{"id":7599,"date":"2014-09-03T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:45:26","slug":"this-is-no-time-to-relax-security-for-illegal-border-crossers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/09\/03\/this-is-no-time-to-relax-security-for-illegal-border-crossers\/","title":{"rendered":"This is No Time to Relax Security for Illegal Border Crossers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Texas Governor Rick Perry recently pointed<\/a> out, because the surge of unaccompanied minors has caused a crisis<\/a> situation at the border, it\u2019s a \u201cvery real possibility\u201d that individuals from extremist groups like ISIS have taken advantage of the distraction and crossed into the United States.\u00a0 In recent months, Governor Perry said, Texas has seen historic levels of individuals from countries with terrorist ties.<\/p>\n

But Governor Perry is not the only one who is worried that the unsecured border will lead to an attack on the homeland. According to government watchdog group Judicial Watch, high-level federal law enforcement, intelligence, and other sources have confirmed that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued.\u00a0 Judicial Watch\u2019s sources say that the militant Islamic group ISIS is operating in Juarez, a city just across the border from El Paso, Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety also<\/a> warns that ISIS social media messaging shows that militants are aware of the porous U.S.-Mexico border, and are expressing an \u201cincreased interest\u201d in crossing over to carry out a terrorist attack in the United States.<\/p>\n

Given the growing terrorist threat, one would never imagine that part of the Administration\u2019s response to the border crisis would be a loosening of security restrictions on airplanes. Yet, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) instead decided that illegal aliens will now be allowed<\/a> to board planes with merely the form that gives them notice to appear in immigration proceedings.\u00a0 How the Administration could opt to allow illegal aliens traveling over the border to bypass security measures American citizens must follow in the face of a heightened terrorist threat is hard to fathom. But for this Administration, homeland security always takes a backseat to the open borders agenda. Of course, once it gets out that the TSA will let one group of people board without proper ID, the whole purpose of checking anyone\u2019s ID is undermined.\u00a0 But only the convenience of illegal aliens seems to be a real consideration.<\/p>\n

If, as is widely expected<\/a>, the Administration follows<\/a> up its past executive amnesties with an even larger amnesty, security loopholes are only likely to get wider.\u00a0 As true immigration reformer Sen. Jeff Sessions (R- Ala.) said last week, an administrative amnesty to some five million illegal aliens would be a \u201csecurity nightmare<\/a>.\u201d He explained: \u201c[i]mmigration agents already tell us that the President\u2019s DACA order has redirected resources away from national security and created massive enforcement loopholes that can be exploited by terrorists.\u201d Such resources will be further strained to the breaking point if an administrative amnesty at least six times as large is put in place.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, terrorist groups are paying attention.