We’ve been charged with doing a job. We’ve been charged with securing the borders of the U.S.,” Doty told Cortez. “I personally do not want to be the one who says, okay, I’m not going to screen this bus because I’ve got to get them out of here and have somebody on that bus be linked to terrorism or be a terrorist and do this country harm.” At a recent congressional hearing in Brownsville, U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said there have been no officially documented cases of terrorists crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.
“AMY GOODMAN: For people who aren’t familiar with what it means to be a Palestinian within Israel, to be an Israeli Arab versus a Palestinian in the Occupied Territories, could you explain the difference?
TAMER NAFAR: I’d say for the Palestinians it means like the first step of return, because we still are a signature, Palestinian signature, you know, as a culture, still inside of Palestine. For the Israelis—and I’m quoting the Parliament of Israel, the government of Israel—we are considered a “cancer.” This is how they call us, a cancer, because we are a demographic bomb for them, like we are Arabs inside of Israel, and we are a threat, us being natural and having babies. Small, cute babies are called demographic bomb and demographic threat for the majority of having—for the Jewish majority.”
