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Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter said that law enforcement agencies along the “wide open” border have received alerts to be on the lookout for terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria crossing into the United States.
Painter, who said he has worked along the border for “about eight years,” stated that alerts have been issued to border law enforcement to be on the lookout for suspicious terrorist activity, specifically involving ISIS cells being smuggled into the United States.
“I received an intelligence report that said that there was ISIS cells that were active in the Juarez area, which is the northern part of the Chihuahua state, and that they were moving around over there, that there was some activity…” Painter told Fox News. The report asked “for the sheriffs along the border to be on the alert, for all law enforcement to be on the alert, and to be on the lookout for these people maybe trying to come across.”
Painter sidestepped any direct knowledge that ISIS, specifically, is along the border, but he reiterated that the border “is wide open.”
“Well I’m saying the border is wide open, there is no control on the border, it’s not shut off,” said Painter. “There’s places along the Rio Grande you can walk across, there’s no water in it. I worked the border for eight years I walked back and forth across the Rio Grande; I was in Mexico, I was on this side. I never got challenged.
“There’s always a way to get across, there’s coyotes that bring those people across for thousands of dollars.”
Painter noted that “Muslim” items have been strewn along the border and estimated that 10 to 15 million “undocumented aliens” have crossed the border.
“I think it’d be naive to say that (ISIS is) not here…We have found Muslim clothing, they have found Quran books that are lying on the side of the trail, so we know that there are Muslims that have come across and are being smuggled into the United States,” Painter told Fox News.
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great! thats what happens when you dont secure the border.
I have seen Koran books in America! It is already here!
The Canadian border is MUCH less secure, there are far more Muslims in Canada, and one can fly directly from the Middle East to Canada and the US but not to Mexico. All 19 9/11 terrorists entered the US legally. This is just racist claptrap of the sort that caused the US to close it’s doors to Jews because of the unfounded fear of Bolsheviks.
Midland County is hundreds of miles from the Mexican border. More evidence that this is just nativist bigotry.
This country is finished.
If chas veshalom there is an ISIS attack here in the USA guess who gets the blame? Why it’s George W. Bush! It couldn’t be Obama who has left the border wide open. It’s never his fault.