We are looking at 2015 in the rear view mirror. Unfortunately for the security of this country, the issues we are dealing with aren’t so easily gotten rid of. Federal agency personnel are stretched so thin in attempting to combat the major national security problems engendered by lax screening problems within our immigration system; that I’m surprised our men and women on the ground can even function! But function they do, and in some cases, they are successful.

The Border Patrol nabbed two Pakistani men with ties to terrorism at the U.S.-Mexico border in September in the latest instance of illegal immigrants from so-called “special interest countries” using the southern border as a point of entry to the U.S.

Muhammad Azeem and Mukhtar Ahmad, both in their 20s and from Gujrat, were caught Sept. 20 by agents south of San Diego and just over the international border from Tijuana. When agents checked their identities through databases they got hits on both of them: Mr. Ahmad popped up as an associate of a known or suspected terrorist, while Mr. Azeem’s information had been shared by a foreign government for intelligence purposes.

I can tell you this, I am extremely thankful for our Border Patrol agents. They deal with long hours, hostile territory (you try patrolling the deserts of AZ/NM/CA/West TX!!), hostile people trying to sneak into this country via fair means or foul, and hostile – sometimes idiotic politicians playing gotcha games. Kudos to them for sure! That said, their nabbing of these two raises some darned interesting questions given the events of the last two months in this country and abroad.

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Isn't this special. Just in time for new years festivities. Makes one wonder how many made it past the good guys?

— The American Infidel (@JohnMLayser) December 30, 2015

First, those two were caught because of up-to-date databases here in the U.S. and abroad. How can we be sure that all future information in the international databases will be correct when A. we already know that ISIS has gotten their hands on passport making machines?