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When then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in the House Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2012, Republican Rep. Elton Gallegly of California asked him about the threat of terrorists entering the United States by crossing the Southern border.
“First of all, as it relates to our Southwest border,” said Gallegly, “do you see any growing evidence of al-Qaida or any other terrorist organization working to exploit our border with the attempt of launching another terrorist attack on our own soil?”
Mueller indicated he was more concerned about Hezbollah doing that than al-Qaeda.
“As to the Southwest border and al-Qaida, we have not seen an increase of effort by al-Qaida to come across the Southwest border,” said Mueller. “On the other hand, when you open the question up to other terrorist groups, I would say that we have a continuing concern about Iranian influence, actors and Hezbollah.”
In fact, Mueller had testified in the Senate Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 16, 2005, about a Hezbollah fundraiser from Lebanon who had been discovered in Michigan. “In 2004,” Mueller said in a statement to the committee, “we had some success in uncovering individuals providing material support to Hezbollah.
“In Detroit, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani was indicted in the Eastern District of Michigan on one count of Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Hezbollah,” Mueller said. “Kourani was already in custody for entering the country illegally through Mexico and was involved in fundraising activities on behalf of Hezbollah.”
A staff report on “9/11 and Terrorist Travel” published in 2004 by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States provided information about a smuggler who smuggled “Lebanese nationals sympathetic to Hamas and Hezbollah into the United States.”
“In July 2001,” said the report, “the CIA warned of a possible link between human smugglers and terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that since 1999 human smugglers have facilitated the travel of terrorists associated with more than a dozen extremist groups.”
“One smuggler, Salim Boughader-Mucharrafille,” said the report, “smuggled Lebanese nationals sympathetic to Hamas and Hezbollah into the United States and relied on corrupt Mexican officials in Beirut, Mexico City and Tijuana to facilitate their travel. Specifically, Boughader obtained Mexican tourist visas from an official at the Mexican embassy in Beirut to facilitate the travel of humans to Mexico.”
“Boughader was charged with human smuggling and sentenced to 11 months in prison,” said the report. “After serving his sentence he was deported to Mexico where he was arrested along with several other members of his smuggling ring.”
“In May 2006,” the Congressional Research Service reported in 2007, “a Mexican judge reportedly sentenced Boughader-Mucharrafille to fourteen years in prison for his role in the smuggling ring and on organized crime charges.”
So, after discovering that “Lebanese nationals sympathetic to Hamas and Hezbollah” had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico, did the United States secure its southern border?
No.
Over each of the past four years, Customs and Border Protection has encountered an increasing number of individuals on the “Terrorist Screening Dataset” trying to sneak into the United States between the ports of entry on the Mexican border. This dataset, according to CBP, includes “known or suspected terrorists” and “additional individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watchlisted individuals.”
In fiscal 2019, as this column has noted before, CBP did not encounter a single individual on this terrorist watchlist trying to sneak across the Mexican border. In 2020, it encountered 3. In 2021, it encountered 15. In 2022, it encountered 98.
In fiscal 2023, which ended in September, it encountered 169.
This February, the State Department issued its “Country Reports on Terrorism 2021.” What did it say about Hezbollah?
“Lebanon-based and Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah continued its long history of activity in the Western Hemisphere, including fundraising by its supporters and financiers in places like the tri-border area, where the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet,” said the State Department. “Hezbollah supporters generate funding through licit and illicit activity and donate undetermined amounts to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which uses the funds to advance its broader agenda. In recent years, Hezbollah supporters and members have been identified in Chile, Colombia, Panama, Peru and the United States.”
Jennie Taer of the Daily Caller News Foundation (where this writer is investigative editor) published a report this week that Customs and Border Protection had issued a memo on Oct. 20 warning that “(f)oreign fighters” from the Middle East might try to enter the United States from Mexico.
“San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit (SDFO-FITU) assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” said the memo.
“Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the U.S. to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.”
So, how many Hezbollah — or Hamas — terrorists are in the United States today? Since our southern border is not secure and many people cross it illegally every day, our federal government has no way of knowing.
9/11 only took 19.
One would be too many.
But Biden wanted many more.
If there really is an attack, hopefully, they have the coordinates of the politicians who allowed this treason.
L.M.R.,
For the most part they do. However…
All,
They’ve been here since the 1950’s. The current authorities wash their hands until the narrative is just right. Tell us something we don’t know.
Yes,
And, it was preventable, just like Hamas’s recent incursion. It strains man’s logic, when we’re constantly told of two of the world’s most sophisticated and best militaries can’t function at certain junctions in time, and yet they can. At minimum, we’re are dealing with the Law of Contradiction.
The solution is not to accept any Muslims coming across our northern or southern border. Is that too hard for Homeland Security and the border patrol to comprehend? Being concern is not a valid response.. Maybe, if the border patrol stop cutting wire fences installed by the state of Texas, and helping illegal aliens to come across the border, they would have time to capture a few terrorists coming across the border.
I would like to know why I’m paying taxes for their high salaries and they are not doing their job? Congress, maybe its time to just close down Homeland Security and lay off everyone and just not have any border whatsoever. Congress would save billions of dollars. Besides, when hundreds of millions of migrants come to America, we would really be a diversified society. The Left would love that. Better yet, if all the poor people of the world came here to what use to be America, then every other country in the world would have a good standard of living and no poverty. Only one country would be classified as a Third World nation, and that would be us.
Hopefully, the other nations would provide foreign aid to us, but I doubt it.
Poland and Hungary do it – not allow any touting that “religion”. The are happy to report there has been no attacks or rapes or disorder, none, connected in any way to that group.
Because they’re trying to kill us
It was reported yesterday that there were over 100 encounters with Syrian men and 50 Iranian men of fighting age in the month of October alone at our porous southern border, all of which were released into the country by the Biden administration.
There’s never been a better time for me to live deep in the woods with a weapons cache. Now, time for more target practice.
Don’t you know it.
We know what those in power can and will do to us – with our Constitutional
rights thrown right out the window. Just look what has happened to Jan 6th
protestors to see that. We know they will let felonious crime soar – food and
housing prices soar – while allowing soaring millions of destitute third-world
leeches into this already desperate nation. They have turned a blind eye to
their thugs in Antifa and BLM wreaking mayhem and murder in big cities.
Then there is the soaring danger from Islam as outlined in this article. It’s not
a question of if – but when – those in power will allow Jihadists to maim and
murder Americans. And we can see that from our immediate past history.
Under B. Hussein Obama as President, there was a preponderance of the
really big Jihadist attacks on American soil: Fort Hood massacre 2009 –
Boston marathon massacre 2013 – SanBernardino massacre 2015 –
Orlando massacre June, 2016.
Those have dwindled to zilch since then. It’s as if Commie globalists
are keeping Islamic killers at bay – while they make the country as
defenseless as possible for takeover, with the aid of Islam.
Does the federal government really not know due to the unsecured
southern border how many Hezbollah or Hamas terrorists are in the
U.S., as per Mr. Jeffrey? I can’t help but think that they might very
well know – or will make it their business to find out.
It is interesting that the liar Wray came out today advising of danger.
FDR Knew before it happened that Pearl Harbor was a the Target for the Japanese before Dec 7th 1941
That dude was a Dem before they changed after JFK.
And with these terrorists being spread all over the country, the dems call for gun control. Their real aim is to confiscate the guns. People along the border have been unsafe for a long time, now it is nationwide.
Americas greatest’s enemy is the Democrat Party and the UN are their Partners in Crime
Spurwing:
Don’t forget the Republican Party is just as bad.
When Hamas, Hezzbolah and ISIS blow things up here in USA, the DemoCraps will just accuse Christians of doing it.
Or the DemoCraps will just deny it even happened
Very, very possible. After all, they deny simple biology and the diff between male and female. They are not overly intelligent, just super loud and offensive.
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, JOE BIDEN AND MAYORKAS WERE ORCHESTRATING THE BIGGEST INVASION IN WORLD HISTORY.
10 MILLION WALKED OVER THE BORDER IN RESPONSE TO JOE’S INVITATION
Hamas Leader Calls for ‘Blood’ of Gaza Women, Children, Elderly to ‘Awaken’ Revolutionary Spirit Against Israel
Earlier this month, Breitbart News reported on a senior Hamas official admitting the ultimate aim of the Palestinian war with Israel is to conquer the planet, so the world could finally be rid of “Zionism” and “treacherous Christianity.” JOSHUA KLEIN
Even before this most recent discoverer of jihadists of Hamas and Hezbollah entering America through her porous Southern border , earlier information ca me out about dangerous jihad-minded operatives of the hostile Islamic regime of Iran crossing into America through porous borders is band enough . What more, it had been discovered that Taliban jihadists are now entering America through porous US/Americans borders since that “No secure border policy” of Joe Biden and his leftist’s political comrades are totally disaster for many reasons.
It was also discovered that twenty – three Muslim terrorists just captured crossing the Mexican/US border that really be a wakeup call. Before that, a jihadist who was captured who had originally come from Saudi Arabia, earlier yet; two Iranian jihad operatives had also been captured, and now the Taliban.
Therefore, there is a great need for a good for a good border control system with a strong tall wall that’s patrolled by armed American military soldiers who may be allowed to use their guns if they deem it necessary. Along with a good filtering system to let in to the United States only good decent hard working people with visas and not and not jihadists as of Hamas ,Hezbollah ISIS and Al Qaeda.
In result of Biden’s porous borders policy will that he will have the blood of many good, decent American citizens across the United States on his wicked vile hands.
Not too long ago i was in a restaurant along the southern border in Mexico. There were three people there who looked a bit suspicious. Dark but not Mexican. They spoke Spanish okay. They acted not like locals. I expected the woman to say something when we were alone in a restroom but she did not. They stood out. I pretended to not notice. They were a little creepy.
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Therefore, “the measure” of Joe Biden is outright terrible, as observed by his awful “no secure. US/ Mexican porous border policy” which results in dangerous and deadly Hamas and Hezbollah jihadists entering into America.
When people of the United States murdered by those jihadists in an Islamic terrorists attack creepy old, Joe will have their blood on his treacherous evil hands.
Sadly, we are about to find out. We are one text away from a worse 9/11.
Concerning the title question of this article ,which is “How Many Hamas and Hezbollah Terrorists Have Crossed the Southern Border ?”
The answer to that question is “Too many.” As Ronald Reagan had ,rightly and wisely , declared “A nation without borders is not a nation.”
If the number of foreign born Muslims in America reaches a certain percentage of the population it will become impossible for Jews to continue living here. Sounds crazy, I know, but talk to French Jews before you scoff. America has to make a decision. Throw open your borders to the scum of the earth, and lose your Jews, or shut the gates and deport every last individual of that cohort of the population that would turn the states into a second Gaza.
True for sure. Even today apparently some Jews in Germany are beginning to wonder whether they should get out of Dodge (Germany) now. It is getting radical all over.
If only 5% of the 15 million ilegal aliens are trained terrorists, that makes an army of about 900,000. Sneak attack anyone ? 10% would be a 1.7 million man army. AND, they all have cell phones, coutesy of YOU, and Biden has all those numbers. I phone call and BOOM, it’s over.
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus. (This year).
Rev. Roy……………<
I think we all know that the people in Washington don’t work for us anymore, or they wouldn’t have let this happen. They work for another government now, they want the US to be part of a world government, and the dangers are increasing.
Unfortunately, too many are grifters, there for the dollars under the table and from lobbiests. Joe Biden is the main crook.
Cloward + Piven
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commies marxists jihadists nazis radical left are all flying monkeys, the enablers wreaking havoc & FEAR.
A jaw-dropping exchange on this issue during the Senate hearing on threats to Homeland Security, Oct. 31, 2023.
Roger Marshall (R-KS) asks Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:
MR. SECRETARY APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE HERE ON ASYLUM WITH DIRECT TIES TO HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH TO THE JIHADI OR ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS OF IRAN?
Mayorkas:
LET ME ASSURE YOU THAT INDIVIDUALS THAT POSE A RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY ARE OUR HIGHEST ENFORCEMENT PRIORITY.
THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC —
Marshall:
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY, WHAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE?
IS IT TENS, HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS?
Mayorkas:
AN INDIVIDUAL THAT POSES A RISK TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY IS OUR HIGHEST ENFORCEMENT PRIORITY, AND IF THE —
Marshall:
SO YOU DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
Mayorkas:
— AND IF DETENTION IS INDEED WARRANTED BY REASON OF THE RISK THEY PRESENT, THEN WE INDEED DETAIN THEM.
Marshall:
DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR MY QUESTION?
Mayorkas:
I BELIEVE I HAVE ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION.
NO SIR, YOU DIDN’T.
I ASKED YOU HOW MANY HAVE DIRECT TIES TO HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, ISLAMIC JIHAD?
SENATOR, IF AN INDIVIDUAL IS IDENTIFIED AS HAVING A NEXUS TO ONE OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS, WE WOULD CONSIDER THEM A RISK TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT ACTION, TO INCLUDE FOR EXAMPLE DETENTION AND REMOVAL.
Scary that either he doesn’t know or he refuses to say.