Hezbollah takes advantage of porous U.S.-Mexican border.

According to a new report released by the Subcommittee on Investigation of the House Committee on Homeland Security, "There is an ever-present threat of terrorist infiltration over the Southwest border." The report, entitled A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border, confirmed that "aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States" and that "members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border."

The report also estimated that "as many as 4 to 10 million illegal aliens [of all kinds] crossed into the United States" in 2005.

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) observed in an October 17 press release that A Line in the Sand "confirms once again what the American people have known for years--that our porous borders are a welcome mat for terrorists." True enough--but it does not have to be that way. American soldiers guard the borders of Iraq while other American soldiers attempt to secure the interior of that tragic land. They are there, we are told repeatedly, to win the war against terrorism. Meanwhile, back on the home front, our own borders are left so unprotected that a U.S. congressman is able to describe them accurately as "a welcome mat for terrorists."