There are several important points in thee video below from Fox News reporting out of Douglas, Arizona, regarding how Obama’s deployment of 1200 National Guard troops to the border might work out. (By comparison, the plan of Senators McCain and Kyl called for 6,000 military personnel.)
One is the concern of locals that the National Guard won’t carry loaded weapons and will not be able to confront the dangerous drug gangsters now coming across. There is a shooting war going on in Mexico right now among the cartels and seriousness from Washington is required. A few soldiers for display purposes only will not create real deterrence.
Another consideration is that by placing a few troops on the border, Obama is signaling that NOW is the time for Mexicans et al to crash into the United States to get in on the mega-amnesty. Every time the he chats up Presidente Calderon, a surge of Mexicans breaks in.
Plus, a list of homelands shown of OTMs (Other Than Mexicans) contains various unfriendly nations, such as North Korea and Somalia.
Following is an example of a terror alert from today.
Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border, Fox News, May 26, 2010
The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the lookout for a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist group who might be attempting to travel to the U.S. through Mexico, a security expert who has seen the memo tells FOXNews.com.
The warning follows an indictment unsealed this month in Texas federal court that accuses a Somali man in Texas of running a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” responsible for bringing hundreds of Somalis from Brazil through South America and eventually across the Mexican border. Many of the illegal immigrants, who court records say were given fake IDs, are alleged to have ties to other now-defunct Somalian terror organizations that have merged with active organizations like Al Shabaab, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami.
In 2008, the U.S. government designated Al Shabaab a terrorist organization. Al Shabaab has said its priority is to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on Somalia; the group has aligned itself with Al Qaeda and has made statements about its intent to harm the United States.
In recent years, American Somalis have been recruited by Al Shabaab to travel to Somalia, where they are often radicalized by more extremist or operational anti-American terror groups, which Al Shabaab supports. The recruiters coming through the Mexican border are the ones who could be the most dangerous, according to law enforcement officials.
Al Shabaab is a rough bunch inclined toward sharia law, as I noted in a blog, In Somalia, “Stoner” Has a Different Meaning.
