Under investigation for nearly a year on an overstayed visitor visa
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Amine El Khalifi a 29-year-old Moroccan man of Alexandria VA was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was was under constant surveillance while believing he was working with an al-Qaida operative on a plot after
he expressed interest in killing at least 30 people and considered targeting a building in Alexandria a restaurant a synagogue and a place where military personnel gather in Washington before settling on the Capitol.
El Khalifi who was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest that undercover FBI operatives gave him was taken into custody with a nonworking gun and inert explosives according to a counterterrorism official.
According to court documents El Khalifi even went with undercover operatives in January to a West Virginia quarry to practice detonating explosives.
El Khalifi came to the U.S. when he was 16 years old and is not believed to be associated with al-Qaida. He had been under investigation for nearly a year and had overstayed his visitor visa which expired in 1999 making him in the country illegally.
El Khalifi was first reported to authorities by a former landlord who thought the man was making bombs.
Police are close to arresting one of El Khalifis associates also a Moroccan living here illegally on other charges.
OBAMA IMMIGRATION POLICY a Concern to Center for Immigration Studies
Suspicion is rising across the country as to whether the president is pandering to the Latino voting bloc by going to extreme measures of involving the executive branch in immigration law enforcement.
The Center for Immigration Studies director of policy studies Jessica Vaughan pointed to the recent Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) settlement that awarded $350000 to 11 illegal immigrants in New Haven CT and terminated their deportation proceedings after the individuals were arrested in the sanctuary city."
Vaughan explained to
The Daily Caller that the Obama Administration chose not to defend the actions of its agency in doing its routine job" and chose instead to reward amnesty.
Likewise Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) spokesman Bob Dane says that the Obama Administration has de-emphasized" immigration enforcement in non-border areas and that theres massive amnesty occurring behind the scenes."
