We obviously don’t know all the details yet, but a few immigration observations about the Ft. Dix plotters:

  • They were doing jobs Americans won’t do — no, I don’t mean plotting to kill our soldiers. The three Kosovar illegal-alien brothers were roofers, precisely the kind of job that amnesty-boosters tell us we need immigrants for. In fact, I’ll be testifying Thursday before the House Small Business Committee, where one of the other witnesses will be someone from the roofing contractors’ association arguing for amnesty and even more immigration.
  • If Tony Snow’s information is correct and “there is no evidence they received direction from international foreign terrorist organizations,” then the three illegal aliens among the plotters almost certainly would have passed whatever perfunctory security screening the Bush/McCain/Kennedy amnesty would require. The criminal complaint makes clear that the plotters appreciated the importance of having legal status: “ELJVIR, SHAIN, and DRITAN DUKA all explained that they could not have firearms because they do not have ‘green cards.’ … DRITAN DUKA again confirmed that he owned a black gun and a shotgun but acknowledged the illegality of doing so because he didn’t have a Green Card.”
  • Four of the six were Kosovar Albanians, thousands of whom were resettled in the United States, via Ft. Dix. So, we saved their bacon (as it were), brought them to the U.S., and now they (or illegals who came in the wake of the refugee flow) now want to kill us. Does that suggest any cautionary lessons about resettling large numbers of Iraqi refugees?