US support for Israel decimation of Gaza will create many more terrorists that have enmity toward USA. They will have ease of access via southern border regions.
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…or come here legally on student visas…or are already here…some may be native born USians…
…but, more importantly, just saying there is a “threat” from the “Islamic boogyman” feeds the xenophobic narrative, and distracts from the racist and fascist threats.
Steve
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Wait. The theory is that people from Gaza will escape, somehow get to Mexico, and then come in illegally through Arizona?
(PS: The number of terror incidents in the US by ‘illegal aliens” is vanishingly small. Most are from home grown whack jobs who watch right-wing nutcases and who are off their medications.)
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Like I said, it feeds the narrative. May well have nothing to do with the truth, just like the claim that other countries are cleaning out their prisons and mental wards, shipping the inmates to Mexico, then pointing them at the USian border.
Steve
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Appropriate individuals can be selected, trained and then inserted. A handler within the states can have housing set up so they do not have to enact with the infidels. Put a bomb vest on them and have them go to a sporting event or Las Vegas casino then viola tens if not hundreds of casualties.
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It is ‘voila’; and I’ll take my chances.
JimA
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If a pro event, they won’t get in. Terrorist attacks are known to be attracted to events with lots of people in a relatively limited area. If going to a HS event, then it is a “local” event, which is not what the terrorists want. Casinos likely have good security (and bomb detection) because they have a lot of cash on hand–and the casinos are not interested in a publicity event that puts them in a very bad light. Allowing a terrorist with a bomb into a casino likely has a “career-limiting event” for much of management, especially the security group.
Or hand them an assault rifle and a hotel room with a view, like a white guy did?
Steve
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They don’t have to get in, as the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester showed. The bastard (Salman Abedi) waited outside until the concert was over and all the teens were crowding out.
DB2
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Desert to desert here we come!
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Goof, Mentally ill people are not as violent as the general population. You are talking about stupid and cold-blooded killers. Common voters in some parts.
Honestly, we do need to rate the governments we take refugees and immigrants from. We need the risk-takers to argue with their despots instead of escaping to work with us. We help dictators every time we take a truly abled person who would stop their crap by demanding a better shake.
It is not like someone who is indoctrinated in religious and ethnic hatred often will thank us in any regard. Just like some white guy indoctrinated in ethnic hatred. We do not need either. We do not need to add immigrants from countries that adamantly scapegoat Westerners and Israelis.
The primary problem they face is simple: Despots will either kill or imprison those who oppose them. Does Putin/Navalny ring a bell?
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I can imagine terrorists doing a half a dozen events and reach the body count of the 9/11 attack. Imagine the panic and trillion dollar response from the US government.
The US response to 9/11 cost the USA more in dollars and lives than the original incidents and created many more terrorists and hatred among the Muslims world wide.
And perhaps even more loss of privacy & increased surveillance on US population.
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With current flow of illegal…er undocumented people over border methinks a few terrorists could slip in.
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There is strength in numbers. We keep depleting those numbers. Central and South American dictators are not Putin.
The body count rung up by the Latin juntas, at the urging of the CIA was well into five figures.
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Chile goes well beyond that. Columbia and VZ probably as well.
At some point when someone gives an order and someone pulls a trigger not only the US must be to blame.
Meanwhile, there is strength in numbers if the best and the brightest build their own nations away from totalitarian rule.