Not All Immigrants Are Equal

For John, BLUF:  The issue of illegal immigrants has been with us for ever, and isn't getting fixed.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Three Al-Qaeda Syrians Arrested in Dallas With Fake Colombian Passports

From The Lid, by Reporters Faye Higbee and Jeff Dunetz, 24 January 2020.

Here is the lede plus three:

Tell me again how we don’t need to do a better job regulating who and how people come into this country.

The latest example that should scare the heck out of you happened in the great state of Texas. While our legislators were concentrating on a fake impeachment trial, three Syrians nationals were arrested in Dallas had counterfeit Colombian passports.  That was the good part.  They are allegedly linked to Al-Qaeda and supposedly entered the US at Dallas, Texas.  The report appears a bit sketchy at this time, due to some differences in who reported what.  None of the reports state precisely where the men were arrested,al-Qaeda Syrians.

The three Stooges, I mean three Syrian nationals, first raised the suspicions of the American authorities when they applied for travel visas from Colombia, as their suspicious documents gave them away.  These potential terrorists were not too smart.  The American authorities detected a fraud when the fake passports’ birth dates failed to match up with the identification numbers used by the Colombian government.

Per Colombian reporter, Luis Carlos Vélez published images of the counterfeit passports on Twitter (below), noting that the men got into Colombia through the La Guajira border crossing with Venezuela.

The inability of the US Congress to come up with effective legislation, to help us screen out the terrorists from the vast crowd of legal immigrant and asylum seekers is breathtaking and appalling.  One hopes that our local Congresswoman, Lori Trahan, soon gets a handle on it.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff