Thread: Porous Borders Invites Al Qaeda

Exclusive: Porous Borders Open Door to Al Qaeda in the U.S.
Mike Cutler


Author: Mike Cutler
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: July 13, 2007


News that Al Qaeda has inserted one of its terror cells into the United States illustrates the audacity of global Jihad, but we should not be shocked. FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler points out the urgency of solving our porous border dilemma. Will the government act now?

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Porous Borders Open Door to Al Qaeda in the U.S.
By Michael Cutler


I just finished watching the ABC News national report with Charlie Gibson. His lead story also appears on the ABC website.

The report is more than a little disquieting, not only because our officials apparently believe that our nation may be attacked within a short time frame, but this news also highlights the frustrating, disturbing fact that our government has done virtually nothing to prevent this from happening! How will our officials prevent these terrorists from entering our country? If they are here, how will we identify them and seek to arrest and neutralize them before they attack us?

Let me make this as clear as I can. Our nation's borders barely represent a speed bump to millions of illegal aliens who simply want to work in violation of law in the United States. How much of a deterrent would those borders be to terrorists who are determined to enter our country to attack us? Additionally, our immigration bureaucracy is so inept and incompetent that according to the GAO, last year USCIS claims to have lost more than 111,000 immigration files relating to aliens seeking a wide variety of immigration benefits including some 30,000 who applied for United States citizenship. Incredibly USCIS adjudicated those critical applications without the relating files!

Senators Grassley of Iowa and Collins of Maine requested that the GAO conduct and investigation into this sheer madness. You can read Senator Grassley press release concerning this HERE, and you can read the actual GAO report HERE.

The consistent failure to secure our borders creates an immigration system that makes ineffective efforts to enforce the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States. This laxity and insufficiency of national resolve contribute to our vulnerabilities. It is also important to understand that while everyone familiar with law enforcement agrees that the cultivation of informants is an important component of counterterrorism, the most effective way of cultivating informants within alien communities is to enforce the immigration laws and then provide opportunities to those aliens who violate the laws to become informants who have the capability of identifying terrorists for our law enforcement officials.

Rather than focusing on methodology for keeping the terrorists out (if they are not already here), it would appear that our officials - such as Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff – must accept the fact that terrorists can easily cross our borders, bringing their deadly plans with them. It is essential that our government develop specific procedures for minimizing the damage that terrorists might do to our country!

The administration and members of the Senate recently pushed for a Guest Worker Amnesty Program in the guise of a benign procedure that would have granted official identity documents to millions of illegal and undocumented aliens whose nationalities as well as their names are unknown and unverifiable. Fortunately this bill is dead - for now - but I am concerned that Ted Kennedy and his cohorts on Capitol Hill may well try to resurrect this bill yet again. I came to refer to the last version of this bill as the "Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act of 2007."

There are so many ways that terrorists can easily circumvent our nearly nonexistent efforts at securing our border, that I understand why Chertoff seems to believe that we cannot stop the bad guys from entering our country. This is not the way it can or should be! Our borders should have been secured after the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. The Visa Waiver Program needed to be terminated after the attacks of 9/11. Instead, President Bush, Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and the other current and former members of the administration have been clamoring for an expansion of the disastrous Visa Waiver Program!

Our nation currently permits corporations to make national security decisions for the United States. As a consequence of this lunacy, "We the People" may pay for this with our lives. Our government is supposed to be "Of the people and for the people" yet, apparently, this is not the case.

We the People need to make our concerns heard in Washington. It is time to remind the members of Congress that they work for us! If only 14% of the American people approve of the way that Congress does its job, then it is time that the 86% who do not approve call their senators and members of the House of Representatives tomorrow morning!

If they would enforce the laws against the employers, stop the freebies, enforce the local laws - traffic, zoning, insurance, etc., many of these people would go home.

Many would go home, fewer would come.

Once we have many of them out of the country voluntarily, we could go about seeking them out - and sending the rest home forcibly.


Without a nation full of these people living outside the law, we can have a better chance of smoking out the terrorists.

With the flourishing fake document trade supported by the illegals, the willing employers, the sanctuary cities, local LE turning a blind eye, how are we going to ever find them. They just blend into the crowd of lawbreakers -

We need to fix our country so these creeps will stand out -