Terrorism from the South?

In the ongoing debate about immigration enforcement, members of Congress and restrictionists continue to express concern about the possibility of terrorists posing as undocumented immigrants and entering the United States from Mexico. Selena Zito plays on this theme in an op/ed today in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.  To see her op/ed, click here.  Immigration sensationalist Michele Malkin also makes arguments to this effect in her latest book (Invasion (2002)), which also attempts to justify the Japanese internment).

There are many more safer ways for terrorists with resources to enter the United States than to surreptiously come through Mexico and run the risks of criminals, the desert, federales, and the Border Patrol in a long, slow journey across the US/Mexico border.  Given those dangers, which will be outlined in a blog story to be posted tomorrow, it is not surprirsing that we have yet to hear of any terrorists entering the country from Mexico.   

KJ