December 30, 2014, while I was on Al Jazeera America, after answering questions like "Is this an anti-immigration thing, or an anti-Hispanic thing?", I explained to the interviewer that the immigration laws are not on the books to be discriminatory, but to protect the receiving population from disease, the criminal element, and terrorists. The interviewer was quick to ask, "Can you name any terrorists that have crossed the border," as if the idea of a terrorist using our open border was a ludicrous thought. I responded that in a study done at San Ysidro's border crossing near San Diego it was found that 1 in 3 border crossers were of Middle Eastern descent. The following Saturday, Alex on my Constitution Radio program gave me a booklet listing names of terrorists caught crossing the border.
Now, we have County Sheriffs, and even the mainstream media, recognizing the national security danger of having an unsecured border.
According to State of Texas Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter in an interview on Fox News, law enforcement agencies along the “wide open” border have received alerts to be on the lookout for terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria crossing into the United States.
According to Painter, while working along the border over the last eight years, he has often times received alerts that were issued to border law enforcement to be on the lookout for suspicious terrorist activity, specifically involving ISIS cells being smuggled into the United States.
“I received an intelligence report that said that there was ISIS cells that were active in the Juarez area, which is the northern part of the Chihuahua state, and that they were moving around over there, that there was some activity…” Painter told Fox News. The report asked “for the sheriffs along the border to be on the alert, for all law enforcement to be on the alert, and to be on the lookout for these people maybe trying to come across.”
“Well I’m saying the border is wide open, there is no control on the border, it’s not shut off,” said Painter. “There’s places along the Rio Grande you can walk across, there’s no water in it. I worked the border for eight years I walked back and forth across the Rio Grande; I was in Mexico, I was on this side. I never got challenged.
“There’s always a way to get across, there’s coyotes that bring those people across for thousands of dollars.”
Painter noted that “Muslim” items have been strewn along the border and estimated that 10 to 15 million “undocumented aliens” have crossed the border.
“I think it’d be naive to say that (ISIS is) not here…We have found Muslim clothing, they have found Quran books that are lying on the side of the trail, so we know that there are Muslims that have come across and are being smuggled into the United States,” Painter told Fox News.
Making comments similar to what he told CNN last week, Painter had a direct message for the possible terrorist cells.
“If they show their ugly head in our area, we’ll send them to hell,” said Painter. “And I think the United States needs to get busy. And they need to bomb them, they need to take them out.”
When asked about the possibility of terrorists crossing the border, and if a real danger actually exists, I have now adopted a simple response. "It only takes one."
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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