When the President announced he was sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the border some people wondered whether this was a serious attempt to stop illegal immigration and secure the border. Now we know, it was not. And we also know that the Mexican government is really in charge of our border.
For one thing, Sen. John McCain, who lives in Arizona and knows a thing or two about military matters, says at least 6,000 troops are needed. That’s how many President George W. Bush and it didn’t stop the flood of illegals. Senate Democrats shot down an attempt to increase the deployment to 6,000.
For number two, the U.S. State Dept. has announced that the troops will not be used to stop illegal immigration. This, according to AP, came at the urging of the Mexican government. So instead the troops will be used to counter the movement of guns and drugs across the border. Reportedly, the Mexican government is cool with that. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley announced, “We have explained the President’s announcement to the government of Mexico, and they fully understand the rationale behind it.”
Apparently Obama is confused about which country he works for.
Even within that limited mission, the troops will not operate like soldiers. Instead, they will perform, “support function” to free up civilian law enforcement personnel to patrol the 2,000-mile-long border. In other words, they will wash cars, do office work, go for coffee and do other chores unrelated to confronting drug smugglers, terrorists and other illegal border crossers.
The bottom line is that Obama’s deployment of National Guard troops to the border is a joke and he is still taking his orders from the President of Mexico.
While our alleged President is continuing to refuse to do his job, a recent incident in Dallas demonstrates that there is more involved in border security that jobs, drugs, and street crimes. Hosam Smadi, an immigrant from Jordan in the U.S. illegally has admitted setting what he thought was a bomb in a garage underneath the 60-story Fountain Place Building.
Fortunately, the FBI was onto Smadi and an agent, posing as an al Qaeda operative, gave the terrorist a decoy. After attaching a timing device, he left a truck with the fake bomb in the garage and rode away with an FBI agent. When he tried to detonate the bomb with a cell phone, the phone rang an FBI number and he was arrested.
AP reported that Smadi came to the U.S. in 2007 and overstayed his visa. The FBI said they started tracking him after his name showed up on an extremist website.
It’s worth noting that if Smadi had been living in Arizona instead of Texas he might have been caught any time after his visa expired. Fortunately, this was one of those rare cases when the Federal authorities acted.
At the same time that the Federal government is refusing to enforce the border, and demonizing Arizona for trying, Fox News reports that Feds are warning Texas to be on the lookout for a suspected member of a Somalia-based terrorist group who might try to enter the U.S. through Mexico. This warning comes after a Somali man was indicted in Federal court in Texas for bringing hundreds of Somalis from South America and across the Mexican border. Many of these illegal immigrants have ties to other Somalian terror organizations, Fox reports. These groups are a danger to Americaans and to Texans in particular.
But that doesn’t bother the Mexican government so it doesn’t bother President Obama.
If Americans turn out in massive numbers and transform the Congress into a body that will defend our nations against all enemies – foreign and domestic – maybe that will pull Obama’s chain and persuade him to do the job he took an oath to do.