It's important to note that while violent drug gangs crossing our southern border pose a great threat, an event greater threat that also exists - one you probably haven't heard about.
Public records show that each year thousands of illegal aliens other than Mexicans cross our southern border, many from countries that sponsor terrorism.
In fact, a recent report by 2 News Atlanta found one detention facility near Phoenix that was holding border crossers from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, and Yemen.
Why haven't you heard about this? Your guess is as good as ours, but the U.S. Congress obviously knows the real story.
A Congressional report titled "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border," prepared by the House Committee on Homeland Security, states that during 2005 alone, the Border Patrol apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens, of which 165,000 were from countries other than Mexico.
"Of the non-Mexican aliens, approximately 650 were from special interest countries," the report states. "Special interest countries are those 'designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism."
"The government report also concludes:
-Aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States across the southern border;
-Members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border;
-Venezuela is emerging as a potential hub of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere. The Venezuelan government is issuing identity documents that could subsequently be used to obtain a U.S. visa and enter the country.
"Terrorists sneaking into our country over our southern border pose a major threat to all American citizens," said Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president. "If we learned anything from 9/11, it is that a handful of bad people intent on harming us can create nearly unimaginable catastrophe." (source: America's 1st Freedom - July 2010 issue)
That is the best they could come up with.
