Details Regarding Illegals Wearing Marine BDUs

From hstoday.us -According to the criminal complaints, intelligence derived from investigation of both the illegals and their alleged smugglers - three US citizens and one Mexican national - who were all arrested at the same time, indicated that the alleged smugglers were part of an on-going and highly organized human trafficking operation with participants on both sides of the US-Mexico border. While this seems to be the first known instance in which human traffickers have tried to disguise illegals as members of the US military and to transport them in a vehicle bearing stolen and altered US government license plates (the plates in this case were registered to a US Marine Corps cargo van at the Marine Corps Air Station at Yuma, Ariz.), the methodology has raised troublesome questions for homeland security officials. They include questions not only about whether this indicates a potentially disturbing new and widespread trend on the part of human smugglers, but also whether similar methods could somehow be exploited by terrorists. “And don’t think that Al Qaeda isn’t paying attention to this,” said a senior counterterrorism official on background because of the sensitivity of his position. “If people are pretending to be Marines for criminal reasons, we want to know why,"  More News New Mexico

Details Regarding Illegals Wearing Marine BDUs