An invasion we can no longer ignore

The unrelenting disclosure of such incidents is, at an absolute minimum, troubling. The statistics of the illegal invasion are truly shocking. 

The Department of Homeland Security reports that since October 2003, a total of 418,146 illegal aliens have been apprehended in the United States. That is nearly 2Ѕ times as many as the 181,446 illegals arrested during the previous 12-month period.  

In my own locality, Cochise County, Ariz., the numbers are equally distressing: Border Patrol officials say the number of illegal invaders taken into custody in my county, just since October 2003, reflects an increase of 61,851 which is a 47 percent boom over the previous period. 

But hold on to your stacking swivel: Last month alone, the Border Patrol’s Tuscon sector nabbed 38,898 illegal aliens, of whom 19,433 were in Cochise County. 

Recent arrests of suspected al Qaeda members in Pakistan and Great Britain confirm that the terrorist network is still plotting to carry out devastating attacks on the American homeland. It is imperative that the federal government take whatever steps are necessary and pay whatever costs are involved to close the border, secure our sovereignty, and protect Americans everywhere from the invasion of illegals and the terrorists that are likely hiding in their midst.  

J. David Galland,
Deputy Editor of DefenseWatch
DEFENSEWATCH02@yahoo.com