16 Iraqi captured while trying to sneak into USA

We need more boots on the ground on the border.

Director
of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said.

Later, addressing a question about security along the U.S.-Mexico
border, McConnell said that people linked to terrorist groups had
sought to enter the United States from the south, but "not in great numbers."

Referring to the southwestern border, he said: "Would they use it as
a path, given it was available to them? In time they will."

He said that a "significant number" of Iraqis have been smuggled
across the border in the past year. A spokesman for McConnell
clarified that the Iraqis were asylum-seekers, who have been
apprehended at border crossings in increasing numbers. So far this
year, 178 Iraqis seeking asylum have been detained along the southern
border; 16 were captured while trying to sneak into the United
States, the spokesman said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202598.html?hpid=topnews

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