Terrorist Coming through Mexico? What Are You Stupid?

I'm watching Lou Dobbs right now - I don't know why I continue to since it certainly kills my mood - and I see that their new fear-mongering tactic is to scare Americans with the threat of terrorist infiltrating into the US from Mexico. This only the latest in a series of ways to scare Americans into changing their mind on any form of amnesty or earned legalization for Mexicans and others. There's also the 'cost of illegal immigration' (they pay taxes by the way AND take of social services at a far reduced rate that other Americans), how they bring down wages (not true except they do play a small role in the low wages of the poorest Americans. Most of that can be attributed to other things such as the lack of a inflation adjusted minimum wage for example. They contribute to raising wages for everyone else.) They bring diseases, crime, etc...etc...

I've heard it all on Lou Dobbs.

Now Republican and people like Lou Dobbs want to tell us with a straight face that Terrorist will come through the Southern Border. Please!! This really just proves that its not really about national security, but by some movement to keep Mexicans out of the United States and the fear of terrorism is just a tool towards that end.

The border with Canada is 3 times larger than the Southern Border and much less well protected and monitored than the Mexican border. If terrorist wanted to get in through Canada they could easily do so without the rigors and dangers of trekking through the desert, without having to pay thousands to a coyote, without having to avoid and get through a better defended border with more Border Patrol. The path of least resistance is Canada, not Mexico, but strangely enough very little is said among those Tancredo Republicans on the dangers of the northern border.

And as any CNN watcher has heard about, drug smugglers have managed to use helicopter and small planes to smuggle marijuana into the US by flying through the myriad mountain valleys (so radar will not detect them) that run from Canada into the US. In the case of the Helicopter they end up at a secluded spot drop of the marijuana and pick of the cocaine and go, in 43 seconds. Its only a small step for terrorist to use the same technique to come to the US, half dozen at a time, along with equipment and gear (like explosives). They can do that from Canada, they cannot do that from Mexico.

So why are they jokers focusing on the southern border as a threat to national security?

Well, I sure have my theories. Your guess is as good as mine though.