Why the Case of Jordanian-Mexican Smuggler Who Transported Yemenis over the Texas Border Is Important
By Todd Bensman on May 1, 2019
During field research in Panama and Costa Rica about the threat of terror travel, I met nine Sri Lankan migrants on their rather incredible inter-continental journey to the U.S. southern border. The indisputable fact of their northward passage through Central America — and of the very existence of a migration bridge connecting Sri Lanka to the southwest border — raises terrorist infiltration concerns more so today in the aftermath of coordinated ISIS-inspired church bombings by a new Islamist terror group in that country.
Unfortunately lost in all the fuss about Central Americans is the unmoving fact that migrants from countries where Islamist terrorist groups operate also are arriving at the border among the Central Americans almost every day. Thousands of so-called "special interest aliens" arriving annually from the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa, mostly without any identification or vetting, have given rise to national security worries about infiltration, a threat about which I have written extensively.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Why-Case-JordanianMexican-Smuggler-Who-Transported-Yemenis-over-Texas-Border-Important
