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| ISIS Fighters Caught Crossing Border into Texas |
| 2014-10-08 |
| WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., says that at least ten fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have been apprehended while attempting to enter the southern U.S. border. The California Republican claims that “at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas,” in a conversation with Fox News on Tuesday. Hunter says that the Islamic terrorists are slipping into the U.S. through the porous southern border as several have already been captured. “There’s nobody talking about it,” Rep. Hunter told Fox. “If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border. It’s that simple…They caught them at the border, therefore we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them then you know there’s going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol.” In August, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, warned that the open border posed an “immediate threat” for terrorist activity infiltrating the country. The government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, said ISIS terrorists were “planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born [sic] improvised explosive devices.” Hunter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that 1,933-mile southern border with Mexico is the obvious entry point for Islamic State terrorists. He says that information regarding the capture of Islamic State terrorists crossing the border comes directly from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “ISIS doesn’t have a navy, they don’t have an air force, they don’t have nuclear weapons. The only way that ISIS is going to harm Americans is by coming through the southern border – which they already have,” he added. “They aren’t flying B-1 bombers, bombing American cities,” said Hunter. “But they are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico…All you have to do is ask the border patrol.” |
| Posted by:Angaimble Flerong5436 |
| #19 Hunter likes to put the stick in a hornets nest...I'm also in his district and knew his dad well.. Crazyhorse USMC 1962-1966 |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2014-10-08 23:30 |
| #18 Even if there was absolutely ZERO evidence for this, consider it from the Islamist point of view: you want to do bad things to the Great Satan. Where is the easiest place to move men and material thru? Yeah, duh! Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-08 22:56 There is being reported an unusual amount of ISIS graffiti in the nations capital. That to me spells out that our capital is in the cross hairs of a major target with numerous points of interest to ISIS. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-08 23:27 |
| #17 Even if there was absolutely ZERO evidence for this, consider it from the Islamist point of view: you want to do bad things to the Great Satan. Where is the easiest place to move men and material thru? Yeah, duh! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-08 22:56 |
| #16 Judicial Watch blog claims confirmation for at least four. D *** NG IT, ITS FOR "DIVERSITY" - you know, GLOBALISM; you know, COMMUNISM! Well, thank goodness thats cleared up. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-08 20:32 |
| #15 Does the Seattle Times really count as a news source? As much as The One counts as a leader I guess. gotta run what ya brung...... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-10-08 17:38 |
| #14 I live in the mountains east of San Diego - have to agree with Frank G, I trust Duncan Hunter's statements. He is a two combat tour Marine Officer and I believe still in the reserve. I've met him and he does not seem like a hysteric alla the Paul claim. |
| Posted by: Ebbusosh Black5276 2014-10-08 17:32 |
| #13 And no doubt our government is providing them with free transportation to wherever they wish to meet their Then giving them EBT cards to buy their chemicals and explosives and Obamaphones to trigger their IEDs. Only in Democratic America... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-10-08 15:31 |
| #12 Does the Seattle Times really count as a news source? |
| Posted by: 746 2014-10-08 15:24 |
| #11 There is no reason to not believe Hunter, however, this current administration will deny that truth. Ten is the number caught. How many ISIS trouble-makers have not been caught? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-08 15:11 |
| #10 Can't be. Nancy Pelosi said they were merely undocumented workers. If you can't believe San Fran Nan, well, I don't believe her. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-10-08 15:10 |
| #9 The question is will they be legalized, given immunity, when 0 issues his grand edict after the election? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-08 15:09 |
| #8 Agree w/ #4: nothing in the Seattle Times about this. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-10-08 15:08 |
| #7 So maybe Gov Perry isn't wrong when he called for the Texas National Guard to go to the border. National security threat. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-08 15:02 |
| #6 Hunter is my Congresscritter and he's tight with the BP. If he says that "he was told that by the BP", he was. He's an honest man |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-10-08 14:33 |
| #5 ..until something goes POP, that is |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2014-10-08 14:32 |
| #4 Still, very few reporting it. I bet it won't be on the nightly news. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2014-10-08 14:26 |
| #3 ISIS coming across our southern border? No surprise in this. Our border is a sieve. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-08 14:23 |
| #2 10 Down - 1.300,000 to go |
| Posted by: Jererong Spearong1466 2014-10-08 13:53 |
| #1 So the logical question is: Why are we fighting them in Iraq and Syria? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-08 13:44 |