Thank you Granny Shrek, for sending this along to me;  (readers, this will give you a taste, and why yesterday's post is relevant.)

"Every Senator Should Read The Bensman
Series From The San Antonio Express News
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/
http://tinyurl.com/h2otd
May 22, 2007

excerpt:

Though most who cross America's borders are economic migrants,
the government has labeled some terrorists. Their ranks include:

Mahmoud Kourani, convicted in Detroit as a leader of the terrorist
group Hezbollah. Using a visa obtained by bribing a Mexican official
in Beirut, the Lebanese national sneaked over the Mexican border in
2001 in the trunk of a car.

Nabel Al-Marahb, a reputed al-Qaida operative who was No. 27 on the
FBI's most wanted terrorist list in the months after 9-11, crossed the
Canadian border in the sleeper cab of a long-haul truck.

Farida Goolam Mahammed, a South African woman captured in 2004 as she
carried into the McAllen airport cash and clothes still wet from the
Rio Grande. Though the government characterized her merely as a border
jumper, U.S. sources now say she was a smuggler who ferried people
with terrorist connections. One report credits her arrest with
spurring a major international terror investigation that stopped an
al-Qaida attack on New York.

The government has accused other border jumpers of connections to
outlawed terrorist organizations, some that help al-Qaida, including
reputed members of the deadly Tamil Tigers caught in California after
crossing the Mexican border in 2005 on their way to Canada.

One U.S.-bound Pakistani apparently captured in Mexico drew such
suspicion that he ended up in front of a military tribunal at
Guantanamo Bay.

"They are not all economic migrants," said attorney Janice Kephart,
who served as legal counsel for the 9-11 Commission and co-wrote its
final staff report. "I do get frustrated when people who live in
Washington or Illinois say we don't have any evidence that terrorists
are coming across. But there is evidence."

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehension numbers,
agents along both borders have caught more than 5,700 special-interest
immigrants since 2001. But as many as 20,000 to 60,000 others are
presumed to have slipped through, based on rule-of-thumb estimates
typically used by homeland security agencies.

"You'd like to think at least you're catching one out of 10," McCraw
said. "But that's not good in baseball and it's certainly not good in
counterterrorism."

Thanks, Granny.  God bless you for sending me the links.  Hugh Hewitt, you've been my hero for a very long time.