ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam (14 page)

The trauma and anger that a wholesale massacre of American schoolchildren or mall shoppers at the hands of Islamic terrorists would unleash cannot be overstated. If that massacre was committed by terrorists who had crossed America’s southern border—which has gone from shamefully porous under President Bush to a virtual sieve under President Obama—the federal government would bear the full brunt of the American people’s righteous anger.

Between April and July 2014 alone, some two hundred ninety thousand illegal immigrants from Central America—including fifty thousand unaccompanied minors—entered the United States through its southern border
and were detained by federal authorities, only to be relocated to cities and towns throughout the country.
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Mind you, those were only the migrants who were caught. Who else is here?

According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection document obtained by Breitbart, some 474 illegal aliens from terrorism-linked countries—known as Special Interest Aliens, or SIAs—were apprehended trying to enter America’s borders in the first seven months of 2014 alone. They hailed from majority-Muslim nations such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria, all of which have a sizable jihadist presence. Again, these were only the ones we caught.

As Breitbart reported, the same leaked U.S. government document showed, “Human smuggling routes from Syria into the U.S. go through South America, Central America, and the Caribbean before reaching Mexico. . . . Syrian human smugglers reportedly use the U.S.-Mexico border to enter America.”
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Last time I checked, ISIS ruled a large swath of Syria, while the al Qaeda–linked al-Nusra Front and its allies also controlled a piece of the pie. In other words, the new, borderless America, targeted by “Syrian human smugglers” and God knows who else, is an Islamic terror attack waiting to happen:

In October 2014, Congressman Duncan Hunter—a California Republican not prone to wild exaggeration—maintained that Border Patrol sources told him that ten ISIS operatives had been detained while attempting to enter the U.S. through its southern border. The Department of Homeland Security immediately denied Hunter’s claim.
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A month earlier, another well-respected Republican House member, Utah’s Jason Chaffetz, alleged during a House hearing that sources had told him four men with Middle Eastern terrorist ties had crossed the U.S.- Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson later dismissed Chaffetz’s claim, arguing that the four men were indeed apprehended after crossing the border illegally—but that they had no terror ties and claimed
merely to be members of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (also known as the PKK), a group “that is actually fighting against ISIL and defended Kurdish territory in Iraq.” He promised that the quartet would be deported.

Chaffetz noted that the PKK has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government. “I don’t think that should be dismissed as insignificant. . . .” Chaffetz told CBS News. “These are terrorists nonetheless and they had no trouble crossing our southern border.” Chaffetz wondered why the men had not been prosecuted. “There’s no doubt in my mind that they’re tied with terrorists,” he said. “To try to say that they were good terrorists is a bit concerning coming from the Homeland Security Secretary. We were lucky that they’re not tied with ISIS. They could have been.”

Chaffetz described how the four men had “fl[own] into Mexico City, hired a coyote to help them reach and cross the Rio Grande, and then make their way to a safe house. They intended to make their way to New York City.”
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How many ISIS operatives intend to take a similar path? And how many from the Islamic State, the PKK, and other terror groups have already slipped through the cracks and taken advantage of the deluge of illegal immigrants swarming America’s wide-open southern border?

Two other Republican House members, Texas’s Ted Poe and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, have warned that ISIS could work with Mexican drug cartels. Poe, a member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, said in August 2014 that ISIS and the cartels seem to be “talking to each other.” He continued, “The drug cartels use the same operational plan as terrorist groups do . . . They kill their opponents, they behead their opponents, they brag about it and they have operational control of many portions of the southern border of the United States. They’re vicious as some of these other terrorist organizations.”
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I’d add that they also have no allegiance to anyone or anything other than the almighty dollar and have no love lost for the United States.

Meanwhile, then–Texas Governor Rick Perry warned in an August 2014 speech that there was a “very real possibility” that ISIS may have already used the southern border to enter the United States, while acknowledging that there was no evidence that such an incursion had occurred.
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Even General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has sounded the alarm, warning of “the number of Europeans and other nationalities” that have gone to the Middle East to link up with ISIS and other terror groups. “And those folks can go home at some point,” Dempsey said at a Pentagon press briefing. “It’s why I have conversations with my European colleagues about their southern flank of NATO, which I think is actually more threatened in the near term than we are. Nevertheless, because of open borders and immigration issues, it’s an immediate threat. That is to say, the fighters who may leave the current fight and migrate home.”
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