In my latest over at FrontPage, I discuss border security, or the lack thereof:
During the recent race riots in Ferguson, Missouri, CNN’s Jake Tapper was walking down a street and filming a segment when someone emerged out of the shadows behind him, holding a banner emblazoned, “ISIS is here.” At that point it was just a threat, or a boast, or both, but on Tuesday Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said that the Islamic State was doing all it could to make it a reality: “At least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas.”
“There’s nobody talking about it,” Hunter added. “If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border. It’s that simple…They caught them at the border, therefore we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them then you know there’s going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol.”
Indeed. And jihadist exploitation of our southern border is nothing new. In June 2014, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) foreshadowed Hunter’s announcement 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.”
And in May 2010, the Department of Homeland Security warned local police along the southern border about a Muslim named Mohamed Ali who was suspected of being a member of the jihad terror group al Shabaab. An official who spoke to CNN about the warning said that it wasn’t clear whether or not Mohamed Ali was trying to enter the country illegally, but it seems unlikely that such an alert would have been sent out to police along the border if that had not been the case. Ali was, in any case, apparently involved in operating a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” that had brought hundreds of Somali Muslims into the U.S. illegally.
Top officials in Washington have known about how jihad terrorists have attempted to exploit the vulnerabilities of the southern border for many years now. In 2006, the House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee, under the leadership of Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), issued a report entitled A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border, which stated: “Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered to the United States across our Southwest border.”
Nothing changed. Investigative journalist Deroy Murdock reported in 2010 that “according to the federal Enforcement Integrated Database, 125 individuals were apprehended along the US/Mexican border from Fiscal Year 2009 through April 20, 2010. These deportable aliens included two Syrians, seven Sudanese, and 17 Iranians, all nationals from the three Islamic countries that the US government officially classifies as state sponsors of terrorism.” During the same period, border agents also apprehended “two Afghans, five Algerians, 13 Iraqis, 10 Lebanese, 22 Nigerians, 28 Pakistanis, two Saudis, 14 Somalis, and three Yemenis. During FY 2007 and FY 2008, federal officials seized 319 people from these same countries traversing America’s southwest border.”
Murdock grants that these illegals may simply have come to pursue the American Dream, as Leftist dogma would have it. But he notes disturbing signs to the contrary: “Besides Iranian currency and Islamic prayer rugs, Texas Border Patrol agents discovered an Arabic clothing patch that reads ‘martyr’ and ‘way to immortality.’ Another shows a jet flying into a skyscraper.” And for some, their malign intentions were unmistakable: “The Department of Homeland Security issued an April 14, 2010 ‘Intelligence Alert’ regarding a possible border-crossing attempt by a Somali named Mohamed Ali. He is a suspected member of Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based al-Qaeda ally tied to the deadly attack on American GIs in 1993’s notorious ‘Blackhawk Down’ incident in Mogadishu.”
Murdock offered an update in an April 2013 article, in which he gave the numbers of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally via Mexico from countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.
As indicated by the latest information in Table 34 of Customs and Border Protection’s Immigration Yearbook 2011, 198 Sudanese were nabbed while penetrating the USA. Between FY 2002 and 2011, there were 1,207 such arrests. (These figures cover all U.S. borders, although, as Table 35 confirms, 96.3 percent of the overall detainee population intruded from Mexico.) Like other immigrants, most Sudanese seek better lives here. But some may be vectors for the same militant Islam that literally tore Sudan in two.
In FY 2011, 108 Syrians were stopped at our borders; over ten years, the number is 1,353. Syria is a key supporter of Hezbollah, and Bashar Assad’s unstable regime reportedly has attacked its domestic opponents with chemical weapons.
As for Iranians, 276 were caught in FY 2011, while 2,310 were captured over the previous ten years. Iran also backs Hezbollah, hates “the Great Satan,” and craves atomic weapons.
The other ten “countries of interest” are Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, and:
Afghanistan: The Taliban’s stronghold and current theater of America’s longest war. Afghans halted in FY 2011: 106. Prior ten fiscal years: 681.
Nigeria: The land of underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab suffers under sharia law in its northern provinces. Respective data: 591, 4,525.
Pakistan: Hideaway of the Pakistani Taliban and the late Osama bin Laden. 525, 10,682.
Saudi Arabia: Generous benefactor of radical imams and militant mosques worldwide; birthplace of 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. 123, 986.
Somalia: Home of Indian Ocean pirates and al-Qaeda’s al-Shabaab franchise. In October 1993, Islamic terrorists there shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, killed 18 U.S. soldiers, and dragged several of their bodies through Mogadishu’s streets. 323, 1,524.
Each passing year brings new stories of this kind, new investigations and new recommendations – but no real action to secure our southern border. And in July 2014, Breitbart News published what it described as “photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.”
That same month, Texas rancher Mike Vickers found an Urdu-English Dictionary on his property, which runs along the border and is frequently trespassed upon by illegals. Urdu is, of course, the language of Pakistan, an Islamic Republic that has produced a healthy number of jihad terrorists. A Texas Border Patrol Agent noted: “We’ve found Korans, prayer rugs and many other unusual items at the border that certainly raise concern.”
All these warnings, all this information, and yet year after year, nothing is done. And as long as Barack Obama is President and the Democrats are the majority party, nothing will be done – except the repetition of the charge that concern about border security is “racist.” If the Islamic State manages to get jihadis into the country from Mexico and they succeed in mounting a large-scale attack, our leaders can console themselves amid the carnage that at least they were never “racist.”
Idania says
The only thing this President do well is hate Fox, because it tells him the truth and attack the Republican party. His actions implies his desires for ISIS to start an emergency state so he can control everything. Why he is not stopping the flights coming from the African countries infected with Ebola? Does he want to expand the epidemic? Why he never did anything against ISIS before the beheading started? He knew they were killing entire Christian towns. Why he returned high ranking Taliban officials in exchange for a traitor and a deserter converted to Islam? while there is a Marine in a Mexican jail and he do nothing about it? I really believe this President beside Muslim is completely anti-American and is working diligently for the destruction of our country..
GP says
Obola?
Salah says
” I really believe this President beside Muslim is completely anti-American and is working diligently for the destruction of our country..”
And you’re absolutely right. Problem is: nothing is being done to stop him.
We used to have an anti-Egyptian president in Egypt. Now he’s in jail, facing trial, and, if convicted of high treason, he could face execution.
We threw him out of power, and we did it peacefully, without firing a single shot. Our secret? NUMBERS (33 million – the biggest demonstration in human history)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
Roger Keehn says
It is the only logical explanation. As unthinkable as it may be, he seems to be a closet Muslim practicing the ultimate taqiyya.
jihad3tracker says
I am a Democrat, but tomorrow (Friday) I will email Rep. Duncan Hunter’s office to say “Thanks” for his attention to this huge open-border problem.
I will also mention Jihadwatch as a superb resource. Please, fellow readers here, take five minutes out of a busy day to also let Mr. Hunter know that he is appreciated by you.
Remember that taqiyya-slingers like CAIR try to drown our senators and congresspersons in bullwash messages. EVERY ONE of your authentic contacts help to counter-push truth to legislators who need to know current reality.
Semeru says
A lot of fear mongering and misleading data here
So Spencer does not know what mussel-man,s prayer mat looks like, if he did then he would not have given a link to Brieibart,s claim of one being found.
Any who attempts to clain that the image is a prayer mat does not have the competence to criticize islam.
Yes that is all well and good except
The Department of Homeland Security is denying a congressman’s assertion that fighters with the militant group Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, have been caught crossing the southwestern border.
“The suggestion that individuals who have ties to ISIL have been apprehended at the Southwest border is categorically false, and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground,” a DHS spokesman said in a statement today. “DHS continues to have no credible intelligence to suggest terrorist organizations are actively plotting to cross the southwest border.”
Ooh dear
In remarks to the Center for Strategic & International Studies Statesmen’s Forum on October 9, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson explained that four men were apprehended at the southern border in September and investigated for ties to terrorist organizations.
The Department found that the men were self-declared members of the Kurdish Worker’s Party, a group which has defended Kurdish territory in Iraq against incursions from the Islamic State. Johnson said that the men had been arrested for unlawful entry, detained, and would be deported.
Spencer then quotes an April 2013 article, by Murdock listing aliens arrested for attempting to enter USA, but these figures are for all entry points and not just the southern border. This list also includes arrest by ICE ERO, so I assume that many of the arrest where not at a point of entry
DiMu says
To comment on Islam all one needs is to be able to read! And what is written in your ‘holy texts’ is the subjugation of women, hatred for infidels, theocracy, not democracy, a God of fear not love and the glorification of violence.
Your ‘Prophet’ could not hold a candle to Christ and as Christ said – ‘by their fruits, shall ye know them.’
What do we know of Islam? – populations in chaos, fear and tyranny and personal brutality on an unimaginable scale.
I suggest if you want to have a good life in the West, you give up your barbarian, savage and Dark Age ideology and enter the modern world.
Mirren10 says
I’m not going to slap your nonsensical misunderstanding of percentages, as Mr Jihadski has done that, magnificently. (Not that you will comprehend this)
But just as a small example of your total inability to comprehend what you read, and your specious extrapolations resulting from your incomprehension;
”Spencer
And in July 2014, Breitbart News published what it described as “photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.”
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So Spencer does not know what mussel-man,s prayer mat looks like, if he did then he would not have given a link to Brieibart,s claim of one being found.
Any who attempts to clain that the image is a prayer mat does not have the competence to criticize islam.”
And in July 2014,** Breitbart News** published what **it** (my emphasis: Mirren) described as “photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.”
It was **Breitbart News** that reported the rug as ”what American security contractors … believe is a muslim prayer rug … ” not Robert Spencer.
You then extrapolate falsely from your initial incomprehension, that ;
”So Spencer does not know what mussel-man,s prayer mat looks like, if he did then he would not have given a link to Brieibart,s claim of one being found.
Any who attempts to clain that the image is a prayer mat does not have the competence to criticize islam”
You really are an idiot. And don’t attempt to gain our sympathy with whines about your dyslexia, or short-sightedness, or whatever – what you display is wilful stupidity in your constant silly little ‘gotcha’ games, and your deliberate attempts to whitewash islam and jihad.
You’re **waaay** out of your league, here, mohammedan. Still, you provide a certain amount of amusement.
Semeru says
All JERKOFFski has done is shown he doesn’t know how the situation is with illegal aliens in amerika, his magnificent deductions show That leaves us with 1152 intrusions from the southern border from Mexico. when in reality and according to the report there where 650,000 arrested
You can look for your self go table 35, page 95.
Brietbart publishes a foto of what looks like a quilted childs blanket, that is claimed to be a mussel-man prayer mat.
There is no way it was a prayer mat.
So why did Spencer post the link, he is just as guilty as Brietbart in pulling the wool over your eyes, or he is not the expert he is claimed to be. Any one with the slightest knowledge of islam will know that it is not a prayer mat.
So before we go any further, is it a prayer rug or not ?
Semeru says
So mirren 10 can post
Well if I am out of my league, why can’t you answer a simple question.
I think it is you who is out of league here, and that is why you refuse to answer a simple question.
Spencer apparently assumes it is an islamic mat, otherwise, he would not have used Brietbarts photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.”
So here is the question,Is it an islamic prayer mat that Brietbart links to?
gravenimage says
Notice that Semeru is no longer denying posters’ assumptions that he is now Muslim himself.
Semeru says
Assume whatever you want, no body here has proven I am a muslim.
Now notice, mirren10 has not attempted to answer my simple question. Neither does craven make an attempt.
Is it an islamic rug that is in the foto that Brietbart links to?
don vito says
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moses says
communism and islam are the enemies of america you know what they say the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
duh_swami says
There used to be a southern border. It has always been porous, but never until now has it been wide open, or nearly so. Why would ISIS or any other jihadist, pass up a golden opportunity to just walk in and probably get away with it? It”s unrealistic to think they will pass on that option…
philip zhao says
It all boils down to one thing:
You have a Muslim President residing in the White Mosqque !!
Duncan says
The American Dream of jihadists features things that go boom and lots and lots of pain and blood.
Semeru says
So mirren10 will not answer, could it because I am right that it is not an islamic prayer, and loathes to admit I am right, especially after claiming I am away of of my league. Or she like Spencer do not have a clue to what a prayer mat looks like.
So mirren10
A prayer rug is characterized by a niche at one end, representing the mihrab in every mosque, a directional point to direct the worshipper towards Mecca. Many rugs also show one or more mosque lamps, a reference to the Verse of Light in the Qu’ran. Specific mosques are sometimes shown; some of the most popular examples include the mosques in Mecca, Medina, and especially Jerusalem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_rug#Gallery
Now
Well here is a link that links further to a PDF of both table 34 and 35 to show that obnoxiuos jerkoffski,s drunken rant about percentages, proves he did not know what he was talking about, and just a loud mouthed midget acting tuff.
If Jerkoffski is such an expert on percentages, lets see if he can inform us as to the percentage of how many non latinos where detained at the mexican border,
BTW, mirren10 attempted to dig up shit about me on the EDL forum as to why I was banned there, but she was never able to give a link to any of the reason
Yes I was banned four times,
#1 I was banned for rubbing up against several moderators, one was aligned to BMSD (British Muslims For Secular Democracy) he did not like the fact that I exposed that the BMSD was formed by some unsavory people, such as the racist Jasmine Brown. The other moderator, was a police informer pretenting to be a Hells Angel
#2 I was banned for opposing another moderator by the name of VillarLoyal, who was a vile anti-Semitic, who was later exposed as an infiltrator who goal was to create a split within the EDL. His group of neo nazis did not like the fact that I agreed to the actions of the Jews against the British during the Palistinian Mandate.
#3 The third time I was banned, was because of my comments about Charlene Downes parents, who I believe to be partly to blame for her tragic disppeance.
This was just before a big demo in Blackpool, and there was a lot of hate and hysteria directed at two men who had been acquitted of her murder. At that time many in the EDL had never of Charlene, even less many where over looking the fact that the Downes family had been under observation.
Here is what the Liam Wood leader of the EDL gays division later wrote about the Downes Family.
https://thebritishcitizen.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/search-for-the-truth-charlene-downes/
#4 The last time I was banned was because I thought Tommy Robinson was not suitable to lead the EDL. Any body with four criminal convictions and at that time under investigation by the Serious Fraud Squad, is a liability.
You are nothing but a shit raking old hag, You just jumped upon the band wagon to slag me partly because I have chosen an Indonesian nick name.
You Contacted Ruby, and EDL, who gave you the info, of course you believed what she had to say without checking things out. I bet she never mentioned the fact that she sour at me for exposing two russians neo nazi that she had introduced to the EDL forum
Yes you shit stirring old hag, I am definitely not in the same league as you, I do not take every thing that the so called elite counter jihads say at face value, I have enough knowledge of islam, muslims and jihad to detect if something that is reported here is suspect or wrong.
I seriously believe that when reporting about islam muslim and jihad, then the reporting must be 100% correct.
Yes we are leagues apart, I do not believe every thing written by Spencer, Sennels
or Ibrahim, I am not a gullible fool who believes everything written here.
One strange thing, if you are such a staunch anti-jihadi, why did you join the EDL either on there forums, or take part in any demos?
Mirren10 says
”You are nothing but a shit raking old hag”
Dear me, Semeru, your mohammedan face is showing ! 🙂
Firstly, the point I was making, as anyone with intelligence can see, is that it was not Robert Spencer that said the rug was a prayer rug, but the Americans on the ground. Robert was merely reporting what Breitbart said *they* said. Got it ? No, probably not …
Secondly, are you really still smarting from being banned from the EDL forum ? 🙂
”One strange thing, if you are such a staunch anti-jihadi, why did you join the EDL either on there forums, or take part in any demos”
Well, this makes no sense at all. Did you mean ‘didn’t’ ? Actually, I took part in several demos, as well as commenting on the forum.
Like I said, mohammedan, you are waaay out of your league ! 🙂
Semeru says
Yo Spencer doesn’t say directly it was a prayer mat, but he uses the image of a so called prayer mat as evidence to support his claims that moslem have crossed the border.
You did not answer the question
Is it a prayer mat?
Jay Boo says
Semeru
Your original question was answered fully already.
Which proved that Robert reported correctly.
If you need absolute proof then I suggest you obtain the mat and spray it with luminol and do a blood stain analysis.
That would prove conclusively if the prayer mat in question is Islamic in origin.