Rick Perry Says Terrorists Could Be Entering U.S. Along Mexico Border
Source: New York Times
Rick Perry Says Terrorists Could Be Entering U.S. Along Mexico Border
By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN
AUG. 21, 2014
WASHINGTON Gov. Rick Perry, Republican of Texas, on Thursday raised the very real possibility that individuals affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups have already slipped across the border as he made the case that border security was a pressing national security issue.
While Mr. Perry said that there was no clear evidence recruits from terrorist organizations had entered the United States illegally, he pointed to the number of violent crimes committed in recent years by illegal immigrants.
I think there is the obvious, great concern that because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of not being secure and us not knowing who is penetrating across that individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states could be, he said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation.
The speech came after Mr. Perry pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of abusing his power on Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury last Friday, making him the first Texas governor to face criminal charges in nearly a century. Perry has called the charges a farce and is contemplating a second run for the Republican presidential nomination. He is scheduled to appear in New Hampshire this weekend.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/us/politics/rick-perry-says-terrorists-could-be-entering-us-along-mexico-border.html?_r=0
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Ooga booga.
mdbl
(4,976 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)And the crazy ones wouldn't survive.
donnasgirl
(656 posts)So no they are not sane and yes it is a real possibility.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Beheadings are an everyday occurrence.
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Terrorists from other countries crossing through Mexico are more likely to end up as victims than most.
frylock
(34,825 posts)hasn't come to fruition yet, has it?
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)A terrorist is going to come through Canada, land on a boat, or most likely, come LEGALLY on a tourist or student visa.
Why risk getting killed or captured on the Mexican border.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)How do we know all these kids coming across are really Central American? I also heard they might be bringing Ebola with them.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)Yep, that's where they'll come in...Probably all ready here to a limited extent. Bigfoot could sneak through our borders with Mexico.
7962
(11,841 posts)reality be damned
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)Vietnam and was in Juarez looking for fun. I'd better not tell this story. Anyway, you could have brought a Bengal Tiger across the border into El Paso and introduced it as your sister and the guards would have just waved you on.
7962
(11,841 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)underpants
(183,007 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)of your posts. You really are smart. The reason I asked you if that was your picture that you post with is that years ago I was an Extra on this tv show called Boston Public. There was this Russian woman that I would do a little bit part with that looked identical to that woman. I wonder if that was her. Oh, well...
littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)J/K
That is an advert pic for a costume. It could be her. Wouldn't that be cosmic?
Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight.
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ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)deminks
(11,022 posts)flamingdem
(39,336 posts)to create a distraction!
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)EileenFB
(360 posts)I mean, they could enter via Texas then head to Florida where they will take flight training classes with all that extra cash they will have at their disposal.
/sarcasm
underpants
(183,007 posts)Oops
Roland99
(53,342 posts)I'd bet my money more on that possibility than his.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)those Muslim terrorists' who have learned Spanish, and these Muslim terrorist that look just like those dirty Mexicans who do easily slip through the boarders . . per a fellow religious right winger once told me.
Fear, paranoia, hatred - welcome to the GOP party.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)tanyev
(42,669 posts)underpants
(183,007 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)Why do they write "raise the 'very real possibility'" instead of "what he alleged was a 'very real possibility.'"
Why "as he made the case" instead of "as he attempted to make a case."
Why "pointed to the number of violent crimes" -- without saying what the number is or whether it's significant -- and follow Perry's non sequitur of using that as supporting evidence for terrorists entering the US illegally.
Why repeat Perry's absence-of-evidence argument without question?
Why write "a speech at the Heritage Foundation" without identifying Heritage as an ultra-right-wing organization.
This is journalistic stenography of the worst kind -- comparable to the Times reporting the fake plagiarism accusations again Rick Perlstein without question -- and I'm getting really tired of it.
elias49
(4,259 posts)according to his latest TV ad on local NH TV.
'Islamists are crossing the border because Jeanne Shaheen 'voted against border security'"
Idiot.
littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)As far away from us as possible.
Crooks and loons.
~ Lmsp
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)To know one.
Gov. Asshole, I consider you to be a Domestic Terrorist.
Blue Idaho
(5,067 posts)Why stop there? I'm thinking Martians riding on the backs of T Rex followed by a school of great white sharks infected with small pox are paving the way for the anti-christ himself crossing our border to pick up a happy meal at McDonalds...
Could happen...
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)There's basically no realistic way to completely 'secure' a border, which is exactly why Republicans demand it as a precursor to any sort of immigration reform. It's undoable. Drug runners routinely make it across the border, so sure, they could smuggle in terrorists, too.
As to violent crimes by illegals, are they proportional to violent crimes committed on a per capita basis by folks born here? Are there any statistics that show that people who actually cross the border to stay (not simply drug runners, who go back and forth) are committing crimes at a greater rate than native-born Americans? If anything, I'd think that they A) commit fewer crimes, since they can't afford to be caught and deported, and B) are more often the VICTIMS of crimes committed by American criminals, for the same reason - they can't afford to go to the police when victimized.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)A serious national security issue
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)President. The borders has been open in my life
frylock
(34,825 posts)*yawn*
littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)mrdmk
(2,943 posts)of the nation, than to walk across the damm desert.
Gov. Perry needs to learn his illegal (drug) import routes before opening his big mouth.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)although I think that Perry could be entering a prison too...
littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)Of feminist justice. Right in the face.
Women are coming.
#FJL
Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight.
Lmsp
LloydS of New London
(355 posts)Specifically, the one between Rick Perry's ears.