FBI: Iraqis Being Smuggled Across the Rio Grande

Just freaking lovely!

This country is a joke!

We have known this has been going on for years now , yet you run this story as though it is a revaluation.
You should be using this space to demand a closure to the BORDER !!
PLEASE DO YOUR PART ON STOPPING THE NEXT ATTACK INSIDE OUR BORDER .This is by pardinson , “OUR” safety .

Brian Ross appears to be carrying the water for the Administration. Believe me that there are no Iraqis coming over the Mexican border. This is a ploy by the Bushies to set up the next false flag operation on US soil. The revolution is coming soon . . .

I think the FBI report goes a long way to substantiating the claim that AQ may use Iraqi AQ to attack in the US, and soon.
I don’t understand how you manage to contrive the story into something about immigration and refugees from Iraq.

watch out…Ted Kennedy will head up a bill that will criminalize our persecution of these new hard-working citizens….to be politically correct we will have to call them….hmmmm “Terrorist-Americans”

Build the fence now!

This is a no brainer! We haven’t or won’t defend our borders what the hell do you think is going to happen. Of course terrorists are going to come across. Gee how did Bush drop the ball on this????

Surprise, Surprise!
(only to the stupid politicians)!

I cannot believe Mexican nationals are being smuggled into the United States! This is unheard of!

We in Texas have known about this for more than a year; its been on our LOCAL TV and LOCAL radio news reports. Last year, if I remember correctly, the executive branch tried to make the story “softly go away.”

When was that last terrorist attack? Was it September 11, 2001 or September 11, 201? How soon we have forgotten. Our government is acting like it’s ancient history.

Shalom:
It seems that our government needs to wake-up and work together for the common good of America. While we are being threatened by Terrorists, Congress is too busy playing silly games and not doing the work of the people. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

too bad our government refuses to secure our borders despite the massive risk it poses, unless big business gets a never ending supply of cheap labor.

So this is not brain surgery – someone half way around the world could pick up any us national newspaper and figure out that across the Rio is the easiest way into the country. When are they going to get the border fixed? Oh that’s right – it is better to take the fight to them in Iraq.

Only one solution tell everyone you know to vote nothing but 3rd party candidates for president and congress. Not even independents are trustworthy, vote a whole multitude of other 3rd party candidates to send a wake up call. God forbid there is another 9/11, if so..you will see vigilantism and a revolt that will make the Boston Tea Party look like sesame street.

This is disgusting. Every time I see Bush I keep thinking of the movie, The Caine Mutiny. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, rent the video. Our ‘leaders’ have done nothing to protect us. I can’t even stand to watch him on the news any more–he makes me sick.

Having read these comments what comes to mind is the question of what’s more scary? The outside threat of terrorism, or the inside threat of totalitarianism? People are calling to completely seal off the US borders? What, build a wall around the entire United States? Just the southern border, how about the Canadian border? Create a military police state? Anybody remember the Berlin Wall??? Is that what you want? Shoot anyone who tries to cross over??? Bring up Bush on murder charges??? In case you haven’t heard, Bush OK’d a plan to increase the Border Patrol numbers by 30,000. We already have the military deployed along the border. What more do you want, military check points on every road and highway in the US? Gee, we can be just like the old Soviet Union. Do you have your traveling permit and papers in order comrade??? You don’t mind if we search your vehicle at gunpoint do you, since you have nothing to hide???

The Border Patrol, there every day, are “unaware” of such a smuggling operation. Federal prosecutors in New Mexico have no such cases. The FBI in New Mexico has “no comment”.
In the context of these past couple of weeks of totally unsubstantiated “booga booga” propaganda emanating from the oligarchs in Washington, it’s clear that yet another false flag operation is in the works.
When did the former United States become a land of zombies willing to believe anything just because the government said so? When did transparent propaganda become confused with “news”?

As a campaign worker for Bush in both elections, he has lost my support over this immigration nonsense! Wow. Middle easterners coming across the Mexican border. Who would have thought THAT would happen?! Until we secure our borders and start sending the criminals back to Mexico and wherever else they came from, we are fooling ourselves thinking that we have ANY Homeland “Security!” You want to come to the U.S.? Get in line in YOUR own country!

How sad that congress battles among themselves while we are losing our borders. Sen. Reid and Sen. Kerry are blinded by anger and hate for Bush. I’ve always felt the USA could never be defeated by external powers – we will defeat ourselves from within. When is the last time the Reps and Dems worked together to accomplish anything important? The future looks grim.

As long as the Dept of Justice keeps putting Border Patrol Agents in jail for doing their jobs the bigger the problem gets. Homeland security is nothing but an empire building job creating government boondoggle organization to destroy this country. Living in southern New Mexico we see the results of these clowns. The Congress of this country abets this criminal endeavor. God help us all.

I love it when the gov’t “fixes” things… We need to fire the whole gov’t and start over. Everyone in the State & Federal Gov’t should be kicked out, reorganize the 2 million Departments of Everything and elect new people that have half an ounce of common sense to run the show.

Blame it on Global Warming?

Had the Americans’ rulers lived up to the reputation given them by their own Left, they would have taken the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran, rather than tie themselves down in trying to reform broken countries. They would have made the turnover of Saudi wealth a condition for the Saudi “princes’” lives. They would have increased their wealth while impoverishing their enemies. They would have paid for their wars, their recovery from 9/11, and their border security from their new oil revenues, and they would have annexed OPEC’s former power to their own.
That the Americans’ rulers didn’t take this course is evidence they’re not the crafty men their Left says they are. Instead, their lack of flexibility impairs their prudence in defense of liberty.

This is shameful, once again, we are alerted to the fact that a nation that does not control its’ border, will cease to exist one day.
Can we build the wall now? Last time I checked the money was allocated 2 years ago to the Federal Government!!!

See what a bunch of liberals and a couple of “compassionate conservatives” can do when they are given the power??? We had better remember this at election time.

Even if the Dems take office they are even more guilty than the Republicans. Just look at the Ted Kennedy crowd. If it were up to them they would flood this country with illegals in hopes of winning more votes.

Let’s not place all of the blame on Bush. It deserves to be placed on EVERY freaking political “leader” that is in power now. They are more interested in gaining votes for the next election that they could care less about this country and the safety of our families. They spend more time approving a pay raise for themselves than doing something about securing our borders. IT MAKES ME SICK. Why can’t we have our own version of “The Great Wall of China”???????

Border control throughout the West is fast becoming an issue of national survival. How can we possibly continue to exist as long as we accept millions upon millions of 3rd world foreigners into our midsts each year? Do we have no interest in national and cultural survival?
The nations of the 3rd world MUST be forced to face the issues in their own countries. As long as the West serves as a relief valve the required societal pressures won’t build to critical mass such that change can take place. It is in the best interest of the 3rd world as well as ourselves if we shut the doors.

Good! Good! Americans getting ever more angry at our worthless Washington crowd. Now we must have a true American to step forward to run for President and then we must vote the scum(liberal dems and repubs) out of congress.

If someone throws a rock through your window do you blame the glass maker? If someone shoots you do you blame the gun manufacturer? Someone should be upset at the person that commits the crime.

Liberals Dictionary:
Border fence: 1. A line in the sand used to create racial and ethnic drama…2. A structure that one can argue would never be used by terrorists, but if they do, they feel free to blame the people who tried to build it.

Factually, what info makes this report highlight “Iraqis” apart from any “other Middle Eastern individuals” being smuggled into the US?
Nothing, it appears, other than Iraq being a hot-button at the moment because of the war. Aren’t the Saudis supposed to be way worse?

Please tell me someone didn’t just say we can close off our borders as easily as Israel. Ask families of those killed by suicide bombers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa how well “totally sealed borders” worked to save their loved ones. Have you considered the complexity of such a completely absurd thought, given geographic size disparities, greater relative oceanic borders, trade differential (i.e., infinitely greater port traffic) in the U.S.? Israel is 1/25 the size of Texas alone. Your comment only serves to illuminate the vast reactionary ignorance of they average American, and is an embarrassment to the rest of us who call ourselves Americans.

If congress would send Bush a bill for securing the borders without all the crap(amnesty,pork,mismanaging of funds) he would still sign it because it begins to address the problem. Stop with the Berlin Wall metaphors.

you people are so easily manipulated. Iraqis are not the enemy of the American people. They are the enemy of Cheney and Bush, Who happened to be the enemy of the American people. wake up

Why our Borders remain open 7 years after 911 is a Criminal Act of our Congress, Senate and President. America should welcome everyone and anyone so long as we know whom they are, yet our own leaders are guilty in their in ability to protect us in the future. Shame on them and shame on us, there may come a time to remove them by election or other means, if we are attacked.

Yeah, Lets have a Dictatorship. Oh wait, the American people are whiney and cry babies. That wouldn’t work. Quit blaming one person (Bush) This is the work of many governmental employees. Dems and Reps alike. Don’t jump on the bandwagon because all this happened when Bush was in office. Although, if Mr Internet would have won office we all could be blaming Gore.

Unfortunately, it will take more terrorism in this country to move people to real action. Sad, isn’t it? Americans, and I’m one of them, are too spoiled and apathetic to realize what’s going on. They’re asleep. Sad to say, but everyone will be awake when the terrorists, who surely are in this country already, strike, and strike again. Those peace-loving people, they.

I wonder if the politicians are getting a kick-back from the smugglers? Perhaps the smugglers have a lobby fest in D.C? Why else would they be dragging their feet? Seems like when politicians smell money these days it’s like when sharks smell blood. Forget you – the electorate! They all are working to fill their own coffers.
How on earth do these same politicians keep getting re-elected over and over again when they keep doing stupid and wrong things against good, loyal and patriotic American citizens? When are we going to flat VOTE OUT all the incumbents? Lets do it this next election cycle!

This is not just a Bush issue with the border! Aren’t you people just a little sick of both parties not securing the border. Lets hope someone runs on the independent party that cares about what the American people have continuously stated and that CLOSE OUR BORDERS NOW, then lets figure out what to do with the illegal problem.

This is the last straw on illegal immigration. I’m sorry, but President Bush, who I VOTED FOR TWICE, and Chertoff and McCain and KENNEDY and that crying BABY DURBIN..I don’t care if you are democrat or republican…you HAVE FAILED US.

People! THINK for a minute! Do you realize how many TONS OF DRUGS are smuggled across the border each year…cocaine, heroin and pot — across both Mexico and Canada? And you think all of sudden we’re going to stop the flow of people? Pul-eeze, wake up!! Our borders our porous and always have been. Just be prepared for the next attack and hope we can survive and strike back. It’s going to be a long war.

Why isn’t Bill Richardson being hung out to dry? Anybody?

The military, the national guard and the border patrol hate our politicians, if another 9/11 occurs within the US who will protect the politicians from the people of America, Girl Scouts?

SEALING OFF THE BORDER IS THEE BIGGEST issue we need to deal with. Bush is a traitor to this country because he doesn’t want it any more. He wants a continent, not a country. Get the vision, people. Vote in the next election for someone who still actually wants a country. Let’s see…who would that be… WE must save this country or it’s done for. America is going to be the next fallen Roman Empire. A third world country.

Our government just recently told us that the terrorists are plotting to get into the U.S. We all know the easiest way to get in is just to walk across the border with the other millions of illegal immigrants. We know that our government is not putting a fence up and now they’re telling us that middle easterner’s are now and have been smuggled across the border. That’s like hiring a security company to guard your estate and build a fence around your estate to help secure it. Then a few weeks later they tell you that they have information that bad guys are plotting to break into your estate.
Then a few weeks later you realize they don’t even have one percent of the fence put up. Then on another day they tell you that some of the bad guys have already and still are coming onto your estate. Question, at what point do you fire the security company. Why are we paying all this money for security? The reason this is happening is because we can’t fire the people in our government that run our security, as easy and as quick as we can fire a private security firm.

…LOL! I can’t wait til 2009, because that is when the Dems will have full control and Osama will be given a passport to the US to talk at the UN in order to work out our differences! AAAHHHH, peace is only 18 months away!
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, do you?

You want to vote in an independent who loves this country heart and soul? Someone who’ll tell you the unmitigated truth? Someone who’ll listen to the people? Someone who will save this country from becoming third world?
Michael Savage.

I have gut feeling…, do you have a gut feeling? Well, do you? No more Clinton and Bush Dynasties, no more Kennedy or Chertoff, VOTE ALL THESE BUMS OUT OF OFFICE! They’re feathering their own nests. The government is no longer interested in protecting its OWN people. Meanwhile, stock up on water, food, and ammo. I have a GUT feeling you’re going to need it.

It is only a matter of time. Americans will take back their streets, towns, counties and states. No civilization lasted without immigration controls and rule of law.

Why don’t we boycott the next elections. Don’t vote for anyone. Instead, write your own name on the ballot.

When we get attacked again, those who kept those borders open will have some explaining to do. The rage that will be directed at them will be INTENSE.
Thanks to greed and political correctness (Those who worship money, and stupid liberals.) we are about to have fight on our own soil.
Thanks a lot morons.

Maybe in a few years this country will be as screwed-up as Iraq. Another Civil War and Hatfield/McCoy killings. Forget about any sense of civility there will be too many axes to grind. I think Politically Correct will go on a permanent vacation. Racial profiling will be used for future long distance targets. Oh well…………

Let’s all say it together now…”Fence…fence…fence…fence…fence…”

Hey Stuart,
In case you haven’t heard, the number of illegal immigrants in our country has tripled since 1995 from 5 million to somewhere between 12 million and 20 million, not counting 300,000 babies born per year who are illegally granted citizenship based on a gross misinterpretation of the 14 amendment. Since 1970, more than 30 million legal and illegal immigrants have settled in the U.S., representing more than one-third of all people ever to come to America’s shores. Since 1990, the United States has averaged 500,000 new illegal immigrants per year. Since 2000, we have added more than 1 million new legal immigrants per year. The present level of immigration, both legal and illegal, is significantly higher than the average historical level of immigration. The National Research Council estimates that by 2050, current immigration policies will cause the population of the United States to be fully 80 million larger than without immigration, triple the population growth that would take place naturally without immigration. In less than 50 years, 2050, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that immigration will cause the population of the United States to increase from its present 288 million to more than 400 million.

A group of radical Islamic terrorists have been smuggled into the U.S. by Mexican coyotes who don’t care because they are paid good money. The group eventually splits up into smaller cells that go on to attack Americans in shopping malls across the country.
this scenario is fiction based on intelligence reports and an analysis of tactics of Al Qaeda and other radical terrorist groups….let’s hope it remains fictional. Lock the border down now!

Instead of posting raise hell with your congressmen and senators to build the fence and seal the border, San Diego did So.

Don’t worry, Nate, when the next series of terrorist acts hit this country, leadership will improve. The people will see to it – if we’re still alive, that is.
One thing is for sure and I’m finished posting, God is in control. We, as a Christian nation, can take heart in that, and we must turn back to Him.

Julie asks “Why would terrorist use the Mexican border to cross into America when they could just drive across the Canadian border?”
Answer: Think about it, a terrorist does not want to be known, face on film, monies carried not questioned about and what ever weapons not confiscated.
Terrorists don’t want us to know how many are arriving, where they are going or staying. Coming up from South America where they have a few bases now, is the perfect route for them.

Does this mean they are legal now???

Dear President Bush: why do you care about showing compassion to people who want to enter illegally more than you care about the people who elected you?

It’s interesting and sad that most of the posters here made the assumption that Iraqis sneaking into the US must be terrorists. I know there are tens of thousands of Iraqis that live in Metro Detroit, many of them Catholics. Christian Iraqis have always faced persecution in Iraq, and that has only heightened over the past four years. They are stuck in the middle of the Sunnis and the Shiites and there is now no place for them to hide. Many Iraqi refugees are probably trying to get to the U.S. to join relatives who are among the tens of thousands of Iraqis living in the U.S. Remember people, there were no “Iraqi terrorists” involved in 911, and Al Qaeda is made up largely of non-Iraqis. Iraqis are too busy fighting their own civl war in Iraq ro become “terrorists” targeting Americans on American soil. So many of these comments reflect the ignorance of uneducated Republicans who still cling to the notion that Iraq had anything to do whatsoever to 911. Whenever there is civil war, there are refugees. They have to go somewhere – why wouldn’t some of them be trying to come here? It doesn’t make them terrorists. You may want the borders to be secure, but don’t assume that Iraqi refugees are terrorists. That’s just plain stupid.

The best security is to legalize the aliens , that way you know who is walking beside you. As of now do you know if the person besides you is ok or a terrorist?

Steve said: “The military, the national guard and the border patrol hate our politicians, if another 9/11 occurs within the US who will protect the politicians from the people of America, Girl Scouts?”
I dunno, Steve – when I was a kid, I knew of couple of Girl Scouts that could kick but ‘n take names!
Seriously, previous comments from clowns like Travis and Andy show that not all idiots are Washington politicans…. this story is not new, they’ve been crossing for the past two years with BOTH parties ignoring their most fundamental duty; protect our country. A lot of people are going to die so we can have lots of new Democrats, and the Republicans can assure lots of cheap labor. Good night, America.

Bush and Co. are responsible for endangering us by starting wars and being too stupid to seal our borders. The US State Dept. is issuing 30k visas to Saudis, etc, etc. Halt all immigration for at least 5 years.

I would just like to point out that America’s problem with terrorism today, is due to the Republican policy of the last few decades. Two separate Bushes starting two separate wars on Iraq is the only reason why today their are Iraqi’s sneaking into America with terrorism on their minds. On top of all the excuses for the Iraq war that have been proven baseless, we just find out this week that Al Qaeda is back up to pre 9/11 strength. The Republicans had a monopoly on our government for the first five years after 9/11 and look how much they got done! I can’t understand how their can be so much angst against liberals right now when the whole time frame from 9/11 till last November they didn’t have any say in our government.

may be we all should give some money to the minutemen so they can speed up their work. At least they have been building some of the fences and also significantly cheaper.

No borders = no “illegal aliens”

Well, Wilder, that should be easy for you, since I seriously doubt you EVER voted for a Republican in your life…. “Duhh, push the lever for anyone who has the little “D” next to their name… duhhhhhh, I dood it, and I didn’t even have to think!”.
Reagan didn’t “push” ANYTHING…. the Dems bargained for the ’86 amnesty deal, promising that they would secure the border afterwards. Yeah, right…
And as for GEORGE W BUSH “pushing” the deal…. wow, all of the Democrats lines up against that, didn’t they? Nasty ol’ Ted Kennedy… Wilder, get your lies straight, please. You’re looking foolish!

Bush is a failure. If he wanted to, with the stroke of a pen, he could militarize the border in the short term while a fence is built. Case closed. But he wants one country from Mexico’s southern border to the Pole and WILL NOT protect and defend this country. The fact is, there is NOTHING we can do about it- the fate of this country is in the hands of people who are betraying it. Instead of statesmen, we have politicians. Instead of patriots, we have traitors…

a) begin on the Mexican border…build a fence, put in listening devices, infrared sensors, guards and uav’s…shut that border DOWN! b) work with the Mexican government to agree on a number of immigrants, guest workers and such… then let them in using a controlled and orderly process. We ALL get what we want. And we have a much better chance of stopping terrorists. Its a much cheaper thing to do than building a new country

My question is If we are hated by so many, why is everyone wanting to live here?
Borders should have been closed long ago. Its just finally catching up with us as to why we have had open borders for so long. I laughed at Steve’s post, but its true.This country is English-American. We should not be catering to other languages. English is the language of this country. You want to live here so badly. Learn the language or get out.

Of course AQ is smuggling personnel into the US through Mexico;
Close the border; deport all second-wavers – period; deport all felony-conviction first-wavers; and promote all American industries eviscerated by NAFTA through tax credits.

Heard on the radio this morning there are three to four million Iraqi refugees (up to 2 million internally displaced, and 2 million left Iraq), yet less than 400 were granted asylum in the USA. Just lask week a Christian Iraqi couple employed by the US Embassy in Baghdad was killed in cold blood. Desperate people resort to desperate measures, that’s why they are now crossing the Rio Grande. Q: Does our government have the decency to fix what it broke?

It’s amazing how many people are blaming the Republicans or Democrats for this. Why aren’t you contacting your congressional representatives?
Everyone here is just blowing hot air, unless you contact your reps in congress.

This “Clown” and not so funny one that is in the White House along with his V.P. took an oath of office to
“protect and defend” our borders. Words are cheap however. I have counted numerous reasons why Bush and Cheney should be impeached. We have had these
war profiteers in office way to long. Our borders is a joke. In all my 66 years have I seen such inept leadership.
Bush could not lead a Boy Scout troop on a 3 mile hike and find his way back and so many were so stupid to re elect this man a second time?. Stupid cannot be fixed!

Julie…….psssst…Amelia Earhart was a spy. JFK was killed by the mafia on corporate america’s behalf. The moon landings were faked in a Hollywood sound stage. Our government brought down the Twin Towers. Of COURSE its strange that the Bush family is “close” to the Saudi Royal Family. LMAO

Where’s the FENCE??????????

Throw every bum that voted for amnesty out regardless of party. We will secure our borders if we have to do it ourselves. Bush won’t protect us because he wants an EU style treaty with Canada and Mexico. We should go into Mexico and topple that government and annex Baja to Calif. to pay for the millions of people living off the dole.

The answer: Duh, we don’t know. We are too busy stuffing our pockets with illegal cash from special interest groups, vacationing and bashing each other.

So, Where’s The Fence ?

I’m not suprised. We have endless people just walking in. Yes, some are honest but lots of them are dope dealers, car thieves, gang members and the sad part is no one cares.

A border fence will not work thats why we should remove all fences and walls from US prisons because everyone knows that walls and fences do not work!

Worthy of a repeat: Bush is a failure. If he wanted to, with the stroke of a pen, he could militarize the border in the short term while a fence is built. Case closed. But he wants one country from Mexico’s southern border to the Pole and WILL NOT protect and defend this country.
The fact is, there is NOTHING we can do about it- the fate of this country is in the hands of people who are betraying it. Instead of statesmen, we have politicians. Instead of patriots, we have traitors…
Posted by: Michael Troup | Jul 17, 2007 4:50:06 PM

Hey Harry, Nancy,
How ya doing with building that fence??? What? No progress??!!! The blood of the next American who is murdered in a terrorist attack is on your hands.
Come on you Democrats, is Harry and Nancy the best you got??????? These two clowns are so stupid they are dangerous.

Who is the enemy here? seems our gvt. is not doing anything. Its getting to the time the tree of liberty needs to be refreshed.
The Congress seems to want to go their own direction. I don’t really think they want to “go their own direction”, I think they are being pushed by someone else than the American Citizen.

The last country that I remember that lost total control of it’s own borders, was the last dynasty of China. That allowed the British to smuggle opium into China by the shipload. It totally destroyed the country. Why should we allow the USA to be destroyed from within this way. unrestricted emigration and drugs smuggled into our country will destroy the country. Wait until we get thirty or forty car bombs going off in NYC, Boston, Disney world, Ect. during Macys Thanksgiving parade, A Rock concert, or at a school. Wake UP! Mine the border if you have to, but put an end to a porous border.

Hey – lets focus on busting Hard-Working Americans for not wearing their seat belts. In my town we have SWAT teams running out from the bushes looking in people’s cars – making them pull over because they didn’t have their seat belts on. Meanwhile, we have terrorists living here that are determined to blow up a nuke in this country.

You people are all so rabidly angry. You sound ridiculous. Most of your shrill arguments have holes wide enough to drive a truck through. Breathe, all of you hysterical lunatics. . . BREATHE!

Bush said you had to fight them over there to avoid fighting them here, but yet again, Bush and his stupid ignorant rightwing friends are wrong.
Bush Admin=Vast Incompetence.

so why are we in Iraq and why are we not concentrating a fortification of efforts including manpower and money that are utterly wasted in Iraq. Yes take these strengths and defense and utilize them from within this country. If a nuke was detonated here in the states , just how well prepared would we be with thousands of troops deployed in the Mideast? Bringing the war to them does not work.

Blame the left, blame the right. Blame the conservatives, blame the liberals. I’ve never read such idiotic, self serving nonsense in my life. You people want someone to blame for this mess we have? LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
When was the last time any of you put your beliefs even on a piece of cardboard and stood at the busiest intersection of your community fighting for your “side” of this? My guess is never. How many people didn’t vote the first time bush ran – 44% of the population? Losers. Take your hearts off your sleeves, get your brain off the web and get out in the street and make some noise. Because until we do, comments like these do nothing but empower those who rule without so much as a whimper from those being ruled. It’s pathetic.

Undoubtedly, we will be attacked again. The question is how bad will the attack, or attacks have to be before EVERYONE IN AMERICA is on the same side again. Does it have to be nuclear? Multiple-nuclear? At some point, all the libs and all the far righties will be united. It’s scary to think that one day that might happen, but it will. Will it be too late though?
Some day, when America is nearly crippled through attacks launched by foreigners on our home soil, the people will take back justice. The solution will be simple then. Look at the person to the left of you, to the right of you, what do you have in common with them? Are they your friend? What religion are they? Where do they come from? Where do you come from?

Actually we knew about terrorists coming across the Mexican border in 2002. An article in WorldNetDaily talked about all the intelligence reports that the Mexican MS-13 gang is smuggling AQ guys across for 25K per person.

Voters from both parties are upset at the torrent of hate-America-illegals.
There should be a national vote on this most critical issue. Entrenched politicians are not up to the task.

To each and everyone posting here.I have always believed in America and that when it counted, everyday common americans would stand up and draw a line in the sand and say ” NO FURTHER”!
But rather than do that you squabble and quibble about republicans and democrats. About Al Franken and Rush Limbaugh instead of going to the source, which is your elected officials in Washington. Who have decided that they do not have to listen to you. If you really want to do something about the situation stop fighting amongst yourselves about Bush or Kennedy about democrat or republican and become Americans again.

Seriously, time to vote in Fred Thompson who has made one of his primary platforms to secure the border. It takes only one of those thousands of border crossers to be dangerous amoungst the thousands who are not to make things very bad for us.

Hey,Andy…Believe you??? Who are you and how the heck do you know who is and is not coming across the border?
Don’t you think it would be nice to know or have some control? You obviously live far away from the Mexican border.

We deported lots of illegals after WWII and later in the 60′s when the government put bounties on illegals. We can do it again. I live in Texas and on 9/11 I went to the Border at Del Rio; it was NEVER closed, that day nor any other. It doesn’t seem like our Government has the will to keep the USA sovereign. (See: Old Roman Empire)

This proves that refusing to deal with illegal immigration isn’t a solution. There was much glee defeating Bush’s Surrender American Sovereignty Act. Bush finally got democrats to work with him. Doing nothing isn’t facing the problem ether. We know what people are against. Removing twelve million people is a monumental task. We don’t have the resources: guards, buses housing. Leaving these people to starve in Mexico may reflect conservative values; this doesn’t reflect American or Christian values.

david, we’re passionate, and yes, angry. Get on the bandwagon, friend. You live here too. Can you not see where it’s going?
Would you mind filling in the holes in our shrilly arguments? All I hear is name calling from you. Support yourself (in more ways then one!)

Middle Easterns coming in through Mexico, NO WAY! This has been going on for not 1, 2 or even 3 but for years! Even during the Clinton Administration.
We’ve all the seen the videos and heard all the news about people jumping, walking and driving across the border for about what 30 years now? But it’s funny how we always blame whatever Administration and President (Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter hey even Teddy Roosevelt) but we (all Americans) never really do anything. It easy to say whats wrong and what needs to be done (just like Democrats always do) but what about fixing it! Speak out by Calling/Writing to your Congressman (remember the person who represents us in the government) until he/she gets the point. Go out and assemble! Stop whining and pointing the finger at the computer screen or TV screen when you hear about things like this.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we don’t want to change the world………..just our do-nothing government.

Sin is the root cause of all that is not good. Although, clark, I will concede that ‘false’ religion is very much to blame. If there were no religion, there would still be evil-doing. It is because there is sin in the world and it will be here until God/Jesus Christ returns.

Is anyone suprised? NO!!!! We already knew this was happening, hence the reason to build the border fence. Everyone thinks we wants to keep the illegal Mexican farmers out. NO!!!! we want to keep out criminals, and others who wish to do us harm.

I have an idea, how bout if everyone that wants to protect our borders and get terrorists join the military. Why not enlist your sons and daughters. Any takers, I thought so.
Posted by: Ed | Jul 17, 2007 5:25:19 PM
Hey, Ed. We already have. What are you doing . . . besides exercising your gums?

The people of America should take securing the border in their own hands.

Hey…Hey! Not to worry. The 13 completed miles of the 890 fence will stop them!

The 2 MILLION Iraqi’s that have fled Iraq due to the stupid war have to go somewhere. This has nothing to do with ‘terrorists’ getting into the United States. The people coming from Iraq are INNOCENTS displaced by the violence. Anyone supporting the war should be levied a tax that pays for housing these people.

FEAR, FEAR, FEAR. Please be scared so I can take more of your freedom, oooh the Boogie Man is coming.

Those of us living in Texas have seen this or similar things happening for decades. We continue to get lectures on how wonderful it is that we have a diverse society.

What a completely nonsensical argument, Ed. So, since we’re not the ones “guarding” the border, we have no right to complain about it? Give me a break! We pay these people! THEY WORK FOR US, AND THEY’RE NOT DOING THEIR JOB!
By your utterly INSANE logic, since I don’t patrol my neighborhood every night, I shouldn’t complain if the cops sleep in their cars while the house down the block gets broken into. Get a clue!

It’s too late,we have already lost. It’s not the libs,it’s not the gop, it’s not the pres. It’s all of them and all of us.If “we” don’t take up our on protection against both of “them”, we may one day face deportation and/or inprisonment in our “former” own country. In Houston the “former” majority is the present “minority”,and with each injustice handed down by our govermnment in action or neglect is just another reminder how little we matter . Thanks Yale, Thanks Harvard for supplying us with a majority of these self serving clowns. God have mercy on our souls.

I am amazed that some people think that any one person in our government can be blamed alone for this or any other issue. To many professional politicos care more about keeping the power they have accrued instead of protecting the people they represent.
We as a nation have spent several decades allowing the lawyers to take over our government so they can make more money when they retire from office after only 12 years service!!! Many things are wrong in our government and we the people have allowed it to happen. I strongly urge everyone to learn use a weapon and be prepared to use it when the war is brought to your own doorstep.

Mike Johnson whined, We don’t have the resources: guards, buses housing. Leaving these people to starve in Mexico may reflect conservative values; this doesn’t reflect American or Christian values.
Aww, take that BS to the Dem side, Yes, we DO have the resources, and unlike your socialist/communist dogma, true conservatives ARE American values – they don’t believe in entrapping millions of people on a subsistence stipend just to ensure a Buy-A-Vote scam, they’d much rather provide the opportunity to get out and SUPPORT YOURSELF, take control of your destiny.

LOL! Navywife, I love ya!

There is no way that we will win the war on terror. We (our government) does not have the will to do what is necessary to defeat the terrorists.

Any discussion in the United States can be immediately brought to a halt if someone merely breathes the “R”-word–
“racism”
We need to grow up and start saying “no” to the mental babies in the country. It is costing us far too much in so many policy areas.

We have had several administrations over 20+ years to deal with this problem but we have had only one administration since 911. Furthermore, Bush has shown a total inability to control any border (Iraqi or US). If we get hit by a terrorist that has crossed the Mexican border then he should be impeached.

FEAR, FEAR, FEAR. Please be scared so I can take more of your freedom, oooh the Boogie Man is coming.
Posted by: Just give my war a Chance | Jul 17, 2007 5:49:16 PM
HILLARY! Stop playing around with the PC!

Is this a surprise? We’ve been hearing stories like this in CA ever since 9/11, and the numbers are increasing.
Border Patrol agents have been told NOT to do their jobs, and when they do, they get into trouble. It’s ridiculous.
I have read many posts here that believe that it will take another 9/11 to wake up the US Citizens. I don’t know about that–the US Citizens are far too wrapped up the left wing-set-up–after the dumbing down of education and the removal of historical fact from our school curriculums, all the average American citizen seems to care about is the news on Paris Hilton, the rap-music culture, and the self-serving goverenmental handouts. The average American citizen doesn’t understand politics, taxes, socialism, the European Union and the pushed-for (and the reason our borders are not closed) upcoming American Union.
Clinton and then Bush made agreements with the Mexican and Canadian governments to keep the borders OPEN– “HELLO”. That’s why you’ll never see them closed anytime soon.

It just blows me away that the twin towers have now been attacked twice by muslim extremists and yet there are still american citizens that want open borders.My sister was in the towers both times and luckily survived.Unfortunatly some of my close friends died on 9-11.These people obviously want to end are way of life.It is inevitable that we will be attacked again and more americans will die.We are the only country in the world that has open borders. All I can hope for is that when we are attacked again in this country it will be the sons,daughters and friends of the left wing open border people that die in the attack.Maybe then they will realize the reality of whats going on.BUILD THE FENCE!!!!!

This is no big deal. It’s simply hard working illegal immigrants coming across the border doing jobs Americans don’t want to do, like nuke American cities. It’s dirty work, but if your an Islamist, somebody has to do it. Let’s be sure to get some Iranians in, too, or the job may not get done. Grab a lawn chair and a beer, have a comfortable seat outside and watch that beautiful mushroom cloud bloom over your city.
This is dereliction of duty and dereliction of the Oath of Office by the President, Congress and the Senate and heads of divisions in The Office of Homeland Security.
Open borders = no country. That’s what they are giving us at the very least. I’m afraid what we will get will be very much worse than simply no country.

Re: ANDREW — Wishful thinking dude. But, that’s not going to happend. As long as the “Left Wing” dummies keep reading their “Moveon” websites, they will not have a clue. In fact, it doesnt event matter anymore if the bomb goes off on their front lawn. They will find a way to dismiss it and then want to “Talk” their way out of it. Andrew, I’m with you man…..but the reality fo the situation is that you will never change the “Liberals” mindset. They are a lost cause in fighting for American FREEDOM.

All of you who believe that these are poor innocent Iraqi’s fleeing an unjustified war in their country are foolish, and seemingly accepting that illegal immigration is OK if it’s for a good reason. Wake the hell up! They’re all illegal immigrants -and should be dealt with as such. Catch them and DEPORT them! The story demonstrates how insecure our borders are, and anyone who thinks this is O.K., or thinks this is some part of a grand plan by the Bushies should put down the Bong!

All the more reason to bring the troops home from Iraq, and anywhere else in the world! We need them here to patrol the borders, provide security at airports, and be a constant reassuring presence to the United States citizens on our own soil. We appreciate their sacrifice over the last 6 years; we’d appreciate them more if they were protecting us at home!

It’s not the governments fault. It’s our fault for not enforcing our own integrity. Fire them! Hire people who are not in it for the money. If an elected official lives beyond middle class then he is not protecting and serving america, he is a buisness man serving himself and that is how this whole thing started. The border, the war, and everything else that makes life harder on the american taxpayer..oh, and taxes too.

I don’t think we will wake up until another big attack happens. Then you just might realize how stupid our politicians really are – BOTH PARTIES! Then it will take the average American to take up arms and start dealing with the problem ourselves. That is of course, if we let them take our guns aways too!

HEY,,,,,ALL YOU IDIOTS OUT THERE !
Everytime there is a threat, or hint of one out there, or a bomb goes off, the price of oil goes up. Do you really think those who stand the most to gain want everything peaceful and calm.
Who stands the most to gain,,,,,DUH!
Oil companies,Haliburton,Defence contractors, and the stooges they control.
Wake UP you ignorant lemmings, no nevermind your too stupid to think for yourself. You deserve what you get.

So many Americans want things fixed, but they dont do anything but whine about it in blogs. So, join the Border patrol, join the US military join your local Police agency, organize boycotts against companies who actively hire illegals, you might even try VOTING. Make a difference and stop complaing about politicians doing nothing. I am not against immigration, I am against ILLEGAL immigration. I am for English as a national language too. I cant believe I have to “Press 2″ for English in my own country. If you think we should be diverse try going to France and insist everything there be written in English just for you and have the French press 2 for French. Go to any non-English speaking country and insist on that and see what happens. The real truth is, non-Americans/illegals should not be afforded the same rights and privledges as Americans. To lower our standards like that is a slap in the face to every military man and women who served and those who died defending the rights and freedoms of Americans, not illegal aliens. To sum it up, I went to Bank of America the other day and read a sign, “Happy 4th of July” in Spanish and English. What is happening to our country? Is it still really our country? Thanks!

Maybe they will all get stung by k*ll*r bees and die. What, me worry?

Coincidence that Chaparral is right next door to Fort Bliss and White Sands?

Only another massive catastrophe inside our borders will wake up Washington, DC. One has to doubt if this report, as the mid-easterners learning to fly 737s years age, will even get to Cherthoff. He may, however, get a belly-ache in time to take aktion.

Hmm, and Chertoff thinks there might be a terrorist strike? Well, let’s see, no fence has been built even though a year ago the money was appropriated, Bush absolutely refuses to close off the border PERIOD. Maybe 911 wasn’t planned but maybe something new is! Is this a way to convince the Congress and Senators to stay in Iraq? American’s wake up, our Govt. is scr…..ing us!

Hey Crocker, adjust your tinfoil hat!

I hate to be a defeatest but it’s the Canadian border that has always scared me– vast, cold, and isolated in many places. I know a Cuban immigrant who snuck in the US from Canada. He said he walked through a train tunnel and it was easy.

Every day we find out more and more about how this administration has failed the American people. What a waste!

wake up folks its just the begining

We know China is one of our “best” allies… California is full of illegal Chinese, do get all excited about that?

Hey Andy, your July 17th post actually says “if one American is killed because George Bush and Michael Chertoff and the Congress and Senate have failed to secure our borders, they should be brought up on complicity to commit murder charges.”
Dude…you can’t be serious. Do you actually think this whole terrorit problem is that simplistic? George got em mad and now they want to get us, but George can’t stop them? Come on…that is ridiculous, if you actually studied the issue at hand, its been going on for YEARS under many administrations, both republican and democrat. The Senate & House share equal “blame” for playing politics with this whole issue…and its been going on and developing for many years. If Bush is “complicit”, then so is Clinton, Bush senior, Reagan, Carter etc…and all of the Senators and House that have “played politics” with this stuff for the past 20 years or so…simplistic arguments serve no purpose other than to deny that a long time stratedgy of Muslim extremists has been to de-throne the USA and the Western European nations and Isreal (of course), they see us as “infidels” againest what “they believe” Allah wants…and “in their minds” blowing up innocent people thru terrorist acts is perfectly legit…fear is their weapon…and no peaceful resolution is an option “to them”…so stop blaming and playing the victim bro…enter the discussion with some knowledge, some facts, some clue of an idea about what is really going on. You sound like a 3rd grader…

this country’s future was sealed when ted kennedy got the immigration act of 1965 passed.

Come on people. These are just undocumented workers who are trying to get ahead in life. Give them a break. Don’t you listen to your trustworthy politicians who promise no harm will come to you b/c of these undocumented workers?

I can’t think of anyone on either side of the aisle who’s been against securing the border, the whole immigration debate was over what to do about the illegals already here (the ‘amnesty’ debate). Yet somehow, the failure of a Republican White House and Congress from 9/11 until last November to secure the borders is the Democrats’ fault?
Own and recognize your hate, people. On both sides, I hear nothing but haters who would rather let Osama Bin Laden go free than say a kind word about Clinton or Bush (depending on which side of the aisle you hail from).
Both parties are ultimately bloated, self-serving and incompetent. Hate away, it just makes us weaker as a nation.

Any illegal foreigners that are caught should have a choice. They can serve 10 years in the military or return to their country of origin. Mexico should be billed for the billions our country shells out for all of these illegals. If they are coming from other countries, then bill those countries also. When the Miss World or whatever it was beauty pageant was held in Mexico City, the audience booed Miss USA. If that had happened in our country and we were the host we would still be apologizing to the offended country. Oh but that’s right, we are Americans – the rule is we can be offended but we can’t offend. We must be politically correct and watch what we say at all times. I don’t appreciate my hard-earned tax dollars going to someone who hates me and can bring over there 8 children, grandma, 5 sisters and 9 brothers but that is exactly what we are all doing. They’re not picking fruit folks, they’ve got a sweet deal and so do any other illegal foreigners. How about amnesty for us Americans that OBEY THE LAW.

Neither Party is doing the work “of the people and for the people”, both Parties need kicked to the curb.
The Dems attached the Dream Act to the defense budget that is supposed to be voted on this week, if not tonight.
We are now a country run by big business and to be damned with the American citizen!

Let’s see now. We had more than 30 years to create a system to prevent hijackings by making locked cockpits mandatory. Our government ignored credible warnings from all over the world about a 9-11 attack. We failed to properly track A/Q or persons within this country with known terrorist backgrounds, incredibly ignoring flight training by these individuals. On 9-11, the air force never scrambled to protect the Capital, one building collapsed even though the jet fuel exploded outside the building, another (WT7) collapsed uniformly, although never hit by a plane, etc. etc. Was anyone held accountable for these massive failures throughout the government? Would a real leader get us in a costly no-win war against a country who really had nothing to do with the attack? No, a real leader would have laid waste to the top echelon of our intelligence agencies, the military and FBI; researched where the A/Q cells were and gone after them; shut the borders and done everything possible to prevent infiltration. The world would have applauded and understood ‘special ops’ around the world to go after the terrorists.This is not a Dem vs Rep issue. Unfortunately, we have become a nation of paranoid gutless sheep. We elect the same people from the same parties over and over, yet we are suprised at the results? It is clear to me that a majority of people in this country no longer believe in our constitution or our individual liberties in the Bill of Rights – what a shame

For Tom and everyone else:
Not only did we round up the Japanese, but also the Germans in WWII (see Crystal City, Texas); all in the name of National Security. We deported all illegals the US could find so the troops coming home could have jobs,too. If the US wants to, it can do it again. We have the resources (if we’d use them) and the technology to secure our borders and NATION as a whole (we mustn’t forget about the Heartland). For the naysayers: I live in Texas and see what illegal immigration is about firsthand. And I volunteered and served in the US Army. This is not about racism, it’s about our sovereignty.

Smuggle in? You can stand in the middle of downtown El Paso and watch the hords of illegals walk across when the Rio Grande is low. I know. I’m from Texas.

Typical comments from people who call themselves “christians.” This is easy…what would Christ do?

This is news? Where do you think the acronym “OTM” comes from?
I love it. people are blaming the left and the right for everything now. We’re not even Americans anymore, we’re turning into enemies.

I am surpirsed how many stupid American there are. 911 was carried out by Bush and Corp. PERIOD! End of discussion. Now, he wants to leave the borders open.
Bush is a traitor. He has always been a traitor. And people who still support him are traitors. And I will treat you as such. If Bush supporters hate this country so much, then I have two words for you; GET OUT! Another two words: “You’re loathsome!”

This country is finished. Like the fall of Troy and Rome. It is inevitable. Every Empire must end. So the Earth, will fall. A massive astronomical event, long over due…Such a planet killing event happens every hundred million years or so…It’s been 110 million years. Look to the sky for our end, not our neighbor, or SUV. The Global Warming people show the true ignorance of the supposed “Intelligencica.” (Pardon the SP. I’m Japanese)

Iraqi refugees have absolutly NOTHING to do with these people being smuggled into the country…
$20,000??? Iraqi refugee don’t have Two DOLLARS much lest 20K. They’ve left Iraq with little and used that to survive in Syria and Jordan, and Turkey and Egypt.
It’s way, way past time to patrol and control our border. Its time for Washington to care about our safety and security, and quit dwelling (and trying to distract us)on the sleezy habits of some of our congress.

Anyone, esp in Texas, hear about a huge transportation corridor being planned, four football fields wide and running from ports in Southern Mexico up into Canada? A way to bypass the union workers in California ports, it will allow more Chinese containers and Mexican truck drivers to flow swiftly into the country? It would also bypass a lot of OSHA regulations, etc. While I do not agree clerical workers in the US ports should pull down $100K/yr., I worry about terrorists messing with or hiding in containers, and also sub-professional Mexican truck drivers on our roads.

Does anyone really believe anything they read or hear anywhere anymore? This is just one more distraction from the real issue here! Could you really blame the Iraqis even if they actually were sneaking into our country to try to do harm?! We are COLONIZING their country and KILLING their children!! If someone invaded the US for no REAL reason (no WMD in Iraq and they were NOT involved in 9-11) I can tell you for sure we would be angry enough to take “terrorist” action ourselves.
Get rid of the Bush crime family…but, can you actually impeach someone who was never elected?

…….Duh!……..

“Brian Ross appears to be carrying the water for the Administration. ”
Posted by: Travis
Brian has yet to ask anybody about all the security cameras at the pentagon on 9/11. Something may be amiss. Please Team Brian Ross, Get the footage.
With respect.

Living in the Southwest US, I have seen the constant increase and flow of all types of illegals, OTM, and believe me, they are causing much more American death and destruction than all the soldiers lost in Irag. Murder is rampant in some areas that were peaceful just a few years ago. Rapes are rising. Thefts, car wrecks via drunk driving and car jackings increasing, etc. etc. Oh yea, hospitals, schools, and county/state budgets are bursting. It wass more like a quiet terrorist movement that isn’t so quiet anymore. Across America small towns to large cities are paying a huge price for this invasion, and my current city is bursting at the seams with over 300,000 illegals. What was middle class, quiet neighborhoods are now slums and crime infested multi-national, enter-at-your-own-risk lands.
I am sadden to think that it is going to take a mushroom cloud over an American city before we collectively wake up to the reality of the enemy at our gates. Or, a national uprising and maybe civil war. Either way, America is poised to fall or die a cancerous death if something serious and soon isn’t done. Myself, I am prepared for the day I have to fight to reclaim my country.

This isn’t exactly a revelation by any means, it’s been reported before that Middle Easterners were crossing through Mexico. Most of you are right, but every 20 years we’ve kept dolling out amnesty, Republican or Democrat in office…1964, 1946 and so on. But yes, you can blame the open borders crowd for failing in this area, that includes most liberals and a few Republicans(they aren’t conservatives trust me.)

They aren’t illegal aliens. They’re “undocumented workers.”
Yeah right.

Isn’t it wonderful how all the Dem’s and Repubs. and Liberals work together?America isn’t America anymore.The freedom’s we are fighting for are going to be the freedoms that kill us all because we cant and wont,for having to be politically correct,in a world that isnt,and has never been,to be America.George Washington is spinning in his grave like a pig on a rotiserie and he is about DONE.Its time the American People say “no more” to the political leadership,or lack thereof in this country.

LISTEN UP MY FELLOW AMERICANS!!!
We are all being hood-winked. All of this partisan bickering (Left vs. Right, Dem. vs. Repub.) is designed to keep us fighting amongst ourselves so our attention is focused away from the truth in D.C. These professional polititions are all rich and getting richer by the minute at our expense. They ALL are beholden to special-interest groups, big campaign donors and fat-cat CEO’s. We are so obsessed with hatred for “the other side” that when they try to cram a bill down our throats that will somehow benefit THEMSELVES (i.e. the most recent resurrection of immigration “reform”) we all stand in awe at the “bi-partisan” cooperation to do something “important for the country”. The members of congress have to start raising $$ the DAY after their election in order to get re-elected. Who do you think they are really working for up there, WE the People or is it whoever can get them the most cash for their re-election campaign??
There is a simple solution…. TERM LIMITS. We need to get these entrenched, self-serving PROFESSIONAL polititions out of office. The Founders intended for the congress to be made up of “citizen legislators” who would serve for a little while and then go back to their lives afterward to make room for new people with new ideas.
WE THE PEOPLE need to start demanding term limits in the same fashion that we killed the amnesty bill last month. Let’s stand up and take OUR COUNTRY back!!

It looks like the Bush plan to destroy our remaining freedoms may actually succeed. The next 9-11 will give him cause for his desired “martial law” and he can do away with the Constitution, that (as he so eloquently put it) G__ D_____ piece of paper.
God help us all.

Plain & simple… Whomever pledges to secure and control our borders, Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, Socialist, Nazi, whatever – gets my vote!

Seal off the border, but don’t forget to seal off the coastline and the sky.

Okay, these people are paying $25,000 to come into the country….who’s footing the bill….and why? Yep, we’re dooooomed….never in my life have I heard of a nation so willing to self- destruct.

This is just the smoke screen for the next PRE-ARRANGED 9/11 EVENT.
NODOBY WITH A BRAIN BELIEVES BUSH/CHENEY NOW

If “Iraqis and other Middle Eastern” individuals are being brought across the Rio Grande illegally by Mexican or other nationals then we certainly have serious internal crisis at the “clear and present” phase. I just wonder, how many, and were and when their targets will start popping up. How long has the feds known about this crossing, and who is sponsoring them when they arrive? I have been informed of potential training bases in deep Central or South America for Middle Eastern terrorist and this scenario fits right in to that information, if it is true.

Why are we resettling 7000 Iraqis by years end ? If they are not willing to stay and fight or work to make Iraq better place why should we ?

Perhaps we should sneak some Mexican politicians into our country to do some work American politicians clearly wont do – to secure our borders!

We should welcome these undocumented terrorists since they are here to do jobs that Americans will not do like work in the fields since now Mexicans are going after our jobs.

Yes, I guess no one in the FBI can really tell the difference between an Arab and a Latino. Sad really sad. And of course while our hate and fear is centered on the Rio–the real problem is not the boarders but the haters. I just wish the haters had some smarts but that’s what got us into this mess in the first place.

Duh, all you have to do is go to the local Wal Mart and 80% of the people in their do not speak english, so you know the gate is open somewhere, but the President and Congress are to stupid to see this

When I retire my wife and I are moving to Mexico. We are going to walk around in their Wal-Mart and speak english.

I’m not surprised. Homeland security, you’re doing a heck of job. Here it is I had to almost beg and dag on near give my blood type for my son and I to come back into our home country (we’re born American citizen) but you leave the borders wide open for more illegals to come in – potential terrorists at that. I see the Bush priorities are all in order. All hail the Chief!!

Has Bush gotten down on his knees and licked the boots of the new president of Mexico yet? You know…like he did for all those years with his good amigo El Presidente Vicente Fox?

“The FBI report, issued last week, says the smuggling organization “used to smuggle Mexicans, but decided to smuggle Iraqi or other Middle Eastern individuals because it was more lucrative.” Each individual would be charged a fee of $20,000 to $25,000, according to the report.”
Barb, I guess H.R. Perot above thinks the Iraqi’s are willing to spend $25,000 so they can come here and do the work that Americans won’t do. He is probably right because that work is to blow up the White House. You’ve got a hot topic going here. :) ……. steve

I think we should take down the fence around the White House and replace it with a VIRTUAL fence.

Yes, I guess no one in the FBI can really tell the difference between an Arab and a Latino. Sad really sad. And of course while our hate and fear is centered on the Rio–the real problem is not the boarders but the haters. I just wish the haters had some smarts but that’s what got us into this mess in the first place.
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So, what’s wrong with the “boarders”? Didn’t pay their rent?

We should impeach every politician who’s been stalling the fence building plan. As it stands right now it would appear that we have 70 miles of fence with a 700 mile wide gate.

Based on postings by ordinary Americans, it is evident we the people know what the problem is, however, our government leaders, our politically correct liberals, and bizarre entertainment media(which would rather report on Paris Hilton)does not want to address the danger approaching. We should pray for our country more than ever.

i love that the government is more worried about whether i speed, wear my seatbelt, or gamble than about allowing anyone into our country. it isn’t about whether they are mexicanos or arabs. if your boat is leaking, do you paint the walls first or stop the leak? this government’s policy makes no sense.

IMPEACH BUSH and pUT UP THE DAMN WALL!

And Bush said that our border problems had been solved. What a joke!

I think this country needs another majopr terrorist attack to wake the American people up.
It’s absolutely insane that the border is basically open and thousands of people are just walking in every month.
I am glad that I have no children to leave this pathetic countries future to.

I could have sworn I saw Osama running a Qikee Mart…naaaw.

Folks ya ain’t seen nothin yet! Just wait until the troops are pulled out of Iraq and watch how fast the U.S. Government will pass some screwed up “refugee rescue” plan for God knows how many 100′s of thousands if not millions of Iraqi’s and Afghan’s. Anyone remember the Vietnam refugee program that is still ongoing???

Well Gee! Duhhhhh…….so when something happens again in this country it must be the big bad Iraqis!
Then we will have a reason to stay there, right?
WAKE UP IDIOTS! This is all BS! That is the reason for NOT building a wall, the open border is a convenient excuse to use for anything that happens here, GET IT!?
Next of course some “intelligence” agency will have found IRANIANS coming across.
Put the pieces together!

You Yanks are weird. Do you honestly believe that building a fence will make you safer? Give your collective heads a shake. Quit poking your nose into everyone else’s business and your world wide hatred will come to an end.

We, in the Minutemen, have found make-shift mosques on the border complete with prayer rugs and Korans. Believe me folks, the enemy is already here. And Bush allowing 7000 Iraqi’s into the U.S. well, it’s all part of his globalism attitude. We have to fight him because he already has the process of merging U.S. Canada, and mexico in place. Signed, sealed and almost delivered. And yes, the Border Patrol already know about Iraqi’s coming over our borders disguised as mexicans, shaven faces and cut hair. A change of clothes is given to them by the coyotes so they blend in. How do we know this? The U.S. Border Patrol TOLD US. We’re not idiots, Mr. President. SHAME ON YOU FOR SELLING OUT AMERICA.

i have just but one question. we have rep. and we have dem. they both want to be elected next time, right. o.kkk. then let both parties get there heads to gether and be serious, IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY. REALLY. and then let each party do there best on there own to win the next election. in other words LET THEM BOTH START CLEAN

“Why are we resettling 7000 Iraqis by years end ? If they are not willing to stay and fight or work to make Iraq better place why should we ? ”
Those 7,000 either:
worked with the US military and were subsequently targeted by militia groups, or
are Assyrian Christians who have lost whatever business, jobs, freedom they had prior to the war, or
had to leave their homes in the middle of the night after getting their kids back from kidnappers (they had to pay the ransom by the way which, according to us law may prevent them from coming to america since they provided “material support” to some group on a watch list.)

Why is this on page 64e…and not on the front page or the lead story on the nightly news? ABC does not want people to think that there are people who want to kill us…
This is front page news.
Stop illegal immigration. NOW.
Do something. Email your senators AGAIN. And again and again.

Lets see..Make less than nothing smuggling people with next to nothing like illegal immigrants or smuggle people with deep pockets like Al Qaeda?
Hmmm, I think these smugglers aren’t thinking of the big picture.

Wow! This comes as such a…suprise?

Andy commented:
“If one American is killed because George Bush and Michael Chertoff and the Congress and Senate have failed to secure our borders, they should be brought up on complicity to commit murder charges.”
Why bother? When they are found guilty, they’ll just pardon themselves!

ABC is only good for leaking classified information, while the local newspaper in San Antonio, TX ran a 3-part story how this is easily accomplished and being done! As for our borders AND the total lack of security, there is nothing new here. Why wouldn’t Iraqis, or anyone else, exploit
our unprotected borders?
Illegal aliens, drug smugglers, and mexican gangsters (criminals one and all) are treated better than our Border Patrol by Federal Prosecutors. And local non-government organizations, as well as some local governments aide and abet their criminal activities with impunity.
Does anyone seriously believe or think that terrorists are LESS organized than the hordes of Mexicans who cross our borders daily?

I survived 9-11 seeing bodies smash in the streets around me. If the boarders are not sealed soon it is time for the second American Revolution.
The elderly cannot get medical care but the illegals line up in the emergency rooms. This country is screwed up and the tide is turning. Make your vote count on election day make sure you know what the candidates stand for and protect your rights. Americans if silent will cause their own demise. Speak Up!!!! No More Illegals.
Zero Tolerence. Immediate Deportation.
Suspend all immigration for 5 years to clean up the mess. Do it now before it is too late!

Where’s our border fence? Seal off the border now. We are being sold out by both parties in DC.
Press 1 to continue in English.
Press 2 for deportation.

Chaparral NM isn’t even on the border, or the Rio Grande. In fact it’s on the other side of some small mountains from 3 towns/cities which are on the border/rio. It may be true, but it sounds a little strange — why would human traffickers work from such an inconvenient location?

If I was an Iraqi, I would go in from the Canadian border, then no one would catch me. You know that’s just me, not sure if anyone has that same idea.
It’s nice to see how people are scared. Some previous posts say diversity is not good, and you all sound scared. A terrorist doesn’t have to be foreign, or they could come in legally.
Conservatives always playing the blame game, yet you had control of Congress for years. Hows about instead of bringing hostilities up with more nations, we work with those nations to control immigration in their countries. It’s not like an Iraqi swam across the Atlantic. You know just a thought, instead of all this mumbo jumbo talk.

So, let’s see if I have this right. The govenment wants me to allow spying, more intrusion, give up more of my rights but the border stays wide open? bwahahahaha

King George and most of the Congress need to go. NOW!
Wake up America, this is no longer a donkey vs. elephant thing, it is time to hold a tea party in DC & start throwing politicians overboard!!! There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between 99% of those rascals. The ONLY man I see who is capable of steering this ship back to calm seas is RON PAUL.
Can you say CONSTITUTION . . . then add the words, Ron Paul! To King George… its just a piece of paper.

Bush along with his new pals, the democrats, will have the blood of many Americans on their hands if one single terror attack occurs on our soil. “Ted Kennedy is awesome”? so sayeth Michael Chertoff, Director of Homeland Insecurity… What a clown. As far as I’m concerned, ANY politician who refuses to protect our borders is guilty of treason.

Slow your roll folks, this is the MEDIA reporting this. You are taking it as factual. The same biased media that so many of condemned in the past as well as now. SENSATIONALISM, YELLOW JOURNALISM? BIAST! Remember these terms?
and it is ABC, they are not the authority of Know All, See All, Hear All.

I am not surprise that this thing could happen. With Bush poll rating that is so low and the congress even lower, Do you think these people think about the safety of the American people? It seems that they need this to scare people and keep them in power.

Why would “terrorist” go through all the trouble, cost and pain of crossing the Mexican border when they can cross the Canadian border in a car or by a safe ferry boat. This is how the Millenium bomber crossed into the United States with a full car load of explosives. We are trying to guard the wrong border.

terrorist-Americans lol!

Is there a record for number of comments on a topic within a short period of time,…this has gotta qualify if so,..WOOOW, you`d think this is a SENSITIVE subject w/my fellow Countrymen or something….

DUH!

Just as all the nations are getting drunk off the wine of babylion, they cry off the shore of that great nation. We had such bountiful trade and made so much money from that trade of goods. Such great markets are lost and no more. For that great nation is no more. Utterly distroyed. And the wine of babylion which caused the great nation to be drunk then distroyed? Oil.

Are we going to build a fence and beef up security at the border, or what? It’s a disgrace that we haven’t already done so.

Should I break out the duct tape and gas mask now?
Color my world with fear.

One other thing: I cannot believe the amount of stupidity from some of the posters here. Bin Laden will be given a passport to the US if the Dems win? It’s all Clinton and the liberals’ fault that we’re overrun with illegals?? Are you people for real? Only a bunch of ignorant, brainwashed morons would come out with such crap!
Both sides are to blame for the current mess we’re in. Both sides cow-tow to big business. And the reason why we have so much crap made in China and droves of illegals working in this country is because this is a nation of spending freaks and shopping and excessive consumption of cheap goods and food are like a religion. This nation consists mostly of (fat) self-centered, clueless idiots.

Geez, must be a hundred posts, and one woman actually understood the report. Talk of this presumably elaborate scheme, apparently already investigated, comes from Washington. The FBI hq and the Joint Task Force seem to have all the suggestive, threatening details, but neither the Border Patrol, the Albuquerque FBI office, or the federal prosecutors have any knowledge of any such case. The local career people are getting the mushroom treatment from the PNACers, along with the rest of us.
Come August the congress will be out of town. Good time for a false-flag terror attack, and retaliation against Iran. Some world.

This article is just more Archie Bunker crap.

whats needed here is some heavy handed law enforcement generously applied to any and all who hire or in any way help to support illegal immigration. the problem is with the businesses and rich fatcats,the last thing any of them want is to lose their never ending supply of semi slave labor.
so democrats force the republicans to raise the minimum wage?it happened in the 70s and 80s and 90s folks remember? no problem for the fatcats they just basically made up new laws so they can have lots of cheap workers who by their very nature(being illegal) are not covered by any labor or wage laws at all!

Let us not forget: the more and more we fight with our fists and close minds like little 8 year olds that pushed each other, the more and more we will continue to do and to be so.
There is no such thing as a War on Terror. If we want to prevent “the next attack” (hmm look at the “terror” in our eyes that the Bush administration has worked so hard to to get rid of, HAH!) then we should perhaps look to ourselves and maybe… hmmm… freaking apologize for the horrible wrongs we have committed on the people and families and societies we have harmed, and work to help them become stronger independent societies (with our hands maybe this time, not our freaking pocketbooks…). In that case they themselves are happier and do not require extremism to feel they belong, and there’s at least one reason for people to say no, I will not harm the US.

we act like building a wall would be hard – lets not call it a wall – call it Interstate 911 – build an interstate the length of the border – two lanes in each direction – with a Very high sound barrier wall on the south side of the highway

Where`s FDR when we need him most. He new how to deal with this problem.

They’re waiting to hit us really big time, ’cause our enemy knows that when they do, that all hell will break loose, and the American people will no longer accept the bull that is presently being passed around as answers to our security problems.
Bush has kept them off our backs for six years now. In my book, that’s pretty good. But it’s going to take another big hit to wake up the people who are still sleeping.

Well,DUH. What the hell did our congress, senate & President expect. The hard working, main stream, middle class american knew this a long time ago. I have lost all faith in our congress. They have nothing else to do but sit around in their little offices, bash, trash & slash eachother while our country is literally being overcome by these idiots. Congress gets nothing done! And they never will!!!!! Maybe the American people should send them over there and we clean house. Then we can vote in our own children, they would act better.

Something stinks! There is money in it for the Bush family somewhere. They wouldn’t sell out the country and commit treason for nothing. But then, perhaps there may be photos or film taken across the border of a young W. doing something he isn’t proud of…….Naw, it’s the money, stupid.

Hey, Had Enough,
There are lot’s of us who would LOVE a chance to guard our borders, “unrestricted,” of course. Mexican and other illegal entry into the U.S. would stop. I guarantee it. But the Mexican government would be squealing. You should pray to God that the handcuffs don’t come off and we DO get a chance to guard the border ourselves. You wouldn’t like it.

We elected a president who was a closet “One Worldist”. That’s one side of the story. The other side of the story is that the “other liberals” who admit they are liberals, don’t just have their heads in the sand; they’re really working hard for what they believe in; and the only way to stop this whole mess is to impeach them, too. Otherwise, the last case will be worse than the first.

Head in the sand?!?! Last time I checked a refugee doesn’t HAVE $20K to spend! How did they get all the way to mexico and still have $20K? Could it be……TERROR FUNDS!!!???? This isn’t a fight about land or oil or anything a modern country would fight over.

It is time that we begin profiling.

Just great.. They could save 25K and come over legally..

perhaps the prez,mccain, kennedy ,and many of the others in congress are the enemy of the people .

Im shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here

We need a new government!!!

America must stop letting the press and special interest decide our presidents!
We need to think outside the box!
I will be donating and sending my money to Ron Paul!

Our brothers and sisters on the left seem divided between those who believe there is no need to worry – that it’s just another evil Roverian / Machiavellian conspiracy to scare us – and those who are scared the briefcase nukes will be going off at a city near them soon. But the good news is they are united in their irrational HATE for President Bush.
So remember, ANY and EVERY thing is BUSH’s FAULT!! Yes, let’s blame him for his horrific policies – exposed so proudly by the NYT and WAPO – that, for example, followed the terrorists’ money or listened into conversations of suspected terrorists when one end of the conversation was in the US, or failed to make them as comfortable as staying in a Hilton while at Gitmo.

We deserve to lose this country and be killed in the process if we are unwilling to rest our America back from the Corporate Lords and Masters and Special Interest Ideologues who pull the strings of American government. And please, don’t give me that lemming-like rhetoric explaining how one side is better than the other.

I feel like I’m living thru the twilight zone. You would like to think that George and Dick have a grand plan in the midst of all this. Not!!!
As a former federal employee for longer than I’d like to admit, I can tell you that what you see is what you will never get. Incompetence is getting as bad name here me thinks. Just ahd a thought….every time you see Dick Cheney you think man he is deep in thought. He has that sneer on his lips and you like to think that he has deep national security issues revolving in his head and so forth. I don’t think so. I think he and George are basically just winging it. Nice, huh?

Listen to all you Lefties screaming that “Dubya” should have sealed our borders. Actually, I completely agree and think he and all the other politicians are guilty of dereliction of duty when it comes to securing our borders. However, if he had started putting up a fence, the Libs would have been screaming and ranting about how he’s a bigot and anti-immigration. You’re hatred for the man is so blinding, that he can truly do no right in your minds. Just once I’d like to hear a Lib say while they didn’t like Bush, at least he did this right or that right. I won’t hold my breath.

This country is a Joke?
This president is a joke!!!

Bush is going to the MexAmeraCanada summit in Canada next month. We are going to become one happy North American continent without the American, Candian or Mexican peoples approval. Bush threatens our sovereignty as a nation, won’t protect our borders, along with the Senate and Congress has sold us out to international corporations (which have no alliegence to the US even though they may be based here)it sounds like TREASON to me. The entire government needs to be replaced. This is from a former staunch Republican, former Marine, and right wing conservative. We need to take back our government before we lose our country completely.

Sure let them all in after all we have all the space in the world for everyone except the Americans.
I am not surprised to hear this at all look are we going to create a wet foot dry foot like we have here in Florida for all the illegal Cubans?
Why not we can not stop these illegals at all because President Bush has made sure of that by arresting those two (2) men trying to protect us from the illegal Mexicans.
President Bush will be known as the president that destroyed the United States as he did in Texas.
Why would anybody want to vote for a drunk to run the United States of America?

The administration is guilty of treason for not protecting U.S. from invasion, as required by the Constitution…
I for one am tired of being bushwhacked.

This is NOT news. Anyone with a brain has gotta know this is where they would and have been coming into the US. OPEN DOOR! NO GOOD NOW–NEVER HAS BEEN! Just sad!!!

And these are more illegal immigrants who the U.S. would’ve had to give Z visas to if they merely asked under the Kennedy McCain Shrub immigration sell out. Has anyone yet figured out that the name for this isn’t “immigration” it’s invasion. It’s a military matter and needs to be handled as a direct act of war.

It never ceases to amaze me. What a country of idiots we have become .We spend so much time fighting ourselves that we forget who our enemies are.The Fact is Liberal or Conservative we have people we don’t seem to understand (AlQaeda )that want to destroy us..If you think this is a government plot you really need to seek psychiatric help..If you think BIN LADEN and his cronies are just going to go away and leave us alone you sadly mistaken ..America wake up

Terrorists sneaking across our southwestern border is not a new idea.
Some border patrol agents have been making this charge for some time now. Also, a Tucson television station did a feature on this last year.

Did I hear somebody say “Build the freakin’ wall already”?
At least you finally are getting around to understanding what the American people knew about the whole immigration debate all along: An open border is an open invitation to terror. Refugees, geesh. Lame attempt at PC spin. Why won’t you simply admit that lax border security is a threat to the homeland??????

for Dennis Alexander, I agree that you need to fact-check everything you see/hear from the media. But this one is true.
I was in southern New Mexico in October 2001 when J.Zane Walley went to check out complaints by local ranchers living on the border. (border patrol & sheriff were no help) Interesting that after 9/11 there were only a few media outlets that would even consider his story. He had photos, video and eyewitness accounts.
He reported the story for World Net Daily in October 2001. Fox News’ William LaJeunesse did a piece on it also. (the left leaning media -I mean all others- blew him off)

I wouldn’t expect any of the border agents to take any aggressive action now to stop these guy’s. Like idiots, we put two border patrol agents in jail for shooting a drug smuggler. Can you imagine what kind of punishment they could expect if they shot an Iraqi terrorist crossing the border?? We are so stupid and so screwed.

How do we get rid of this broken gov’t and build a new one?

For all of you that think you have the answer, you’re wrong. The Bush administration is a total joke that only cares about making money for the wealthy Americans by taking over Iraqi Oil fields. This is the WHOLE reason why we are there in the first place. We NEED to close all borders to all persons, regardless of race, color, sex, etc… until we have a sense of security among the Americans of today.

The crisis managers’ script is being followed to the letter.
Their modus operandi is to induce fear among the masses.
The result: ‘ORDER OUT OF CHAOS’
Then… we’ll be one world where the ‘United NOTIONS’ species managers can cull-out the misfit!!!
Imagine that!

I truly wish I had the time, the power, the money, to lead a movement to replace all elected representatives and start over. Kick the whole bunch out of Washington, retract their lucrative retirement programs, and just plain run them out of town..From the Declaration:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

All the partisan finger pointing does nothing to solve the problem of border security, or the lack of.
Both parties have been criminaly negligent in enforcing our borders, while hoping to to strengthen their own agendas by permitting this illegal invasion. Nothing we do to secure airports or ports of entry means anything to U.S. security while we have an uninterupted stampede across our borders.
If the terrorists are not already here in great numbers and working to procure weapons and finalize their plans, they must be stupid, incompetent or simply unmotivated and I doubt they are any of the above. Sometimes I wonder we have the will to survive as a nation.

Take it from someone who has lived in both El Paso and Laredo, Texas within the last year and who has ties to the law enforcement community; it IS happening…WAKE UP AMERICA!

I have had it with this inept Administration. Impeach Bush and Cheney NOW.

Interesting that the info comes from the FBI and yet the FBI admits later in the article that it has no viable info that leads to a case. Why does the “lamestream” media bother to forward such gov. propaganda? Surely there must be someone in the media who is smart enough to see through such tactics otherwise the only conclusion is that the specific media reporting it is complicit.

Anyone suprised by this news?

This story has already been covered exhaustively in a 5-part San Antonio Express News series called Breaching America, which followed Iraqis from Syria to Texas. You’re way behind the curve ball.

********************** This is old news, search “American Hiroshima” on google. Why is this being written about now? **********************

Howizzit that you red-state nuts blame everything on Ted Kennedy when all Goerge Bush had to do was wave his hand and 100,000 national guardsmen would have been shooting anything that moved across the border? It’s HIS FAULT!

I fought in Iraq al-anbar province in 2004 with 1st MarDiv. K company. I had many friends that were Mexican and we used to joke around about how similar they looked to the Middle Easterners. Actually alot of the Iraqis thought they were also Iraqis.. I thought about how they could easily blend in with Mexicans coming across the border almost 3 years ago. I guess the geniuses in our government just figured this out, figures.

I remember growing up, listening to how the Russia spoon-fed propaganda to its people. For me it started with “weapons of mass destruction” and hasn’t let up. Sad.

CLOSE ALL BOARDERS TO EVERYONE. IF YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN YOU CAN’T COME IN!!!!!

also of note here is the ” cry wolf” effect. this administration has stoked the publics’ unrelenting primal fear of the unknown at least one too many times it appears and now,from reading some of the above posts, its clear that the unintended effect of these booga booga reports is to instill feelings of apathy and mistrust and consequently anger and frustration as well,to at least a certain (evidently growing) segment of the populace.
whether the latest fbi reports are true or not isnt the point here really, anyone with light bulb iq should be able to figure out that this nation had better get a handle on immigration,illegal and legal,immediately. the real and important point is , we need CREDIBLE politicians.
wait did i say that? anyone every hear of a dichotomy?!!

Hey, Get off Kennedy’s case. He’s not President. George Bush is the commander and chief in charge. Start the blame there. Nobody else. You would blame a Democratic President so don’t leave him out.

Gee, Brian, Americans really needed to know this, didn’t they?
Perhaps the next time you can write an article about how our troops are making plans to kill the enemy in Iraq. Be sure to give all the important information like troop movements, number of troops, names and addresses of those who are in command.
I don’t think you are carrying the water for the adminstration on immigration, you are carrying the water for the terrorists.
Thanks.

Build the damn fence and close the borders.

Why is everyone so worried about the border? If everything goes down as planned, we won’t need a border. The talks start in August between the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico…This is to form the North American Union. This whole deal is to be finished by January. So why aren’t we focusing on this issue as its far more important to the people of this great country. You all need to read about this and find out what you can do. This issue does not need the American vote, we have got to stop it.
We will be having mexican for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You as the middle class of America will become tomorrows Poor of America. Wake up people, its coming. I hate this thought, but reality is coming down yours and my road. Let me know what you all think about this.

I think it’s past time that true Americans stand up and force Bush and his regime to do what we say and not he wants. I think he is just trying to line his pockets for when he gets kicked out.

….lest i be misconstrued per my earlier posts about immigrants/immigration. i welcome all who come to live and be part of this still great nation of immigrants ,all those who come with our pledge of allegiance in their hearts,willing to become part of this nations’ treasured long history of cultural religious and ethnic diversity.i welcome all who love our flag and our language and want to be part of it. i welcome all who come here to support this nation and live within its laws, and it bothers me not at all that a new legal immigrant/citizen can make an equal or better living than some other citizen that has lived here for a longer time.
however personally,what really irks me about immigrants of any type(and i believe irks many many others as well) is when immigrants,especially illegal ones, come to this country and try to take it over,plant their country of origins’ flag on our soil ,showing disrespect for our flag and language, angrily protesting in the streets for rights they dont deserve, sending all the money they make back home without paying taxes,breaking innumerable laws of every type ,in general making an uneven playing field for the hard working LEGAL american citizen looking to support his/her family.

particularly irksome to me moreover is the fact that rich pampered individuals (and their business entities) will make undesirable and/or low paying jobs readily available to anyone who applies for said jobs( in particular,illegal immigrant/work visa workers/trained chimps etc…),with no regard whatsoever as to national or local security and no matter what the laborers’ personal political and social agenda ,as long as they are the lowest common denominator,wage wise. the prototypical rich buisinessman or rich private citizen in the usa would hire mid eastern terrorists as quickly as they would a mexican or any other kind of immigrant, all the rich care about is (1) whether or not their toilet gets cleaned and their yard gets mowed and their (take your pick) oranges/tomatoes/apples etc gets picked…and (2) how much $$ do they have to pay for it?? they could care less about national security concerns or for that matter,any other concerns.
its nice i guess to live in your own (very affordable,thanks to cheap illegal labor) private idaho… penny wise,pound foolish. we need to only allow usa nationalistically minded immigrants into this country, anyone else is just here for a job/money/handout and could care less about this country, and could likely be more easily paid off or hired/used by most any enemy of the usa as well. WAKE UP AMERICA !! VOTE TO MAKE LAWS TO ALLOW ONLY PEOPLE WHO LOVE AND TREASURE THE USA AND OUR WAYS TO BE CITIZENS ,AND DONT ALLOW ANYONE ELSE ENTRY INTO THIS COUNTRY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES…THATS THE WAY TO HAVE A GREAT COUNTRY,NOT TO ALLOW CHEAP ALIEN LABOR FORCES TO UNDERMINE OUR LONG TIME AMERICAN VALUES!!!

All I can say is that the mexican do not blow up people unless they are in our war fight for our counrty, why di all come up now after a year give me a break. I heard this was on the mexican channels over a year ago so thats what makes me think that they are here.
Who is to blame for this one Americans no protected our borders for many mamy years, someone need a reality check hwo was protecting our border ever in our side seems like we feel asleep or someone was not compentent enough to do there job, I heard this came from the Bush admin over a year ago. When I heard this it was the biggest joke how could this happen.

I’m a citizen and so where my parents we were not brought up to be greedy or do some ignorant of some Amercian will do for money and get away with it, like most of them do when they pick on others and get away with it over and over. Because it’s called white lies, as I heard it on the talk show 20/20. Sorry that how I see it just another greedy American if so let this happen sounds like another con artist form Texas got paid. You better look in the mirror on this one he may look just like one of you or you hair color and skin and eyes colors oyu ever think of that? Do a reality check

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Securing my person means I need my borders secured. It only makes sense that the terrorists can be coming in from the south as well…why would they NOT? They walked in the front door on round one and we allowed it. My philosophy has come to…If you really want things screwed up, give it to the government.

Julie, like so many others, claims this is a Christian nation, but truth is the USA is secular and fueled by greed and bloodlust. 99% of the professing Christians in this nation are apostate. How many of them would open their homes to a starving, beaten Christian brother or sister? This nation has gone too long without a moral compass. We must all repent and turn to Christ that we may be forgiven our sins. Judgement is not far off. Our rejection of God will be punished.

I live in New Mexico and we have been hearing stories for a while now that ranchers along the border have been finding stuff the middle easterners have thrown away as they have crossed the border into this country. Stuff with middle eastern writing on it. This has been going on for a while and NPR has reported on how the ones that are caught, once they are let out awaiting a court date, somehow never show up for court to be extradited.
The border situation is a joke. We have possibly/probably AQ coming into this country and Bush and his “Homeland Security” morons aren’t doing a thing. If we have another 9/11, responsibility is with George W. Bush and Michael Chertoff and the USA should hold them accountable.

If this is indeed true, why haven’t the F.B.I. caught any of these Iraqis that have been snuck across? It seems to me if it were true they would have at least one of them in custody.

We need more of this reporting; too many heads are in the sand. We need to tighten BOTH of our borders to all immigration! People, including terrorists, have been coming in LEGALLY through Canada for years because it is much easier than trying to immigrate to the U.S. directly, duh. We need a leader who is not afraid to make border security a serious priority, enforce our existing laws, and LIMIT VISAS!
PENNSYLVANIA

Having read many of the blog comments on this topic, I would suggest many who have commented here (and been so free with thier criticism of the current administration) need to relearn what our founding fathers meant by the words “We, the People”.

They have been working on getting us from within since befor 9-11. Wake up AMERICA! They want us DEAD!
We know where they are in Pakistan, so why are we not bombing the camps? If intellegence is monitoring them and they are illegally here, round them up and send them home.
Oh wait, that would be tooooo easy.

Close the borders NOW! This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Bill Handel and John & Ken have been warning us about. With this type of operation, how tough would it be for terrorist to cross over and bring God knows what with them?

Did you ever wonder how many American CITIZENS, not government officals have guns? The time when Americans will be walking down the streets of America with guns is coming very very soon!

fred posts above that “we the people” should take the fight to the politicians, and let them know how we feel by protest and vote. hasnt nancy sheehan and her posse been doing just that for what,4 or 5 years now. and where has that gotten her/them? no where…but it DID make her a convicted felon… wake up fred, this is no longer the democracy that was envisioned by the founding father.instead,we have a federalist republic,where only one things speaks to any issue;namely $$$,and lots of it .
if nancy sheehan had bill gates kind of money she could get something accomplished,however shes just a more or less regular citizen with no “key players” as friends or ,more aptly,”accomplices”…ergo not much of her agenda even gets off the ground.

Er, I’ve been away. I recall that the proponednts of open borders were adamant that their purpose was to stop illegal immigration, and that to do that, they had authorized a shorter fence. (Defficult to rationalize.)
But Mr. Bush, where is the frenzied fence building activity that we all anticipated? Yes. We didn’t believe you then, and you hav e demonstrated our wisdom.
Ten percent of the Mexicans from Mexico, now reside in the U.S. And they have “exported” their illiterates and others who have less aptitude. Aren’t we fortunate to have these people available.

I don’t mind immigrants, but we already take in more legal immigrants than all other nations combined. The huge numbers of illegals are just way too much for the country to handle all at once. One theory on the North American Union is that this will make the merger more paltable and smooth in the end. After all, right now the American middle class is being made to subsidize the poor Mexicans, bec. there is no Mexican middle class to do it. We’ll all be evened out in the end, for better or worse. I have never been a conspiracy theorist, but I am baffled as to how our President and the lawmakers have been so deaf, dumb, and blind to what the US citizens want. If they got away from us on so many other things, surely we need to stop them on movement towards a NA Union.

It is perhaps no longer relevant whether America proclaims itself as land of the Free and bastion of democracy. What is relevant is the fact that not only does its government not want to accept Iraqi refugees (who were non-refugees prior to to American military action) but that American citizens themselves are not dispalying the mercy or compassion the world has been accustomed to expect of them.
Perhaps the US government is not taking in the refugees so as not to embarass the Iraqi Prime Minister who repeatedly confirms that Iraq is in good shape; the implication being only Iraqis who are rogues or greedy economic migrants would leave (‘the country of honey and oil.)
It is noteworthy that Sweden which is not ‘touched’ by the Iraq war has said it will admit 10,000 Iraqi refugees (making a total of 80,000 in the country). By the way Sweden is not pushing through the Iraqi parliament for an oil law that would effectively place Iraq’s oil wealth in Sweden’s hands for the long term .

Just as we rely on our “partner” Pakistan to help us get Bin Laden,we rely on our “partner” Mexico to help stop the rush on our border. Seems we should have learned by now that if we want anything done we should do it ourselves.

Justin Case: you’ll have to go after Ted Kennedy and his ilk also to prosecute if there is another terrorist attack. His group wants the borders wide open for anyone to come so he can get his lawn moved really cheap….. Check out who sponsored the last so-called immigration reform bill that was defeated by the Republicans (Kennedy, McCain, Bush….). It’s a group effort

I would trade straight up all our Congress and the Administration for a like number of terrorists. I believe we could do something about the terrorists but we can do nothing about Congress and the Administration.
Build the fence and enforce our laws!

Pro-amnesty, no borders, laxed border enforcement, a transcontinental highway linking South America, Mexico and Canada, hodgepodge hiring practices, birth citizenship, higher wages, free medical care, social security benefits, tax free income, low income benefits, laxed housing restrictions… What a future! Where can I go to get all of this?
Let’s connect the dots, Folks… Welcome to the new ”United Nations of North America” — member of the ”New World Order”. — and yes, I voted Republican, but what’s in a label?

Lots of good comments here, and the consensus seems to be that of the hundreds of posters (not a scientific sample, but a good number), the consensus is to urge our Government to do more for its Citizens and less for those who sneak in. Any policy-makers or legislative staffers listening??
I especially agree with the list posted by Stan on the 21st, of things that have gone very wrong in the past decade or so. Good relations and trade with our neighbors is important, but Canada and Mexico still have protective laws and national preferences, so why shouldn’t the United States? Our “liberal guilt” is giving the store away.
And regarding Islamic terrorists’ use of Latin American smuggling routes (for people and drugs), there will come a time when the Christian Latinos will understand how the Muslims despise them as infidels, and see them as disposable fools. Then the smugglers we distrust will slit the throats of the terrorists we fear. Let’s hope our fellow Christian smugglers understand in time.

And some members of congress want to take all of our guns

My husband and I moved from Chaparral in April. We had been there for 5 years. Chaparral’s location is ideal for human smuggling since it’s only approx. 10 miles from El Paso. It’s location is also convenient because it’s easily accessible to Ft. Bliss, Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, and White Sands Missile Range. Chaparral is divided by two counties, Dona Ana, and Otero. Both counties operate under the philosphy “Hear no evil, see no evil”. The officials that run both counties have done nothing to see that human smuggling is stopped. You have the problem of the landlords, or as my husband and I affectionately call them, slumlords hiring illegals to maintain their properties, and we personally believe that alot of the “slumlords” give sanctuary to these illegals.We’ve never had proof, but we believe that our former “slumlord” was one of these people.These people are smuggled into Chaparral, then they trash the town. Otero and Dona Ana counties do nothing to clean the town up. It looks like a 3rd world country out there.Then these people put up tiny little businesses whose legality is highly questionable, since you walk into one of them, and there are no legal documents hanging on the wall to prove they are there doing business legally.They have their crude, handpainte signs out on the side of the road advertising that they are open. My arms are open to refugees who are sincerely running for their very lives.But when they can afford to spend over $10,000 to a coyote to get across, that makes my blood boil. What about the ones who are trying to do this legally? Do they get pushed to the back of the line? We are so glad to be out of Chaparral. The illegals have turned that little community into a sanctuary, and have ruined it. Trash everywhere! Both counties doing NOTHING!!!! They know about it.

GOOD JOB MR. BUSH. GREAT WORK CHERTY.
FIRST THERE WAS A FULL BEARD; THEN STUBBLE;
NOW PURE UGLINESS. THAT THIS GUY WAS GIVEN
THE JOB OF BOSS OF DHS IS SIMPLY AMAZING.
ONE OF THESE DAYS OSAMA BIN LADEN IS GOING
TO WALK IN ON CHERTY AND DEMAND TO HAVE
HIS OFFICE BECAUSE IT FACES THE EAST. THE
BETTER TO PRAY FROM. MOST OF US DON’T
KNOW IT; SOME OF US DO; BUT WE’RE ALL IN
SERIOUS TROUBLE.

I just read my posting of yesterday and see the last half was not posted. I finish by saying that how then did the Iraqis get into Mexico? Illegally through Guatemala? From Belize with British passports or were they brought by boat across the Atlantic and dumped on some deserted Mexican Caribbean beach? Someone should ask the FBI where they get their information and who their informants are.

One half of the resident of Chapparal NM may be illegals, I’m not disputing that. but they sure as hell aint Iraqis. And the title of the article is Brian Ross reports on Illegal Iraqis being smuggled across the Rio Grande.

Use Google Earth and follow the US/Mexican border with it and you’ll see why a fence in impractical.

when is it a terrorist crossing, is it when an person crosses across the border or is it just simply when A MUSLIM crosses the border. I get the feeling that, Americans think all muslims are terrorists. Maybe these people just found a way too get to a place that they can feel safe and secure. If you ask me we invaded their country, and they have the right to invade ours. after all America was created by Invaders from another land. What do you think about what the Native Americans though when White man crossed and ivaded their land. This country is becoming very Ignorant and arrogant by the day. We should be Ashamed how we behave. No wonder the world can’t stand American Imperialism.