"Eastie gang linked to al-Qaeda," from the Boston Herald, with thanks to Kemaste:
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.MS-13, which stands for La Mara Salvatrucha, is an extremely violent organization with roots in El Salvador, and boasts more than 100 ``hardcore members'' in East Boston who are suspected of brutal machete attacks, rapes and home invasions. There are hundreds more MS-13 gangsters in towns along the North Shore, said Boston police Sgt. Detective Joseph Fiandaca, who has investigated the gang since it began tagging buildings in Maverick Square in 1995.
In recent months, intelligence officials in Washington have warned national law enforcement agencies that al-Qaeda terrorists have been spotted with members of MS-13 in El Salvador, prompting concerns the gang may be smuggling Islamic fundamentalist terrorists into the country. Law enforcement officials have long believed that MS-13 controls alien smuggling routes along Mexico.
The warning is being taken seriously in East Boston, where Raed Hijazi, an al-Qaeda operative charged with training the suicide bombers in the attack on the USS Cole, lived and worked, prosecutors have charged.
Also, the commercial jets that hurtled into the World Trade Center towers in New York City were hijacked from Logan International Airport.
``The terrorist aspect, especially when you think in terms of 9/11 and how intent these terrorists are, will turn the heat up on our efforts with MS-13,'' Fiandaca said.
MS-13 members congregate near the Maverick Square train station sporting white and blue bandannas, their skin inked with spider webs and ``laugh now, cry later'' clown faces.
``MS-13 is the most dangerous gang in the area,'' Fiandaca said. ``They are big. They are mobile. Now they have a terrorist connection.''
The theory that Salvadoran criminals manage to smuggle people over the border was bolstered this month when two Boston men described as MS-13 leaders were spotted on the North Shore days before Christmas - a year after they were deported by Boston Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators for gang-related crimes.
Why are the police turning up the heat? That is a Blue State. They will end up protected under multi-culturalism.
Seriously, tho: This was predicted by a number of us months ago. I would not be surprised if this is what the Netherlands were seeing a few years ago.... and Ignoring.
Will the PC crowd (and those Americans who think 'it can't happen here') please wake up.
One of the two men, Elmer ``Tiger'' Tejada, 24, who had been deported after being convicted of a slew of crimes, including attempted murder charges for hurling a machete at Chelsea cops, was busted in Lynn on New Year's Day. Tejada is described as ``an original MS-13 member'' from East Boston, sources said.
remember a gun in hand is better than 2 cops on the phone!!
Time to stop the flood across the border!! the monsters are here and are not just takeing jobs from your children!!
Hope the move went fine!!
Maybe it is time not to turn the other cheek and get a little pissed off!!
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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 Victory to Crush ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
PS
Remember it is the Blue states who will get hit first because they have convinced their people they don't need guns??
and remember that the mussis lie!!
DECEPTION:
Bukhari:V7B67N427 “The Prophet said, ‘If I take an oath and later find something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath.’”
Qur’an 9:3 “Allah and His Messenger dissolve obligations.”
Qur’an 66:1 “Allah has already sanctioned for you the dissolution of your vows.”
Bukhari:V4B52N268 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘War is deceit.’”
Qur’an 4:142 “Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah. He shall retaliate by deceiving them.”
We've begun the long work of starting a committee of fellow jihad watchers on cold threads where we can discuss how to become active in our support os Spencer's lead work. If you're interested in joining our discussionof the Planned Action Co-ordinating Committee, we outlined it on Jan. 2, ""At large in U.S." and we contine today at Jan. 3 "Lasers...."
If you do join us, please pass on our location to others who might be interested.
MS-13 is also active in the Washington DC area.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16487
Excerpt:
"The savage El Salvador-based gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has now penetrated more than a dozen states. In May, a Fairfax, Va., teenager had his fingers chopped off in an MS-13 machete attack. In November, Washington, D.C.-area police received warning that MS-13 is plotting to ambush and kill them when they respond to service calls. Active in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, MS-13 members in America have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, carjackings, extortions and rapes. The gang has also been linked to efforts to help al Qaeda infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico border."
I thought I posted this but now I don't see it. I was wondering why Mr Spencer hadn't yet reported on the death threat that Craig Winn (prophetofdoom.net) received 2 days ago. It looks very serious, giving him until Jan 10 to remove his website. The threat is posted at faithfreedom.org, along with Ali Sina's response. If Mr Spencer has reported this already I must have missed it.
Islamo Fascists and violent street gangs = lethal
mix. When Police aim SHOOT TO KILL!
Caroline,
Obviously I cannot speak for Mr. Spencer.
I am a little suspicious of the death threat to Craig Winn. I have a very, very negative impression of him.
I think a great deal of what he has written in Prophet of Doom is useful, but he doesn't seem to be much of a thinker. Conseqently, he makes fundamental mistakes such as confusing the concept of heaven with heaven as another expression for the sky.
He seems to me to be a huckster. His business ventures were laughable, although many people invested in them in the heady days of the internet. He goes on 700 Club trumpeting that his companies: "Dynasty Classics, first year sales - $30 million; & Value America, the 2nd largest internet company whose worth peaked at $3 billion at one time" not bothering to mention that those companies eventually had to file for bankruptcy. Businessweek had two good articles on him, one in his heyday and one about his life after the bubble burst (The rise and fall of a dot-com).
It is not the bankruptcy alone that gets me about him, but his serene indifference. I know that people sometimes fail, but I think he has a titanium clad ego that completely envelopes him and prevents him from any self-criticism.
I laughed outloud when someone forwarded me a copy of the email with the death threats to Winn. I noticed about five cc's to various divisions of Fox News. And saying that people's lives depend on whether or not they read Prophet of Doom! Come on! My impression is that Craig Winn is a publicity hound and not someone to be taken very seriously.
Not to put to fine a point on it: I doubt his veracity, and I doubt that there is much merit to the death threat.
p.s. no media outlet has considered the threat worthy of coverage, so draw your own conclusions...
Miss Moneypenney-
Then what is your opinion of Ali Sina - who runs faithfreedom.org - and has posted the threat and a reply at his website?
I see that they would want the web page down look what they did to Van Gogh and what he did was nothing to what Creig has done to expose the Mulsum BOOK!!
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DEATH THREATS TO MR. WINN: Congratulations on your nomination.
Have'nt the "Moderate" muslims threatened all of us with death?
Those cunning devils will do anything to instill fear in the hearts of children(LOL).They intend to either convert us all,serve in Dihmi-Tude, or kill us the choice is certainly simple and you dont have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out,A)convert to islam B)serve in dihmi-tude C)die.
Dont know about you but my choice is (C) so I'll be livin like I'm choosing.
I used to like to say"I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6" but some how I became confused by a high profile case out of Ca. where as the defendant's jury turned out to be 14..........
So any how it is better to be judged by 14 than to be carried by 3
AMYISRAEL CHAI
Ali Sina seems fine to me. It is just Craig Winn who really raises my hackles. Again, I am only speaking of my impressions of Winn. When I read some of his own comments(as opposed to his quotations) I just cringe.
He may be receiving death threats, of course. When I think about islamofascist nutjobs, I realize that death threats are not at all out of character for them. It's just that being a major spotlight hog is not at all out of character for Craig Winn, either. He got a lot of attention as the head of Value America, and I think it gave him delusions of grandeur. What can I say? The man really rubs me the wrong way.
I immediately regretted posting because I imagine the thread will now become all about Craig Winn.
I’ve read the posts asking for Jihadwatch readers to provide ideas for what we might do to help spread the word. From what I’ve seen so far, there are some great ideas and you have my complete support. I would suggest though that we’d be remiss in our efforts if first we didn’t recognize and show our tangible support and appreciation to Robert and Hugh for running the Jihadwatch site. They’re providing a great service and doing outstanding work--I think we should do what we can to help them continue that work.
With that said, I’M CHALLENGING ALL JIHADWATCH READERS TO DONATE $100.00 (OR WHATEVER YOU CAN) TO JIHADWATCH.ORG AND TO SEND AT LEAST ONE OF ROBERT’S BOOKS TO SOMEONE (FRIEND, FOE, FAMILY, POLITICIAN, ETC.).
There’s a donation link in the left column on the home page and a link at the top of the page for purchasing books.
Any takers?
I encourage any armed American citizen who experiences crazed machete swinging foreigners inside the United States running toward them in a threatening manner to please draw your weapons and leave them dead,leaking massive amounts of blood into the streets. Blast them in the teeth.
If you're not armed, please become armed.
Sorry to sound so cold-hearted, but this has gone on long enough.
DC
Not only Arm yourself it is the Duty of Every American to do so!!
Learn how to shot reload and clean your Gun!!
And it is the Right of Every American To Life, Liberty,and the pursuit of happiness !! This means you have the right of self defence!!
Help other Expose the Invasion of America??
http://www.Minutemanproject.com/
THE U.S. WANTS
YOU!
THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT
UPDATE
14 December 2004
[PLEASE FORWARD]
Dear Americans,
The MinuteMan Project currently has 145 volunteers from the following 26 states:
Alabama 1; Arkansas 2; Arizona 53**; California 37; Colorado 3; Florida 2; Illinois 3; Iowa 3; Kansas 2; Massachusetts 2; Missouri 2; NewJersey 2; Nebraska 1; New Mexico 5; New York 3; North Carolina 4; Ohio 3; Oklahoma 2; Oregon 3; South Carolina 1; Tennessee 1; Texas 5; Utah 1; Virginia 2; Wisconsin 1; Wyoming 1; [plus 1 from Canada] ** Arizona includes 6 pilots with 6 aircraft.
If YOU, or someone you know, would like to participate in The Minuteman Project, please read the recruiting poster below and respond accordingly.
* * * * * *
To Citizens of the Republic of the United States of America:
Are YOU interested in spending up to 30 days along the Arizona border as part of a blocking force against entry into the U.S. by illegal aliens early next spring?
I invite you to join me in Tombstone, Arizona from APRIL 1 - 30, 2005 to protect our country from a 40-year-long invasion across our southern border with Mexico.
Chris Simcox of Civil Homeland Defense, and the publisher of the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper in Tombstone, Arizona has helped protect our borders for five years with only a handful of patriotic volunteers. It is time we provided him with reinforcements.
I am recruiting volunteers to converge on the southern border of Arizona for the purpose of aiding the U.S. Border Patrol in "spotting" intruders entering the U.S. illegally.
This is strictly a volunteer project. No financial subsidies are available. And, you will probably need a tent, sleeping bag etc. You will be responsible for all costs associated with your participation.
Currently, about 5,000 "unapprehended" illegal aliens trespass the Arizona/Mexico border DAILY. Another 5,000 invade the U.S. from the Texas, California and New Mexico borders...DAILY. That's 10,000 per day - 300,000 per month. Over 3,000,000 (three million) per year!
Our objective will be to spot these intruders with the aid of binoculars - telescopes - night vision scopes, and inform the U.S. Border Patrol of the location of the trespassers so that border patrol agents can intercept and detain them. Generally, we will not be confronting the illegal aliens. The tentative area of observation will be a 30-mile stretch of forested highlands, and lowlands along the San Pedro River.
I hope to bring serious media and political attention to this event. It will tune the American people into the shameful fact that 21st century minutemen/women have to help secure US borders because the US government REFUSES to provide our dutiful U.S. Border Patrol and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with the manpower and funding required to do so.
I estimate the cost per person (for 30 days) could be as high as $3,500, depending on your travel, meal and lodging arrangements. I intend to stay the entire 30 days of this mission, however, that length of time is not a requirement to volunteer.
The Tombstone area offers some interesting hunting, hiking, camping, horse riding and mountain climbing opportunities for avid outdoorsmen/women.
If YOU are interested in participating in this unprecedented event, please contact me via email at:
century21minuteman@sbcglobal.net [ all lower case ]
or visit the website: www.minutemanproject.com
Please provide a brief history of yourself. For example, your vocation, any military background, outdoors (outback) experience, etc. There are no prerequisites for joining this mission, however, I would like to know something about the experiences of those responding to this invitation.
The Minuteman Project welcomes participants regardless of gender, race, color, creed, age, or physical disability. An enthusiastic invitation is extended to current and former members of any law enforcement organization, or military veterans with reconnaisance (LRRP) or intelligence gathering experience.
Please INCLUDE the following information in your email response:
1. Name
2. Address
3. Telephone number and best time to call
4. Brief statement why you want to participate in this project
5. Brief account of any similar experiences related to the mission of The MinuteMan Project.
6. Amount of time (1 - 30 days) you desire to participate.
7. Any ailments or physical disabilities that might limit the "type" of participation, i.e., limited to deskwork only, confined to a wheel chair, etc.
8. Any foreign language(s) in which you communicate with reasonable fluency.
The following information is requested for statistical purposes ONLY:
9. Your nationality/heritage: i.e., Cuban, English, African, Chinese, German, Italian, etc.
10. Most recent profession
11. For Legal immigrants only: Source country and year of immigration to USA.
D-DAY
1 APRIL 2005
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Cheers,
An American Without A Country
James W. Gilchrist,
BAJ, BSBA, MBA (Taxation), CPA (Ca.) - retired
Aliso Viejo, California
Educate the Public. Please add to your emails:
"Government must defend us against INVASION by others"
-U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"It is a sad day in America when the law-makers side with the law-breakers against the law-abiding citizens." -Ezola Foster
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds, however, the timid join him...for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -Mark Twain
"While we slept, the United States was stolen." - author unknown
"At the current rate of invasion the United States will be completely over run with ILLEGAL aliens by the year 2025...only 21 years away. ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the U.S. and will have made such inroads into the political and social systems that they will have more influence than the U.S. Constitution over how the U.S. is governed. That ugly consequence is already taking place. The United States of America is under invasion." --- James Gilchrist - The MinuteMan Project
Come on 'Merica, since our government doen't giva diddley, I spose we're a gonna hafta... Hope to see ya all there...!
FREEDOM DON'T COME FOR FREE
PS
you can open carry in AZ!!
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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 the Courage to Stand and Fight them Amen
mulsum deserter is missing??
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DC,
Right on!
Miss M
Whats a "hackle"?
nevermind...looked it up...hairs on the neck..dander
thanks for teaching me a new word!
So this Tiger fellow was deported and is now back again. And same with another one they're looking for, in the US illegally. What a mess! You catch them, toss them out, and they return. That border must be as porous as many say it is. Although I can understand how difficult it would be to patrol the whole thing. There should be a fence, or a moat. This is not just about poor, harmless Mexicans sneaking across the border because they want jobs as fruit-pickers and maids. This is about dangerous scum using and abusing the US, and now with the link to Al-Q ... not good.
If they determine there's a link with Al-Q, then instead of tossing them back to El Salvador, send them to Gitmo. Because if they start buddying up with Al-Q and ilk, they're no longer ordinary gang members, but they are terrorists.
jUST TO GET YOUR DANDER UP!!
http://www.civilhomelanddefense.us/
STOLEN PASSPORTS MISSED AT U.S. BORDERS
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From the Nation/Politics section
Foreign nationals applying for admission to the United States using stolen passports have "little reason to fear being caught" and usually are admitted, even when their fraudulent documents have been posted on the government's computerized "lookout" lists, a report said.
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General said in a 40-page report that of the 176 foreign nationals who its investigators identified as having used a stolen passport in an attempt to enter the United States from 1998 to 2003, 136 were admitted.
"While most persons using stolen passports to enter illegally into the United States may be simply violating immigration laws, some could have more sinister intentions," said the department's acting inspector general, Richard L. Skinner.
The report, completed in November but made public this week, also said when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers received new reports of stolen passports, they did not routinely review existing admission records to determine whether any already had been used.
Even if there was such a procedure, the report said, CBP had no way to give the information on the stolen passports to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security's investigative arm.
"While the 136 successful entries using stolen passports is a relatively small number, it is significant for several reasons," Mr. Skinner said. "First, the passports were obtained by criminal acts. Second, though small, the number could and should be zero, at least for those admissions that occurred after lookouts were posted. Third, there was no law-enforcement pursuit once it was recognized an illegal entry had occurred."
Mr. Skinner said actionable information was reported and logged in the lookout system, yet entry was accomplished, "defeating a costly apparatus established precisely to prevent such an occurrence."
The inspector general's probe targeted travelers from the 27 foreign countries for whom a visa is not required, including France, Germany and Britain.
Although those travelers were told in October to present either a machine-readable passport or a U.S. visa, CBP has given officials at ports of entry the discretionary authority to grant one-time exemptions in an effort to facilitate travel.
President Bush also has signed legislation delaying until October 2005 the requirement for visa-waiver countries to include biometrics in their passports.
Mr. Skinner said the "vast numbers of stolen passports available" presented a significant challenge for U.S. immigration authorities, noting that Interpol estimated last year that more than 10 million lost and stolen passports are in circulation.
CBP records show that during 2003, more than 12.7 million travelers to the United States from visa-waiver countries were inspected at ports of entry -- nearly 35,000 a day -- and that 4,368 fraudulent passports were intercepted. The United States had 40.4 million international visitors last year.
According to the inspector general's report, of the 98 foreign nationals who did not have lookouts posted for their stolen passports before their attempted U.S. entry, 79 were admitted -- a rate of 81 percent. Of those 78 aliens who had posted lookouts on their passports, 57 gained entry -- a rate of 73 percent.
Of those 57 who gained entry despite "lookouts" on their passports, 33 did so after the September 11 attacks.
The report also said that 18 aliens whose passports had posted lookouts were referred by immigration officers to secondary inspections for more intensive interviews, but got in anyway.
"We could not determine from the secondary inspections records, the inspectors' rationale for admitting the aliens with lookouts for the stolen passports," Mr. Skinner said, describing the records as nonexistent or "so sketchy that they were not useful."
Mr. Skinner's report made several recommendations:
* Primary inspectors should refer foreign nationals to secondary inspections when their passports are the subject of a lookout.
* The inspectors should record in detail the results of the secondary inspections and justifications for any subsequent admission.
* There should be a supervisory review and approval of a decision to admit an alien who was the subject of a lookout.
* Inspectors should enter new names into the lookout database on a timely basis.
* CBP should initiate routine reviews of admission records to identify prior uses of stolen passports.
* Information on the successful use of stolen passports should be reported to ICE for investigation.
Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, who oversees CBP and ICE, said the inspector general's report had reached "overly broad and generalized conclusions" based on a limited study.
But he said CBP agreed with the recommendations and had taken "prudent steps" to address them.
Mr. Skinner also recommended that ICE develop procedures to investigate, locate and remove from the United States foreign nationals who have used stolen passports to gain entry to the country and to report the outcomes of its investigations to CBP.
For those aliens who used stolen passports that have terrorist links, he said, ICE should investigate their activities while in the United States and determine their whereabouts.
Mr. Hutchinson said efforts were under way to ensure that ICE investigated all questionable cases.
CBP inspects the millions of foreign nationals arriving at the nation's land, sea and air ports of entry to determine their eligibility for admission. Secondary inspections are sought when more detailed information is required. ICE is responsible for enforcing immigration law in the nation's interior
BORDER PATROL ARRESTS 94 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANRS AT TACTICAL CHECKPOINT
Dec 24, 2004
U.S. Border Patrol agents on Thursday arrested 94 illegal immigrants, the majority of whom authorities said were on their way to farm-related work in Yuma County.
The arrests, which took place at a tactical checkpoint in Dome Valley, mark the second time within days U.S. Border Patrol agents have caught and arrested several dozens of illegal immigrants attempting to avoid two established and well-known checkpoints while on their way to farm-related work here.
Border Patrol agents on Monday arrested 138 illegal immigrants at a Dome Valley checkpoint, about 50 of whom were aboard four labor buses.
"The tactical checkpoint operations are important because our field intelligence indicates a large number of vehicles have continued to circumvent the established checkpoints since Monday," said Joe Brigman, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Yuma sector.
Of the 94 that were arrested, an unspecified number were on three labor buses and the rest were either in harvest-related work vehicles or in privately owned vehicles, said Brigman.
Some who were on the labor buses fled on foot, but all of them were arrested, Brigman said.
Border Patrol agents were still processing the arrested illegal immigrants as of late Thursday afternoon, Brigman said. Several have prior criminal convictions for various offenses, he said.
Some had been deported from the United States in the past, Brigman said.
Brigman said agents did not find any weapons, illegal drugs or counterfeit identification.
The Border Patrol is continuing their investigation into those who employ illegal immigrants, Brigman said
I found this buried in a much smaller article in the Huntsville Times this morning... Christmas Day - guess it is a good day to bury what should be NEWS on the front page. I found a couple other articles related to this as well.
Be sure to read this article as well as it ties right in with the ILLEGAL INVADERS and how they get to stay here. l will post the entire article in the next post.
Federal officials increasing their focus on government corruption.
U.S. to allow employers to file foreign worker requests online
BY DAVID JACKSON
The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The Labor Department, seeking to streamline the review of foreign worker requests, will soon allow employers to file those applications online.
With more than 300,000 applications pending, the plan includes two temporary "backlog elimination centers" in Dallas and Philadelphia, said attorneys familiar with the changes.
In addition, new applications that had once been reviewed in individual states will now be submitted to "national processing centers" in Atlanta and Chicago, officials said.
While streamlining the process for foreign workers, federal officials said they would protect the rights of American workers, who have first claim on all jobs.
"We're trying to make the taxpayers' dollars we use go farther and do better," said a Labor Department official involved in the planning. He requested anonymity because the changes won't be announced publicly until next week.
Members of organizations involved in the immigration debate described the changes as more organizational than political.
"It makes the process more efficient and it standardizes the rules," said Crystal Williams, deputy director of programs with the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "Each state has had its own quirky rules."
Ira Mehlman, a spokesman with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said efficiency is not the major issue.
"The Labor Department has basically rubber stamped every request employers have made," Mehlman said, calling the foreign workers system "a back-door immigration program."
Labor Department officials said they do not rubber stamp anything, and that the changes will help them more thoroughly review every request for foreign workers.
"They're going to strengthen the program and its integrity," the labor official said.
In new rules submitted for publication in the Federal Register, the Labor Department stressed that employers must still certify they sought out qualified American workers and none were available; employers also cannot undercut the prevailing wages for American workers.
Employers for foreign workers must also request visas for them from the departments of state and homeland security
ILLEGALIZE ILLEGALS: TIME FOR SHOWDOWN IN OPEN FRONTIER
By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
The new intelligence law, courtesy of 9/11, is mystifying because it does not face directly what is the most prominent threat to homeland security.
It is:
inimical action by non-Americans. All the people who participated in 9/11 were foreigners, here under various auspices. And yet the bill that has evolved from the findings of the 9/11 commission reads like an elocutionary exercise by a national committee to avoid saying anything unpleasant about unpleasant people born abroad. Specifically, the threat at this moment is from foreign terrorism. The day may come when there are native-born Americans who join in such a threat, such as the Weather Underground types we experienced during the '60s.
But at this point, the terrorists come from abroad. "Last May," writes National Interest editor John O'Sullivan, "illegal aliens from Malaysia, Pakistan, Morocco, Uganda and India were released without bond. They are now at large in the U.S." What happened is that as the intelligence bill crystallized, a fear developed that it might be construed as xenophobic.
Somewhere along the line the word came down from the White House that for the president to be able to sign the bill, it had to be plucked clean of any suggestion that an illegal Muslim fundamentalist should be treated at all differently from an illegal Christian evangelist. Remember the odd deportment of Norman Mineta, who has been reappointed as transportation secretary?
He went to extraordinary lengths several years ago to insist that security personnel at airports should pay no greater attention to 30-year-old Near-Eastern Muslims called Mohammed than they would to Shirley Temple.
The immigration problem is the primary unmet challenge of modern times. It is so because the whole of our political establishment cringes at any suggestion that the United States is inhospitable to immigration. We do have laws on the books, but they are apparently made for the sole purpose of flouting them.
Time magazine published the most florid essay on the question, estimating the annual flow of illegal immigration at more than 2 million persons.
There are two questions on the table. The first deals with raw immigration:
How many people beyond those formally welcome under existing laws should we admit into the United States? The second, what are the risks to security in being as offhanded as we have been? In the age of terrorism, it is obvious that the enemy will seek to do damage operating within U.S. territory.
That, of course, was the story of the 9/11 hijackers, 19 Muslim terrorists who took
advantage of loose laws to practice flying accurately into U.S. skyscrapers.
But the movements of such folk are not of primary concern to the U.S. government, to judge from the record. O'Sullivan reports that the Transportation Department has launched several lawsuits against airlines because pilots had banned passengers they thought were security risks.
Asa Hutchinson, an official in the Department of Homeland Security, recently cut down a Border Patrol initiative to catch illegal aliens. The reason? It was catching too many illegal aliens. We have the piquant problem of what to do with illegals. It approaches the problem of what to do with drinkers during Prohibition. You couldn't put them all in jail because there weren't enough jails. Illegals remain largely undisturbed, and the main reason for it isn't
U.S. sentimentality toward aspirant Americans. It is the market contribution to the dilemma: There are jobs only illegals are willing to perform, e.g. serving as nannies for Bernard Kerik. Much of the menial and agricultural work done in the southwestern states is done by illegals.
The result of the combined forces — the need for cheap labor and the passion to avoid any appearance of ethnic or religious discrimination — is an open frontier. Yes, a few illegals are deported. These should get a parade, signaling such distinction as attaches to the infrequency of their apprehension. And perhaps a parade when they come through the next
time, often through the same gap in the southwestern frontier.
A subsidiary but not uninteresting question is: Where do our deportees gather? What help is available to them to reassemble? Perhaps to return to Arizona in time for high school reunions? It's a tough one politically, but Congress should bear down on the subject, intimately related to concerns for homeland security.
Buckley is a nationally syndicated columnist based in New York
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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 Victory to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
PS
Mines might help along the border!! And there is always my Idea start shooting Trespassers!!
What needs to be done is convince these lowlife scum that we don't want them here.
The first offense/capture is simple deportation-- with a clear and concise warning: if you come back here, absolutely irregardless of the circumstances- you will disappear permanently, and will never be a threat to the innocent law-abiding citizens here ever again.
There are quite alot of Americans killed and maimed, not to mention the economic crimes perpetrated by a large percentage of people who absolutely do not belong here, or who should not be let loose on society.
The fact is that the law-abiding citizenry are being forced ever-increasingly to bear the consequences of the actions of irresponsible/criminal/alien individuals. How? Increasing restrictions/laws/costs and unnecessary inconveniences sold as necessary for "civilized society","protection","progress"and "common -sense". Why? Because of a world-view-- moral/cultural relavatist and the idea that humans are pre-destined by their environment and therefore are not really responsible for their actions. This is the basis for the revolving-door legal system and the release of hopeless psychopaths into society. I won't bother pointing out the originators of this theory.
Too bad they can't/won't account for the fact that people can grow up/ live in identical environments yet CHOOSE opposite paths/actions.
Catherine- Thanks for the post about protecting the borders! Sounds like a fabulous idea. If I didn't have my kids, I would go. I used to work in the Latino community in Missouri and D.C. So many illegals, it was laughable.
This Marine deserter should have been in the hoosegow and not given another chance to go AWOL.
Strike the last sentence of my post. I blinked and forgot what thread I was on.