Should America Build a Wall

In the opening to his article on the necessity of securing America's border with Mexico, Raymond Ibrahim wrote, "Of all the reasons a majority of Americans support the plan of businessman and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to "build a wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border, perhaps the most critical is to avoid letting terrorists into the country…the most imminent danger comes from operatives of the Islamic State (ISIS) and like-minded groups that are trying to use this porous border as a way to smuggle weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) into the United States and launch terror attacks that could make 9/11 seem like a morning in May."

In April Fox News reported that one of the American men in Minnesota accused of trying to join ISIS suggested sending terrorists to America via Mexico, "Guled Ali Omar told the ISIS members about the route so that it could be used to send members to America to carry out terrorist attacks, prosecutors alleged in a document."

In truth ISIS didn't need Ali to tell them about the route- Breitbart reported last June that ISIS had explored options on how it would be able to smuggle a WMD "into the U.S. throughout Mexico by using existing trafficking networks in Latin America."

Back in 2009 The Washington times reported that an AlQaeda recruiter explained in a video how easy it would be to murder countless Americans by crossing throught the Mexican border with 4 pounds of anthrax.

In reality ISIS and other Islamic terrorists are already based in and coming from Mexico. "The evidence is piling up. In August 2014, Judicial Watch reported that ISIS was "operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices." Months later in April 2015, ISIS was exposed operating in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua — eight miles from the U.S."

"Then on December 2, 2015 Judicial Watch reported that , "A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveying a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system." Around the same time, "five young Middle Eastern men were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in Amado, an Arizona town situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border. Two of the men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks..."

"In other words, it is just a matter of time. As Rep. Duncan Hunter once put it:
If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border. It's that simple. ISIS doesn't have a navy, they don't have an air force, they don't have nuclear weapons. The only way that ISIS is going to harm Americans is by coming in through the southern border — which they already have."

Securing the U.S.-Mexico border — with an electronic fence, which has worked so effectively in Israel — is more urgent than we think.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

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