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Lorie Byrd posts her list of things she wants to hear President Bush address tonight. La Shawn Barber has one thing on her mind: Illegal immigration. Agreed. In addition to a strong defense of our sovereignty against the rash of southern border incursions and immigration enforcement-undermining antics of the Mexican government, I’d like to hear [...]

Paging the Department of Homeland Security. Hello? Hello?! *New* via the San Diego Union Tribune : Two tons of pot found inside Mexico-U.S. border tunnel Investigators discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel yesterday extending about a half-mile and found about 2 tons of marijuana on the Mexican end. The tunnel begins about 85 feet below a [...]

The Inland Daily Bulletin reports on the latest armed Mexican incursions on our southern border: Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI. Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be [...]

A serious, pro-enforcement measure on border security and immigration control has just passed the House. Three years after I published Invasion, many of the policy recommendations included in the book have been embraced: The House acted Friday to stem the tide of illegal immigration by taking steps to tighten border controls and stop unlawful immigrants [...]

Three curious stories of illegal alien pilots just wandering around Mexico and the U.S.: 1) From AP last week: A day after he was expelled from Mexico, a man who once ran a Southern California aerospace company was indicted for allegedly exporting military jet parts in violation of the federal Arms Export Control Act. Arif [...]

Let me sum up the state of the immigration debate over the past two decades: 1986–I think we should protect our borders and enforce immigration laws. Response: Racist! 1996–I think we should do a better job of protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws. Response: Racist! 9/12/2001–I think we should really, finally get serious about [...]

Finally, the open-borders ACLU has found a border-crosser it wants to crack down on: FOX News’s Sean Hannity, who broadcast live from the southern border on Monday and Tuesday night with excellent coverage of the Minuteman Project. Hannity stepped across a fence for a few seconds, and now the ACLU and a Democrat state legislator [...]

Last week, I talked about the new passport requirements for Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans traveling across our northern and southern borders. Gave the plan a thumbs-up and highlighted the continued lapses in Canada’s passport screening office. Imposing this reasonable security measure on short-term visitors would put needed pressure on both our neighbors to shore up [...]

Please take a moment to visit my new group blog offshoot, The Immigration Blog. I’ve invited a few of the writers, researchers, and citizen activists I consider among the most compelling and insightful analysts on immigration and border security to join me in this new venture. Those joining me are: -Bonnie Eggle -Peter Gadiel -Chris [...]

Dan Stein of the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform reports that liberal House Democrats have begun to pounce on the Bush administration’s border security lapses: I attended a Capitol Hill hearing today on “Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources.” No one could have missed the fact that Democrats are preparing to pounce on the Bush administration’s [...]

Hey, Open Borders pollyannas, here’s another example of a terrorist slipping through our southern border for you to ignore: Mahmoud Youssef Kourani. Earlier this week, the Detroit News reported: A Dearborn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to providing material support to Hezbollah, a foreign terrorist organization. Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, 33, admitted to hosting meetings at his [...]

The New York Times reports: New intelligence information strongly suggests that Al Qaeda has considered infiltrating the United States through the Mexican border, top government officials told Congress on Wednesday…. Intelligence that “strongly suggests” that Al Qaeda operatives have considered using the Mexican border as an entry point was cited in written testimony by Adm. [...]

If you can’t access the Drudge-linked report of the dirty bomb threat in Boston, go to The Counterterrorism Blog–one of my new daily reads. The southern border figures prominently in the story, a threat we’ve documented copiously here, here, here, here, and…you get the idea. The story also brings to my mind suspected al Qaeda [...]

There are a few new items to report on the rise of Mara Salvatrucha, the brutal illegal alien gang that we’re keeping an eye on here. – Boston’s city council president is concerned about the gang/terrorist threat posed to tankers in East Boston. -Somerville, Mass., police nabbed a reputed MS-13 member suspected of stabbing a [...]

I find it annoying that Bernard Kerik is getting praised in some quarters for “coming clean” and “accepting responsibility” for his “mistake.” From all accounts, including Kerik’s own, President Bush’s aides asked him upfront about the nanny question several times during the vetting process and he did not come clean. Kerik didn’t just make some [...]

that Tom Ridge is handing in his resignation. Some conservatives want Rudy Giuliani to replace Ridge. Before you get on the bandwagon, here’s my column from 2002 highlighting Giuliani’s open-borders court battle to keep New York City safe for illegal aliens and, yes, terrorists. Update: News conference is set for 2:45pm. Update II: Ridge says [...]

By now most of my readers have seen the picture of the young illegal immigrant girl who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border while hiding inside a piñata. You may not have heard that the two smugglers responsible for this will not be prosecuted. “The arrests of individuals smuggling people far exceeds the ability to prosecute all [...]

TSA wants to know: Have you seen a stray Piper PA 25 Pawnee crop-dusting aircraft? It was stolen last week in Mexico. “Although there is currently no indication that this has any connection to terrorist activity,” the TSA said, “the theft is cause for concern. Past information indicates that members of al-Qa’ida may have planned [...]

There’s a new report quoting a Honduras homeland security official blowing the whistle on al Qaeda recruitment of Central American gang members, who can easily slip through our southern border. Oscar Alvarez’s critics say he’s concocting the threat to justify tough crackdowns on gangs and smugglers. But as the article notes: A spokesman for Mexico’s [...]

9:45ish: Finally, finally! Bob Schieffer asks about illegal immigration…but both candidates bomb. Bush’s perfunctory reference to how he has sprinkled a few more Border Patrol agents across the southern border glosses over the horrendous policies instituted under his Department of Homeland Security that have resulted in undermining those agents. As I noted recently: When a [...]

Another scoop from Bill Gertz of the Washington Times. He cites an intelligence report indicating that 25 Chechen terrorists entered the United States illegally via our southern border with Mexico: The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar [...]

The Washington Times reports on an alleged meeting between suspected al Qaeda operative Adnan Shukrijumah and the savage El Salvador-based gang, Mara Salvatrucha: 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 — [...]

The Associated Press reports in a story headlined, “Bush’s Nephew, in Mexico, Calls Arming of Border Guards ‘reprehensible’:” President Bush’s nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns “reprehensible.” Speaking in a mix of English and sometimes-halting Spanish, George P. [...]

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is a Saudi terror suspect with a $5 million bounty on his head. The FBI has been hunting him for nearly a year. He has been billed as the “next Mohammed Atta.” Only unlike Atta, he isn’t flying in and out of our airports. He’s apparently dancing around the southern border, [...]

By now you’ve probably heard about Kamran Shaikh, the Pakistani man who allegedly took videotapes of skyscrapers, a Texas dam, and various public transportation systems. The news reports note that Shaikh is being detained for immigration violations, but I’m not sure any major news outlet mentioned that Shaikh says he entered the U.S. illegally by [...]

Check out this headline from the Arizona Daily Star: Border agent fires at SUV as it tries to run him over The incident actually involved 12 illegal aliens with two vehicles trying to crash through the U.S.-Mexico border. Not only do the headline and story fail to mention the law-breakers who tried to mow down [...]

Martin at nationalterroralert.com passes on new info about another arrest of a South African (or at least someone traveling with a South African passport) with suspected terrorist ties knocking at our Southern border: A South African citizen has been arrested in Mexico for alleged involvement in al-Qaeda-linked terrorist activities, South African media reported on Thursday, [...]

Ok, all you open-borders Pollyannas on both the left and right. Here is yet another example of terrorists traipsing across our southern border that you will no doubt ignore. Meet Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed. Federal News Radio reports: She was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport on July 19 headed to New York. Eddie Flores [...]

Does unfettered illegal immigration from Mexico increased America’s vulnerability to a major terrorist attack on our soil? Or is this argument a red herring cooked up by anti-Latino xenophobes to serve an anti-immigrant agenda, as Virginia Postrel has asserted? Before deciding, consider these recent stories: Item: Congressman John Culberson (a Republican from Texas) tells the [...]

It is sometimes said that a permeable southern border poses no security threat to the U.S., since those who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are merely aspiring busboys, waiters, and gardeners. As Virginia Postrel put it, “The tighter southern border has everything to do with anti-Latino sentiment in California and elsewhere, and very little to [...]