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The Mexican Insurgency
March 29, 2005
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by Bob Newman
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After reading and deleting the usual liberal hate email this Easter morning (hate email on Easter from frothing-at-the-mouth liberals was not a surprise), I was reminded how border security and immigration reform are such contentious issues on both sides of the ideological aisle. But I continue to be surprised at the mishandling of the situation by the Bush administration and Congress.

As a registered independent and a terrorism & national security analyst, I am able to look at America’s border-security situation objectively and analytically. What I see is a disaster with cataclysmic potential. And I see a president who, with the help of a complacent Congress and Department of Homeland Security, is rolling the dice in a voluntary craps game that, if we lose, could cost hundreds of thousands of American lives in a worst-case scenario.

Since President Bush took office, an average of 485,000 illegal aliens have successfully infiltrated America from Mexico every year. These nearly two million immigrants consist mostly of people looking for work who have no intent to break our laws other than entering America illegally. However, an unknown percentage are criminals who intend to commit more crimes, and there’s no doubt in any genuine (there are plenty of frauds; just turn on any cable news channel to see some of them) terrorism analyst’s mind that terrorists or terrorist enablers are among the swelling crowd (approximately 15 million illegal aliens are in America).

Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 is a deadly, especially brutal international gang with a heavy presence in several states and every Central American country plus Mexico. Among other things, they operate smuggling routes to move people and drugs into the United States. There is evidence that MS-13 has, is or is attempting to do business with al Qaeda by smuggling terrorists into America. Stacks of intelligence says al Qaeda is keenly aware of our porous border. And more intelligence from a multitude of independent sources indicates al Qaeda is trying to acquire nuclear weapons for delivery to America.

When you put it all together, you have to wonder why President Bush and the Congress refuse to secure our borders, even though the technology and equipment are readily available, and even though we could produce the manpower to install, operate and maintain a vigorous border protection system.

Instead, because some politicians believe our economy would be harmed if we secured the border, and because some believe rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty is a good idea, we remain at extreme risk.

If you want to see an economy suffer, watch what happens when Phoenix vanishes in a bright flash courtesy of an al Qaeda team with a big one easily smuggled in from Mexico.

And Mexican head honcho and bandito-in-chief Vicente Fox, who was recently basking in the luxury of the Bush ranch in Crawford, says he will do everything in his power to stop the Minuteman Project next month, which will see more than 1,000 American civilians helping the Border Patrol secure a 20-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border by radioing and phoning the Border Patrol to tell them where illegals are crossing. Fox is the man running this insurgency, of course. And he is calling for President Bush to totally dismantle what border security we have and go to an open-border situation such as that found in Europe.

An American who was instrumental in the capture of an al Qaeda operative crossing the border would be given the Medal of Freedom by President Bush. But an American who tells the Border Patrol where Mexican or other Hispanic illegals are crossing our border is called a “vigilante� by the president with Fox standing right beside him.

Why?

And now the Mexican state of Yucatan has published and is issuing an 87-page, detailed manual including a DVD that tells its citizens how to break U.S. laws. This manual follows the official Mexican government manual that teaches the same thing. Yet President Bush embraces and praises Fox after greeting him in Spanish.

The war on terror can not be successfully prosecuted unless we secure our borders. The president must cease this extraordinarily dangerous façade immediately. Mexico is running nothing short of an insurgency that, if we fail to stop, could result in the unthinkable.

Bob Newman
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Bob Newman, a decorated, retired US Marine, is host of the “Gunny Bob Show� on Newsradio 850 KOA in Denver, and host of “Inhuman Newman’s Anger-Management Hour� on 630 KHOW, also in Denver. His “Global Positioning Statement,� a daily insider’s update on the war on terror, is carried by various Clear Channel radio stations from coast to coast. A ground-combat veteran, he is the director of international security & counterterrorism services for The GeoScope Group and is the military science & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News. He can be reached at bobnewman@clearchannel.com.