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from here: http://rapidrecon.threatswatch.org/2007/01/drugs-terrorism-and-illegal-im/
Drugs, Terrorism and Illegal Immigration
Jay
We live in a dangerous world in which the past is now blending with the present, and possibly influencing the future. The past is the pervasive problem of the importation of illegal narcotics into this country, much of it flowing across the U.S.-Mexican border. The present is the attention paid to the problem of illegal immigration and the connection between illegal immigration and terrorism. The future may well find us with a federal immigration policy that allows illegal aliens to work here a “guests.”
As expressed in Michael Cutler’s post on the Counterterrorism Blog from January 3rd, the question is whether our government will ever be able to see the linkage between the worlds of illegal narcotics, illegal immigration and the expansion terrorism. Frankly, that linkage has been apparent for more than a decade.
In Links Between Terrorism, Drug Trade, and Illegal Immigration Can’t Be Ignored and referring to another article in the Daily Bulletin, Mr. Cutler writes:
“…our nation’s failure to secure its borders and create an immigration system that possesses true integrity imperils nothing less than the security of our nation and the survival of our citizens… “The bureaucrats don’t understand what a dangerous game they are playing with American lives if they don’t do something to fix the situation at the border.” “Evidence of ‘special-interest aliens’ using the Mexican border to gain entry to the United States has been kept secret from the American public, according to federal law enforcement agents, terrorism experts and critics of U.S. foreign policy with Mexico… According to DEA intelligence reports, the link between terrorism and narcotics has been well known since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
In another quote from the Daily Bulletin article Links between illegal immigration, terrorism, drug trade worry U.S officials: “Those interviewed by the Daily Bulletin say agencies including the FBI and CIA are not using information from Border Patrol and Drug Enforcement Administration agents to make connections between the drug trade, illegal immigration and terrorist organizations.”
Also, a few weeks ago, there was a lot of publicity about the ICE raids of the Swift Meat Packing Plants and the link between illegal immigration and identity theft. These issues are “joined at the hip.” The linkage of illegal immigration with identity theft seemingly hit the national consciousness a couple of weeks ago when there were raids on six meat-packing plants. In that situation, it was found that many of the illegal workers held forged or counterfeit identity papers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with search warrants entered plants owned by Swift & Co., of Greeley, Colo., charging that “large numbers” of workers illegally assumed the identities of U.S. citizens or legal residents by using their Social Security numbers to get work, ICE officials said.
The Swift Meat Packing plant raids are not the first time illegal immigrants have been found with forged identity documents. This has been going on for over a decade, as written in the Washington Post article that also referenced a 1998 raids in Nebraska in which the government found that “nearly 20 percent of workers had invalid documents. The vast majority disappeared before questioning.”
So, which came first? The drug smugglers, the illegal aliens or the terrorists? It is hard to say when it comes to aliens and drug smugglers. But the connection between drug smuggling and terrorism is not new either. To an extent, none of this is a surprise. Having had the opportunity to attend and present at a number of Office of National Drug Control Policy symposia and listening carefully to presentations by various Defense Department or U.S. Customs officials, it was clear even in the mid-1990’s that there was a direct connection between the two “counters.”
In May 2002, I was interviewed for an article in the MIT Technology Review discussing the cross over between counter-drug and counter-terrorism technologies in which I asked the question, “Isn’t there a fairly strong feeling that narcotics in this country is a terrorist activity?”
Not too surprisingly that position was contradicted by Brian Houghton, director of research for the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, who said, “Yes and no, says Houghton, who cautions against drawing too many parallels, or assuming that knowledge in one area bequeaths expertise in the other. “There are similarities, but [drug trafficking and terrorism] are two different things,” he says. “Where they start to go apart is that drugs are such an epidemic. If all drug dealers and cartels were terrorist organizations we’d be in big trouble.”
Well, we are in big trouble as Houghton commented. In the passage of just four years since the interview with the Technology Review, we have seen the linkage between illegal immigration and the drug cartels on Mexico. We have also witnessed the numerous flare-ups in violence along the United States border with Mexico, especially in places like Nuevo Laredo, where drug lords or their gangs kidnap Americans and murder law enforcement agents. We have seen the linkage of illegal immigration with illegal or forged identity papers. In addition, we see and read about the growing number of non-Mexican immigrants, many of who overstay their Visas and get lost in the blended society of the United States.
Much like Miguel Alfonso Salinas who was first thought to be a Mexican migrant but who turned out to be Ayman Sulmane Kamal, a Muslim born in Egypt - a country designated as “special-interest” by the United States for sponsoring terrorism – it would be unrealistic to think that others are not also here under false pretenses. Whether you call it “guest worker” or “amnesty” the result of such policies is the widening of our open borders. We are already at risk. Why the federal government would countenance an idea that would increase that risk is simply incredulous.
comment: A post over at IBA(blogroll) perked my interest in the area of terrorists and The MOB.. A while back, there were questions and comments in the Print Media about the possibility that terrorists and The MOB were formin an alliance.. Elections, disasters and such have mostly buried that line of attention and I havent heard any more about it..
But now I have seen this and wonder if the Gangs and Drug Society aint gettin together and formin a union with The MOB and Terrorists too .. If so, the Criminal Elemment around us would be able take this country under !!
Folks, there is a lot of dope crossin our southern border.. A lot is gettin caught, but its just a drop-in-the-bucket of the total.. It takes a lot of dope crossin the border to have as much get caught and still enuff get thru to meet demands.. That takes a lot of effort and a lot of cooperation between somebody.. The spooky part is that all that shit is comin in and a whole bunch of people are involved and info on it is still scarce !! It damn well better be scarce, cause if a bunch of the law enforcement have that info and its still happenin, then I'm gonna be one mad bitch !!
And if law enforcement knows about it and still lets it happen, then what else are they gettin paid-off to turn their heads to ?? And most of all, how far would they go and how much would they let pass across without doin somethin about it or givin us a warnin about ??
Thankin bout shit like this gives me a damn headache !!
Drugs, Terrorism and Illegal Immigration
Jay
We live in a dangerous world in which the past is now blending with the present, and possibly influencing the future. The past is the pervasive problem of the importation of illegal narcotics into this country, much of it flowing across the U.S.-Mexican border. The present is the attention paid to the problem of illegal immigration and the connection between illegal immigration and terrorism. The future may well find us with a federal immigration policy that allows illegal aliens to work here a “guests.”
As expressed in Michael Cutler’s post on the Counterterrorism Blog from January 3rd, the question is whether our government will ever be able to see the linkage between the worlds of illegal narcotics, illegal immigration and the expansion terrorism. Frankly, that linkage has been apparent for more than a decade.
In Links Between Terrorism, Drug Trade, and Illegal Immigration Can’t Be Ignored and referring to another article in the Daily Bulletin, Mr. Cutler writes:
“…our nation’s failure to secure its borders and create an immigration system that possesses true integrity imperils nothing less than the security of our nation and the survival of our citizens… “The bureaucrats don’t understand what a dangerous game they are playing with American lives if they don’t do something to fix the situation at the border.” “Evidence of ‘special-interest aliens’ using the Mexican border to gain entry to the United States has been kept secret from the American public, according to federal law enforcement agents, terrorism experts and critics of U.S. foreign policy with Mexico… According to DEA intelligence reports, the link between terrorism and narcotics has been well known since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
In another quote from the Daily Bulletin article Links between illegal immigration, terrorism, drug trade worry U.S officials: “Those interviewed by the Daily Bulletin say agencies including the FBI and CIA are not using information from Border Patrol and Drug Enforcement Administration agents to make connections between the drug trade, illegal immigration and terrorist organizations.”
Also, a few weeks ago, there was a lot of publicity about the ICE raids of the Swift Meat Packing Plants and the link between illegal immigration and identity theft. These issues are “joined at the hip.” The linkage of illegal immigration with identity theft seemingly hit the national consciousness a couple of weeks ago when there were raids on six meat-packing plants. In that situation, it was found that many of the illegal workers held forged or counterfeit identity papers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with search warrants entered plants owned by Swift & Co., of Greeley, Colo., charging that “large numbers” of workers illegally assumed the identities of U.S. citizens or legal residents by using their Social Security numbers to get work, ICE officials said.
The Swift Meat Packing plant raids are not the first time illegal immigrants have been found with forged identity documents. This has been going on for over a decade, as written in the Washington Post article that also referenced a 1998 raids in Nebraska in which the government found that “nearly 20 percent of workers had invalid documents. The vast majority disappeared before questioning.”
So, which came first? The drug smugglers, the illegal aliens or the terrorists? It is hard to say when it comes to aliens and drug smugglers. But the connection between drug smuggling and terrorism is not new either. To an extent, none of this is a surprise. Having had the opportunity to attend and present at a number of Office of National Drug Control Policy symposia and listening carefully to presentations by various Defense Department or U.S. Customs officials, it was clear even in the mid-1990’s that there was a direct connection between the two “counters.”
In May 2002, I was interviewed for an article in the MIT Technology Review discussing the cross over between counter-drug and counter-terrorism technologies in which I asked the question, “Isn’t there a fairly strong feeling that narcotics in this country is a terrorist activity?”
Not too surprisingly that position was contradicted by Brian Houghton, director of research for the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, who said, “Yes and no, says Houghton, who cautions against drawing too many parallels, or assuming that knowledge in one area bequeaths expertise in the other. “There are similarities, but [drug trafficking and terrorism] are two different things,” he says. “Where they start to go apart is that drugs are such an epidemic. If all drug dealers and cartels were terrorist organizations we’d be in big trouble.”
Well, we are in big trouble as Houghton commented. In the passage of just four years since the interview with the Technology Review, we have seen the linkage between illegal immigration and the drug cartels on Mexico. We have also witnessed the numerous flare-ups in violence along the United States border with Mexico, especially in places like Nuevo Laredo, where drug lords or their gangs kidnap Americans and murder law enforcement agents. We have seen the linkage of illegal immigration with illegal or forged identity papers. In addition, we see and read about the growing number of non-Mexican immigrants, many of who overstay their Visas and get lost in the blended society of the United States.
Much like Miguel Alfonso Salinas who was first thought to be a Mexican migrant but who turned out to be Ayman Sulmane Kamal, a Muslim born in Egypt - a country designated as “special-interest” by the United States for sponsoring terrorism – it would be unrealistic to think that others are not also here under false pretenses. Whether you call it “guest worker” or “amnesty” the result of such policies is the widening of our open borders. We are already at risk. Why the federal government would countenance an idea that would increase that risk is simply incredulous.
comment: A post over at IBA(blogroll) perked my interest in the area of terrorists and The MOB.. A while back, there were questions and comments in the Print Media about the possibility that terrorists and The MOB were formin an alliance.. Elections, disasters and such have mostly buried that line of attention and I havent heard any more about it..
But now I have seen this and wonder if the Gangs and Drug Society aint gettin together and formin a union with The MOB and Terrorists too .. If so, the Criminal Elemment around us would be able take this country under !!
Folks, there is a lot of dope crossin our southern border.. A lot is gettin caught, but its just a drop-in-the-bucket of the total.. It takes a lot of dope crossin the border to have as much get caught and still enuff get thru to meet demands.. That takes a lot of effort and a lot of cooperation between somebody.. The spooky part is that all that shit is comin in and a whole bunch of people are involved and info on it is still scarce !! It damn well better be scarce, cause if a bunch of the law enforcement have that info and its still happenin, then I'm gonna be one mad bitch !!
And if law enforcement knows about it and still lets it happen, then what else are they gettin paid-off to turn their heads to ?? And most of all, how far would they go and how much would they let pass across without doin somethin about it or givin us a warnin about ??
Thankin bout shit like this gives me a damn headache !!
posted by Wild Bill at 5:15 PM
2 Comments:
Pretty discouraging, don't you think? I know I'm from California, and we think differently from the rest of the US, but I truly feel the only answer is to legalize the crap. Education hasn't helped. Law enforcement, the DEA, and everyone else can't or won't stop it. When you think about it, why would the DEA want to eradicate the drug traffic? Puts them out of business. Hell, if money's to be made it might as well be our government. That way we can afford to pay for the health care and other entitlements the illegals get. Of course, this doesn't solve the terrorists being smuggled in. I truly don't know how it will be stopped since the damned dimmocrats refuse to do the right thing. Perhaps if they're high from legalized drugs, the citizens who give a rat's ass about our country can police the borders ourselves.
I wish they would just legalize it to where I could grow it and make enuff to pay my damn Property Taxes !! I know a few old folks around here that do that now..
For many years pot was the Major Cash Crop in this county.. Even above cattle production !! Now, thats sayin somethin .. Cattle is a really REALLY big business here too.. But now the Crack/Crystal labs are the Drug Elements main production here..
I noticed where the Frisco hospitals are havin a problem with all the Afghan smack pourin into Cali sendin a bunch of their liberals to the ER for OD's.. If they legalized it, they could take all those DEA and Drug Task Forces and put em watchin the border, and take all that money we send to Columbia and Bolivia and build a Golden Fence along our southern border !! Besides that, it would thin-out a bunch of the elite liberals to OD's, and we could sit back and huff on a hooter and watch em bury em !!
I know it sounds cold, but those are the same sunzabitches powderin their damn noses that bitch and raise wholy hell about my cigarettes and raise the taxes on em out of sight to (supposedly) pay for my higher health risk !! Hypocritic bastards..
The damn liberals are always tryin to do somethin that is supposed to be GOOD for us, but it always ends up just diggin us in a hole and then fillin it with shit.. I'm gotdam tired of smellin Liberal Shit all around me.. That reminds me of the stink hole up in Jersey and NYC the past coupla days !! I just wonder how much its gonna cost US to fix that liberal environmental fuggup ??
I say, get the Justice Dept. to sue the environmentalists that fought for that gotdam cess pool to pay to fix it now !! NAH, I take that back.. Just let the stupid sunzabitches have to smell that shit from now on .. ANYBODY that joins one of their environmental orgs. MUST be made to live within about 2 miles of that shit hole !!
And another thang, since you mention that stupid-ass health care proposal of Ahnuld's.. Maria better get him off that gotdam Prozac he must be on before Cali loses every damn bit of its business and industry !! If he gets that shit passed, ya'll might as well close the doors and turn out the lights in Cali cause the only thang its gonna be good for is an extended test and firin range for 29 Palms !! Ship buildin and the Ports wont even be able to survive that !!
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