Maybe a lot less border security on behalf of others, and a lot more border security of our own?
Three Afghanis were arrested Wednesday at an international airport in India’s Kerala state for flying with forged Mexican passports. They had just arrived there from Kuwait, where officials examined the passports identifying them as “Antonio Lopez Juan,” “Javier Sanchez Alberto,” and “Atonio Lopez Ernesto,” and found that they didn’t understand any Spanish. Maybe they were also suspicious of these inept attempts to ape Spanish names…
Sounds like India had our back on this one. Good job. Just goes to show international cooperation is the way to go, not sticking a million men on the border with Mexico.
[i]Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.
“A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States,” according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. “The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners.”
According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 “or the equivalent in weapons” for the cartel’s assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
I wonder how many aren’t caught.
[i]Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.
“A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States,” according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. “The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners.”
According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 “or the equivalent in weapons” for the cartel’s assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.
We’ll have greater success sealing our own borders than fighting for democracy in Islamic countries. Or, trying to figure out who the hell we’re supposed to be backing today in Pakistan. Or which dictator that we back today, might have to be removed tomorrow.
Perhaps we elect to sit out of the world’s conflicts? Remove ourselves as a combatant from conflicts that aren’t ours? Redirect our resources to protecting our own borders?
I find it rather treasonous that our own borders remain so porous while we send troops here, there, and everywhere to guard the borders of others. No sir, it just doesn’t sit right with me. I have this peculiar idea that we owe ourselves the greatest amount of loyalty, and the US taxpayer a secured border. Let the Sunni and Shia have at each other. Let the Iranian and the Iraqi rip each other to pieces. I have no loyalty to them.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
We’ll have greater success sealing our own borders than fighting for democracy in Islamic countries. Or, trying to figure out who the hell we’re supposed to be backing today in Pakistan. Or which dictator that we back today, might have to be removed tomorrow.
Perhaps we elect to sit out of the world’s conflicts? Remove ourselves as a combatant from conflicts that aren’t ours? Redirect our resources to protecting our own borders?
I find it rather treasonous that our own borders remain so porous while we send troops here, there, and everywhere to guard the borders of others. No sir, it just doesn’t sit right with me. I have this peculiar idea that we owe ourselves the greatest amount of loyalty, and the US taxpayer a secured border. Let the Sunni and Shia have at each other. Let the Iranian and the Iraqi rip each other to pieces. I have no loyalty to them. [/quote]