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May 2011

Volume 17

Issue 5

Are Terrorists Flooding Across the Border?

udicial Watch recently obtained shocking documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection that yield a disturbing conclusion: Illegal aliens from terrorist countries may be flooding across the border with intent to do harm to the United States. The new records detail FY 2010 apprehension statistics for illegal alien smugglers and illegal aliens from countries considered a high threat to the United States because of their suspected ties to terrorism. The following are highlights from the documents, which JW obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request filed on January 26, 2011:
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As Verdict readers well know, Judicial Watch has aggressively investigated the border security crisis. In addition to forcing the release of documents detailing violent Mexican government incursions across the border, JW has also focused heavily on
AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Raul Roa

the issue of human smuggling. Please visit www.judicialwatch. org/drophouse-map to access Judicial Watchs map of drophouses in Arizona that smugglers use to keep victims of smuggling captive while subjecting them to beatings and extortion.

U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 463,382 individuals smuggled across the border, including 8,905 smugglers. (3,027 of the smugglers apprehended were deemed deportable.) U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 59,017 Other Than Mexican illegal aliens through October 7, 2010. Among the nations represented in apprehension statistics are the four countries currently on the State Departments list of State Sponsors of Terrorism: Cuba (712), Iran (14), Syria (5) and Sudan (5), as

A U.S. border patrol agent apprehending an illegal alien

well as Somalia (9), Afghanistan (9), Pakistan (37), Saudi Arabia (5) and Yemen (11).
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(18,406), El Salvador (13,723), and Honduras (13,580). U.S. Border Patrol estimates that three out of every four illegal aliens who cross the border evade apprehension. So while these apprehension statistics are alarming, it is the suspected illegal aliens that got away that should cause the American people the most concern. (Important to note: Many of those apprehended simply cross the border illegally again within moments of being deposited in Mexico

Overall, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 663 Aliens from Special Interest Countries. These countries are deemed special interest because of their suspected ties to terrorism. The countries yielding the highest Other Than Mexican apprehensions include: Guatemala

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Volume 17

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by Border Patrol.) Press reports documented a Department of Homeland Security alert issued in May 2010 asking authorities in Texas to be on the lookout for a member of the Somali-based terrorist group Al Shabaab, who was suspected of hatching a plot to cross into the U.S. through Mexico. The warning was issued following an unsealed indictment earlier in the month in a Texas federal court accusing a Texas Somali man of running a large-scale smuggling enterprise that brought hundreds of Somalis across the Mexican border. Many of these illegal aliens were suspected of having ties to terrorist organizations. However, until now, the Obama administration offered little information regarding the overall scope of this growing national security problem. (In fact, one retired 30-year veteran of

the federal immigration system told Atlantas WSB-TV, Channel 2, that the government is deliberately keeping us in the dark about the number of terrorists crossing the border.) No one should be surprised if terrorists take advantage of our porous borders in light of the Obama administrations lax approach to border security. When you have an administration that pushes illegal alien amnesty, permits illegal alien sanctuary policies, and attacks states like Arizona for seeking to enforce the rule of law, it sends a signal to our enemies to cross the border illegally and to do their worst. The Obama administration continues to allow our borders to spiral out of control. These numbers are simply astonishing. Our country cannot secure our borders soon enough! stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. JW

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