Hello friends, how's it going this week.....Oh good!
Today as you may or may not note, is Thursday and I am out of cinc. but I'll catch up. I read this report in IMPRIMIS published by Hillsdale oollege and I felt it had a worthwhile message for some of you out there. Soo here goes. oh, this article was written my Michille Malkin, columnist for Creators Syndicate since 1999, I consider her a very knowledgable individual in American Affairs.
IMMIGRATION & NATIONAL SECURITY-------
We all know what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. But, how many of us recall what happened on Feb. 26, 1993? That was the date of the first World Trade Center attack, the precursor of 9/11 carried out by a cell of Middle Eastern jihadists. Key members of that cell were illegal aliens.
Mahmud Abouhalima was an Egyptian illegal alien working as a cab driver in New York. He falsley claimed to be an agricultural worker under the illegal alien amnesty law and snagged a green card that allowed him to travel back and forth to Pakistan for al Qaeda training. Abouhalima said he was a strawberry picker, even though he had never been anywhere near a strawberry field. Overwhelmed INS workers -- who are driven to reduce backlogs by simply shredding or rubber stamping applications -- failed to vet his claims.
Mohammed Salameh, the operative who rented the truck in the 1993 bombing, was denied amnesty after filing a bogus claim. But because the INS didn't have the resources or the will to deport him, he was able to work and plot freely right under our noses.
The mastermind of the 1993 plot and of another foiled plot to bomb New York landmarks, Sheik Abdul Rahman, won asylum here based on a fraudulent laim and was allowed ot remain thanks to a deadly combination of immigraton and intelligence lapses. Seven people died and thousands were injured in the first World Trade Center bombing, which amounted to a trial run for the attack that would lead to the deaths of another 3,000 innocent men, women, and children eight years later.
All of the 9/11 hijackers entered the country with short-term visas issued by the State Department consular offices abroad. Fifteen of the 19 came from Saudi Arabia, where a special program allowed them to get fast-track visas. The program, called Visa Express, was hatched by Anerican bureaucrats who were concerned about wealthy Saudis waiting in long lines. So no one bothered to double-check the hijackers' applications, which were so sloppy that they made no sense. To give you a couple examples, one of them put "Washington hotel" as his ddress and another described his occupation as "Teeter". Thus, despite obviously lying on their applications, they gained entry to plot mass murder on American soil.
Once in the U.S. several of the hijackers needed fake government documents. They hooked up with illegal alien day laborers who hung out at a Virginia convenience store near the Pentagon. After waiting around with a couple of $20 bills, an illegal alien from El Salvador was willing and able to give them the documents that they needed to board the planes they flew on 9/11. The local cops whom I interviewed admit knowing that these people hanging around the convenience store were here illegally, but they did nothing about it.
The lesson is this: Lax immigration enforcement enables enemy foreign agents to exploit a system that was intended to welcome those who want to make better lives for themselves on our terms. Before 9/11, our nation convinced itself that it could afford massive, systematic abuse and under-mining of immigration laws. After 1993, in an age of Islamic terrorism and nuclear threat, we should have been permanently disabused of that notion. But we continued in our folly. And we continue in it still today.
Now I close and tomorrow I will contiue and complete this report and you should come back then and learn stuff that will make you uncomfortable to say the least. So Cheers CJ
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