August 15, 2005

"Homeland security doesn't exist."

Leo Banks offers a long article about ranchers directly on the border entitled "Images From the Battleground". It includes this:

The Border Patrol doesn't release a by-nation breakdown of those it arrests, and the agency is particularly tight-lipped about arrests of special interest aliens, known as SIAs. These are individuals from the list of about 35 countries the U.S. considers terror threats. But the Weekly has obtained SIA arrest figures from a federal law enforcement source who asked to remain anonymous.

From 2000 through 2003, plus the first nine months of fiscal 2004, agents in the Tucson sector, and the Arizona office of the Yuma sector, arrested 132 SIAs. The numbers include 10 from Afghanistan, seven from Iran, 12 from Yemen, 11 from Pakistan and three from Iraq.

Using the common estimate that the Border Patrol only catches one out of every three who cross, or as some believe, one of every five, we can calculate that upward of 660 individuals from terror-threat nations have crossed into our country through Arizona.

Those SIA arrest figures, by the way, include six individuals from Saudi Arabia, the country that produced 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 maniacs.

Homeland security?

Along the border south of Arivaca, you'd best stand back when you utter those words, because the subject tends to make folks spitting mad. Even Robinson, a silver-haired, soft-spoken gentleman, gets a fire in his eyes when he talks about it.

"It's a joke," says the 67-year-old, semi-retired veterinarian. "Homeland security doesn't exist."

Posted to Immigration_terror at August 15, 2005 02:42 PM

Comments

It is just pathetic that we have spent as much money on homeland security as we have and then we leave the border wide open for anyone to waltz right in here. This makes absolutely no sense at all, everyone knows it and they still don't do anything about it.

Posted by: Debbie at August 15, 2005 05:04 PM

Of course as our liberties are taken from us, and taxes increased to fund "security". We only become more controlled and more secure in the government's grasp.

Posted by: Honesty at August 15, 2005 08:43 PM