Re: Official Says al-Qaeda May Enter U.S. at Southern Border

From: Bunn E. Rabbit (BunnERabbit_at_verizon.hutch.net)
Date: 02/19/05


Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:11:47 GMT

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:49:55 -0600, "johnny@>" <johnny@.> wrote:

>LAST UPDATE: 2/18/2005 12:39:24 PM
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Solomon Ortiz has been sounding an alarm since
>last summer that al-Qaeda might exploit the porousness of the nation's
>southern border and now the Department of Homeland Security agrees with him.
>
>Admiral James Loy, deputy Homeland Security secretary, said in written
>testimony he gave the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday that "recent
>information from ongoing investigations, detentions and emerging threat
>streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the
>southwestern border to infiltrate the United States."
>
>Loy said that al-Qaeda operatives believe they can pay to get into the
>country through Mexico and that entering illegally is "more advantageous
>than legal entry."
>
>But Loy also said there's no conclusive evidence that al-Qaeda
>operatives have entered the country illegally through those methods.
>

Trying to so the terrorism Americans won't do.

>Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, has been urging the federal government to end
>its practice of releasing non-Mexican immigrants awaiting deportation
>hearings after they've been arrested for illegally entering the country.
>The majority of the non-Mexican immigrants released are from Latin
>American countries.
>
>Officials have said that detaining the immigrants would be costly.
>
>http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=88D4A04C-7969-4729-9CF9-B0C42CA53583

Costly? Compared to what? The war in Iraq? The 10's of thousands
taxpayers pay for each illegal or 'refugee'?

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