Just freaking lovely!

The last paragraph makes me shake my head in frustration at an otherwise useful story.

What on earth do you think Iraqis and other Middle Easterners sneaking into the US has to do with refugees fleeing violence in Iraq? Apples and oranges.

If Middle Easterners are coming all the way to Mexico and paying 25k to sneak across the US border, they're not coming for a career move. Get your head out of the sand.

This country is a joke!

Real nice. The smuggling of potential terrorists right under the nose of our brilliant commander in chief. Maybe Bush, McCain, and Ted Kennedy can explain all about the advantages of this special kind of "diversity."
One more 9/11 and I think this country will have had its fill of political correctness, naivety, and general stupidity & incompetence on the part of politicians and bureaucrats.

We have known this has been going on for years now , yet you run this story as though it is a revaluation.
You should be using this space to demand a closure to the BORDER !!
PLEASE DO YOUR PART ON STOPPING THE NEXT ATTACK INSIDE OUR BORDER .This is by pardinson , "OUR" safety .

If one American is killed because George Bush and Michael Chertoff and the Congress and Senate have failed to secure our borders, they should be brought up on complicity to commit murder charges.

Brian Ross appears to be carrying the water for the Administration. Believe me that there are no Iraqis coming over the Mexican border. This is a ploy by the Bushies to set up the next false flag operation on US soil. The revolution is coming soon . . .

If we would have started building the fence on 9/12/01 we wouldn't have this problem. But because we're soft and cave in to every crybaby and special interest group we are vulnerable.

All the lefties and the hate America first crowd must be real proud of their accomplishment. The responsibility for the next attack rests squarely on their shoulders.

I think the FBI report goes a long way to substantiating the claim that AQ may use Iraqi AQ to attack in the US, and soon.

I don't understand how you manage to contrive the story into something about immigration and refugees from Iraq.

We need these Iraqis to perform tasks that Americans are not willing to do!

watch out...Ted Kennedy will head up a bill that will criminalize our persecution of these new hard-working citizens....to be politically correct we will have to call them....hmmmm "Terrorist-Americans"

As Soon as we loose a big city and or have another 911 the sooner we can get on with fixing the problem ...

Build the fence now!

They are just adding numbers to the army of the enemy within our borders, that's my 2 cents...

This is a no brainer! We haven't or won't defend our borders what the hell do you think is going to happen. Of course terrorists are going to come across. Gee how did Bush drop the ball on this????

BUSH set this up??? are you a child or just completely dumb....The FBI made this report!!!!...all you conspiracy theorists need to forgive your daddy for not loving you enough and get over yourself......

Surprise, Surprise!
(only to the stupid politicians)!

This is precisely why George Bush must be impeached immediately. He doesn't care about the security of the united states.

I don't think the democrats have any answers but Bush has had almost 6 years since 9/11 to close the border. He has failed and violated the oath of his office. He must leave.

I cannot believe Mexican nationals are being smuggled into the United States! This is unheard of!

It concerns me greatly that the threat posed by al qaida to attack the U.S. isn't being taken seriously by American politicians. It seems to be politics as usual in Washington.

We in Texas have known about this for more than a year; its been on our LOCAL TV and LOCAL radio news reports. Last year, if I remember correctly, the executive branch tried to make the story "softly go away."

End Human Trafficking...Export White House and Congress!

When was that last terrorist attack? Was it September 11, 2001 or September 11, 201? How soon we have forgotten. Our government is acting like it's ancient history.

What happens when the Dems take office and we have another 9/11? Most likely... nothing different at all. Until we meet force with greater force, this will always be as it is.

Shalom:
It seems that our government needs to wake-up and work together for the common good of America. While we are being threatened by Terrorists, Congress is too busy playing silly games and not doing the work of the people. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

This is a Nation allowed by GOD to be a place of REFUGE from Tyranny. It's the State Department that has reduced the numbers and added many years of WAITING to get into this country is the MAIN reason for this illegal immigration problem. SHAME on the State Department!

too bad our government refuses to secure our borders despite the massive risk it poses, unless big business gets a never ending supply of cheap labor.

Rome is burning and the barbarians are at the gate and in Washington DC, Nero and our Roman senators fiddle. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

So this is not brain surgery - someone half way around the world could pick up any us national newspaper and figure out that across the Rio is the easiest way into the country. When are they going to get the border fixed? Oh that's right - it is better to take the fight to them in Iraq.

Good call veritas! I've been nervous about that possibility since Gulf War I. I wondered why Saddam never trained a thousand or so of his boys for this type of infiltration.

Only one solution tell everyone you know to vote nothing but 3rd party candidates for president and congress. Not even independents are trustworthy, vote a whole multitude of other 3rd party candidates to send a wake up call. God forbid there is another 9/11, if so..you will see vigilantism and a revolt that will make the Boston Tea Party look like sesame street.

Brian, you're going to have to get another URL soon. the RLL (Rush Limbaugh Loonies) are just lurking here to pounce on anything you write.

This is disgusting. Every time I see Bush I keep thinking of the movie, The Caine Mutiny. If you don't know what I'm talking about, rent the video. Our 'leaders' have done nothing to protect us. I can't even stand to watch him on the news any more--he makes me sick.

How strange, as soon as Mr. Bush's (sic) (reputation) further drops, out comes yet another report of Illegal Immigration.
No proof, no smoking gun, just more Bush rhetoric.

Having read these comments what comes to mind is the question of what's more scary? The outside threat of terrorism, or the inside threat of totalitarianism? People are calling to completely seal off the US borders? What, build a wall around the entire United States? Just the southern border, how about the Canadian border? Create a military police state? Anybody remember the Berlin Wall??? Is that what you want? Shoot anyone who tries to cross over??? Bring up Bush on murder charges??? In case you haven’t heard, Bush OK’d a plan to increase the Border Patrol numbers by 30,000. We already have the military deployed along the border. What more do you want, military check points on every road and highway in the US? Gee, we can be just like the old Soviet Union. Do you have your traveling permit and papers in order comrade??? You don’t mind if we search your vehicle at gunpoint do you, since you have nothing to hide???

This is impossible. Everybody KNOWS that "We're fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them over here". So obviously, all the terrorists are over there, not here. This is just more liberal mainstream media...Rush and Sean told me so.

The Border Patrol, there every day, are "unaware" of such a smuggling operation. Federal prosecutors in New Mexico have no such cases. The FBI in New Mexico has "no comment".

In the context of these past couple of weeks of totally unsubstantiated "booga booga" propaganda emanating from the oligarchs in Washington, it's clear that yet another false flag operation is in the works.

When did the former United States become a land of zombies willing to believe anything just because the government said so? When did transparent propaganda become confused with "news"?

SEAL OFF THE BORDERS. If Israel can do it and be successful, so can we. I'm afraid this country is headed for a civil war if our 'leaders' continue to sellout. We, the people, are getting fed up.

As a campaign worker for Bush in both elections, he has lost my support over this immigration nonsense! Wow. Middle easterners coming across the Mexican border. Who would have thought THAT would happen?! Until we secure our borders and start sending the criminals back to Mexico and wherever else they came from, we are fooling ourselves thinking that we have ANY Homeland "Security!" You want to come to the U.S.? Get in line in YOUR own country!

Yay, something else to blame bush for. If I'm not mistaken, aren't most of the Democrats the ones who pushed to keep our borders open? I hope I am wrong because all these people wouldn't have anything to complain about.

How sad that congress battles among themselves while we are losing our borders. Sen. Reid and Sen. Kerry are blinded by anger and hate for Bush. I've always felt the USA could never be defeated by external powers - we will defeat ourselves from within. When is the last time the Reps and Dems worked together to accomplish anything important? The future looks grim.

PUT UP A WALL!!!!!!! I'm so sick of all of this. Bush is horrible with his my way for everything. And now look.

As long as the Dept of Justice keeps putting Border Patrol Agents in jail for doing their jobs the bigger the problem gets. Homeland security is nothing but an empire building job creating government boondoggle organization to destroy this country. Living in southern New Mexico we see the results of these clowns. The Congress of this country abets this criminal endeavor. God help us all.

Randy, 30,00 troops along the border is a joke when they're being arrested on a regular basis for doing their job! Their hands are tied just like our soldiers' hands are tied in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's for show, Randy. Bush has to look like he's doing something. He actually is seeking no borders - one continent. It's in the works. He's following in his Dad's footsteps. We have NO border patrol.

I love it when the gov't "fixes" things... We need to fire the whole gov't and start over. Everyone in the State & Federal Gov't should be kicked out, reorganize the 2 million Departments of Everything and elect new people that have half an ounce of common sense to run the show.

See what a bunch of liberals and a couple of “compassionate conservatives” can do when they are given the power??? We had better remember this at election time.

Blame it on Global Warming?

Randy....Yep.

Had the Americans' rulers lived up to the reputation given them by their own Left, they would have taken the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran, rather than tie themselves down in trying to reform broken countries. They would have made the turnover of Saudi wealth a condition for the Saudi "princes'" lives. They would have increased their wealth while impoverishing their enemies. They would have paid for their wars, their recovery from 9/11, and their border security from their new oil revenues, and they would have annexed OPEC's former power to their own.

That the Americans' rulers didn't take this course is evidence they're not the crafty men their Left says they are. Instead, their lack of flexibility impairs their prudence in defense of liberty.

Let's see:
1. Who doesn't want border fencing? Libs
2. Who doesn't want Immigration enforcement? Libs
3. Who doesn't want financial data mining for suspect cell folks? Libs
4. Who wants a system where you have to inform a cell member you enforced a search warrant(duh--bye bye investigation!) Libs
5. Who worries about how we are perceived by our enemies? Libs
6. Who can name one American that has lost any rights of any kind due process to anti-terror policy? No one.
7. Who worries about terror suspects and their 'rights?' You guessed it.

This is shameful, once again, we are alerted to the fact that a nation that does not control its' border, will cease to exist one day.

Can we build the wall now? Last time I checked the money was allocated 2 years ago to the Federal Government!!!

Does CNN know about this story? Somebody should alert them.

See what a bunch of liberals and a couple of “compassionate conservatives” can do when they are given the power??? We had better remember this at election time.

Its past time to close the borders! Get it done before the next attack on U.S. soil!

Even if the Dems take office they are even more guilty than the Republicans. Just look at the Ted Kennedy crowd. If it were up to them they would flood this country with illegals in hopes of winning more votes.

First, Probably Bush and Neocons are lying to us to get support to stay in Iraq to "fight them over there, not here." Its all manipulation and lies. IF not, he is completely incompetent if this has been "going on for one year" and the border patrol knows less than Abc news. If THAT is the case, bush and cheney should be impeached. Word...
Remember -- in the end, when all is said and done, GW Bush will be nothing more than just a grease spot on the pages of history.

Let's not place all of the blame on Bush. It deserves to be placed on EVERY freaking political "leader" that is in power now. They are more interested in gaining votes for the next election that they could care less about this country and the safety of our families. They spend more time approving a pay raise for themselves than doing something about securing our borders. IT MAKES ME SICK. Why can't we have our own version of "The Great Wall of China"???????

It's time to PURGE Congress and the White House. During the next Congressional elections, the voters should purge every sitting member of Congress..no exceptions. It's time for a fresh start. The sitting members just do not have time to solve problems. To busy attacking each other. Congressional Purge.....

Border control throughout the West is fast becoming an issue of national survival. How can we possibly continue to exist as long as we accept millions upon millions of 3rd world foreigners into our midsts each year? Do we have no interest in national and cultural survival?
The nations of the 3rd world MUST be forced to face the issues in their own countries. As long as the West serves as a relief valve the required societal pressures won't build to critical mass such that change can take place. It is in the best interest of the 3rd world as well as ourselves if we shut the doors.

"Border Patrol officials in the area said they were unaware of the specifics of the FBI's report"

Two words: "scare tactics"
Just another story to go along with Chertoff's gut feeling. Scare the people silly and then watch them give up everything to secure their safety. The freaking border patrol is unaware of this so called behavior. Show some evidence, until then this is nothing more than propaganda.

Good! Good! Americans getting ever more angry at our worthless Washington crowd. Now we must have a true American to step forward to run for President and then we must vote the scum(liberal dems and repubs) out of congress.

If this information had come from any other source, i would tend to believe it. Take 90% of what The Blotter prints and chalk it up to hype and yellow journalism...

If someone throws a rock through your window do you blame the glass maker? If someone shoots you do you blame the gun manufacturer? Someone should be upset at the person that commits the crime.

I'm afraid the legacy of the Bush administration and the other Democrats might be another 9/11 that will be 3-4 times worse than the first one. While we spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting terrorists in the Middle East, Bush and Congress left our back door open for the terrorists to walk in freely and then attempted to give amnesty to 12+ million, failed to secure the border, and virtually guaranteed that potential terrorists would be lost in the shuffle. Just great!

Liberals Dictionary:
Border fence: 1. A line in the sand used to create racial and ethnic drama...2. A structure that one can argue would never be used by terrorists, but if they do, they feel free to blame the people who tried to build it.

can anyone say "Red Dawn"? Rent it if you don't know.

Factually, what info makes this report highlight "Iraqis" apart from any "other Middle Eastern individuals" being smuggled into the US?

Nothing, it appears, other than Iraq being a hot-button at the moment because of the war. Aren't the Saudis supposed to be way worse?

My first time coming to any blog, alas, and my last. If anyone believed this thread represented real America, that reader would know we will have deserved what awaits us.

The good news is, this is not real America.

Lesson to learn here: think security of this country first, all else is irrelevant.

Please tell me someone didn't just say we can close off our borders as easily as Israel. Ask families of those killed by suicide bombers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa how well "totally sealed borders" worked to save their loved ones. Have you considered the complexity of such a completely absurd thought, given geographic size disparities, greater relative oceanic borders, trade differential (i.e., infinitely greater port traffic) in the U.S.? Israel is 1/25 the size of Texas alone. Your comment only serves to illuminate the vast reactionary ignorance of they average American, and is an embarrassment to the rest of us who call ourselves Americans.

Seriously, what's going to happen if another 9-11 type incident happens?

There was some finger pointing after that attack, but it could at least be argued no one could have seen it coming.

What's going to happen if an attack that everyone not only saw coming, but were begging their congress and president to prevent?

If congress would send Bush a bill for securing the borders without all the crap(amnesty,pork,mismanaging of funds) he would still sign it because it begins to address the problem. Stop with the Berlin Wall metaphors.

Why are folks blaming George Bush. The LEGISLATURE must enact the appropriate legislation to secure the borders, not the President! While I agree that the President is not exactly leading the charge to properly secure our borders, WE have the power to get it done via the legislature.

you people are so easily manipulated. Iraqis are not the enemy of the American people. They are the enemy of Cheney and Bush, Who happened to be the enemy of the American people. wake up

Sitting here reading this makes me realize there is nothing the working Americans, the people who put our faith in our elected officials, can do. So, why give a crap ? Let them come. 100 years from now we won't know the difference.

Why our Borders remain open 7 years after 911 is a Criminal Act of our Congress, Senate and President. America should welcome everyone and anyone so long as we know whom they are, yet our own leaders are guilty in their in ability to protect us in the future. Shame on them and shame on us, there may come a time to remove them by election or other means, if we are attacked.

God Bless those brave Senators i.e Jeff Sessions etc. who denied Bush, Kennedy and the Democratic Party the "Give Away America" immigration legislation. The political landscape in this country would have changed forever.

Yeah, Lets have a Dictatorship. Oh wait, the American people are whiney and cry babies. That wouldn't work. Quit blaming one person (Bush) This is the work of many governmental employees. Dems and Reps alike. Don't jump on the bandwagon because all this happened when Bush was in office. Although, if Mr Internet would have won office we all could be blaming Gore.

We are geographically isolated from all the people that intend to do us harm. It is completely unfathomable to me that we act like we are powerless to control illegal entry into this country. Secure the borders (2 of them). Freeze immigration, prosecute illegal immigration, deport everyone that appears on a terrorist watch list, prosecute those that preach destruction of America and Americans (sorry PC people - that's a crime) etc. This is so insane it is pathetic. Mexico screams if we encroach 12 inches into their country. Why are we such wimps? We owe the world nothing. It seems everybody else comes first except for American citizens and we are being sold out. I just don't understand why.

Unfortunately, it will take more terrorism in this country to move people to real action. Sad, isn't it? Americans, and I'm one of them, are too spoiled and apathetic to realize what's going on. They're asleep. Sad to say, but everyone will be awake when the terrorists, who surely are in this country already, strike, and strike again. Those peace-loving people, they.

Why would terrorist use the Mexican border to cross into America when they could just drive across the Canadian border?

I wonder if the politicians are getting a kick-back from the smugglers? Perhaps the smugglers have a lobby fest in D.C? Why else would they be dragging their feet? Seems like when politicians smell money these days it's like when sharks smell blood. Forget you - the electorate! They all are working to fill their own coffers.
How on earth do these same politicians keep getting re-elected over and over again when they keep doing stupid and wrong things against good, loyal and patriotic American citizens? When are we going to flat VOTE OUT all the incumbents? Lets do it this next election cycle!

I want Chertoff and Gonzalez fired - NOW! We have been screaming to the Bush administration to protect our borders and to enforce our immigration laws. But NO, Chertoff refuses to build the fence - only 13 miles have been built and that measley 13 miles is the wrong type - not a double fence as was designed. Attorney General Gonzalez not only does NOT prosecute those who violate our immigration laws, he uses illegal alien drug smugglers as witnesses against our Border Patrol Agents in order to shut them down and protect the illegal aliens and drug smugglers - and TERRORISTS SMUGGLERS!! Chertoff openly scoffs and said the job was too big. Chertoff should have been fired long ago - he is worse than Tom Ridge on border security and that is saying a lot. If the terrorists hit us, Bush, Gonzalez, and Chertoff must be held accountable for openly endangering our citizens and refusing to uphold our immigration laws. But, why wait?

This is not just a Bush issue with the border! Aren't you people just a little sick of both parties not securing the border. Lets hope someone runs on the independent party that cares about what the American people have continuously stated and that CLOSE OUR BORDERS NOW, then lets figure out what to do with the illegal problem.

At $20 - $25k a head, I bet they're NOT coming in for the "American Dream". Oh yeah...they want an "opportunity"!

This is the last straw on illegal immigration. I'm sorry, but President Bush, who I VOTED FOR TWICE, and Chertoff and McCain and KENNEDY and that crying BABY DURBIN..I don't care if you are democrat or republican...you HAVE FAILED US.

Great,Well we all new this was happening,the bright ones in Wash. D.C.are trying there PC method not to offend anybody.We all well be better off when Washington ,and State level politicians,wake up and smell the coffee.

People! THINK for a minute! Do you realize how many TONS OF DRUGS are smuggled across the border each year...cocaine, heroin and pot -- across both Mexico and Canada? And you think all of sudden we're going to stop the flow of people? Pul-eeze, wake up!! Our borders our porous and always have been. Just be prepared for the next attack and hope we can survive and strike back. It's going to be a long war.