JIhadists may be bloodthirsty headchopper savages, but they aren’t stupid, particularly regarding opportunities to smite the hated infidel. They are aware of America’s open southern border and see it as an on-ramp to mass murder for Allah in the US. This fact is hardly news , although the media notice the national security threat of an open border only occasionally.

The current instance comes from a Houston Chronicle article (Border surge harming crime fighting in other parts of Texas, internal report finds) which released a state report remarking on Somalis crossing the Texas border. Somalis and their Al Shabaab jihad gang (pictured) are brutal fellows who have been known to execute people for watching soccer on TV.

The Texas Border Surge Report was not supposed to be released to the public. Perhaps it was too honest, as an early paragraph may indicate:

“There is ample and compelling evidence that the Texas-Mexico border is not secure, and this lack of security undermines public safety and homeland security in every region of the state. Crime has become increasingly transitory, transnational, organized and discreet, and terrorism has become more disaggregated. An unsecure border with Mexico is the state’s most significant vulnerability as it provides criminals and would-be terrorists from around the world a reliable means to enter Texas and the nation undetected. This is especially concerning today, in light of the recent terrorist attacks and schemes around the world.”

Fox’s Neil Cavuto interviewed national security expert Tony Shaffer the other day about unfriendlies trooping across the border:

LT. COL. TONY SHAFFER: You can count on the fact that these guys are marshaling, trying to work their way through Mexico into the States, through the southwest border because they hide within the refugee and illegal immigration stream. It is easy for them to do. . . Right now [FBI Director] James Comey admits they’re tracking about 200 people, and okay what about the 1000 to 2000 we’re not tracking who’ve come through the border? We know they are coming through; we know we’re not detecting them, so this is where we have to be a lot more focused on Mexico, to do 3 things. First, turn people away. You don’t have to accept them in; turn them back into Mexico. Second, we have to go after the mafia out there who make all this trafficking possible. All this human trafficking paves the way for terrorists to kinda swing right in.

The Washington Post report explained open borders’ effect on Mexican crime flourishing in Texas as well as the terror threat:

Texas officials warn of immigrants with terrorist ties crossing southern border, Washington Post, Feb 26, 2015 In a report to Texas elected officials, the state Department of Public Safety says border security agencies have arrested several Somali immigrants crossing the southern border who are known members of al-Shabab, the terrorist group that launched a deadly attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, another Somalia-based group once funded by Osama bin Laden. Another undocumented immigrant arrested crossing the border was on multiple U.S. terrorism watch lists, the report says. According to the report, one member of al-Shabab, apprehended in June 2014, told authorities he had been trained for an April 2014 suicide attack in Mogadishu. He said he escaped and reported the planned attack to African Union troops, who were able to stop the attack. The FBI believed another undocumented immigrant was an al-Shabab member who helped smuggle several potentially dangerous terrorists into the U.S. Authorities also apprehended immigrants who said they were members of terrorist organizations in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. [. . .] Even without the threat of foreign terrorists making their way across the border, Texas law enforcement officials say seven of the eight major Mexican drug cartels operate throughout Texas. Those cartels have sent assassins as far north as the Dallas-Fort Worth area to commit murders, and the drug trade is thriving. The cartels are also branching into sex trafficking, which can present a lower risk and yield a higher profit than the drug trade, the report says. Law enforcement officials have uncovered major trafficking rings operating in Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and several east coast cities.

Breitbart helpfully listed specific cases of bad guys utilizing America’s welcoming open borders: