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Monday, November 3, 2003 THE BATTALION
Effort to shut southern border
to terrorists found ineffective
By Niko Price
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SASABE, Mexico — A
crackdown along the U.S.-
Mexico border designed to pre
vent terrorists from entering the
United States hasn’t stopped
even one known militant from
slipping into America since
Sept. 11, an Associated Press
investigation has found.
Instead, the tightening net of
Border Patrol and Immigration
agents has slowed trade, snarled
traffic and cost American tax
payers millions, perhaps bil
lions, of dollars, while hundreds
of migrants have died trying to
evade the growing army of bor
der authorities.
“If there are concerns about
the border in national security
terms, they are misplaced,” said
Claudia Smith, a migration
activist who directs the
California Rural Legal
Assistance Foundation.
Sept. 11, 2001, was a defin
ing moment in the politics of
illegal immigration. The terror
ist attacks abruptly halted major
reforms designed to legalize
much of the flow of workers
heading north from Mexico. The
reforms had won support from
President Bush — a former
Texas governor — and members
of the U.S. Congress.
After more than 3,000 people
died in the al-Qaida strikes on
the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, the Bush administra
tion told Mexican officials they
were concerned that easing
migration restrictions could lead
to another terrorist attack.
Instead of opening the border,
the United States closed it further.
Bush invested heavily in border
protection, budgeting $9 billion
for the fiscal year that began this
Oct. 1, a $400 million increase
over the previous year. The gov
ernment was unable to provide
budget figures for earlier years.
The number of Border Patrol
agents assigned to the southern
border rose from 8,500 in 2000
to at least 9,500 today. Staffing
along the Mexican border for
the immigration, customs and
agriculture departments, which
monitor legal crossing points,
grew from 4,371 in fiscal 2001
to 4,873 in the fiscal year that
just ended.
New technology gives
Border Patrol agents state-of-
the-art helicopters to search for
migrants from the air and a new
generation of ground sensors
and remote video systems to
track them on the ground.
“We have become much
more vigilant than we were just
a couple of years ago, without a
doubt,” said Border Patrol
spokesman Mario Villarreal.
Despite the crackdown, an
AP investigation involving inter
views with dozens of officials,
immigration activists and
Textbooks at center
of evolution debate
migrants in Mexico, Califon
Arizona and Washington,
up no evidence that any suspw
ed terrorist has been prevent!
from coming to America.
Mauricio Juarez,
spokesman for the Mexica
government’s Nations
Migration Institute, toldAf
that Mexico hasn’t arrested
single terrorist suspect headed
north. And he said the Unite!
States hasn’t informed
of any arrested on the U.S.sid;
— something it presumat!
would do.
Spokesmen for the hi
Border Patrol, the FBI an:
Immigration and Custe
Enforcement say national sec
rity guidelines prevent Ik
from saying whether any
pected terrorists have bee
arrested trying to cross the be
der from Mexico.
Robert Bonner, commissin
of the Bureau of Customs
Border Protection, said “hum
of people per year from ...
interest countries, such
Pakistan” are turned back at)
border crossings from Mexico,
he didn't give any indication
of them were terrorists
Several Border Patrol agen
along the Arizona-Mexico
said that although they
become increasingly v
toward the possibility of teira
ists using established peopli
smuggling routes, they
found none.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Texas will be
under the microscope next week
in the fight over teaching evolu
tion in public schools as the
State Board of Education votes
on adopting biology textbooks
that have been at the center of
the debate.
The board
meets Thursday a
and Friday and is
set to consider
proposed
changes submit
ted by 11 pub
lishers. The
board’s deci
sions — which
could determine
which textbooks
publishers offer
to dozens of
states — will end
a review process
that has been marked by months
of heated debate over the theory
of evolution.
Religious activists and propo
nents of alternative science urged
publishers to revise some of the
lOth-grade books and want the
board to reject others, saying they
contain factual errors regarding
the theory of evolution.
Mainstream scientists assert that
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolu
tion is a cornerstone of modem
research and technology.
Board members can only
vote to reject books based on
factual errors or failure to follow
state curriculum as mandated by
the Legislature.
"There’s a bait and switch
going on here because the critics
want the textbooks to question
whether evolution occurred. And
of course they don’t because sci
entists don’t question whether
evolution occurred," said Eugenie
Scott, executive director of the
California-based National Center
for Science Education.
Among those questioning the
textbooks are about 60 biolo
gists from around the country
who signed a
“statement of
dissent” about
teaching evolu
tion and said
both sides of the
issue should be
taught.
Any changes
to the textbooks
will have impli
cations across
the country.
Texas is the
nation’s second
largest buyer of
textbooks, and
books sold in the state are
often marketed by publishers
nationwide.
One of the most vocal advo
cates of changing the textbooks
is the Discovery Institute, a non
profit think tank based in
Seattle. Institute officials have
argued at board hearings that
alternatives to commonly
accepted theories of evolution
should be included in textbooks
to comply with a state require
ments that both strengths and
weaknesses are presented.
“These things are widely
criticized as being problematic.
They aren’t criticisms we made
up; they’re criticisms widely
held in scientific community,”
said Discovery Institute fellow
John West.
They aren’t criti
cisms we made up;
they’re criticisms
widely held in scien
tific community.
— John West
Discovery Institute fellow
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