Thread: Terrorists are infiltrating the U.S. via Mexico

Congressman: Terrorists are infiltrating the U.S. via Mexico
Al Qaeda-related terrorists are coming to the U.S. over the Mexican border disguised as Mexicans, Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) has disclosed. The terrorists are adopting Hispanic names and blending in with the hundreds or thousands of illegal aliens who enter the U.S. via Mexico each day.

Culberson made this statement on the John & Ken show (KFI-640 Los Angeles), and KFI is reporting his statement in their news segments.

A listener to the show offers this report:
Congressman John Culberson (R - TX), speaking on the John and Ken show in Los Angeles, tells the hosts that he's now authorized, for the first time anywhere, to disclose that Middle Eastern men with Al Qaeda links have been mixing with the stream of illegal aliens coming in via the Southern US border. Having changed their names from Islamic to Hispanic ones, and having obtained authentic Mexican Matricula Consular ID cards using faked Mexican birth certificates, the men are paying up to $30,000 to obtain entry into the US among the flow of Hispanic illegal aliens crossing. They're choosing this path because the screening process the US is using on incoming airline passengers is becoming increasingly effective. Once in the US, these men are burrowing into small towns, posing as doctors, lawyers, CPAs, and other professional occupations which are scarce in these communities, making them more accepted and welcome. These "sleeper agents" then await activation for terrorist acts.

Culberson says he was informed of this by federal prosecutors in Texas... Culberson adds that he's also been told that an Al Qaeda attack before the November election is "100% certain."One of the prosecutors is reportedly Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby.

Culberson will have more information, including a letter presumably from federal prosecutors, on Tuesday.

Culberson is currently leading the fight in the House of Representatives to prevent the acceptance of the Matricula Consular card; the FBI says that card is inherently unsafe. The Matricula Consular card is only of use to illegal aliens, not to legal residents. Culberson's attempts are being opposed by the financial industry, pro-illegal immigration, and ethnic lobbies.
In the past, there have been rumors of terrorists planning to come over the border with Mexico. See, for instance, "Feds discount rumor of Iraqis lurking in Mexico"
However, the fact that these statements are coming from a U.S. Representative and reportedly from a U.S. Attorney give them quite a bit of weight.

A month ago, WABC reported the following:
The FBI has arrested an American citizen [a naturalized citizen from Pakistan --LW] living in Queens said to be a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda.

ABC News reports investigators have tied the man to a terrorist cell set to carry out a series of bombings and assassinations in London...

The man has told investigators that Al Qaeda is planning more attacks in the United States. He has also revealed a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the Mexican border...
In March 2003, I posted "Some 9/11 conspirators entered via Mexico?":
Some of the terrorists who helped with the September 11th attacks are now reported to have entered the country through Hidalgo County. State Representative Kino Flores, who sits on the state homeland security board, in an exclusive with Newschannel Five tells us these terrorists are said to have helped with the operation...
At the time, I unsuccessfully attempted to contact Flores for more information.

Over two years ago, Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) raised questions about Mexican trucks being used to transport hazardous materials or terrorists into the U.S.

The articles "Preventing the Entry of Terrorists into the United States" and the heavily-footnoted "Enchilada Lite: A Post-9/11 Mexican Migration Agreement" have background information on the issue of border security and controlling illegal immigration.

Unfortunately, the Bush Administration is obviously not serious about controlling illegal immigration. While hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are turned away from the border each year, the Bush Administration recently halted very minor immigration sweeps in Southern California due to pressure from pro-illegal immigration and ethnic groups.

Asa Hutchinson, the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security and the person who reportedly halted the sweeps, refused to indicate if or when the sweeps would be reinstated. And, very few companies are even fined for immigration violations. While there have been a few high-profile cases where companies have been prosecuted for immigration violations (such as Wal*Mart), they are so small in number that one is forced to draw the conclusion that those prosecutions are simply for show.
For instance, both Asa Hutchinson and Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman were interviewed on KFI and asked about companies that were fined for immigration violations. Both provided Wal*Mart as an example that they were doing something. Neither however were able to provide examples of companies that operate in the Southern California area, where there are somewhere between one and three million illegal aliens.
Furthermore, the proposed Bush Amnesty has caused an uptick in illegal crossings, and Bush recently stated that "America is a nation of open doors".
On the other side of the fence, Vicente Fox and his predecessor have both claimed that the millions of "Mexicans" in the U.S. - including Mexican-Americans - are part of the greater Mexican Nation. In 2002, Mexico's foreign minister stated that he was instructing his consulates to begin "propagating militant activities" in order to obtain a "migration accord." None of these statements have been met with a public response from the Bush Administration.

UPDATE: I posted this at redstate.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2004/7/17/14157/5043, and that inspired a post (redstate.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2004/7/17/85722/872 from someone else in reply. I also posted this at command-post.org. All three threads have comments as well.
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/001640.html


Build the fence or wall
Enforce immigration laws already on the book.
Stop illegal immigration at the borders.
Stop terrorist at the border.

Related thread too:
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Once in the US, these men are burrowing into small towns, posing as doctors, lawyers, CPAs, and other professional occupations which are scarce in these communities, making them more accepted and welcome. These "sleeper agents" then await activation for terrorist acts.



Yes, and buying motels, convenience stores, discount salvage merchandise stores, import type geegaw stores -

Originally Posted by dyehard39

Congressman: Terrorists are infiltrating the U.S. via Mexico
Al Qaeda-related terrorists are coming to the U.S. over the Mexican border disguised as Mexicans, Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) has disclosed. The terrorists are adopting Hispanic names and blending in with the hundreds or thousands of illegal aliens who enter the U.S. via Mexico each day.

Culberson made this statement on the John & Ken show (KFI-640 Los Angeles), and KFI is reporting his statement in their news segments.

A listener to the show offers this report:
Congressman John Culberson (R - TX), speaking on the John and Ken show in Los Angeles, tells the hosts that he's now authorized, for the first time anywhere, to disclose that Middle Eastern men with Al Qaeda links have been mixing with the stream of illegal aliens coming in via the Southern US border. Having changed their names from Islamic to Hispanic ones, and having obtained authentic Mexican Matricula Consular ID cards using faked Mexican birth certificates, the men are paying up to $30,000 to obtain entry into the US among the flow of Hispanic illegal aliens crossing. They're choosing this path because the screening process the US is using on incoming airline passengers is becoming increasingly effective. Once in the US, these men are burrowing into small towns, posing as doctors, lawyers, CPAs, and other professional occupations which are scarce in these communities, making them more accepted and welcome. These "sleeper agents" then await activation for terrorist acts.

Culberson says he was informed of this by federal prosecutors in Texas... Culberson adds that he's also been told that an Al Qaeda attack before the November election is "100% certain."One of the prosecutors is reportedly Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby.

Culberson will have more information, including a letter presumably from federal prosecutors, on Tuesday.

Culberson is currently leading the fight in the House of Representatives to prevent the acceptance of the Matricula Consular card; the FBI says that card is inherently unsafe. The Matricula Consular card is only of use to illegal aliens, not to legal residents. Culberson's attempts are being opposed by the financial industry, pro-illegal immigration, and ethnic lobbies.
In the past, there have been rumors of terrorists planning to come over the border with Mexico. See, for instance, "Feds discount rumor of Iraqis lurking in Mexico"
However, the fact that these statements are coming from a U.S. Representative and reportedly from a U.S. Attorney give them quite a bit of weight.

A month ago, WABC reported the following:
The FBI has arrested an American citizen [a naturalized citizen from Pakistan --LW] living in Queens said to be a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda.

ABC News reports investigators have tied the man to a terrorist cell set to carry out a series of bombings and assassinations in London...

The man has told investigators that Al Qaeda is planning more attacks in the United States. He has also revealed a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the Mexican border...
In March 2003, I posted "Some 9/11 conspirators entered via Mexico?":
Some of the terrorists who helped with the September 11th attacks are now reported to have entered the country through Hidalgo County. State Representative Kino Flores, who sits on the state homeland security board, in an exclusive with Newschannel Five tells us these terrorists are said to have helped with the operation...
At the time, I unsuccessfully attempted to contact Flores for more information.

Over two years ago, Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) raised questions about Mexican trucks being used to transport hazardous materials or terrorists into the U.S.

The articles "Preventing the Entry of Terrorists into the United States" and the heavily-footnoted "Enchilada Lite: A Post-9/11 Mexican Migration Agreement" have background information on the issue of border security and controlling illegal immigration.

Unfortunately, the Bush Administration is obviously not serious about controlling illegal immigration. While hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are turned away from the border each year, the Bush Administration recently halted very minor immigration sweeps in Southern California due to pressure from pro-illegal immigration and ethnic groups.

Asa Hutchinson, the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security and the person who reportedly halted the sweeps, refused to indicate if or when the sweeps would be reinstated. And, very few companies are even fined for immigration violations. While there have been a few high-profile cases where companies have been prosecuted for immigration violations (such as Wal*Mart), they are so small in number that one is forced to draw the conclusion that those prosecutions are simply for show.
For instance, both Asa Hutchinson and Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman were interviewed on KFI and asked about companies that were fined for immigration violations. Both provided Wal*Mart as an example that they were doing something. Neither however were able to provide examples of companies that operate in the Southern California area, where there are somewhere between one and three million illegal aliens.
Furthermore, the proposed Bush Amnesty has caused an uptick in illegal crossings, and Bush recently stated that "America is a nation of open doors".
On the other side of the fence, Vicente Fox and his predecessor have both claimed that the millions of "Mexicans" in the U.S. - including Mexican-Americans - are part of the greater Mexican Nation. In 2002, Mexico's foreign minister stated that he was instructing his consulates to begin "propagating militant activities" in order to obtain a "migration accord." None of these statements have been met with a public response from the Bush Administration.

UPDATE: I posted this at redstate.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2004/7/17/14157/5043, and that inspired a post (redstate.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2004/7/17/85722/872 from someone else in reply. I also posted this at command-post.org. All three threads have comments as well.
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/001640.html


Build the fence or wall
Enforce immigration laws already on the book.
Stop illegal immigration at the borders.
Stop terrorist at the border.

This is from July 16,2004 " DO NOT CONFUSE WITH CURRENT THREADS "

I just heard Congressman Royce talk about the upcoming hearings on this story (outlined in Wash. Times) -- which should be on the front page of every major newspaper in the country. And Bush, instead of securing the border over the past few years, has been running around the country pushing amnesty and open borders. Unbelievable.

Terrorist crossing the souther border disguised as Mexicans is an ongoing problem that did not end in 2004. I was responding to hearing it discussed yesterday.
Many may not have read the 2004 article or as recent as 2006. I had not.

Originally Posted by dyehard39

Terrorist crossing the souther border disguised as Mexicans is an ongoing problem that did not end in 2004. I was responding to hearing it discussed yesterday.
Many may not have read the 2004 article or as recent as 2006. I had not.

I am glad you posted this. It needs repeating - everyday - everywhere.

This is the transcript of what I heard.

LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
Congressman Warns of Terrorists Crossing Mexican Border
Aired August 8, 2007 - 18:00 ET

DOBBS: Stirring news tonight that our broken borders are potentially a terrorist threat. A DEA report, in fact, showing that radical Islamists in this country linking up with Mexican drug cartels, the very same cartels we reported on here earlier in this broadcast.

Those radical Islamists are entering the United States, posing as Hispanics.

And joining me now with more on this story is Congressman Ed Royce. He's the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs sub committee on terrorism and nonproliferation.

This -- this news emerging from the "Washington Times", finally gaining access -- access to this DEA report. Your reaction, Congressman?

REP. ED ROYCE (R), CALIFORNIA: Well, Lou, this backs up some of the reporting, some of the testimony that we heard from local law enforcement down in Texas, in Laredo, Texas, about the difficulties they were seeing locally there.

And now the report spells out how people are going to the county court and changing their name, changing their identity from an Arabic background to an Hispanic one, as well as the concerns about these links with the cartels.

DOBBS: You held hearings on the subcommittee on nonproliferation terrorism, foreign affairs. How does what you're learning today differ from the results of that hearing?

ROYCE: Well, I don't think it differs from what we learned in the hearings. And we heard in the past our FBI director Mueller say that there was this phenomenon of people changing their identities who were coming from the Middle East, from Arabic to Spanish.

But it shouldn't surprise us that much. We remember that Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, as well as al-Zarqawi both talked about launching attacks on the soft underbelly of the United States by coming through our borders, our porous borders.

And given that reality, don't you think, Lou, it's time that this government asked why we haven't secured those boarders? Don't you think it's time, when the Border Patrol tells us we have yet to secure our borders, why isn't that fence, that act, that fence security act that we passed in Congress, that we funded last year when the Republicans still had control, why is that not being built right now or being finished right now on that border?

DOBBS: Well, let's explore that. We are documenting from two separate government agencies from the hearings that you held, your subcommittee, of this threat.
But whether -- this says it's -- I mean, this demonstrates that it's real, that it has happened. And the idea that this administration --, I have to ask you this, sir, as a Republican part of the leadership, one of the leading members of Congress, the 109th Congress, now the 110th under Democratic control, why has this Congress, the Republican Party and Democratic Party, not demanded that this president enforce border security?

ROYCE: Well, I think that's -- that's the thing that's most upsetting to me. Because in a way, when we passed that Secure Fence Act, we provided the billion-plus to continue building that fence. We provided that authorization to do that.

DOBBS: Right.

ROYCE: And now we watch as the Democratic Party tries to prevent the funding, as we watch as the president doesn't, with all haste, proceed as though our national security is at risk.

Lou, our national security at risk. The 9/11 Commission is right about that.

DOBBS: As you know, I like to be fair and balanced when it comes to all critical judgment when being applied to partisans in this. The fact is, the Republican secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has refused to move ahead with that fence. Has played every game imaginable to avoid securing that border and has been nothing more than a political functionary in support of this administration rather than a man taking seriously his obligations to the safety and the welfare of the American people.

Do you disagree with that assessment?

ROYCE: Lou, I think this is why it's so important that we remind the American public of what Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and what al-Zarqawi and others in al Qaeda have said about hitting this country.

The American public needs to get behind an effort to get that border fence built quickly and to revise our immigration laws and to enforce those laws. The heat, when they feel the heat, they'll see the light. And it's up to the American public to apply that heat right now.

DOBBS: Well, Congressman Royce is telling it as it is. Contact your congressman. Contact your senator.

By the way, everybody has to be tremendously relieved that, given the issues facing this nation, the Republicans in the Senate, in particular, joining to resurrect comprehensive immigration reform, as they like to call it. The disaster of a piece of legislation.
Now they're going to reform the reformed legislation, they say. Your reaction?

ROYCE: Well, we defeated it once. The American public defeated that, Lou.

DOBBS: Yes.

ROYCE: And with a little help from the broadcast community that got the information out. We need to get the information out again and kill the bad bill and go forward with application of the laws already on the books. That's going to require the American public being -- being as outspoken as you are on this issue. I hope they'll follow suit. Thank you.

DOBBS: Congressman Ed Royce, we thank you, as always, for being here. We appreciate seeing you. Thank you.


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