Wednesday, July 28, 2004

We Should be Worried About This

I was over reading the Doggie Diaries, where they talked about this article in the Tomestone Tumbleweed.
The Tumbleweed has verified information that a flood of middle-eastern males have been caught entering the country illegally east of Douglas, Arizona. The increased patrols in the Huachuca Mountains area of Cochise County, seems to have diverted the flow of OTM’s, “other than Mexicans” east to the Chiricahua Mountains.
Adame, who says many of the agents in the area are “green”, questions why they would have shared the information with the Tumbleweed or any other source. “Our policy is to turn any OTM’s over to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security,” Adame said in a phone call made to the Tumbleweed Wednesday morning.
For reasons of National security, Adame said his agency cannot talk about the origin of nationaity, however Adame says that since October 1, 2003, the beginning of the fiscal year for Border Patrol, agents in the Tucson sector have apprehended 5,510 illegals from countries other than Mexico or other central or South American countries. Adame described them as “people from all over the world”.
In the last month, the Tumbleweed has confirmed at least two documented accounts of Border Patrol agents encountering large groups of non-Spanish speaking males in the Chiricahua foothills and on trails along the high mountain areas.
On or about the early morning hours of June 13, 2004 Border patrol agents from the Willcox station encountered a large group of suspected illegal border crossers, estimated to be around 158, just east of the Sanders Ranch near the foothills of the Chiricauha Mountains. 71 suspected illegal aliens were apprehended; among them were 53 males of middle-eastern descent.

This ought to scare the Hell out of you, as it does me. To think that we have that many Middle-Eastern men trying to enter the US illegally can not be good. I haven't talked much about our porous borders, I have known it has been a bad situation for a long while (remember I live in Texas, which has the longest border with Mexico). But now that we are seeing this kind of activity, it is time to shut them down HARD! I am not talking about adding a few more Border Patrolmen, I am talking about using the power of the Military to try to steam the flow of Terrorist from entering the US and repeating the attacks of 9/11. Even though I know the manpower it would entail to do this, we need to apply some kind of pressure now to staunch the flow.

Mr Minority