Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed update. From AP, with thanks to Kemaste:
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 the airport stopped her as she tried to board a plane for New York; she did not have a visa to travel in the United States.The officers later discovered her passport had three pages ripped out of it....
She admitted sneaking into the United States illegally by wading across the Rio Grande.
She pleaded guilty in September to illegal entry, lying to a federal agent and using an altered passport and faced a maximum sentence of about 15 years. Art Moreno, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said she would remain in custody until deportation.
Officials have declined to say why she sneaked into the country and whether she had any ties to terrorist organizations.
Hope this is going to start the ball rolling and many more are going to be shown the door.
A must read.
What part of 'enforcement' don't they understand?
Michelle Malkin
The obtuseness of the open-borders lobby never ceases to amaze. Here we are, three years after the 9/11 hijackers easily exploited lax borders, and the OBL continues to argue that cracking down on illegal immigration and tightening terrorist-friendly loopholes are "anti-immigrant."
Banging. Head. Against. The. Wall.
How do you maintain sanity when wading through the emotional drivel that passes for the OBL's reasoning? Tip: Whenever they say "anti-immigrant," substitute "pro-enforcement." And shout it at the top of your lungs.
Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism. By smearing the overwhelming majority of Americans who support real borders as racists and xenophobes, the OBL obscures its deadly agenda: sabotaging our existing immigration laws and blocking any new efforts to punish those who abuse the system.
Flavia Jimenez of the National Council of La Raza illustrates perfectly this blustering open-borders tactic in a hysterical "action alert" this week titled: "STOP ANTI IMMIGRANT PROVISIONS FROM BECOMING PART OF THE INTELLIGENCE REFORM BILL." La Raza and their fellow travelers argue that tough enforcement measures "needlessly scapegoat all immigrants," are "extraneous" and "harsh," "would not have prevented the terrorist attacks and will not make us safer," and are "non-solutions that will only drive people further underground and cause panic among immigrant communities."
"Extraneous"? These same critics had no problem when a $1 billion illegal alien health care bailout for border hospitals was tacked on to the mammoth Medicare Prescription Drug bill.
"Non-solutions"? The 9/11 commission itself blamed "a lack of well-developed counterterrorism measures as part of border security, and an immigration system not able to deliver on its basic commitments, much less support counterterrorism."
"Anti-immigrant"? If you actually read the immigration enforcement provisions supported by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner and his fellow maverick House Republicans (side note: just once, I'd like to see the mainstream media call a Republican other than John McCain a "maverick"), you will see clearly and unequivocally that these vital measures are anti-terrorist. Anti-criminal. Anti-fraud. And above all, pro-enforcement.
Open-border activists not only oppose the most-publicized provision that would deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens, they also oppose provisions:
-- Adding at least 2,000 new border patrol agents, 800 new interior enforcement investigators, and 150 additional consular officials overseas.
-- Increasing illegal alien detention facility space by 2,500 beds.
-- Expanding the number of foreign airports with counterterrorist passenger prescreening programs.
-- Creating a uniform identity document rule for all aliens present in the United States
-- Toughening criminal penalties for using or trading false identification documents.
-- Reducing bureaucratic delays that allow illegal aliens who obtained fraudulent visas to re-enter or remain in the country even after their visas have been revoked.
-- Creating an information- and intelligence-sharing system at the Department of Homeland Security to track terrorist travel tactics, patterns, trends and practices and disseminate the data to front-line personnel at ports of entry and immigration benefits offices.
-- Making it easier to deport terrorists and alien supporters of terrorism by curbing their avenues for appeal and delay.
-- Speeding up the development of a long-delayed entry-exit system to guard against terrorists slipping through the cracks.
-- Requiring asylum-seekers tied to guerrilla, militant or terrorist organizations, and who claim asylum without submitting corroborating evidence, to provide credible proof of their "persecution."
As usual, mainstream reporting on these specific immigration-related measures at issue has been skimpier than a Bratz doll's wardrobe. That's because so many national editors themselves subscribe to the open-borders gospel. Since 9/11, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have published countless news items and editorials decrying immigration enforcement: sob stories about families caught evading deportation orders; foreign students complaining about new registration requirements violating their "privacy"; Latino activists outraged about border patrol agents doing their jobs; Middle Eastern tourists protesting visa screening measures; and illegal aliens clamoring for protection of their "rights."
Rep. Sensenbrenner and his GOP colleagues face not only the OBL on the left and in the media, but also at the highest echelons of the Bush administration. The mavericks need all the help they can get. Before it's too late, call the White House now and yell: It's the enforcement, stupid!!
And OT, but too good to pass up. Sent to us by Suzi.
Subject: Are we too tough on the French?
Don't know why everyone is being so tough on the French. They are much better allies than realized.
The Israeli's tried to kill Arafat for decades...No luck
The Jordanians tried to kill him in the 1970's...No luck
Lebanese factions tried to kill him in the 1980's...No luck
Two weeks of loving care in Paris...DEAD
Hey Osama, want to see the Eiffel Tower?
So I guess all concerns with Farida Mohammed Mohammed Ahmed have been resolved, eh?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30903-2004Jul31.html
U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz (D-Tex.) also told the Houston Chronicle that "very credible sources" in the federal government had told him the woman was on a government watch list for suspected terrorists and that concerns had been raised because of her frequent worldwide travel.
Well, I still have a few questions I'd like answered...
Maybe she'll be followed by the CIA for a bit.
Thanks susan_b for the article.
Michelle Malkin's a brain (and if I may add, a babe) to boot.
This border laxity will cost us heavy. wonder how many 911s it will take to wake us up to this lurking danger...
Some kinda incentives for mexicans to report OTMs (other than mexicans) or soemthing? Dunno how this can happen.
also, SusanP, could you contact me at susan_b356@yahoo.com?
I have a message/request for you from sonofwalker.
Thanks,
susan_b
And another planned attack in the Netherlands:
RoP Planned Attack on Red Light District
Expatica.com reports that Dutch authorities recently thwarted an Islamic terror attack on Amsterdam’s red light district.
AMSTERDAM — Justice authorities arrested a Moroccan man last month after receiving a tip-off that Islamic extremists were allegedly planning an attack on the Red Light District in Amsterdam, it was reported on Friday.
The pizza-delivery courier allegedly conducted reconnaissance of the capital’s prostitution zone while riding through the area during work hours on his scooter. He was arrested on 5 November. Newspaper De Telegraaf described him as a “radical Moroccan pizza deliverer.”
The National Detectives Unit was alerted to the supposed attack plan by three anonymous emails, the first of which was received on 14 September. Emails dated 27 September and 11 October gave further details of the suspects and addresses.
The emails warned that “terrorists in Amsterdam East” were plotting an attack on the Wallen area in Amsterdam, De Telegraaf reported. Muslim extremists, the paper said, were allegedly furious at the lack of morals in the prostitution zone.
Justice authorities took the tips very seriously and arrested the pizza deliverer at the Nasr mosque in the Celebesstraat in Amsterdam East. The man has been identified as a 20-year-old Amsterdam resident of Moroccan descent, Bilal L., alias Abu Qataadah.
L. was allegedly in contact with Syrian Redouan al-Issa, the fugitive leader of the terror network Hofstadgroep (Main City Group). The Syrian was an illegal immigrant in the Netherlands and gave Koran lessons in the home of Mohammed B., the suspected murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. B. is also a member of the Main City Group.
The emails claimed the Syrian was involved in the plans to attack the Red Light District, while another target was the Dutch Parliament in The Hague. L. is alleged to have bought equipment needed to carry out the attack.
This "anti-immigrant" nonsense is like calling anyone who critizises Islam a "racist."
Both appellations are erroneous. One who opposes illegal aliens coming across our (US) borders is not "anti-immigrant" but anti-illegal-aliens entering our (US) country.
Now, I realize that most of these are Mexicans, Central-Americans, and other Latin-Americans seeking work, a better life, and money to send back home. They are still breaking our (US) law. They are lawbreakers who are allowed to get away with their offense.
Our (US) government closes its eyes against this breaking of our laws. This indicates that we can choose which laws we observe and which we ignore.
Separating "illegal aliens" (not "undocumented immigrants," a misnomer if there ever was one) into those seeking work and those seeking to commit terror is most important. This will prevent "pro-immigrant," that is "pro-Mexican-Latino-work-seeking aliens" lawmakers and spokespersons from jumping to the defense of all aliens illegally entering our (US) country.
Whether we want or need the work-seekers is subject for discussion elsewhere. Whether we should allow jihadis to slip in amongst the work-seekers is fit for discussion here.
How to distinguish the work-seekers from the jihadis? Use the work-seekers to point out the jihadis? Hardly. Law enforcement should be the provenance of law-enforcement agencies not of illegal aliens seeking work.
susan_b has posted the Michelle Malkin piece above that gives answers.
If not wanting open borders is being "anti-immigrant"--make that "anti-illegal-alien-border jumpers"--then I am guilty of being that. If resisting Islamic efforts to use our (US) laws and our (US) Constitution against us to make the US into an Islamic country is being "racist*"--make that "anti-Islamic"--then I am also guilty.
*for the umpteenth time, I must repeat that Islam is not a "race" but an ideology that has followers amongst all races.
Actually, I think if she's on a terrorist watch list, they should open a women's section at Gitmo, with this woman as its first inmate.
As for all this noise about laws of war, back in the good war against Fascism, English-speaking German soldiers donned US uniforms to wreak havoc with US communications during the Battle of the Bulge. Not one veteran of that outfit survived, although many were captured--they were summarily shot after quick courts martial.
The goons aren't playing by the rules; neither should we.
Here's a good argument for increasing border security. I had a good laugh when I saw this...
http://www.moses21.freeserve.co.uk/images/types.jpg
Apparently it's not that hard to pass as a friendly Mexican native if you have the right hat!
Between 10/03 and 6/04, over 44,000 non-Mexicans have been caught trying to sneak in here across the Mexican border.
To no surprise, the majority of the 44,000 plus were of Middle Eastern descent.
Were they just coming over to play cards?
I've always felt that there should be a "Map to the Homes of the "open borders" advocates" (kind of like the "map to the homes of the Hollywood stars") so that illegal immigrants could camp out there once they make it across the border.
At the border, flyers with Flavia Jimenez's (and all of her ilk) home address should be handed out with "mi casa es su casa" emblazoned on it.
I've always felt that there should be a "Map to the Homes of the "open borders" advocates" (kind of like the "map to the homes of the Hollywood stars") so that illegal immigrants could camp out there once they make it across the border.
At the border, flyers with Flavia Jimenez's (and all of her ilk) home address should be handed out with "mi casa es su casa" emblazoned on it.
I am happy this illegal 'migrant'sabateur is being deported, though I believe it plausable she was up to no good and her unchallenged presence in the United States might have contributed to an islamist attack of some sort. She correctly belong behind bars for a long time as far as I am cooncerned, but things being as they are, we can be happy she wasn't granted citizenship on the spot.
At LGF I was asked by a long time poster there what I meant by a comment I said about the immigrant plague in California. I clarified my point as follows:
(From LGF thread "Toothless Watchdog Does Tricks For Iran" http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13841#c0131 ).
# 201 Zulubaby
Last evening you queried: “andrew2, what do you mean that LA is in a serious mess? In what way?”
You agreed that gangs are a problem in LA which is what I meant when I stating that parts of LA are "War Zones" in my comments to poster "Alimustafi" (I reject his forgone conclusion that Iranians themselves are misunderstood and ready to embrace America).
But the gang plague already becoming commonplace throughout America is really only one symptom of the serious underlying and obvious cause of the destruction and transformation of America, uncontrolled immigration.
I noticed that you mentioned a more convenient location for your shopping located on Santa Monica and Barrington. I am assuming this is the correct location.
Looking at the map I was intrigued by certain landmarks like the Brentwood Country Club and the VA medical Center, places which indicate Brentwood to be a very nice place to live as indeed the official demographicsall indicate.
But travel only 19 miles east, about a 20 minute ride, and you will notice a Parallel Society ( article, Immigrant Gang Plague) which was the direct result of the open borders policies of the last 30 years. An officially engineered disaster with its roots in the disastrous 1965 Immigration Act .
In essence, Multiculturalism, the Mailed Fist of anti-Racism , as the esteemed Lawrence Auster has put it, has transformed America and threatens to erase our heritage (Mexico comes to California).
The results are that people are Getting Away with Murder in South Central's Killing Zone, a serious problem rapidly spreading across this country. As the historic majority population flees the urban city centers (as are Blacks), the dismantling of American identity under the false doctrines of multiculturalism and political correctness make us helpless to reverse what promises to Americas descent into third Worldism and Balkanization.
I think it fair to ask the question what form the new America will take (Third Worldism?) and will the new stewards of the American nation demonstrate the same temperance and respect for the former majority population once they gain hegemony. That is the great unknown.
Washington Post, The Myth of the Melting Pot
Lawrence Auster
Lawrence Auster observes that the glue holding the notions of American identity together have been reduced to the lowest common denominator, i.e., the survival instinct. Is that what multiculturism has wrought? I dare say yes.
From VFR, http://www.amnation.com/vfr/ Lawrencer Auster,
The reduction of American identity to the lowest (Hobbesian) common denominator
In an article at FrontPage Magazine, David Horowitz argues that if the Democratic party is to play any positive role again in our national politics, the responsible elements in the Democratic party and on the left must expel anti-Americans like Michael Moore and the people at MoveOn.org. His article concludes:
The most important aspect of [Peter] Beinart’s article and its support by The New Republic is that it reminds us that liberals like Beinart and my friend Sherman Alexie, share a common agenda with conservatives when it comes to defending this country and its liberties from the totalitarian enemy. This is the bond that makes us a nation, and it must come before all others in matters of war and peace.
While I of course agree with Horowitz, I can’t help but feel how unutterably sad this is. The bond that joins Americans has been reduced to the willingness to defend the nation from enemies. Not loyalty to the Constitution. Not belief in common ideals and political principles. Not shared habits, a shared ethos, and a shared way of being. Not the mystic chords of memory and a common history. All of that is gone now. All that’s left that defines our common nationality is the absolutely minimal, Hobbesian standard—the shared will to defend ourselves from physical destruction at the hands of mass murdering Islamic fanatics.
This is what liberalism and leftism have reduced America to, by denigrating and devaluing all the common things and allegiances that once made Americans a nation and a people. And conservatives, who believe in national unity, are left with the miserable expedient of appealing for national unity on this radically reduced basis, perhaps not even realizing how much has already been lost.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at 09:30 PM | Comments (0)
and just like that we let her go?? OH! where will she go??
We didn't kill her??
Is this the answer just let them go??
to sneek back in??
The Idea of doing nothing but send them somewhere eles to kill in another spot??
What did our GrandParents do when they found some German Spies?? I remember a history lesson and they didn't let them Go??
THIS PC CRAP WILL KILL YOU!!
GET REAL PEOPLE THIS IS REAL WAR AND OUR ENEMYS WANT US DEAD!!!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage Amen
PS
Remember a Gun in hamd is better than 2 cops on the Phone!!!
Church burned in Iwao??
A peaceful future, promised dreams, war on the battlegrounds defending another nation's freedom while ours slips away. Our nation can be without enemy if it just nukes every other nation. That is not economically productive and will close the whole industry thriving on American people's thirst for security.
Posted by: DCWatson at December 11, 2004 12:13 AM
You forgot to mention that they have been released in to the USA order to come back for court hearngs and how many do you think have come back??
a letter from La Raza just to remind you of who is paying the bills??
Hasta La Victoria Siempre,
Cuauhtli
Minister of Information
Nation of Aztlan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
October 18, 2000
On the Palestinian-Jewish Issue
La Raza's struggle for the land and for political and economic self-determination is not different from the struggle of the Palestinian people in Zionist Israel. We live in Aztlan under Anglo domination as the Palestinians live under Jewish domination. La Raza as well as the Palestinians lost the land through military aggression and both people now live in segregated regions within the larger nation. The Palestinian people as well as La Raza provide the hard labor necessary to prop up the national economies. Both Raza children and Palestinian children are victims of educational discrimination. The Palestinians as well as La Raza are considered people of color. So who should we side with in the present struggle in the Middle East? Will it be with the Jewish Zionists or with Islam? It is no secret that the United States as a whole is siding with the Jews, but should we? It is also no secret that the Jewish Lobby in America now also dominate large parts of the U.S federal government. It is estimated that over 32% of the Clinton Administration is of Jewish descent. Many are top level Federal Officials and includes the Secretary of Defense as well as the Secretary of State. In fact, the Department of State is now pretty much entirely Jewish. Most of the foreign Ambassadors are Jewish. This trend was begun by Henry Kissinger who is a Jew. This is very surprising considering that Jews only make about 2% of the total US population. Making these statements is not anti-semitic. It is stating facts. We do not hate Jews. We respect the contributions that many Jews have made to world culture. However, we reject Zionist racist Jews like the war criminal Ariel Sharon and appeal to all good Jews to do the same.
Israel can now be considered to be the 51st state. U.S. taxpayers are now sending over 8 billion dollars each year in economic and military aid. The sophisticated military weaponry being utilized against defenseless Palestinians are gifts from Uncle Sam. In fact, Israel now has nuclear and biological weapons, thanks to the United States. Why is the US providing so much to Israel? Well the selection of Joseph Lieberman as Vice Presidential running mate for Al Gore should give a clue.
Another clue should be provided by how the Israeli Army atrocities unfolded in the US media. At first, none of the Palestinian children murders were being covered by ABC, NBC or CBS. Not until the French and Italian media started broadcasting pictures of dead Palestinian children was the US media forced to cover some of the Israeli atrocities. Politicians, including Hillary Clinton running for US Senate in New York need a friendly media to be able to win elections.
La Raza is a victim of the same political and economic forces that are oppressing the Palestinian people and other people of color around the world. We must awaken to this fact and understand the hidden strategies and tactics being utilized to subjugate our people in order to devise effective counter-measures to neutralize them.
Tezcatlipoca
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nation of Aztlan
JUST A NOTE FROM SOME ONE??
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind49.html
War on the Home Front
Focused as we are on Fourth Generation war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is easy to forget that the phenomenon is vastly larger than any single war or opponent, even Islam. An article in a local Washington paper, The Journal, reminds us that 4GW is also being fought on American soil, by parties that have nothing to do with the armies of the Prophet.
The article, by staff writer Robert Arkell, was titled "Police: MS-13 threatened Maryland officers:"
The notorious E1 Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has threatened to execute Prince George’s County police officers as tensions continue to escalate between officers and gang members, police said.
MS-13, which stands for Mara Salvatrucha, has increased its presence in Prince George’s County with more than 600 active members…
Some of those MS-13 gang members recently confided to police about carrying out a deadly ambush plan that targeted county police officers…
If members of a gang based on a foreign ethnic identity ambush cops, it is more than a crime: it is an act of war, Fourth Generation war to be precise. Hopefully, it will not happen in Prince George’s County. But it has happened elsewhere in the United States. It is not for nothing that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is a more avid student of 4GW theory than any American military service.
Future historians will find it interesting that at the same time a supposedly conservative President has enmeshed us in Fourth Generation wars abroad, he has opened the flood gates to importing Fourth Generation enemies at home. President Bush’s first act upon reelection was to resurrect his proposal for an amnesty for illegal immigrants. It is a safe bet that MS-13 gang members would be among those who benefit from such an amnesty if Congress were so foolish as to allow it to become law.
As I have said before in these columns, in a Fourth Generation world, invasion by immigration easily can be more dangerous than invasion by a foreign army. At some point, the foreign army will go home. But immigrants stay, and if they do not acculturate, they permanently change the cultural landscape. As the Dutch recently discovered, the changes may go beyond introducing some highly spiced dishes into an otherwise bland cuisine.
If an American President were seriously interested in protecting this country from Fourth Generation threats, aka the "War on Terror," his top priority would be real immigration reform. Real reform means:
• Controlling our borders. Given the magnitude of illegal immigration across our southern frontier, we need to put in place something like the old East-West German border. Anyone trying to cross it unlawfully risks getting shot.
• Immediate deportation of any non-citizen who commits a felony, along with all identifiable family members. That would give immigrant communities an incentive to control their own members who might be criminally inclined. There should be no such things as gangs made up of immigrants.
• A neutral policy of Americanization of all immigrants. As was true for the forefathers of many American citizens, they are welcome to maintain their national language and customs in their homes, but all business in the public square must follow American norms, starting with English-only. Far from hurting immigrants, that policy made it possible for children born in Ukraine ghettoes to join the American middle class.
• Mechanisms to foster Americanization, beginning with the public schools. If we need a model, look at New York City’s superb public schools of 100 years ago.
• Restriction of the rate of immigration so that we do not take in more people than we can Americanize.
These measures, taken together, would do far more to keep Fourth Generation war away from our doorsteps than hundreds of billions of dollars in additional defense spending. If our grandchildren end up cursing us, it will probably be for an open-borders immigration policy that left them a civil war to fight.
December 2, 2004
William Lind
rEMEMBER OUR GRANDPARENTS KILLED THESE MONSTERS WHO WOULD HARM OUR PARENTS TIME TO THAKE OUR LESSONS LEARNED!!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat give the World Strength to Stand and Fight them Amen
"U.S. to deport woman after illegal entry"
Well, not just that woman but her entire family tree I say! Her uncles and cousins and friends and all those helped her get here, sue them and their dog!
Wouldn't that mean that we would have to sue Americans? Yeah, I agree. Let's sue each other. And then go bomb more countries so that we can have more dream seekers to sell widgets to. How far west will the last regufee have to go? It took me 5 years to find a solution for the immigration problem, but I am completely satisfied with the solution I came to rest upon. The solution consists of us Americans to compete and match the poverty levels of these immigrant countries, and then wait till they leave and stop coming in, then reopen walmart and everything will be like good.
sco.
Thank you for your admirable support to the JW cause.
(posted this on this same message mistakenly on another thread)
A very BIG chinese fortune cookie could read:
"He not in control of his 'bodily integrity" is called 'wounded'; he not in control of his nation's borders is considered a low-wage farm employer, political pimp, terrorist enabler, suicidal schmuck, self-loathing guilt-pickled sucker, or landscaper."
You don't know what is coming through your 'skin', the sicker your future will be.
I think even the first single-celled organism had this 'native sense'.
It's needs to be mass-produced, soon.
Reading Mark Twain's INNOCENTS ABROAD is tonic.