Homeland (in)Security: Illegal Immigrants Today, Terrorists Tomorrow
AP reports: “Federal authorities said Wednesday they arrested six illegal immigrants who had security badges that gave them access to the tarmac and other restricted areas at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.”
Yet another example of why the U.S. needs to escalate efforts to defend the border and apply stricter enforcement of our (existing) laws to stop illegal immigration. As many critics have pointed out, Mexico is the next gateway for terrorism. The only thing the Taliban needs is to learn a little español.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the men, all Mexicans employed by T.C. Drywall Inc., as they reported to work at the airport Wednesday, agency spokesman Marc Raimondi said.
Immigration officials said the men had been hired recently to install drywall inside the airport’s secure area.
Evidently, not as secure as it should be. Learn from it.
UPDATE: (12/1)
LaShawn Barber blows the whistle for DHS. Read more.
Ironic Surrealism examines “trashing the border”
How do the environmentalists feel about this?
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November 30th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
I think the only thing making it a LITTLE tough for Jihadists to exploit Mexico is because, unlike the United States, a little thing called human rights is kind of a figment of someone else’s immagination right now.
Mexico beats the ever living crap out of THEIR illegal aliens. You’re from Guatemala or Ecuador or El Salvador caught crossing their southern border, and the ARMY beats, rapes, robs and kills you.
Security in general is a very tenuous thing. The only thing that the police pay attention to is money.
Which is what Saudis have plenty of, so as soon as they can figure out how to bribe enough police and high ranking officials, al Qaida could have itself one REALLY nice network within Mexico. Then, all they have to do is just do what the natives there have been doing to California, only bring some nerve agent instead of just anchor babies.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
And so it is said. Right on Dairenn.
You raise a great issue: Who more receptive to bribery and coersion than Mexican officials?
al-Qaeda has plenty of funding. Now, throw in a dulcet message like “America needs to be taught a lesson” or “You should reclaim your terriroty”, and it’s very likely that they could find some sympathizers in Mexico.
As said, all they need to do is learn some spanish, physical characteristics already a match, and terrorists could easily penetrate the area — and take advantage of the easy border crossing. America is at risk.
November 30th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
I still don’t understand why you all want to build a fence. That has got to be the worst idea ever. It’ll be hugely expensive not only to build, but to maintain, including all the supporting bureaucracy. Why is the conservative solution suddenly ‘let’s create a huge new pig to eat the budge trough’ instead of ‘hey, let’s remove the economic incentive for illegals to be here by enforcing the existing laws and going after the employers’??? You remove the incentive, they don’t come here anymore. You start seriously fining employers and jailing them, not slapping them on the hand, and they’ll start complying. This would work unless your party is getting money from agribusiness and construction and ….
November 30th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
let’s remove the economic incentive for illegals to be here by enforcing the existing laws and going after the employers’??? You remove the incentive, they don’t come here anymore. You start seriously fining employers and jailing them, not slapping them on the hand
BJJB, we’re in full agreement with you. No doubt about it. You’re right on. How do you like that?
But our positions are not mutually exclusive.
Just because we have laws and police, doesn’t mean you don’t still lock your frontdoor, right?
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Spanish don’t like jihadists. The do not tolorate their thuggy asses