WHEN (not if) America is attacked again,shouldn't we hold our govt. resposible for NOT closing our borders?
along Mexico border
American intelligence chief confirms
'people are alive' as a result of capture
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Posted: August 23, 2007
4:04 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
President Bush with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
President Bush's top intelligence aide has confirmed that Iraqi terrorists have been captured coming into the United States from Mexico.
The confirmation comes from National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who talked about the situation in an interview with the El Paso Times recently.
"Coming up through the Mexican border is a path," McConnell said. "Now, are they doing it in great numbers? No, because we're finding them and we're identifying them and we've got watch lists and we're keeping them at bay."
But, he said, "There are numerous situations where people are alive today because we caught them (terrorists)."
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Intelligence officials say the numbers and details of such situations are classified, but McConnell pointed as an example to Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, who entered the United States through Tijuana, Mexico, in 2001, and later pleaded guilty to helping raise money for Hezbollah, which has been designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
The goal, McConnell said, is for terrorists to gain admittance to the United States, and then produce "mass casualties."
"You've got committed leadership. You've got a place to train. They've got trainers, and they've got recruits," McConnell told the newspaper. "The key now is getting recruits in. So if your key is getting recruits in, how would you do that?"
McConnell's office did reveal some numbers, during fiscal 2006, there were 14 Iraqi nationals caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally, while so far in 2007, that number is 16.
"Now some we caught, some we didn't," McConnell told the newspaper. "The ones that get in – what are they going to do? They're going to write home. So it's not rocket science; word will move around."
Also revealed was that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted 60 Iraqis crossing the nation's southwestern border in 2006 who were seeking asylum in the U.S., while that number so far in 2007 is 178.
The Times report said a U.S. intelligence analyst said there's been evidence that human smugglers, or coyotes, are telling Iraqis to ask for amnesty if they are caught.
The typical scenario is this: Forged documents are used to get an Iraqi into a country in South or Central America. Since travel from country to country is allowed without vises in many locations there, they work their way north to the U.S. border.
McConnell told the newspaper the numbers are classified, but there have been a relatively small number of people with known links to terrorist groups who have been caught at that point.
Kourani, for example, apparently paid a Mexican Consulate official in Lebanon $3,000 for a Mexican visa and then was smuggled into the United States in the trunk of a car.
He was sentenced to more than four years in prison after admitting he helped raise funds for Hezbollah.
When the newspaper asked U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, about the situation, he said, "It's not something we would talk about."
"We have had intelligence about al-Qaida identifying Latin America as a potential or prospective area where they could come through, but frankly, I'm surprised that the director would make definitive statements like that because, even if it were true, you wouldn't want to publicize that," Reyes told the Times.
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How many people have lost their jobs to illegals?
Absolutely , just as anyone who is the victim of an illegal alien should start suing their local govt for not protecting them also, hit them in the pocketbook enough and change will followWhat do you know about the Romanian country?
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Is there a law against being a border patrol officer if your parents are illegal?
Yes. Pull back out of Iraq and double our military size and put bases on all sides. Nothing wrong with immigrants but we should control the flow.
How do I go about finding workers from india to bring her for my factory?
Yes.
If we are attacked again, and it can be shown the attackers came over the border illegally from Mexico or Canada, or came in by visa and were not tracked to be sure they left, I favor the impeachment and removal from office of the president and his entire administration.
Are immigrants moving out the usual states and into sundown towns where non-whites are not allowed?
Well, that will entirely depend on if a Democrat is in the White House. If so, our Liberal media will say that it is George Bush's fault anyway. So,
Lax borders are not the sole cause of terror attacks. We can't blame 9/11 on weak borders. As the saying goes "if there's a will, then there's a way". Terrorists will find there way in. Secondly, it is the assimilated terrorists that are more harmful, the ones who blend in with our population.
Why do PROs think it is OK for illegals to be granted automatic citizenship?
More importantly, what should our government do if (and when) we are attacked by American terrorist? That happens far more often over the past 200 years. Do we invade ourselves?
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I'm going to tell you something that you are not conditioned ( by the media ) to believe:
Our own government is responsible for 9/11
It was a hoax to create a fake "war on terrorism"
The truth is there is a very very very small population of extremist terrorist that are being exploited by the government and media to get America to hate muslims.
That's why your question is so important. If terrorist were a real threat to America AND the government actually CARED.
Why are our borders SO unprotected. You can get in from Mexico, Canada, Oregon, Miami.
I mean come on. If there was this vast muslim threat you don't think they would enter any of these borders and blow themselves up.
The "Terrorism" scam is a hoax and your question proves that.
Not only should government officials from the president, congress, and Homeland (In)Security be held responsible, but they should be tried for treason.
Only p said: Lax borders are not the sole cause of terror attacks. We can't blame 9/11 on weak borders.
No, but we can blame them on non-existent interior enforcement, which works hand in hand with border control. Neither is very useful without the other.
Should the people responsible for the Enron scandal be given amnesty?
What a slap in the face to the people that lost loved ones on 9/11 that lovemuffins calls terrorism a hoax. Get some education.
If you are a British citizen and you marry a canadian citizen, do you get landed immigrant status?
I would like to know what they are waiting for.It is only a matter of time before something terrible happens again.It is so insane that are borders are so open yet when you travel everything is so tight.It is so off balance.
We should hold our government responsible for creating the hatred that causes others to want to destroy us.
If the terrorists crossed either border illegally, then yes, the US Government would have full responsibility for failing in one of their primary duties as a sovereign nation, defense of ones borders.
When America is attacked again we won't be able to hold our government responsible for anything, because we, the people, will lose the rest of our civil liberties as a result.
Closing the borders was one of the 9/11 Commission's main recommendations, but they are still wide open.
Yeah - the feds have plenty of time to ruin education and destroy our freedoms but when it comes to providing for the common defense they are out to lunch.
YES!
They really can't be held accountable for the border issue. HOWEVER...what they CAN be held accountable for is NOT preventing people like me from helping people like the ones in the article above get into the country.
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