TEXAS: Three Afghan Nationals Detained in Rio Grande Valley
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TEXAS: Three Afghan Nationals Detained in Rio Grande Valley
by Marla on February 17, 2012 in Crime and Border Security, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigration, Immigration with No comments
Via Stand with Arizona, by John Hill
McALLEN — Another reminder of why we need a secure border emerged this week, as U.S. Border Patrol officials confirmed three Afghan nationals were detained in the Rio Grande Valley – an increasing “hot zone” of cartel invasion and violence against American ranchers.
Border Patrol confirmed the detentions, but would not say where or when they occurred.
Enrique Mendiola, assistant chief Border Patrol agent for the Rio
Grande Valley sector, said that human smugglers see moving people
besides Mexican nationals as a “business opportunity.”
“Average smuggling rates for other-than-Mexican
nationals far exceed those of Mexicans and Central and South Americans,”
he said in a statement.Mendiola noted the Department of Homeland Security is working
with governments in Central and South America to “identify and disrupt
transnational smuggling organizations and routes, that sometimes can
span the globe.”
Security experts are increasingly concerned about increasing
alliances between international terrorist organizations and the Mexican
cartels.
Michael Braun, former DEA Chief of Operations, recently testified at
a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Feb. 2, 2012 that
Iranian-backed terror group Hizbollah – – which murdered 241 Marines in
Beirut in 1983 – is supporting Mexican cartels to gain access
to their networks for border entry, human trafficking, money laundering
and forged documents, and operations in 250 U.S. cities.
The goal? Exploit our porous defenses with terror cells – far easier
than our ports and airports, thanks to the Feds’ continued failure to
secure the border.
Of course DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano tells us the border is “safer than ever”. And Barack Obama has mocked those who say the border is unsafe: “Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat. They’ll never be satisfied.”
However, a local news station last year uncovered evidence that the
DHS was suppressing data – even from Congress – which showed that hundreds of individuals from terror-sponsoring nations had penetrated our border. Retired INS Agent Michael Cutler says that DHS is “covering up” this evidence…
The threats are real, and dangerous. So what is the Administration’s response? Obama is slashing National Guard troops on the border by a stunning 75% over the next 3 months. Insanity.
Given that Obama and Napolitano refuse to increase security on the
border in order to pander to the La Raza crowd, it will take new
leadership in Washington if these threats are ever to be taken
seriously.Share this story widely (using the links
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ed 2012/02/18 19:26:23
They do not need ICBM's, nor do they even ned a comeercial ship to sneak one in, we have 2200 miles of thinly protected border on the south that drugs and illegals use daily. for $100 up to 5k, they can get a guided tour across, and sneak into the nation, and we will never know until it is too late
And then progressives have the balls to say they are strong on national defense.
After we have a wall which is 30 feet into the ground and 30 feet thick at it's base and is 80 feet high with watchtowers I'll be "satisfied."
I would not push for a moat with alligators but if those are put there in addition to the wall I would not complain about them.
Quite honestly, that desert environment may be harmful to the alligators so perhaps we ought to substitute piranhas there instead. For that matter, due to elevation differences, a moat probably would not be practical either. We would constantly be having to bleed off the lower spots and pump water to the high spots and we might not have enough water in some years.
The wall would be fine.
Israel has a fairly decent one but I would still want it to be thicker and higher.
While it might "appear" to be a re-enactment of The Alamo, I doubt that they will be bringing cameras and other props. So we treat it like the threat that it is, an invasion.
If the ladder is metal we can zap it with a few thousand volts.
If the ladder is another material, then douse it with lots of water and THEN zap it with a few thousand volts.
I'm sure that they will get quite a charge out of it.
A 30 foot wall is also inadequate. I used to be a building contractor and used the 30 foot ladders and hated the way they wobbled.
A concrete wall, 30 feet into the ground, 30 feet thick at the base and 80 feet high would probably be quite adequate if built the entire border. Why? Because it is so beyond intruder's ability to surmount, tunnel under or knock a hole through. With watchtowers every 1/3 of a mile or so, perhaps sensors under the ground to detect digging, they will find themselves caught and turned back every time.
I just did a bit of research and the longest ladder I found was 60 feet and needs to be assembled from three sections. Even at an extremely dangerous "straight up" angle it would still be 20 feet short.
30'X30'X80' would be sufficient until they start building ladders that tall.
I agree, insufficient expenditure would get insufficient results. Is it excessive? Maybe. Would it be effective? Probably. Instead of the fractional efforts which do not deter existing ladders, we should build beyond the reach of existing ladders.
Way beyond.
The alternative then becomes to keep them out.
You have the good sense to not climb the 60' ladder. When I was a contractor, I learned that I hated being on just a 30' ladder. One of the scarriest things I ever did was on a roof repair near Baltimore, Myself and one other guy used a 10 ladder to get onto the front porch roof. We then pulled up a 30' ladder, placed a foot of it on each side of the porch ridge and because the porch roof was so short, we could only place it about 6 ' out from the wall meaning there was only about 6 feet of "lean" over 30 feet, about half of what it should have been. As we held the ladder, a third guy climbed the thing to the top at a precariously steep angle and made the roof repair. Every step he took, up and down, made that ladder shake and wobble like crazy in an already precarious position. I never did that again nor want to do it ever again.
If we built the wall to those dimensions we can probably rest assured that very few others will try to scale it either.
I doubt that they will try to build siege tower...
The alternative then becomes to keep them out.
You have the good sense to not climb the 60' ladder. When I was a contractor, I learned that I hated being on just a 30' ladder. One of the scarriest things I ever did was on a roof repair near Baltimore, Myself and one other guy used a 10 ladder to get onto the front porch roof. We then pulled up a 30' ladder, placed a foot of it on each side of the porch ridge and because the porch roof was so short, we could only place it about 6 ' out from the wall meaning there was only about 6 feet of "lean" over 30 feet, about half of what it should have been. As we held the ladder, a third guy climbed the thing to the top at a precariously steep angle and made the roof repair. Every step he took, up and down, made that ladder shake and wobble like crazy in an already precarious position. I never did that again nor want to do it ever again.
If we built the wall to those dimensions we can probably rest assured that very few others will try to scale it either.
I doubt that they will try to build siege towers.
I don't mean to throw a monkey wrench into a problem that should have been taken care of 30 yrs ago. We just need to think what is the simplest, most effective solution. I, for one, am in favor of moving the border 150 miles south of where it is. Wars start for 3 primary reasons, financial threat, physical threat or excessive pride. Uncontrolled invasion of a soveriegn nation with the full knowledge of the perpretraing nation is still an invasion. Women and kids be d*mned. Mexico has responsibility for it's half of the border and they need to carry their own weight on this issue. Mexico knows d*mn well that illegals coming into the US is causing financial distress for us. That is all three threats at the same time - that is cause for war.
Hopefully sometime we can bend an elbow together.
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We MUST action NOW to begin straightening out this mess. That is, if it's not already too late.