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FEDS DISCOVER ELABORATE SMUGGLING RING ALLOWED NUKE INTO US
5 July 2009 (EP)
The latest federal investigations in the wake of the 31 March Los Angeles nuclear attack that left 300,000 dead, as many as a million wounded, and thousands more still missing took another turn today when it was discovered that several of the key components for the weapon, detonated in a small aircraft over the rush hour freeway system, were smuggled across the border by workers previously vetted under the controversial federal guest workers program.
Sources close to the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation, report that evidence points to the fact that a network of guest workers were used by Islamic extremists to bring components across the border because “vetted guest workers never get scrutinized”. In one particular case, the sources report, a moving van was allowed to cross the border almost daily without being searched because the occupants “were familiar” to the Border Patrol agents responsible for the crossing. This vehicle was used to transport most of the explosives needed to assemble the weapon in the US.
While it is known that the radioactive components were brought into the country via a shipping container from Indonesia, the fact that most of the rest of the components came across the border draws sharp attention to the situation created by the guest workers program. Because many of the workers vetted under the program were already in the country illegally, it becomes apparent that the program itself failed to provide sufficient safeguards for security”
The “news article” above is fiction, but this fiction is not so far off from the truth of the political compromise being offered by both the House and the Senate on Capitol Hill to deal with the problems of illegal immigration and border security. Nearly simultaneous with a leaked report that US agents were able to smuggle substantial amounts of radioactive material across the border, the Congress is working toward approving a bill that would make such an attempt that much easier.
There is no doubt that something needs to be done about illegal immigration and border security, and that whatever is done must take into account the reality that the 11 million illegal workers currently in the US did not leave their families and homeland because they like the scenery. Yet, whatever solution is undertaken must place securing the borders ahead of any kind of sanctuary or amnesty for illegal workers.
The problem is that the so-called “guest worker” program being offered does not require a single illegal worker to return to his country of origin to be vetted before returning to the US. Basically, this fact means that among the millions of honest and hardworking illegal immigrants, the ones that are neither will also be allowed to stay so long as they have a job and no criminal record.
As the reality of the aftermath of 9-11 shows us, our enemies are patient and meticulous when it comes to planning terrorism, and they take advantage of weaknesses in our own systems as part of that planning. Any illegal immigration normalization program that does not require illegal immigrants to first reenter the country legally ignores the fact that there are likely terrorist agents already in the country illegally, thereby playing into the hands of the terrorist organizations waiting for the US to make mistakes that give them an advantage.
The sad truth is that this new legislation being considered by the Congress does not fix anything. It gives legitimacy to illegal immigrants already here and does little to actually increase the security of the borders. It concentrates most of its attention on the Mexican border while ignoring the Canadian border where every terrorist caught crossing the border into the US has been caught.
Worse, it does not address the underlying problems that have created the illegal immigration crisis to begin with, thereby practically guaranteeing that people will continue to cross the border illegally because there is still a demand for their labor. As long as there is a demand, there will be a supply.
]The real answer to this problem is a program that requires guest workers to already be vetted when they enter the country. Essentially, this is a visa program with a more streamlined process. Further, any program must be supported by tough and real control of the borders by a meaningful domestic security force that can actually patrol and control two of the world’s longest non-militarized land borders.
The amazing fact of this entire debate is that the government of the United States is failing at arguably most important task, which is securing the US against external threats. In the “reforms” presented to deal with the illegal immigration problem, the solution is really to ignore it and hope it goes away on its own. The prayer should be that the problem and its presented solution does not come back to haunt us somewhere down the road.
DLH
Interesting……