Cuellar: No Evidence that ISIS is Slipping into the US from Mexico

Posted Thursday, September 25th 2014 @ 6am  by Jim Forsyth

U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar, whose district includes a large stretch of the Texas Mexico border and has become the unofficial border issues expert in Congress, tells Newsradio 1200 WOAI that there remains no evidence that ISIS terrorists are using the often chaotic southern border to slip operatives and sleeper cells into the U.S., Newsradio 1200 WOAI reports.

  "I have some people who are working in our office who are part of the Administration, and I think they would have given me that information right away," Cuellar said.

  Cuellar was the point man during the spike in Central American immigration this past summer, often attracting criticism from his fellow Democrats as well as Republicans for his willingness to take strong stands on the issue.

  "Sometimes people are quick to put the blame for all of the problems facing the U.S. on the southern border, he said.  "We need to look at that, but we also needs to look at the northern border, the ocean ports, student visas, any way they can come in."

  Cuellar says the real danger facing the U.S. right now are American citizens who have traveled to the Middle East and may have become radicalized by ISIS and other terror groups.  He says those individuals have U.S. passports and don't have to sneak in here through Mexico.

  But Cuellar, who is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee,  says ISIS is a serious concern, largely in part to the group’s massive resources.

  "We estimate they are probably making between $1 million and $3 million a day," Cuellar said, pointing out that ISIS is selling oil from captured oil refineries.

  Cuellar says a real problem that the U.S. will face as it begins its effort to take out the group is...ISIS is actually using American weapons against us.

  "they took over some of the Iraqi military bases, so they have some of the equipment that we, the taxpayers, paid for," he said.

  "Ten years ago when you would see al-Qaeda, they would be riding in pickup trucks.  When you see them now, they're riding in Humvees and tanks,"

  Cuellar says when al-Qaeda accuses you of being too violent, as it has said about ISIS, you know you're over the top when it comes to brutality.


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