Southern border problems

I'm going to go out of the area for a change and talk about our border with Mexico. Although this may be considered old news to some, this is the first I've read about it.

The following is an excerpt from the Southern Border Security website. It is evidence compiled by the House Committee on Homeland Security.

10/24/2006-
"...individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections have attempted to enter the United States illegally using alien smuggling rings and assuming Hispanic appearances."
- Robert Meuller, Director of the FBI, 2005

Plenty of grist for the American housed Jihadist program. Note the term OTMs -- it means Other Than Mexican nationals -- typically South American or Middle Eastern or Caribbean transients using Central or South America and Mexico as their route into the U.S.:

1. 30,147 OTMS apprehended in FY2003, 44,614 in FY2004, 165,178 in FY2005 and 108,025 in FY2006. The implication of double, triple or up to nine times the number who slipped through.

2.DHS has reported a 41% increase in apprehensions of Special Interest Aliens (aliens from countries such as Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, China, Russia, Yemen, Albania, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan)
3. "The data indicates that each year hundreds of illegal aliens from countries known to harbor terrorists or promote terrorism are routinely encountered and apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally between Ports of Entry." Examples given (by no means the only cases, these are only indicative of the problem):

A. Seven illegal alien Iraqis in Brownsville Texas in June of 2006
B. Afghani illegal found swimming across the Rio Grande near Hidalgo, Texas in August of 2006
C. Seven Chinese illegals apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas in October of 2006.
D. Neeran Zaia and Basema Sesi were arrested after being found to be operating a human smuggling operation by bringing in illegal middle eastern aliens through staging areas in Central and South America, into Mexico and then across the border into the U.S. Investigators documented more than 200 and fear the number is far larger.
E. Mahmoud Youssef Kourani pleaded guilty to charges aiding Hezbollah in Dearborn Michigan, soliciting funds and sending them overseas. He came into the U.S. across the Mexican border. He is the brother of the Hezbollah Chief of Military Operations in Southern Lebanon.
F. Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a cafe owner in Tiajuna Mexico, was arrested for smuggling more than 200 Lebanese into the U.S illegally.