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The big issue is, what if 200 terrorists are able to bluff or bribe their way into Mexico, and from there sneak into the United States? At least Gray Davis has a plan - just give them California driver licenses! I know I would feel much safer knowing that any terrorists illegally in this country will at least be able to get driver licenses. Maybe our liberal politicians who are so paranoid about citizens will give the terrorists permission to buy guns and explosives, too.
Imelda Ortiz, detained late Wednesday in Mexico City, is the fourth alleged member of the ring captured in three days. Reforma newspaper quoted a federal investigator as saying that agents did not have any knowledge of links between the alleged smuggling ring and terrorists. Attorney General spokeswoman Elizabeth Juarez said she could neither confirm nor deny the report. Mexican authorities have worked closely with their United States counterparts to tighten border security in the wake of the Sept.
Since then, there has been no evidence of any terrorists successfully entering the United States from Mexico. Ortiz, a 25-year foreign service employee, was fired in May after 150 Mexican passports were stolen and two others were found to have been issued irregularly at a Mexico City consular office, the Foreign Relations Department said. A criminal complaint was filed against her in that case, which is still pending and unrelated to her detention as an alleged collaborator of the smuggling ring, the department said. In 2002, Ortiz became head of the Mexico City consular office where the passports were discovered missing. She served in the passport section in another Mexico City office from December 2001 to July 2002, and from May 1998 to October 2001 was head of the consular section in Lebanon. On Monday and Tuesday, federal agents arrested alleged ring leader Salim Boughader Mucharrafille along with alleged collaborators Melissa Ataja Valdez and Orlando Alfaro, in the border city of Tijuana. Boughader Mucharrafille made contact with interested migrants, accompanied them to the United States border, arranged the crossings, and negotiated payment for the service, the Attorney Generals office said in a news release. Boughader Mucharrafille, whom authorities identified as being of Arab origin, was sentenced to a year in prison in the United States last year after being convicted of smuggling 200 illegal Lebanese migrants across the border, the authorities said. Alfaro was deported by the United States for being there illegally, then arrested by Mexican agents after he crossed the border.
Post Reply Private Reply To 7 View Replies To: steppenwolffe BUMP 25 posted on 11/14/2003 4:41:23 AM PST by txdoda Navy-brat Post Reply Private Reply To 1 View Replies To: janetgreen I just got my care package from them, a good video free, dozens of business cards with illegal immigration stats, etc.
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