issues as whether the presence of millions of citizens of other countries in our country poses a danger as regards civil insurrection. However, the OC Register offers us an...
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May 27, 2005
From this: Goliad County wrote a new chapter Tuesday in its ongoing dealings with human smuggling. Sheriff Robert DeLaGarza said more than a dozen Asians who appear to be illegal immigrants were caught traveling through south Goliad County by a deputy patrolling an area north of Sarco. DeLaGarza said the...
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May 23, 2005
"OTM" means "other than Mexican", and refers to Central Americans, South Americans, Middle Easterners, North Koreans, etc. who are caught sneaking over our southern border. The article "Officials: OTMs 'a very grave problem'" states that many crossers choose Texas as the place to cross because they know they won't be...
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From "ICE arrests 60 illegals working in sensitive areas": U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested 60 illegal aliens working as contract employees at a dozen critical infrastructure sites nationwide, including seven petrochemical refineries, three power plants, a national air cargo facility and a pipeline company. There was...
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May 19, 2005
No, really. From "N.C. airport workers arrested on alleged immigration violations": Nine workers who service U.S. Navy planes at a Winston-Salem airport were arrested Tuesday on alleged immigration violations... The "Operation Shield America" raid at Smith-Reynolds Airport is aimed at finding illegal aliens doing work for the Pentagon. Reports also...
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April 14, 2005
According to the DHS, out of 167 employees of a naval contractor, 86 are illegal aliens. The aliens painted Navy ships at the Naval Station San Diego and, of course, had some degree of access to the base and its 50+ ships. You know, those ships we use in battles...
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The AP has a roundup of recent cases where illegal aliens were found to be working in sensitive facilities, including a nuclear power plant and as an airline mechanic. Surprisingly, the same AP headline is used in all of the dozens of newspapers that published the report. Story here or...
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April 08, 2005
FP: Street gangs are proliferating around the world. The United States has unwittingly spurred this phenomenon by deporting tens of thousands of immigrants with criminal records each year. But that only partly explains how gangs went global. Credit also goes to the Internet, where gangs are staking out turf and...
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March 16, 2005
FoxNews is running a five-part series on the possible terrorism-related implications of our lax border policy. I haven't seen the video, but the report includes the following: "These people that are coming up here, including the undocumented, are good people that are enriching our lives. We do need them," said...
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March 14, 2005
Via Drudge comes this WashTimes report: Illegal aliens using false Social Security numbers were able to enter and work as contract painters at a power plant in Florida, including work near one nuclear reactor. Officials at Progress Energy, which runs the Crystal River Energy Complex in Citrus County, say they...
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March 08, 2005
The article "U.S.: Russia trained Greenfield man to spy" has a great deal of info on his background: A Greenfield truck driver accused of offering to sell the names of U.S. intelligence agents to the Iraqi government received espionage training in Russia about 30 years ago, authorities say. Court documents...
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FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed before Congress today what has long been known: that aliens from terrorist-sponsoring countries have come over the Mexican border. Story: "FBI warns of 'special interest' aliens" Note that he drew the distinction between terrorists and those just from countries that sponsor terrorism; he said he...
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March 07, 2005
FPM has a roundup. It mentions Adm. James Loy's testimony, Rep. Solomon Ortiz' efforts, loose nukes, possible ties between gangs and terrorists, the Minuteman project, Rep. James Sensenbrenner's efforts, and these bits I wasn't familiar with: ...A bill has been introduced in Texas legislature to allow fingerprinting at hospitals in...
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March 06, 2005
The Sierra Vista Herald discusses illegal aliens using Fort Huachuca in far southern Arizona as a transit hub in "Lawmakers say they see immigration as an issue for fort, too": State Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said Friday that illegal immigrants being detained on Fort Huachuca...
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March 04, 2005
"Hoosier jailed in Iraq conspiracy" has the details and a timeline. In brief, here's what Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban did or is accused of doing: - went to Iraq and struck a deal with the Iraqi government to get $3 million dollars in exchange for the names of U.S....
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BROWNSVILLE — Non-Mexican immigrants, including those from nations that support terrorism, are abusing the lack of detention space in the Rio Grande Valley to help them illegally stay in the country, according to testimony given Thursday before a congressional judiciary subcommittee. During the Immigration and Border Security subcommittee hearing, witnesses...
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March 02, 2005
Joel Mowbray: In a sign that new Secretary of State Condi Rice is not yet ready to close the open-door visa policy for Saudis, consular chief Maura Harty was recently asked to say on indefinitely... A controversial nominee to the post two and a half years ago, Ms. Harty swayed...
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March 01, 2005
Arrested yard workers identified: Workers for a Northrop Grumman Newport News subcontractor face immigration charges. The two employees of a Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard subcontractor who were arrested Friday were identified today as Sang Han Yang and Sang Bok Lee... The shipyard, a sensitive site as the nation's only...
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February 19, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 - ...Intelligence that "strongly suggests" that Al Qaeda operatives have considered using the Mexican border as an entry point was cited in written testimony [before Congress on Wednesday] by Adm. James M. Loy, the deputy secretary of homeland security. But he wrote that there was "currently no...
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February 10, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) delivered the following remarks during today's news conference on the REAL ID Act: ... "Border agents have reported an increased number of individuals from countries of national security interest -- countries known to harbor terrorists -- who...
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February 07, 2005
"Feared Latin gang touches region". The region in question is Miami, and the gang in question is the one featured in "Eastie [Boston] gang linked to al-Qaeda" and mentioned in "Unholy Border Alliance", "Al-Qaida recruiting Central American gang members?", "And all the ships in drydock" (gang members working on Navy...
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From this: Fifteen presumed North Korean defectors who had settled in South Korea were arrested for trying to sneak into the U.S. The Los Angeles-based Association of People From Five Northern Provinces said on Sunday it learned that 15 North Koreans were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol as they tried...
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Here are some fun facts about the base outside Sierra Vista in far southern Arizona: It's home to the U.S. Army Intelligence Center It's home to the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command It's the nation's critical testing ground for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) In the past nine months, 2000...
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February 06, 2005
[Cross-posted to the Command-Post and the-lonewacko-blog.redstate.org/story/2005/2/7/15523/85908] SACRAMENTO -- The terrorist believed to have flown a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, obtained a California driver's license without providing the required Social Security number for identification, officials are acknowledging for the first time. Nawaf Alhazmi then used that...
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January 25, 2005
SDUT: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico, Islam has joined a battle for the hearts and minds of Mexico's volatile Tzotzil Indians in Chiapas state, home of Zapatista rebels and a hotbed of sectarian strife between Christians. In an unlikely meeting of two worlds, an idealistic Muslim sect has...
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January 19, 2005
Drudge is linking to this Boston Herald report. It sounds a bit questionable, but then again see the other entries in this category for examples of border infiltrations by potential terrorists. From the article: Federal and state authorities are investigating a nuclear terrorist threat against Boston after a man calling...
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January 05, 2005
Drudge is linking to this Boston Globe article: A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to ``turn up the heat'' on its members, the Herald has learned... ...In recent months, intelligence officials...
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AP: An employment agency pleaded guilty to falsifying forms to get illegal immigrants jobs at the nation's top producer of U.S. military battlefield rations. James Echensberger, vice president of San Antonio-based Tollin Group Inc., on Tuesday pleaded guilty on the company's behalf to one count of conspiracy to provide false...
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January 04, 2005
FPM: Roughly 60,000 illegal immigrants designated as 'other-than-Mexican,' or OTMs, were detained last year along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a sizable number from Arab and Muslim countries. And if recent reports are any indication, they may be getting some troubling new help in their efforts to enter the United States....
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December 16, 2004
From Tucson's KVOA: In August, The Investigators on Eyewitness News 4 first reported the possible threat of terrorists using the Arizona/Mexico border to cross into the U.S... Now, we've uncovered even more evidence that the threat along our border is real. "The story you did was 100% accurate. It showed...
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December 09, 2004
(12-08) 21:10 PST HOUSTON (AP) -- A South African woman whose arrest heightened fears that terrorists were slipping across the U.S.-Mexico border has been sentenced to time served and will be deported. Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed, sentenced Tuesday, had been in custody since July 19, when Border Patrol officers at...
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December 07, 2004
From the transcript of Lou Dobbs' 11/16 show: DOBBS: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning of the threat of terrorists entering this country through the same routes as those used by illegal aliens. Secretary Rumsfeld, traveling in South America, warned that enemies look for weaknesses and take advantage of them....
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December 03, 2004
From this: Four employees of a San Diego military contractor were apprehended by immigration authorities yesterday morning at work after federal agents determined them to be undocumented immigrants. The four men, all Mexican nationals, worked for Marine & Restaurant Fabricators, a company that installs aluminum and fabric in commercial restaurant...
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November 10, 2004
Chuck Henry - yes, Chuck Henry - reports for KNBC. Apparently the video of the story is available at the link: DOUGLAS, Ariz. -- It's no secret that people sneak into the United States from Mexico every day. But what has been kept under wraps is exactly who is coming...
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October 27, 2004
From the AP: It's a U.S. Homeland Security Department nightmare, and Honduras' most outspoken Cabinet member says it's happening: Al-Qaida operatives recruiting Central American gang members... to carry out regional attacks and slip terrorists into the United States... [...some are skeptical...] ...A spokesman for Mexico's National Immigration Institute said officials...
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FYI: The Federal Government calls on El Paso Police to help keep the country safe during the election and through early 2005. Beginning Wednesday, off-duty El Paso Police Officers will patrol potential terrorist sites around the clock. The US Department of Homeland security has given the El Paso Police Department...
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October 21, 2004
CHICAGO (AP) -- Six men of Middle Eastern descent from the Chicago area were charged with helping illegal immigrants trying to conceal their legal status obtain fraudulent Social Security cards and Illinois driver's licenses, prosecutors said. Hundreds of people used addresses associated with the defendants to secure the fake documents,...
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October 14, 2004
From this: A senior al-Qaida operative lived in New Jersey and posed as a student to disguise his surveillance of financial institutions as possible terror targets, officials said Wednesday. The FBI's top agent in New Jersey, Joseph Billy Jr., confirmed that the operative led an al-Qaida mission to survey the...
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October 12, 2004
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...
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October 08, 2004
From the AP: Terrorists might try to use existing criminal networks on the border to slip operatives into the United States, but so far there is no evidence any have tried to do so, a high-ranking U.S. official told The Associated Press. The comments by Michael Garcia, assistant secretary of...
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October 04, 2004
Relax! They're just here to poison the MREs Americans won't poison: U.S. officials are probing the possibility the al-Qaida terrorist network sought to infiltrate a Texas company in order to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military. A high-ranking al-Qaida operative provided information leading authorities to nearly a dozen illegal...
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(Washington, D.C.October 4, 2004) In last week's debate with John Kerry, President Bush said he will never subordinate U.S. national security decision-making to international pressure. Instead, he apparently has his own litmus test for deciding what is needed to protect homeland security. Sadly, the President is again unwilling to take...
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September 30, 2004
From this: Federal authorities have taken 41 suspected illegal immigrants into custody after they were found working at a Department of Defense contractor at the Port of Brownsville. Luisa Aquino, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said today that the Wednesday raid came after an investigation found AMFELS...
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September 28, 2004
From the AP: NOGALES, Ariz. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says he's seen no sign of terrorist efforts to cross the U-S-Mexico border. Speaking in Nogales, Arizona, yesterday, Ridge said the United States is not going to start militarizing the border. Ridge says nothing from intelligence reports has suggested that...
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September 27, 2004
From this: A South African woman whose arrest raised fears of terrorists crossing into Texas from Mexico pleaded guilty today to illegal entry, lying to a federal agent and using an altered passport... Despite the alarm expressed by several officials, the U.S. Attorney's Office found no reason to handle the...
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September 23, 2004
From the Hampton Roads Pilot Online article "Shipyards, military bases face security breaches": A Mexican worker used forged documents to obtain work in Hampton Roads and was caught. Normally, such an arrest wouldnt warrant headlines. But when the illegal immigrant is cuffed on the deck of a Navy amphibious assault...
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September 22, 2004
From this: The government has no idea how many of the thousands of illegal aliens from terrorist-sponsoring states it has caught at the U.S. border and released back onto America's streets were terrorists or had ties to terror groups. ...more than 4,000 people from countries identified by the State Department...
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September 17, 2004
From WND: Al-Qaida plans to use Mexico as a key infiltration route for sending operatives into the United States, according to a Mexican newspaper. Mexican intelligence agencies have identified at least two routes for al-Qaida infiltration, the Proceso newspaper reported last week... Two of three suspected al-Qaida terrorists recently arrested...
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Athens, Texas is a no doubt quaint small town 75 miles southeast of Dallas: Athens Police contacted the FBI office in Tyler Tuesday after a routine traffic stop led to a national security concern. In the course of the stop, several forms of identification for the same individual were discovered......
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September 15, 2004
From FAIR: Responding to the 222-177 vote by the House of Representatives last night, adopting an amendment introduced by Representatives Michael Oxley (R-OH) and Barney Frank (D-MA), allowing banks and other financial institutions to accept the Mexican matricula consular document in lieu of valid U.S.-issued documents, FAIR issued the following...
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The L.A. Times offers a round-up of stories about terrorists coming from either Canada or Mexico. According to "U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials" there has been a "security crackdown in recent months as well as new levels of official cross-border cooperation." As with other stories in which U.S. officials...
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September 12, 2004
From the AP: The U.S.-Mexico border remains susceptible to terrorist infiltration and needs more investment for homeland security, a Texas congressman says. U.S. Rep. Jim Turner said he and Rep. Silvestre Reyes want to create a $1 billion infrastructure investment fund aimed at closing the security gaps and bolstering the...
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September 09, 2004
Tucson Weekly has a long, interesting article about the situation down at the border. It offers a round-up of the chatter about al Qaeda infiltrating the U.S. There's too much to quote, so here it is....
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September 08, 2004
From the AP: Three Sterling Heights, Mich., residents have been charged with operating a smuggling ring that transported more than 200 illegal aliens from the Middle East to the United States from 2001 on. Those charged include Detroit Assistant Ombudsman Basima Sesi. [...those transported were Jordanians and Iraqis... they were...
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September 01, 2004
Rest easy, citizen: The Mexican border is secure, despite the hundreds of thousands who continue to cross illegally and a Sept. 11 commission warning that terrorists could be among them, the nation's top Border Patrol agent said yesterday... See also "Illegals from terrorist nations are crossing the border into Arizona",...
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August 26, 2004
From Knight-Ridder: There's a growing sense of urgency among those who police America's long, porous borders that tighter control is needed to prevent terrorists from slipping into the flood of illegal immigrants entering the United States. The Sept. 11 Commission found that the nation's borders are largely unprotected and recommended...
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August 25, 2004
This is about a month old, but I apparently didn't provide a link to it at the time: Releasing undocumented immigrants to roam freely in the U.S. is "a terrible policy," U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla told Del Rio [Texas, right on the border in the middle of nothing] and Eagle...
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August 23, 2004
Below are some excerpts from Chapter 3: Terrorist Entry and Embedding Tactics, 1993 to 2001. That chapter describes the various techniques used by terrorists to travel not just between foreign countries, but to enter and remain in the U.S. It provides several examples of the different ways that terrorists have...
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From the LAT: All of the Sept. 11 hijackers broke U.S. immigration laws and some of those violations could have led to their detection and arrest, according to a new staff report from the bipartisan commission that investigated the attacks. The detectable violations included fraudulent passports presented by as many...
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August 21, 2004
This AP report mainly focuses on the possibility of AQ conducting attacks in Latin America, but it does mention a few U.S.-specific items: Governments throughout Mexico and Central America are on alert as evidence grows that al-Qaida members are traveling in the region and looking for recruits to carry out...
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According to FoxNews: The FBI has received information that U.S. Armed Forces recruiting facilities could potentially be the target of a terrorist attack, sources familiar with the threat told FOX News Friday. However, the threat information is uncorroborated and unsubstantiated, one law enforcement official warned... What they didn't mention is...
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August 17, 2004
The long, footnoted article "The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation's Security After 9/11" shows the ties between various Open Borders groups. The article came out in January 2004 and, while I might have linked to it before, a second link won't do any harm. If you want to know...
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August 15, 2004
Tucson TV station KVOA reports: Tom McNamara and the Eyewitness News 4 Investigators have spent the last three months talking to experts and eyewitnesses... And in just one hour, during this stake-out along the border between Douglas and Bisbee, The Investigators count 198 illegals in five different groups crossing into...
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August 13, 2004
And, what countries are they coming from? While that can't be determined, we can look at who gets caught. Based on the (uncorroborated) FY2003 information here, this is a breakdown by region of those who were caught trying to cross illegally from Mexico: <500 from Caribbean countries <100 from smaller...
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August 10, 2004
Splashed in 48 point font on Drudge, comes the New York Times article "U.S. to Give Border Patrol New Powers to Deport Illegal Aliens": Citing concerns about terrorists crossing the nation's land borders, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it planned to give border patrol agents sweeping new...
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August 07, 2004
From the Houston Chronicle: September 11 Commission member John Lehman Thursday criticized so-called "sanctuary" practices in Houston and elsewhere that restrict cooperation between local police and federal immigration officials as an invitation to terrorists looking to enter the United States. "It is ridiculous that five cities in the United States...
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August 06, 2004
An update on the woman with the South African passport and the suspected terrorism ties who was caught after having successfully entered the U.S. illegally: WESLACO, Texas -- For the first time since the arrest of a woman carrying a South African passport on immigration charges in McAllen, the FBI...
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July 30, 2004
A national source finally picks up on the story: The U.S. government has become increasingly concerned that al Qaeda might try to exploit security gaps at the nation's borders, especially the Mexican border, ABC News has learned. Concerns about border security were highlighted on July 19, when officials at McAllen-Miller...
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July 28, 2004
From the 7/23/04 Brownsville TX Herald: Middle Easterners with possible terrorist ties have been detained after entering the country from Mexico but released for lack of jail space, said U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness. It is true. It is...
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July 27, 2004
There's a minor update to the previous post "Woman With Possible Terror Ties Arrested" [smuggled in from Mexico]. From the AP: U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz of Corpus Christi, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, said "very credible" people told him Ahmed has traveled within the...
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July 26, 2004
Here are a few excerpts that mention immigration, borders, or visas: Page 213 Between late March and September 2001, the Intelligence Community identified numerous signs of an impending terrorist attack, some of which pointed specifically to the United States as a target: ...In May, the Intelligence Community obtained a report...
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July 23, 2004
I almost put this into the WackyHumor category because of the last bit, but this is indeed a serious demonstration of how our lack of border enforcement could lead to tragedy: A border watch group claims it successfully sneaked into the United States carrying a fake weapon of mass destruction....
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According to Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough: U.S. border agents since October have picked up five Arabs trying to cross into the United States illegally from Mexico, according to U.S. officials. The arrests are raising new concerns that al Qaeda terrorists are trying to enter the country from Mexico. However,...
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From KRGV (near Brownsville,TX): Federal agents believe a South African woman they have in custody may have ties to terrorists. Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed was taken into custody Monday when she tried to board a plane at McAllen Miller International Airport. The Federal Bureau of Investigation would not release any...
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July 16, 2004
Al Qaeda-related terrorists are coming to the U.S. over the Mexican border disguised as Mexicans, Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) has disclosed. The terrorists are adopting Hispanic names and blending in with the hundreds or thousands of illegal aliens who enter the U.S. via Mexico each day. Culberson made this statement...
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May 05, 2004
Illegal aliens have not only worked at Norfolk Naval Station (the world's largest naval base), some of them appear to be members of a violent Salvadoran gang: Federal authorities said Monday that they are investigating whether local construction companies bribed Norfolk Naval Station security officials to allow illegal immigrants and...
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April 17, 2004
The NYT article "9/11 Panel Calls Policies on Immigration Ineffective" discusses the immigration programs which were presumably put in place after the 9/11 attacks. It does have a dissenting comment from a former administration counsel. I don't have enough knowledge of these programs to comment, however my thoughts at the...
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April 08, 2004
From 'Navy contractor workers arrested for immigration violations': "Thirty-one employees of a Navy contractor who have access to military installations and vessels were arrested Thursday on immigration charges, authorities said. The suspects worked in San Diego for Continental Maritime, a unit of Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News division. They worked...
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March 18, 2004
From the NYT comes this weepy, Sally Struthersian article about Muslim immigrants in Spain: 'Deep Unease Over the Future Gnaws at Moroccans in Spain'. They fear they're going to get blamed, etc. etc. All it's missing is a loop of violins. Consider this excerpt: For nearly 800 years, the Moors...
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January 16, 2004
From Steven Emerson (producer of Jihad in America): For years, the Democratic Party, in California and across America, stood for justice and decency and fairness and equality and peace. For years, the Democratic Party embodied principles and beliefs that define America, and led our nation to a better, stronger, freer...
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April 08, 2003
Interesting article about Border Patrol officers being deployed away from the "Cochise Strip" in AZ, leaving it largely unguarded. (Some) of the culprits? Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security....
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March 05, 2003
From this: Four suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico were arrested while working in a restricted area of the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA said Tuesday...The arrests came more than a month after NASA took unprecedented security measures for the launch of space shuttle Columbia,...
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