While some aspiring political candidates advocate a more “sensitive” war on terror, hordes of invaders are breaching our sovereign borders.
This is far more serious than a failure to prevent criminal acts. As I reported in a DefenseWatch article on July 23 (“Breaking Silence Over a Possible Terror Threat”), federal officials warn that the U.S.-Mexican border in recent weeks has become a primary route of illegal entry by significant numbers of Arab-speaking males, presumably potential terrorists.
If the only remaining global superpower cannot enforce and effectively seal its own national borders, it remains vulnerable to more terrorist attacks like 9/11.
In an unfolding development, federal officials on Aug. 18 issued a border-wide alert for agents to be on the lookout for suspected al Qaeda member Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, who has been wanted on a 2003 federal material witness warrant. He is one of seven al Qaeda suspects Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly identified in June.
U.S. investigators said this week they believe El Shukrijumah, whose last supposed whereabouts was in Honduras, may try to cross the border into Arizona or Texas.
You would think that the federal government would go to General Quarters on the long-ignored security threat posed by our porous borders with Mexico and Canada. And you would be wrong.
Given this extremely troubling situation, what was the response by senior Homeland Security officials? Well, last week Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge and his upper management ordered DHS agents and employees to greet foreign passengers with “a smile” and say, “Welcome to the United States!”
Our Homeland Defense troops have also been ordered to attend a weeklong course in etiquette. If they fail to make the cut for failing to be polite enough, they might find themselves unemployed. Border Patrol Agents or Customs Officers getting the bum’s rush for not being polite to the human flotsam that is continually breaching our international borders is totally idiotic.
Nor is this an isolated instance of political correctness trumping badly needed security upgrades.
Yet another instructive memo from DHS leaders has surfaced. This one is titled, “Exercise of Discretion.” This memo advises all Customs/Border Patrol (CBP) agents to think twice about detaining aliens or refusing them entry into the United States if it may cause them “undue hardship.”
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