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John B. Roberts II is a journalist and television producer, who worked in the Reagan White House as a political strategist.

He is a consulting producer for The McLaughlin Group, and has been featured on NBC’s Dateline and in The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today.

Roberts is coauthor of a book on the Dalai Lama.

“Nuclear Secrets and the Culture Wars," American Spectator,

John B. Roberts II’s article for the Washington Times (March 1, 2005) Close Mexico Border to Terrorists… CIA Director Porter Goss' warning that al Qaeda might try to use "chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons" in his Feb. 17 testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee overshadowed a more urgent intelligence warning. At the same hearing, Vice Admiral James Loy, deputy secretary of Homeland Security, testified that al Qaeda has changed tactics for inserting terrorist teams into the United States. According to Adm. Loy, al Qaeda plans to use Mexico's professional people smugglers — known as coyotes — to infiltrate terrorists across our southern border. Adm. Loy's information is based on recent interrogations and has been confirmed by ongoing counterterrorist operations. But Adm. Loy's Mexican bombshell didn't generate widespread media coverage because it was buried in written testimony instead of being delivered in telegenic sound bites. Al Qaeda's departure from its previous modus operandi means the organization intends to attack us using new methods for which we are unprepared. Adm. Loy attributes al Qaeda's interest in using Mexico as a springboard to the conclusion by al Qaeda's leaders that their "operational security" will be enhanced. They are right. Under current conditions, terrorists can easily enter the United States undetected in the stream of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who cross from Mexico annually. At present, the United States has no defense against this contingency. Washington's decades-long policy of benign neglect of illegal immigration has spawned a global infrastructure of underworld industries to facilitate the flow of illegal aliens [and terrorists]. This underground pipeline originates in countries as far away as China, Brazil and Nigeria, where professional smugglers charge thousands of dollars to transport aliens to the United States. Many of these smuggling networks converge in Mexico, where coyotes intimately familiar with the gaps in our security take over the task of transporting aliens beyond the border into our cities. Aliens who prefer can travel to Mexico's border towns and hire their own coyotes as guides for the final passage. To assist them, the Mexican Foreign Ministry has prepared a handbook for illegal aliens. Once inside the United States, newly arrived migrants are directed to forgers who create phony documentation, including Social Security cards and birth certificates. These documents satisfy employer requirements and, in most states, are more than sufficient to obtain a driver's license. Some states will knowingly license undocumented aliens. Illegal aliens can also obtain credit cards from sub-prime lenders. With a driver's license and a credit card, an alien can open a bank account, lease a safehouse, rent a car, buy weapons, or purchase an airline ticket for use in a suicide mission…

If Mr. Goss' warnings about al Qaeda attacks using weapons of mass destruction are right, we can't afford to lose time getting control over the illegal immigration pipeline into and inside our country before they deliver the next band of al Qaeda killers to our doorstep.