AUSTIN, Texas A Fox News report that Texas state troopers caught an Iranian in the trunk of a smuggler s car who was on the FBI s terrorism watch list briefly diverted America s attention to the border crisis, until the Department of Homeland Security
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For over 15 years, Iranian activist and cameraman Mahnaz Alizadeh has been fighting for women’s rights. During this time, she was arrested, threatened and recently saw her mentor, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, sentenced to 38 years and 148 lashes. Traumatized, she decides to emigrate to Canada, but finds herself in an overcrowded cell controlled by the CCP criminal faction, in Rio Branco, Acre. We are a family business.
The future of Alizadeh, 35, mobilized the world of cinema. US director Jeff Kaufmann, who just released a vaunted documentary about Sotoudeh, revealed that Alizadeh was one of the cameramen who took the opportunity to film the lawyer without government permission. He included her in the credits “so that Brazilian justice understands that she can be arrested, tortured (and possibly killed) if she is deported to the country of origin”.
11 Iranians Captured at US-Mexico Border meforum.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from meforum.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Many Americans might have felt surprised by recent news that U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona caught 11 Iranian migrants who crossed the southern border from Mexico.
But this crossing is not surprising in one insular quarter: an international cadre of intelligence and law enforcement officers who work on this chronically misunderstood threat problem for the American homeland security establishment. For them, southern border crossings by Iranians, as well as by migrant travelers from other countries of terrorism concern, like Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, trigger an almost routine response the public never sees.
My new book, America’s Covert Border War, The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, reveals these responses as part of a hidden American counterterror effort that has long regarded this human traffic as a distinct national security border threat and which has worked to neutralize individuals who might show up to the border see