Thread: Look Who is Sneaking Across the Mexican Border Now

Look Who is Sneaking Across the Mexican Border Now

Sylvia Cochran Sylvia Cochran
Sun Feb 27, 3:44 pm ET

Stereotypes suggest that illegal aliens from Mexico are the obvious border sneaks, but this is not necessarily true anymore. Granted, of the 12.5 percent that made up America's foreign-born population in 2009, 53 percent hailed from Latin America, while 27 percent came from Asia and 12.7 percent from Europe. (It is noteworthy that the U.S. Census Bureau lumps legal and illegal immigrants into the same "foreign-born" category.)

Breaking it down even further, Mexico supplied 29.8 percent of the noted immigrants and India sent 4.3 percent. This last number is experiencing a bit of an upset lately as Texas is becoming a hotbed of illegal Mexican border crossings by immigrants from India. Frequently self-identifying as Sikhs from poor villages in Punjab or Gujarat, the last 12 months have resulted in excess of 1,600 border arrests. Although they are said to be poor, these immigrants post bond and travel on to "local Indian-run motels before flying north."

Border enforcement scrambles to ensure no potential terrorists from Pakistan or other hostile countries are masquerading as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution. At the same time, the FBI and also the Department of Homeland Security vociferously deny that terrorists could be making use of the established Mexican smuggling pipelines. Another head scratcher is the acceleration with which illegal Indian immigrants are sneaking across.

Seeing that India's prime minister is a Sikh, the protestation of persecution does not appear to hold water. The assertions of poverty, too, appear odd seeing that these illegal aliens can nevertheless pay Mexican human smugglers the fees for border crossings.

If American authorities are scratching their heads, India is sure to also wonder why its citizens are absconding in record numbers. Explaining (in 2010) that in spite of overall falling illegal immigration numbers in the U.S., India nevertheless held a third place position for supplying illegal aliens, it seemed strange that a gradually prospering country would lose its citizens. One poster to the Times of India forum suggested there are visa fee agents "in Gujarat, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and many other cities" that specialize in helping Indian expatriates sneak across the United States border from Mexico.

It stands to reason that a lone terror suspect from the Middle East could very easily make himself look like a devout Indian Sikh. Already there is a report that the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested Sharia-law follower Said Jaziri, a Muslim cleric deported from Canada to Tunisia, in San Diego. In this case, the Muslim cleric is said to have paid $5,000 in Tijuana for safe passage into America. Well before this imam made it into the United States, the Duka family sneaked into the U.S. across the Mexican border in 1984. The Dukas would become infamous in the 2007 Fort Dix attack plot that targeted military personnel.

It is clear that the American-Mexican border has been historically porous, but what frequently remains unknown is the real identity (and purpose) of those who sneak across. Americans will do well to reverse their stereotype of the typical border crosser as just being an unemployed Mexican laborer in search of work.

Sylvia Cochran offers an insider's perspective of the American immigration system. Having gone through the steps of becoming a citizen -- and currently living in a border state -- she brings hands-on familiarity with hot-button issues to the table.

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Although they are said to be poor, these immigrants post bond and travel on to "local Indian-run motels before flying north."

Why are they able to post bond? They should be held until deported!

Mickey, they let them go because of the Backlog of Deportation Hearings. After they appear before the Judge, they are ASKED if they will show up for thier Hearing, and of course they will...NOT!
So, they post bond or are let loose on thier own Recog.
They should give the Border Patrol the Authority to Deport, that way there would be less Backup in the Court System.

Stereotyping or not
our politicians want to do Immigration Reform?

Well,lets see. We already have legislation and laws applying to immigration into this country. These LAWS ARE BROKEN by intruders and invaders and even by corporate America.

So what would making NEW LAWS REALLY DO FOR US? Besides the costs of making legislation,which is very expensive. And we would still have border jumpers.

So we would essentially have new laws and still have the ILLEGALS!

They need to SECURE THE BORDERS AND ENFORCE OUR LAWS!

No Amnesties...No Dream ACTS

We need to simplify the paperwork for the courts, add alot more judges and make it a 24-48 hr arrest to trial situation. No documents then withing 48 hrs your kicked out. Thats the bottom line for this mess. NO bailing out.

Sad news.

Personally I support bonds to help cover the debt. I see no problem requiring bonds for illegal aliens.

Of course the question is just how much... as we're trying to cut a very large defecit I think a reasonable amount would be $1 billion cash or bond per illegal. Sounds fair to me.

It should be more like getting caught in a speed trap and being taken to a magistrate instead of being drawn out like like a bad divorce.

Easy question - Are you here illegally? if the answer is yes you go to jail and wait for the bus to border.

Of course the immigration lawyers wouldn't be getting paid as much as we are paying them now to represent and prepare cases for the poor illegals. If they find a money maker like immigration, they work to make it more difficult and drawn out to get more money.

Originally Posted by BillCunnane

We need to simplify the paperwork for the courts, add alot more judges and make it a 24-48 hr arrest to trial situation. No documents then withing 48 hrs your kicked out. Thats the bottom line for this mess. NO bailing out.

That's a good one!

Originally Posted by Newmexican

It should be more like getting caught in a speed trap and being taken to a magistrate instead of being drawn out like like a bad divorce.

Easy question - Are you here illegally? if the answer is yes you go to jail and wait for the bus to border.

Of course the immigration lawyers wouldn't be getting paid as much as we are paying them now to represent and prepare cases for the poor illegals. If they find a money maker like immigration, they work to make it more difficult and drawn out to get more money.

Tha's true and that is the game they are playing. Clog up the court system with their BS.