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[Ray, PhD., Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America at Heritage Foundation; Jena Baker, Senior Policy Analyst for Homeland Security in the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at Heritage Foundation; Jessica, Research Assistant in the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, at The Heritage Foundation; “The Human Tragedy of Illegal Immigration: Greater Efforts Needed to Combat Smuggling and Violence,” 6/22, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/the-human-tragedy-of-illegal-immigration-greater-efforts-needed-to-combat-smuggling-and-violence]

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1) Terrorists are working to acquire nuclear weapons, and insecurity at the border creates multiple weak points for entry into the United States. Miscalculation and an inability to effectively determine the source lead to escalation and inadvertent nuclear war between great powers like Russia and China. Extend our 1AC ANALYSIS INTELLIGENCE and AYSON evidence.
2) Spill-over violence from failing states is the most likely cause of super terrorism, and has a higher probability than war.
GATES, 10

[Robert, U.S. Secretary of Defense; “Helping Others Defend Themselves,” May/June, http://www.dsca.mil/PressReleases/by-date/2010/Helping_Others_Defend_Themselves-042910.pdf]

In the decades to come, the most lethal threats to the United States' safety and security -- a city poisoned or reduced to rubble by a terrorist attack -- are likely to emanate from states that cannot adequately govern themselves or secure their own territory. Dealing with such fractured or failing states is, in many ways, the main security challenge of our time. For the Defense Department and the entire U.S. government, it is also a complex institutional challenge. The United States is unlikely to re peat a mission on the scale of those in Afghanistan or Iraq anytime soon -- that is, forced regime change followed by nation building under fire. But as the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review recently concluded, the United States is still likely to face scenarios requiring a familiar tool kit of capabilities, albeit on a smaller scale. In these situations, the effectiveness and credibility of the United States will only be as good as the effectiveness, credibility, and sustainability of its local partners.
3) Terror connections in Mexico will exploit weak border cooperation to create attack plans.
WALSER, 10

[Ray, PhD., senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation; “Hezbollah Terrorists On Our Southern Border,” 7/19, http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/07/hezbollah-terrorists-on-our-southern-border]

Hezbollah also would have a natural interest in Mexico’s drug cartels, which account for 90% of the cocaine flowing to more than 240 U.S. cities. The cartels are all-purpose, amoral criminal organizations quick to engage in all things nefarious—from drug dealings to assassinations, kidnapping, and migrant smuggling—provided they’re profitable. If Hezbollah bag men can do business with Mexico’s cartels, so can its trained terrorists. In the fluid, globalized struggle based on the principles of asymmetric warfare, terrorists constantly seek out our vulnerabilities and soft targets. Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) is right to sound an alarm about the Hezbollah threat. The Obama administration must continue to work closely with Mexican authorities to track down any Hezbollah connections. The U.S. should also help stand up Mexico’s professional law enforcement and intelligence collection capabilities. While we may disagree with our southern neighbor on many points, security should not be one of them.

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4) Terrorists are rapidly working on getting nuclear weapons to smuggle across the border from Mexico.
AMERICAN THINKER, 10

[Norah Petersen, “United States is 'Woefully Unprepared' for Nuclear Terrorism,” 9/10,

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/united_states_is_woefully_unpr.html]
Sowell’s fears of a nuclear attack from Iran were at the forefront of his warning; yet, another continual threat which cannot be decoupled from the risk of nuclear terrorism is the crisis of our virtually unguarded border with Mexico. In 2004, Time magazine reported: “Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian who was captured in late August near Pakistan's border with Iran and Afghanistan, has told his interrogators of "al-Qaeda's interest in moving nuclear materials from Europe to either the U.S. or Mexico," according to a report circulating among U.S. government officials. Masri also said al-Qaeda has considered plans to "smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico, then operatives would carry material into the U.S." It is now believed that terrorist at-large, Adnan el-Shukrijumah, may have traveled into the United States via the Mexican border during 2004. A Wall Street Journal op-ed by Representative Jane Harman and Senator Susan Collins related that Shukrijumah is “a trained nuclear technician allegedly tasked by al Qaeda with carrying off an "American Hiroshima” ". The op-ed further stated that Shukrijumah “once sought radioactive material from a university in Ontario, Canada" and that "news reports allege that this was an attempt to construct a dirty bomb.” Unfortunately, despite the danger of nuclear terrorism, little has changed over the years regarding border security, or lack thereof. In August, Investor’s Business Daily reported that illegal immigrants from terrorist-sponsoring countries continually enter the United States through the Mexican border: “In the last three years, the Department of Homeland Security caught and released 481 illegal aliens from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism and "countries of interest," and those 481 are now fugitives. That may seem like a small number out of the thousands that arrive every day, but it took only 19 terrorists to fly passenger jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and target the White House or Congress After a Nigerian passenger dubbed the Christmas Day bomber almost succeeded in blowing up Northwest Flight 253 near Detroit, Nigeria and 13 other countries were put on a list whereby passengers from these countries flying into the U.S. would be subject to extra scrutiny and screening. Ten of these countries —Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen — were defined as "countries of interest." Four others — Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria — are listed as state sponsors of terror. Yet citizens from these countries routinely walk across or are brought across our southern border.” Not only are we “woefully unprepared” for an nuclear attack, we are inexcusably allowing conditions which greatly increase the possibility of one.

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