Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico

By Kevin Mooney

CNSNews.com Staff Writer

August 21, 2006

 

http://www.CNSNEWS.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200608/SPE20060821a.html

 

(CNSNews.com) - The chief law enforcement officers of several Texas counties along the southern U.S. border warn that Arabic-speaking individuals are learning Spanish and integrating into Mexican culture before paying smugglers to sneak them into the United States. The Texas Sheriffs’ Border Coalition believes those individuals are likely terrorists and that drug cartels and some members of the Mexican military are helping them get across the border.

 

Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County, Texas told Cybercast News Service that Iranian currency, military badges in Arabic, jackets and other clothing are among the items that have been discovered along the banks of the Rio Grande River. The sheriff also said there are a substantial number of individuals crossing the southern border into the U.S. who are not Mexican. He described the individuals in question as well-funded and able to pay so-called “coyotes” - human smugglers - large sums of money for help gaining illegal entry into the U.S.

 

Although many of the non-Mexican illegal aliens are fluent in Spanish, Gonzalez said they speak with an accent that is not native.

 

“It’s clear these people are coming in for reasons other than employment,” Gonzalez said.

 

That sentiment is shared by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.).

 

“For years, Muslims and other ‘Special Interest Aliens’ from places other than Mexico have been streaming into the U.S. across our porous border,” Tancredo told Cybercast News Service. “These people are not paying $50,000 or more a head just to ‘take jobs no American will do.’

 

“Terrorists are working round the clock to infiltrate the United States,” he added. “Congress and this administration must address this gaping hole in our national security and they must do it now.”

 

Some of the more high profile pieces of evidence pointing to terrorist infiltration of the U.S. have been uncovered in Jim Hogg County, Texas, which experiences a high volume of smuggling activity, according to local law enforcement.

 

“We see patches on jackets from countries where we know al Qaeda to be active,” Gonzalez explained.

 

The patches appear to be military badges with Arabic lettering. One patch in particular, discovered this past December, caught the attention of federal homeland security officials, according to Gonzalez and local officials familiar with the investigation.

 

Sheriff Wayne Jernigan of Valverde County, Texas, told members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in March about one patch that read “midnight mission” and displayed an airplane flying over a building heading towards a tower. Translators with DHS have said some of the various phrases and slogans on the items could mean “martyr,” “way to eternal life,” or “way to immortality.”

 

Gonzalez told the House International Relations Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation in July that the terrorists are getting smarter.

 

“To avoid apprehension, we feel many of these terrorists attempt to blend in with persons of Hispanic origin when entering the country.” Gonzalez stated. “We feel that terrorists are already here and continue to enter our country on a daily basis.”

 

Sheriff Arvin West of Hudspeth County, Texas, told Cybercast News Service that he believes some Mexican soldiers are operating in concert with the drug cartels to aid the terrorists.

 

“There’s no doubt in my mind,” he said, “although the Mexican government and our government adamantly deny it.”

 

Statistics made available through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show more than 40,000 illegal aliens from countries “Other Than Mexico,” designated as OTMs, were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in the period ranging from October 2003 to June 2004, as they attempted to cross the southwestern border. An overview of border security challenges produced through the office of Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicates that almost 120,000 OTMs were apprehended while attempting to cross into the state from January through July 2005.

 

Local authorities are particularly concerned about illegal aliens arriving from Special Interest Countries (SICs) where a radical version of Islam is known to flourish. Perry’s office cites Iraq, Iran, Indonesia and Bangladesh among those countries. A Tancredo spokesperson said the list also includes Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.

 

As Cybercast News Service previously reported an internal audit of DHS that combines the number of illegal aliens arriving from SICs with the documented instances of illegal aliens arriving from countries identified as being state sponsors of terrorism (SSTs) yields a grand total of over 90,000 such illegal aliens who have been apprehended during the five year period from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2005.

 

The border security report delivered by Perry’s office focuses attention on the “Triborder region” of Latin America, which spans an area between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

 

“The Triborder Region is a focal point of Islamic extremism,” the report states. “Al Qaeda leadership plans to use criminal alien smuggling organizations to bring terrorist operatives across the border into the U.S.”

 

Carlos Espinosa, a press spokesman for Tancredo, said his office is aware of a training camp in Brazil that actually teaches people from outside of Latin America how they can assimilate into the Mexican culture.

 

“They come up as illegal aliens and disguise themselves as potential migrant workers,” Espinosa said.

I'd say that there are lots of criminals entering the US through Mexico....

It's because the borders of practically wide open at the moment...you don't even need to go to any great effort be smuggled in...

 

It's causing the US problems now.....but it's going to create alot more problems in the future.

damn, pretty soon all Muslims and Arabs will be deported outta the US and banned.

:lol: just the title of this thread made me laugh!!

damn' date=' pretty soon all Muslims and Arabs will be deported outta the US and banned.[/quote']

 

no just the ones who work for terrorist groups.

 

but its ok to let muslim terrorist in since their muslims, right?

:lol: just the title of this thread made me laugh!!

 

93 sex offenders a day and terrorist and you're attacking this..

 

show's where your morals are.

 

but by all means lets let terrorist just walk, literally walk into our nation and then lets let hundreds of thousands of sex offender illegally just walk in too. tell that to one of the women raped by an illegal. i bet you couldnt.

morals shmorals...

 

 

sex offends are already living here by the dozens...... doesn't mean they are all Mexicans.... you seem to think that by closing borders, this will eliviate the amount of sex offenders in the US???

 

nevermind my morals.. where's your brain? :lol:

morals shmorals...

 

 

sex offends are already living here by the dozens...... doesn't mean they are all Mexicans.... you seem to think that by closing borders, this will eliviate the amount of sex offenders in the US???

 

nevermind my morals.. where's your brain? :lol:

 

ok, we shouldnt stop any crime because we cant stop them all...and where is my brain? well my brain knows we cant stop every sex crime but we could have stopped A FUCKING MILLION last year. thats a couple hundred thousand people that didnt have to suffer and it all could have been avoided..where is your brain AND MORALS?

 

by deporting illegals and closing the borders sex crimes will drop by millions, seeing as how a million crimes are committed each year and the number is growing. you take away a few million sex offenders over a few years and you stopa few million sex crimes.

 

if closing the border wouldnt help then their wouldnt be 93 sex offender coming into america each day.....but the facts remain the same the sex crime rate was up a 1million higher last year then it should have been.

 

I DONT know about you, but im all for stopping a million sex crimes next year if thats all we can do, a little is better the NONE. and stopping a few terrorist from entering is better hten not and stopping a few terrorist attacks instead of all is better then stopping none.

still waiting.. lol

Just so you know.....the borders are being opened on purpose.

 

It's part off the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

Just so you know.....the borders are being opened on purpose.

 

It's part off the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

 

Yeah, and some want to make mexico part of america. pat buchanan has a good book about this subject.

still waiting.. lol

 

This has nothing to do with legal americans. the subject wasnt 400 legal americans commit a sex crime everyday

 

we already have way to many sex offenders in america that are legall citizens, we dont need a few million more that arent even citizens.:\

 

we stop all crime but we can do all we can do to lower it. lower is better then nothing, in which you think since americans do it anyone should be allowed to.....i can say if you were ever raped by an illegal i wouldnt feel bad for you.

Yeah' date=' and some want to make mexico part of america. pat buchanan has a good book about this subject.[/quote']

 

Yes,

 

Bush has already signed to to make Mexico part of the US....as well as Canada....the North American Union is what's going to be created.....then I think an American Union (including other countries) will follow.

Yes,

 

Bush has already signed to to make Mexico part of the US....as well as Canada....the North American Union is what's going to be created.....then I think an American Union (including other countries) will follow.

 

I actually agree with you on this one. and its not good. most americans dont want this, most canadians wouldnt and im not sure about most of mexico. but their is going to be trouble ahead plus im hearing talk of a bad recession to come.

I think making Mexico and Canada one big Union is a HUGE mistake... BUT on the plus side.. maybe taxes can get a break?? Or no... ??? I dunno... bad idea though.

I think making Mexico and Canada one big Union is a HUGE mistake... BUT on the plus side.. maybe taxes can get a break?? Or no... ??? I dunno... bad idea though.

 

YET you dont seem to want to stop this from happening...:rolleyes:

 

You call it a mistake but are for it happening....nice camille

YET you dont seem to want to stop this from happening...:rolleyes:

 

You call it a mistake but are for it happening....nice camille

 

I've been talking about this for a long time now and I do remember you saying it was a good idea at one point. :)

 

^ I'm really not making a big deal out of you saying that but I think some poeple are confused over the issue, purely because there's alot to take in. The implications are huge; it's a massive operation.

I've been talking about this for a long time now and I do remember you saying it was a good idea at one point. :)

 

^ I'm really not making a big deal out of you saying that but I think some poeple are confused over the issue, purely because there's alot to take in. The implications are huge; it's a massive operation.

 

 

I have learned alot more and realized how bad it would be if it happened. I go with the facts, my mind change on issues often. its not hard to change my mind i just need a good reason and evidence. like in this case i was wrong, our goverment is trying to do this AND its going to be a bad thing. I do apologize for not believing you. on this issue you were very right.

Hey, I don't need an apology....

 

I'm just posting what I believe to be true here. :

 

Anyway....I was talking to someone online who said that a family known to them had their land taken to make way for the Trans-Texas Corridor ('''TTC''').

 

I actually pointed out what the land seizure was for....she just said it was for a highway. (which it kinda is)

 

She said that they waited for the Government to come are take the property and land as they refused to give it up. It cost them thousands and thousands in a legal fight if I remember and that they were made to pay for the cost of the seizure!!!!. She said it was written about on here http://corridornews.blogspot.com/2005/07/did-those-people-ask-to-have-their.html but I couldn't find it....

 

Anyway, I thought it was interesting.......in a horrid way.