Barack Obama may be unwilling to take a tour through the unsecured border between Texas and Mexico, but Fox’s Sean Hannity was more than happy to take his place. In a long segment on his program Thursday, Hannity accompanied Texas Governor Rick Perry for an escorted trip through the problematic Rio Grande valley. The opportunity not only provided an up-close look at just how bad the issue has become, but it also gave Perry a platform to speak out on some of the more pressing problems the crisis presents to the country.
“This is why,” Perry said on the broadcast, “the conversations that we’re picking up from ISIS…there’s a great concern now from our special operators that this new entity of Islamic state is using the border to penetrate [into America] with ill intent.”
This aspect of the problem has been lost in the conversation about refugees from Mexico and elsewhere in South and Central America, but as the military operatives leading Hannity and Perry through the tour pointed out, it’s not just the specter of terrorism that makes the unsecured border so dangerous to Americans. According to statistics that surprised even the well-informed Hannity, more than 600,000 crimes have been committed over the last seven years by illegal immigrants crossing the border with impunity. This is a statistic that doesn’t get much play in the mainstream media, a haven where the only crime these immigrants committed was jumping the border in the first place.
- See more at: http://www.leanrightamerica.org/politics/rick-perry-great-concern-isis-could-use-unsecured-border-for-evil-intent/#sthash.oRmlBbAy.dpuf
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