Jihadis have been entering the U.S. through the border with Mexico for years.
In June 2014, Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) enunciated the concerns that increasing numbers of people have about jihadists exploiting our open Southern border when he said: “This jihadist group ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have promised direct confrontation with America. He is looking forward to that day and he has said that publicly, we should believe him when he says that. These folks hate everything about the United States.” What’s more, “Of course the way they would come to the United States would be through the porous border with Mexico. The drug cartels will bring people into the country no matter who they are — for money. Everyone in the world knows that the border between the United States and Mexico is completely porous.”
Jihad terrorists and their enablers and accomplices have been entering the U.S. illegally by means of the Mexican border for many years. According to TheBlaze, “Hezbollah members and supporters have entered the U.S. through the southern border as early as 2002, with the case of Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison by Mexican authorities on charges of organized crime and immigrant smuggling. Mucharrafille had owned a cafe in the border city of Tijuana, near San Diego. In 2002, he was arrested for smuggling 200 people into the U.S., including Hezbollah supporters, according to a 2009 Congressional report.”
Nothing has changed since then. It’s only gotten worse.
“4 Possible Terrorists May Have Tried to Enter US Through Texas-Mexico Border, Says House National Security Subcommittee Chairman,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, September 19, 2014:
The chairman of the House subcommittee on National Security said that he had heard reports that four individuals connected to Middle East terrorists groups have tried to cross the southern border and have been apprehended.
In a House Homeland Security Committee hearing this week, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said that he was informed that four individuals with known ties to Middle Eastern terrorist organizations were apprehended on Sept. 10 trying make it through the Texas-Mexico border.
Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, said previously in the hearing that “no specific cases come to mind” when asked if he knew of any apprehensions of known terrorists. Johnson was later asked about the specific incident Chaffetz mentioned and said that he had “heard reports to that effect.” Johnson also said he didn’t know how much “credence” to give those reports.
“I have reason to believe that on September 10th there were actually four individuals trying to cross through the Texas border who were apprehended at two different stations that do have ties to known terrorist organizations in the Middle East,” Chaffetz said.
Considering a number of conservative politicians are saying there is an ISIS threat to the Homeland looming and reports from earlier this month claiming that terrorists have been operating in a Mexican border town, there is concern that Islamic State terrorists will have no trouble entering the U.S if they use the southern border like hundreds of thousands of immigrants do each year. Although the four men with terror ties were apprehended, border patrol does not have a high apprehension rate.
“Over the last 351 days, yet by Homeland Security’s own numbers, 157,000 people got away. And the people we did capture, they come from 143 different countries. Thirteen were from Syria, six were from Iraq, four were from Iran,” Chaffetz said. “We have a porous border. We are worried about every story on the news tonight is about ISIS. I’m worried about them actually coming to the United States and crossing that porous border and getting into the homeland.”
Johnson admitted that since there are so many people that cross the border, it is hard for DHS to track when terrorists cross the border.
“I do think that in any situation where there are large number of people who are undocumented, there is a risk that it hinders our ability to track those individuals,” Johnson said. “Which is why from my homeland security perspective, I want to see those people come forward and get on the books so that I know who they are.”
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, said at Tuesday’s hearing that there have been a few social media posts saying that ISIS is looking at infiltration through the southern border but said there is no evidence of a concrete ISIS plan regarding a push through the southern border.
“There has been a very small number of sympathizers with ISIL who have posted messages on social media about this, but we’ve seen nothing to indicate there is any sort of operational effort or plot to infiltrate or move operatives from ISIL,” Olsen said.
The Department of Homeland Security maintains that there is no significant evidence of a cross-border ISIS attack.
Kenneth Palinkas, the president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, the union that represents America’s immigration caseworkers, issued a written warning that there is an “extremely real and serious threat” that ISIS has or soon will use the southern border to access America.
“It is also essential to warn the public about the threat that ISIS will exploit our loose and lax visa policies to gain entry to the United States,” Polinaks wrote.
Palinkas said the nation’s immigration policies are “letting terrorists into the United States right through our front door.” He criticized the Obama administration for not enforcing the law against those overstaying their visas.
“The Administration has also blocked our partners in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from enforcing visa overstays. The 9/11 hijackers got into the U.S. on visas and now, 13 years later, we have around 5 million immigrants in the United States who overstayed their visas – many from high-risk regions in the Middle East.”
pumbar says
That security fencing is luxury. Thanks to the EU our border security consists of an old guy sitting on a bucket filling in a newspaper crossword, just outside Dover.
Jay Boo says
Maybe that tunnel across the English Channel wasn’t such a good idea after all.
paddy says
you got that right
Jay Boo says
Darn it
Waves of Muslims hordes cutting holes in border fences in order to escape their Islamophobia victimhood in the West.
Who would have guessed?
Salah says
“This jihadist group ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have promised direct confrontation with America.”
That’s because he knows he has good friends in the W.H.
Wake up Americans, your real enemy is sitting right there, in the oval office.
paddy says
were you born stupid or is it a gift?
mortimer says
Muslim terrorists live in the Muslim community invisibly and the Muslim community does not notice or pretends not to.
Dazzle says
Mortimer – spot on – they notice alright – they are an integral part of Jihad against western democracy.
It is the death of a thousand cuts again and again and again.
Astonishing amounts of money, that the west can ill afford, is being used dealing with “security threats”, “engaging with communities” and for example running “de-radicalisation programmes” in Her Majesty’s Prisons.
As regards prison budgets (always under resourced and never a vote winner) money is found for additional Imams and the cost of their training – this money is mostly diverted from existing budgets by cutting back on the amounts allocated for Christian work in prisons. Young and vulnerable prisoners are offered “protection” if they convert to the “religion of peace”
Back in 2005 British intelligence services recognised that there were at least 3,000 Islamists in the UK who were a threat to national security. It is impossible to watch them all and when disaster strikes the frenzied media demand to know why “these people” were not under 24hr watch.
It is easy for sympathisers and fellow travellers to associate with the hard core revolutionaries and by making extremist comments themselves, increase the need to monitor ever more people, already an impossible task.
Our leaders, with few exceptions, are weak, spineless and fearful: almost all of them trot out the usual rubbish about the “religion of peace.”
In some ways the situation is similar to the self delusion that occured during lead up to the Nazi occupation of most of Europe from the late 1930’s on.
This time the difference is, thanks to so called equality laws, that the enemy is well entrenched in the machinery of local and national government, public services, education and….
An Imam I worked with for some time once told me that “My people are coming, we have waited hundreds of years for this, this time we will take you from within” This man was employed by a number of UK government departments on a “consultative basis” and was highly regarded for his “moderate views” and for his broad range of contacts.
Remember also that many who decide to follow the “religion of peace” no longer make their new loyalties public nor do they use their new names. They quietly await their opportunity to make a contribution to Jihad in the west.
Jihad Watch publishers and contributors, we should all be so grateful for what you do.
Thanks and God Bless you
Jay Boo says
off topic
Maybe I am missing something but …
Can you say stinking leftist hypocritical atheists?
Oklahoma
ACLU Fights 10 commandments
ACLU supports Sharia Law
http://news.msn.com/us/ten-commandments-marker-can-stay-at-oklahoma-capitol-judge
https://www.aclu.org/religion-belief/bans-sharia-and-international-law
Jay Boo says
In fairness to non-hypocritical atheists the ACLU staff are probably just pseudo-enlightened anti-Christian yet ‘spiritual’ crystal meditation moon-dance practitioners who wish to be seen groveling to the nearest token Muslims.
Beagle says
I think you nailed it. Maybe they could burn some sage to get rid of evil spirits instead of all this racist ‘counterterror’ stuff?
Betty says
is that why California is burning up?
Jay Boo says
Beagle, I work with a handful of Muslims. The one who is Caucasian in appearance is the same one who tries to use the ‘racist’ word like candy whenever possible around Caucasian non-Muslims.
Yet he probably mocks Mexicans and Blacks with his Muslims neighbors around the dinner table at home.
paddy says
Calm down Jay. I’m a bona-fide Atheist and I seriously believe in a world where science and reason will prevail. Alas, most of the world’s people live in fear and superstition right across the planet. Muslims in particular are a real menace.
Western Canadian says
“Calm down Jay.”
Suggest you try the same.
” I’m a bona-fide Atheist and I seriously believe in a world where science and reason will prevail.”
Which does not put you at odds with the Judeo/Christian belief system. Your own bigotry and ignorance do that for you.
” Alas, most of the world’s people live in fear and superstition right across the planet.”
Your ignorance and bigotry are showing again. Christian and Jewish belief systems (if you are actually familiar with them, and you are not) do not lead to fear, and cannot be called superstition, except by the most ignorant.
” Muslims in particular are a real menace.”
Along with atheistic governments, which have murdered 100,000,000 in a century, as opposed it islams (RTC) 270,000,000 in 14 centuries…
Know Thy Enemy says
These terrorists, Jihadis to be more accurate, are very stupid. Crossing the US/Mexico border is no child’s play. It is a long, difficult walk and can be very dangerous too!
All that the jihadis have to do is contact our (US) govt officials (e.g. Obama, or if they can’t get to him, then officials at Dept of Homeland Security) and tell them they want to teach Americans how Islam is a great religion of peace, thereby taking the pressure off of the media, our president and all other officials.
They will be given first class tickets all expenses paid, and no security agencies will look at them with suspicious eyes. And just in case someone makes fuss, the MSM will take care of the buggers. It is that easy!
But I guess banging one’s head on the floor 5 times a day causes internal damage, and that’s why such an easy and simple idea doesn’t occur to them!
Angemon says
Well, I’m sure US troops are being put to good use in Africa, fighting ebola and stuff…
Jay Boo says
Ebola is prevalent in areas where Muslims are non majority.
Could it be a Muslim / Boko Haram plot?
Angemon says
Jay Boo posted:
“Ebola is prevalent in areas where Muslims are non majority.
Could it be a Muslim / Boko Haram plot?”
Doubt it. It’s not sunnah.
John says
Cross the border?
All they have to do is apply for the “diversity immigrant” program at their local US Embassy.
GP says
So four people tied to the IS and ready to commit IS LAMic jihad have been arrested at the border. I guess that means that the other 99,996 made it into the US (this month). We cannot have anything happen that would lessen the democratic Hispanic vote during this election cycle. With the Obama crew it is always about the next election cycle, never stop campaigning. It is all about the election, the American people be damned!
Pavelina says
OK – if 4 terrorist types were intercepted crossing the southern border, where are they? Are they in jail? Were they given a court date and told to appear? What happens to all these Muslims we’re told are entering illegally? Surely this can be confirmed.