Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Our southern border is still open. We continue not to take illegal immigration seriously. People wonder why everything possible wasn't done for airline safety before 9/11. We're still not doing it. We may be doing slightly better, but it took the hijacking and destruction of four airliners to change anything. Will it take another catastrophic event perpetrated by operatives who came in over the Rio Grande to make us finally overcome the open-borders lobby to finally take some minimal steps there as well?
This puts a little perspective on the story of terrorists with South African passports that came out yesterday, as well as the petty whining of certain Brazilian judges.
WTOPNEWS: Al-Qaida Suspect Arrested in Texas (via LGF)
Her name is Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed. She was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport on July 19 headed to New York.
Eddie Flores of the U.S. Border Patrol office in McAllen, Texas tells FederalNewsRadio.com that a review of her papers raised some concerns.
"In looking at her documents, they did not find any entry documents in her passport where she was legally admitted into the United States," says Flores.
Ahmed produced a South African passport to the agents with four pages torn out, and with no U.S. entry stamps. Ahmed reportedly later confessed to investigators that she entered the country illegally by crossing the Rio Grande River. Ahmed was carrying travel itineraries showing a July 8 flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to London. Six days later, Ahmed traveled from London to Mexico City before attempting to travel from McAllen to New York.
Government sources tell FederalNewsRadio.com that capturing this woman could be comparable to the arrest of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11. It was revealed in court Tuesday that she was on a watch list and had entered the U.S. possibly as many as 250 times...
Update: Michelle Malkin has more, as well as this story of a Muslim man pulled over in Iowa with a whole lot of suspicious stuff in his car.
