Terrorist crossing: cover-up on the U.S.-Mexico border.(Insider Report)

What price will we pay in future terrorist attacks because of our continued failure to protect our borders? How many terrorists are slipping into the U.S. along with the millions of illegal aliens? No one knows, and federal officials are trying to keep this explosive scandal under wraps. In June, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, a local newspaper in Tombstone, Arizona, reported that on June 13, 2004, Border Patrol agents had encountered a group of approximately 158 illegal border crossers near the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains. Only 71 members of the group were apprehended. According to the Tumbleweed, "among them were 53 males of middle-eastern descent." An unnamed Border Patrol agent told the newspaper: "[W]e discovered they spoke poor English with a middle-eastern accent: then we caught them speaking to each other in Arabic.... This is ridiculous that we don't take this more seriously, and we're told not to say a thing to the media, but I have to."

Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame responded to the story with a categorical denial. "There were no middle-easterners in the group," said Mr. Adame. "Every single one of them was Mexican."

Shortly thereafter, as if to prove Mr. Adame wrong, another incident occurred. The Tumbleweed reported: "On or about the evening of June 21,2004, agents from the Willcox Border Patrol station apprehended 24 members of a larger group of Arabic-speaking males located just east of the Pierce/Sunsites area of Cochise County. At least half of the males escaped capture and disappeared into the United States."