Lax naturalization process contributes to homebred terrorism

Reports of the arrest of another home-based terror suspect was received with diminishing surprise among American newswatchers as the FBI handcuffed another naturalized citizen, Mufid Elfgeeh for plotting against his adopted country. A native of Yemen, where the USS Cole was attacked and President Obama claimed a successful example of American terror policy in his national address September 12, Elfgeeh is another posterboy for lax enforcement of immigration rules by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

USCIS states that the FBI does a background check on people applying for naturalization, but one has to wonder how effectively they are conducted. Consider that many U.S. terror perpetrators and suspects have been onshore by virtue of a green card, some of whom have gone the distance to attain citizenship: Times Square Bomber, Faizal Shahzad, naturalized 2009; Boston Marathon Bombers Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of whom was naturalized September 11, 2012, the same day Benghazi went up in flames and four Americans died; Sami Osmakac, naturalized from Kosovo with a list of targets in the Tampa area; Sohir Omar Kabir, ringleader of a four-man terror cell on trial just last month in Los Angeles for plotting attacks on overseas U.S. military bases; and the list goes on, including the infamous contingent mostly from Saudi Arabia who, green cards in their back pockets, brought down four airliners on September 11, 2001. And this is just cherry-picking the few from among thousands of potential terror agents that receive temporary and permanent residence permits or are naturalized each year. Nor have we touched on the children of immigrants from around the world who, for some reason or other, have turned on their homeland and rejected their American citizenship. Nidal Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter who is the son of Palestinian immigrants, comes to mind. Consider also how many homebred jihadis, the likes of Ali Muhammed Brown, confessed murderer of teenager Brendan Tevlin, are influenced by foreign-born imams. Then there's the recent spate of young people who have flown off to join ISIS in a sick search for identity, an identity that, ironically, is based on being nothing more than an expendable, faceless slave to an unforgiving life of blood and violence. If the call to ISIS were for personal fame, then why would the murderers of kidnapped reporters and aid workers hide behind monikers like John, George and Ringo (royally ticking off the Beatles' Ringo Starr) and cover themselves to avoid recognition? ("We wonder why westerners flock to jihad. Really?" 8/9/14)

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As our president leaves the country's back door open to anyone and everyone tracking in dirt and ill will, the fact that the front entrance has been unguarded for longer than his tenure becomes a matter of concern. Already full communities of Muslim immigrants have been given "asylum" here only to turn on their hosts by regarding sharia above the Law of the Land, the Constitution. And now, the U.N. may be pressing for thousands more refugees from the ISIS-infested wreck of Syria to be given sanctuary here. Would they comply with the Constitution or insist on having a separate, clearly unconstitutional sharia legal system that conflicts with our nation's law? Just when did political correctness override the policies of restraint and circumspection, putting our nation at risk to outside and internal threat? The educational system that has deteriorated over decades, teaching more about social acceptance than rational thinking (even the term critical thinking has been corrupted), has created the political animals that now fill government offices, both elected and appointed. These legislators, administrators and bureaucrats have established an atmosphere where nothing is sacred, least of all the Constitutional confines placed upon government in order to safeguard the People. We have come so far from instituting policies that protect our union that there is now no protection left for fear of, basically, hurting someone's feelings. The emotionalism of attempting to institute "fairness," which is a non-existent concept by societal standards, has overtaken the reason of a strong national entity, leaving it victim to villainy and its offspring, terror. There is but one remedy to stem the flow of potential terrorists filing their way through makeshift checkpoints and past overworked border agents on the tailcoats of hundreds of thousands of unfortunates coming to America, both legal and illegal entrants. If we have any regard for ourselves as a nation, then respect for our borders must come from within. Otherwise, we are the enemy because we willingly lay down our defenses to harbor, and, yes, even encourage those who mean us harm.