THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 193, August 31, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
IS A TERRORIST ARMY MASSING IN THE U.S.A.?
U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY & ITS THREAT
TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY
By Alan Caruba
FULL STORY:
Is there is an invisible army of terrorists gathering in America today? The mainstream media and the Bush administration do not want
to talk about it.
In July, 2004, Defense Watch reported that, in Arizona, an area called the Naco Strip has become a primary route of illegal entry
by “significant numbers of Arab-speaking males.” It took a small town weekly newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to
reveal that, “males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have been detained in the past few weeks.” Since October 1, 2003, 5,510
illegal aliens designated “Other Than Mexican” (OTM) have been apprehended while crossing the Arizona terrain. These OTMs are
not here to pick vegetables, mow lawns, pluck chickens, or wash cars.
Just do the math. If only five Muslim terrorists crossed the border every day for a year that would add up to 1,825 people ready to do
the bidding of Osama bin Laden. If this has been going on for just the years since 9-11, that’s an army of 5,475. Then, too, there are an
estimated 2.9 million Muslims in America. Extremists, worldwide, are estimated to be about ten percent of the overall population.
Applied to the U.S.A., that represents a potential 290,000 American Muslims sympathetic to the Islamist cause. No matter how you slice
and dice the numbers, it suggests that a substantial threat exists and is exacerbated by the failure to stop terrorists at our borders.
They constitute a virtual army of terrorists who, if not apprehended, could create a day of havoc from coast to coast when al-Qa'ida
gives the signal. When that day comes, remember that you read about it here first.
Or, as some argue, there’s no proof that any al-Qa'ida operatives have crossed the border. If, however, any were captured, normal
counterterrorism procedures would be to deny this and seek to extract information from those in custody. The 9-11 operatives were
here thanks to sloppy immigration procedures and, in the case of illegal aliens, the estimates are that eight to twelve million live among
us. That is a huge margin for error.
The topic the Bush administration wants to stay away from until after November 2, Election Day, is immigration. Some have called the
Bush administration immigration policies “schizophrenic,” but they are not. They are globalist, i.e., the views of someone for whom
national borders should be regarded as outmoded while we all join hands in one big, global neighborhood.
One can understand the “schizophrenic” label, given the hue and cry about Bush’s socalled unilateralism and willingness “to go it
alone,” but this is the same administration that supports a variety of policies that are globalist, most of which come straight out of the
United Nations. The way civics is taught in our schools today is designed to create generations of globalists for whom our national
sovereignty and the Bill of Rights are just a bunch of 18th century “ideas.”
There are a number of problems with this see-no-evil immigration policy. On August 10, 2004, Jerry Seper of the Washington
Times, reported that, under President Bush’s guest-worker program,
“Millions of illegal aliens in the United States would be free from arrest and deportation, have access
to tax-deferred savings accounts and Social Security credits, and get unrestricted travel to and from
their home countries.”
This constitutes a massive dollar transfer to Mexico.
Homeland Security Undersecretary, Asa Hutchinson, responsible for the nation’s borders and transportation security, has apparently
lost his senses. In a recently reported response to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hutchinson supported the Bush
immigration policies, while acknowledging that the “incentives” being offered illegal aliens are generous to a fault. The National Border
Patrol Council that represents 10,000 of the non-supervisory agents called the guest-worker plan a “slap in the face to anyone who has
ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States.”
In January, 2004, the Mexican government acknowledged that the number of their people entering the U.S.A. illegally had increased 66%
from 1990 to 2002. Naturally, Mexico’s President, Vicente Fox, wants Bush to grant de facto amnesty to an estimated eight to eleven
million illegal aliens already working in the United States, the majority of whom are Mexican. Amnesty and any other program of this
nature is simply a reward for breaking the laws of the United States of America. There are even some voices suggesting they should be
given the right to vote!
One little discussed cost of the open door policy being pursued by the Bush administration is the increase in the cost of law enforcement
where illegal aliens gather in numbers. Right now, according to Seper, “About 80,000 illegal criminal aliens, including convicted murders,
rapists, drug dealers, and child molesters who served prison time and were released, are loose on the streets of America, hiding from
federal immigration authorities.”
They don’t have to hide that hard. According the figures for 2002 from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and from U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 375,000 known illegal aliens have been ordered deported, but have disappeared
pending immigration hearings. Lee Boyd Malvo, the sniper who terrorized the Washington, D.C. area, was one of them.
Recently, Brazil agreed to step up the policing of the Triple Border Area with Paraguay and Argentina. According to a Washington
Times editorial, “It has long been identified as a fund-raising, training and procurement haven for diverse terrorist groups, including
al-Qa'ida and Hezbollah.” The ease with which terrorists could be infiltrated into the U.S.A. from these South American strongholds
cannot be underestimated.
When the facts are examined, there are few good reasons to permit the massive daily influx of Mexicans and other illegal aliens, but there
is one very good reason to shut it down completely.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Immigration & Illegal Aliens
More on Immigration & Illegal Aliens
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Terrorism & American Homeland Security
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES DEALING WITH
IMMIGRATION & ILLEGAL ALIENS:
Center for Immigration Studies
VDARE
Federation for American Immigration Reform
Congressional Immigration Caucus
Americans for Immigration Control
American Immigration Control Foundation
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past columns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Nations vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 28 West Third Street, Apartment 1321, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079.
Copyright 2004 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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