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Rep. Gohmert: Why WOULDN'T Terrorists Take Advantage of an Unsecured Southern Border?By Rob Eno, Conservative Review
Washington,
April 25, 2016
Last week, Fox News Latino reported that a Minnesota suspect is accused of making plans to establish routes for ISIS terrorists between Syria and the United States via Mexico. One of the American men accused in Minnesota of trying to join the Islamic State group wanted to open up routes from Syria to the U.S. through Mexico, prosecutors said. Guled Ali Omar told the ISIS members about the route so that it could be used to send members to America to carry out terrorist attacks, prosecutors alleged in a document filed this week. Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, long a critic of the Obama administration’s lack of border security and radical Islamic terror preparedness, spoke to Conservative Review about the troubling report. “This revelation is consistent with other reports we have been hearing but the Obama administration has been denying. If you are a radical Islamist and want to kill Americans and destroy our nation, and you keep reading about the 10s of thousands constantly coming over our southern border unimpeded, wouldn't you start planning to come that way?” asked Gohmert. Gohmert recently spent time on the border. He told CR that it is not only Latin American migrants coming over the border. “In the last few weeks during my days and nights on the border, I saw people from around the world including Chinese coming through illegally near McAllen,” said Gohmert. Gohmert noted that “those who want a strong America should be gravely concerned.” In a jab at President Obama, who went to a church where the pastor routinely damned America, Gohmert continued, “If you have ever felt that God should damn America, then it is not such a big deal. The fact that radical Islamic terrorists are seeking every means to infiltrate our country and wreak havoc upon our liberty is nothing new.” Gohmert has been raising warnings about the combined threat of terrorists coming over the southern border for years. “Unfortunately, the Obama administration has continuously disregarded these warnings and has handicapped the ability of the Border Patrol to secure our Southern border, putting the lives of thousands of law-abiding Americans at risk,” Gohmert added. “This is unacceptable, and Congress must vigilantly act to both secure our southern border and defeat this threat from radical Islamic terrorism.” Congress has yet to prioritize an effort to stop terrorists from using human smuggling networks to enter the country. |