Here are a few of the dangers I’ve found, just a few.
…Last month, the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the arrest of 103 foreign nationals who had ties to a Central American gang known as MS-13. Authorities have arrested several dozen of the gang’s members in the past several months. But John Keeley of the Center for Immigration Studies says MS-13 members number in the thousands, and “have penetrated the United States.” The group’s operatives “are on the west coast, in the Midwest — they’re all over really,” he asserts, “and the brutality associated with this gang is remarkable — murders, mutilations, maimings, rapes.” Keeley says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has recognized the threat of the MS-13 and established a task force expressly to address the criminal gang. However, he notes, “because U.S. policies in terms of enforcement of immigration have been so lax, we have now succeeded in importing criminal syndicates the likes of which we have not seen before. The streets aren’t safe.” Keeley says MS-13 operatives have met with al Qaeda operatives in Mexico, and U.S. intelligence is concerned that the illegal alien syndicate may be assisting the trafficking of al Qaeda operatives into the U.S. using the very corridors that MS-13’s own operatives have used. [Chad Groening]
Masri also said al-Qaeda has considered plans to “smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico, then operatives would carry material into the U.S.,” according to the report, parts of which were read to TIME
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Tuesday that people from countries with ties to al-Qaida have crossed into the United States from Mexico, using false identities.
?We are concerned, Homeland Security is concerned about special interest aliens entering the United States,? Mueller said, using a term for people from countries where al-Qaida is known to be active.
A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States ? including a stronghold in the Washington area ? in an effort by the terrorist network to seek help infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border, law enforcement authorities said.
Law enforcement officials say that Al Qaeda planned to send terrorists across the Mexican border in to the United States to conduct suicide attacks in the city. Ridge said the alert status would remain in effect through Election Day, Nov. 2. Republicans are planning their national convention in New York between Aug. 30 and Sept. 2.
WASHINGTON ? Tens of thousands of people from countries other than Mexico illegally crossed the Mexican border into the United States last year, creating a growing security headache for U.S. authorities.
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