- "This is terrorism in its purest form."
- --U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Shawn Palmer
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- NOGALES, AZ -- There
is a wall along the US-Mexican border that separates the city of Nogales,
Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. According to a report released this week and
published in the local newspaper, "Individuals on the wall, or behind
it, will hurl rocks at the agent. The rocks generally weigh several pounds
and can cause severe injury to an agent." (Nogales, International
4/6/04)
- The Border Patrol calls these hostile actions "rockings."
When similar incidents occur in Israel they are referred to as acts of
terrorism. The mainstream American media reports on such incidents, except
when they occur on our own border. Two weeks ago an agent was shot in the
groin by an "illegal" he was trying to arrest. At about the same
time a convoy of six trucks carrying 165 'illegals' blasted across the
border through the desert and onto the Tahono O'odham Indian Reservation.
When US agents tried to block their path, the drivers tried to run them
over.
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- These are typical incidents that go on every week, month
in and month out. According the Border Patrol 114 assaults on agents assigned
to the Nogales station occurred during 2002. This is only one station along
a 2,000 mile border that stretches from California to east Texas. Nogales
agents informed the newspaper that "agents are lured to certain areas
along the border wall for the express purpose of harming them."
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- Drug and people smugglers - they often use illegal aliens
to smuggle drugs - have grown increasingly bold and violent in recent years.
In January, 2003 a gun battle occurred between drug smugglers and agents
along the Rio Grande River in Texas. On March 19, 2004 an Arizona man reported
that he had fired warning shots in the direction of a truck because he
was tired of smugglers crossing through his property. "The same vehicle
apparently returned 40 minutes later and occupants opened fire on the man's
home with an AK-47 rifle and 9 mm gun", the Arizona Star reported.
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- The problem here is obvious to everyone except the American
congress, the president and the mavens that run our mass media. While we
our pouring billions into 'The War on Terrorism', our southern border has
not been secured against another 9-11 attack or an invasion by a cadre
of paramilitary operatives.
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- The situation is so dire on the Tohono O'odham reservation
that private citizens began to arm themselves against the mounting terrorist
threat last month. This reporter toured the area and spoke with residents
in January and February and they said that there were increasing numbers
of thefts and vandalism cases reported by homeowners. How dangerous is
the situation? Last week the Border Patrol donated bullet proof vests to
the reservation police.
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- Why is it that if similar events occur in Israel they
are covered by our mass media? Furthermore, why has the mainstream press
made an issue out of Janet Jackson's breast exposure and yet failed to
make one out of the apparent penetration of our border by Moslems? As I
write this, our congress, administration, intelligence analysts and press
are flapping their jaws about who was responsible for 9-11. Are they all
on Prozac?
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- What if the next act of terrorism committed on American
soil is perpetrated by terrorists who crossed via the Mexican border?
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- They can all pass the buck for the last failure, but
we should not let them off the hook the next time. It does seem ironic
that President Bush has a cozy BBQ with El Presidente Fox when the latter
voted with OPEC to raise oil prices, has criticized the war in Iraq and
demanded that 'illegals' be given free passes? It is time to hold the president
accountable for his failure to secure the Mexican border. His recent performances
regarding border politics are nothing short of embarrassing and shameful.
- Last year an Arizona couple discovered a diary written
in Arabic in a backpack apparently dropped on their property by an illegal
alien entering the U.S. (The Sierra Vista Herald Review, 2/03). We already
learned that it takes less than 20 terrorists to pull off a major attack
yet hundreds of such individuals could have easily crossed the border with
undocumented Mexican nationals since 9-11.
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- Nevertheless, we read "by all reports, the wave
of illegal immigration across our nation's southern border has accelerated
threefold since President Bush announced his confusing guest worker proposal
in January, 2004." (Human Tidal Wave Spills Over Border, Newsmax.com
(4/8/02)
- Right now an estimated 1 million 'illegals' are entering
the U.S. every month, which is a shocking and unacceptable fact. Not only
is Mr. Bush asleep at the wheel so is Congress, the New York Times, CBS,
NBC, ABC and the Washington Post. Need we remind the vacationing president
that we are at war and not just in Iraq or Afghanistan? A war is going
on along our southern border and the government's first duty is to protect
our sovereignty from foreign invasion.
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