I was reading some news reports on Yahoo about suicide bombings likely to happen here in the US. What irks me the most are statements made about the Justice Department’s inability to track visas issued to foreign students. How could this be? I remember watching a Portuguese newscast via satellite TV sometime last October. They stated that around 50,000 Portuguese passports were mysteriously “missing” from their Embassy.
Portuguese citizens do not need visas to gain entry into the US. They can come and go freely. How many of these passports are in the hands of suspected terrorists now?
I’ve always been known to be pro-immigrant, anti-border control. Now, that’s changing. These people have many points of access, easy access into the US, including container cargoes, which hardly ever get inspected. But worse yet are the incidents such as the Portuguese passports that further facilitate the entry of these individuals into this nation. When I say “individuals” I’m not only referring to people of Middle Eastern origin—there are many others out there who sympathize with Al Qaeda and other groups of this nature. That’s the real danger. Ok, so where exactly does the average American citizen fit into all of this? Are we really going to experience what my husband experienced in his homeland (Peru)—sudden car bombs going off, masked gunmen and gunwomen storming into colleges and universities, electricity and water being shut off due to mass explosions? Or are these threats really hoaxes to divert attention and catch us off guard for the next big one? How much does our gov’t know, exactly??