ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: The Texas Director of Homeland Security claimed in a September 12th speech that border crossers with ties to Middle East terrorists groups have been arrested in his state.
Follow this link to the original source: "Security chief says terrorists have been arrested on Texas border"
COMMENTARY: Steve McCraw, the top homeland security official for the Lone Star State, pointed to his knowledge that individuals with links to terrorism have crossed the border from Mexico. In his speech before the North Texas Crime Commission, he said that persons apprehended at the border had ties to such identifiable terrorist groups as Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda.
Expanding on his rather sensational accusation, McCraw said that, since March 2006, 347 individuals from "terrorist-related countries" have been arrested at the border. Since last year, he added, the number from Iraq alone has "tripled."
He identified Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed as the most notable terrorism-related detainee. After wading across the Rio Grande, she was apprehended in July 2004 carrying large amounts of currency and a doctored South African passport. She was wanted for questioning about the bombing of a U.S. consulate. Suspicions about her had also been raised by a U.S. congressman, but she was eventually deported to South Africa.
A spokeswoman for the El Paso office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said she was unaware of any border arrests of persons linked to terrorism. But McCraw's claims have been corroborated by National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. In August, McConnell told the El Paso Times that persons with known connections to terrorist groups had been caught crossing the border from Mexico.
McCraw summed up his remarks with, "A porous border without question is a national security threat." Yet, despite warnings given by him and many others, the Bush administration has done little to address this serious problem.
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Mexicans know the border better than we do.Living close to it,I know they have routes that they use to drive back and forth at will.If there is another attack within our borders,it will be because our Govt.,for some weird reason,and they have many,did not and will not, secure the borders.We are committed to life and death situations with other countries to secure their safety and secure their borders,but where is the Govt.we need for America?Their attempt to wholesale our country with the shamnesty stuff opened a lot of peoples eyes.And,they are still at it trying to revive a dead horse.I hope voters do not have a short memory.
Our southern border is an obvious and completely unprotected infiltration point for terrorists. If an illegal alien with only the skills of a busboy or a maid can make it across, just think what a trained terrorist with funding and bought assistance can do.
If the above is not true - it will be in the future, just give it enough time.
