To put a price tag on the problem for reader, Indiana University economist Eric Rasmusen claims in figures from a 2005 GAO report on foreigners that were incarcerated in Federal and state prisons calculated that illegal immigrants commit 21% of crime in America. This cost America more than $84 billion (Kingsbury). Claim Three:

Illegal immigration from Mexico is a major funnel for terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda. This is stated in the groups own words. In a 2009 video, an al Qaeda recruiter threatened to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States. He claimed that the organization would do this via tunnels under the Mexico border. The video aired on Al Jazeera and was later posted to several web sites. These show Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi telling supporters in Bahrain that terrorists in al Qaeda were observing the U.S. border with Mexico to figure out how to send terrorists and their weapons onto American soil ("Washington Times"). This is old news. An Al-Qaeda operative was arrested in Texas near the Mexican border in 2005 and handed over to Federal law enforcement officials ("News Max.com").

Conclusion

To summarize, illegal immigration is an important component in drug cartels such as the Sinaloa on the American-Mexican border. Such drug cartels as above employ gangs such as Surenos-13 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) in their crimes. These gangs are involved in other crimes as well such as prostitution and identity theft. In addition, Al-Qaeda is active in the American-Mexican border area, making the illegal alien question one now of supreme importance to national security. To recap, liberal immigration laws such as are...

This is the bottom line reason why illegal immigration represents such a huge threat to American sovereignty. It is reflected in gangs that operate internationally and for whom illegal immigration is part of their business. Without such illegal immigrants, they would not have scouts and intelligence to work on the American. side of the border.
The significance of this to Americans is life or death. According to Neuhaus Schaan in a Fox News article "There have been a number of certain communities that have noticed this, villages in northern Mexico where Middle Easterners try to move into town and learn Spanish…People were changing there names from Middle Eastern names to Hispanic names…Security experts say the push by illegal immigrants to try to fit in also could be the realization of what officials have feared for years: Latin American drug cartels are helping jihadist groups bring terrorists across the Mexican border." We can not wait for another major Al-Qaeda attack on American soil to get more proof.

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