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*Jerry Gordon <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_category.cfm/cat_id/139>* *Thursday, 9 October 2014* *The Controversy over whether ISIS is on our Borders *[image: Bookmark and Share] <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pubid=xa-5035888e4e32f804> [image: clear] Tuesday night on Greta Van Susteren’s *Fox News* program, *On The Record, Rep. *Duncan Hunter California Congressman (R-52nd CD) in San Diego County said that “At Least Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Caught Coming Across The Border In Texas”. Duncan is a former Marine Major and member of the House Armed Services Committee. Susteren, while stunned by the Congressman assertion, went on and asked him how he knew that. Note this transcrip <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/idwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/10/stunner-rep-duncan-hunter-r-ca-ten-isis.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e91785c80b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-e91785c80b-228004473&goal=0_597b72c01c-e91785c80b-228004473>t of the exchange: *Van Susteren*: How do you know that? *Hunter:* Because I’ve asked the border patrol, Greta. *Van Susteren:* And the border patrol just let's ISIS members come across the border? *Hunter:* No. They caught them at the border. Therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them, you know that there are going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol. That's how you know. That's where we are at risk here, is from ISIS and radical Islamists coming across the border. Once again, they don't have a navy, air force, nuclear weapons. The only way that Americans are going to be harmed by radical Islam -- Chairman Dempsey said the same thing. He said that's where the major threat is here, that's how these guy guys are going to infiltrate through America and harm Americans. Watch <http://youtu.be/8P_wzvHsAMU> the Greta van Susteren Fox News interview with California Congressman Hunter Duncan: Hunter's comments brought denials from DHS and Secretary Jeh Johnson in a Wolf Blitzer *CNN Situation Room* interview <http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/politics/jeh-johnson-duncan-hunter-isis> Wednesday night: "Let's not unduly create fear and anxiety in the public by passing on speculation and rumor," Johnson said. Johnson said those claims aren't supported by "credible, specific intelligence to that effect." He said public officials should "be responsible in what we decide to share with the American public, so that the public is informed." His comments came after a Homeland Security spokeswoman called Hunter's statement "categorically false." "I look at the intelligence reports from overseas, from our southern border, from our intelligence community virtually every day, numerous times a day, to be on the lookout for something of that nature." "So what I would say to the American public is, we're vigilant in looking out for individuals of suspicion that may be crossing our border, and we have no specific intelligence that ISIL is planning to come into the U.S. through our southern border," he said, using another acronym for ISIS. The *CNN* report noted this statement from Congressman Hunter’s spokesman: A high level source informed the congressman -- it was also said that DHS is actively discouraging any talk of IS on the border," Kasper said. "The congressman was conveying what he knows -- and what he was told," he said. "And as for DHS' statement, it makes sense that the left hand of DHS doesn't know what the right hand is doing -- it's been that way for a long time and we don't expect that to change. No surprise there." Watch <http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/10/09/tsr-sot-jeh-johnson-on-isis-threat.cnn.html> the *CNN *Interview with DHS Secretary Johnson by Wolf Blitzer: In the midst of the border crisis in mid-June 2014, involving the swarm of unaccompanied alien minors from Central America, outgoing Texas Governor Rick Perry commented in a *Washington Times* report <http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/17/texas-gov-rick-perry-knocks-president-obama-immigr/#ixzz34wz60TcN> : There are a record number of illegal immigrants that are being apprehended at the border that come from countries that are home to groups that pose a threat to the United States. These people are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations. It is a huge problem and a great concern. Hunter got support from Judicial Watch (JW <http://www.judicialwatch.org/>), a group that has been investigating the lack of security on our Southern Border, whether it the Fast and Furious fiasco of gun running to Mexican drug cartels and the murder of Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry. An *NER* article <http://www.newenglishreview.org/Jerry_Gordon/Insecure_Borders_and_Broken_Immigration_Laws:_A_Discussion_with_Chris_Farrell_and_Mark_Krikorian/> based on a *Lisa Benson Show* interview about border insecurity and illegal immigration drew these comments from JW chief investigator Chris Farrell: The border is not secure at all. In fact arguably it's been diminished with respect to security. […] The only solution is that a very short order be given to the Chairman of the JCS to secure the Southern border of the United States. That has been done for decades in North/South Korea or any number of other places around the world. We can effectively remilitarize the border. We can at least secure it while routine trade goes on. The trucks and trains do what they do. Commerce continues, but the border itself is an existential threat. The Southern Command Commander said so not long ago that we cannot continue to operate in the manner that we are. There is sufficient evidence of terrorist activity in Mexico. Whether it is Hezbollah counterfeiting money or whether it is Al Qaeda related training camps, there is this substantial body of evidence that points to a violent threat. In late August 2014, there was more from JW: It reported <http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/08/feds-isis-on-us-border/> that Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources confirmed to JW that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat. Earlier this week an interview <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl3SH9RUzjo> with FBI Director James Comey confirmed that they knew of at least a dozen US ISIS fighters in both Syria and Iraq and estimates of over 100 who have traveled to join the Salafist Jihadist group with a self-declared Caliphate that has grown to cover an area equivalent to the size of Great Britain. In a *Louisville Courier Journal* interview <http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/0001/01/01/fbi-director-expect-direct-isis-attack/16994005/>, today, Comey told reporters: That ISIS – the Islamic State group – hasn’t demonstrated that it has the “capacity or resources” to strike targets in the United States. But he said at a news conference at the FBI’s field office in eastern Jefferson County that it could recruit a terrorist “radicalized in his basement” to carry out an attack on ISIS’s behalf. Notwithstanding FBI Director Comey’s comment we recently had the beheadin <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/56688>g by an extremist Muslim jailhouse convert in Oklahoma. On Monday, October 6th, there was the arraignment <http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/10/06/teen-terror-suspect-arrested-at-ohare/> on terror charges by the FBI of a suburban Chicago area teenage Muslim extremist who was arrested last Saturday about to board a flight at O’Hare Airport to ultimately join ISIS. JW issued a statement today effectively rebutting DHS chief Johnson denial of Congressman Hunter’s allegations, JW Confirms: 4 ISIS Terrorists Arrested in Texas in Last 36 Hours <http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/10/jw-confirms-4-isis-terrorists-arrested-texas-last-36-hours/>. The JW report noted: Islamic terrorists have entered the United States through the Mexican border and Homeland Security sources tell Judicial Watch that four have been apprehended in the last 36 hours by federal authorities and the Texas Department of Public Safety in McAllen and Pharr. JW confirmed this after California Congressman Duncan Hunter… disclosed on national television <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/08/congressman-at-least-10-isis-fighters-caught-trying-to-cross-into-us/?%20> that at least ten Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) fighters have been caught crossing the Mexican border in Texas. The veteran lawmaker got the astounding intelligence straight from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Homeland Security agency responsible for guarding the 1,933-mile southern border. We asked “Beowulf” publisher of *The Grendel Report* <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/grendelreport.blogspot.com/> for his views on this* ISIS border *controversy. He said: Johnson, of course will stick to the Administrations talking points of denying any threat from anywhere. I see no reason for either Hunter or Judicial Watch to lie. That has not been their history. 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