Patriot Act snags forumla thief.

baby formula eh...

How'd he manage to resell that? Ok I'm sure there are those idiot parents out there... but seriously, who would by formula off the street??

Do you have any credible sources on this story?

Actually i'm inclined to believe the baby forumla part of it. I used to buy formula off ebay ALL the time. The sellers would openly state the formular was from Wal-Mart. (the formula was still packaged in bulk when i received it)

locked up?! my god that's messed up!!

1) Why is baby-formula so expensive? I bet the profit margins are huge for the makers.

2) This is all a bunch of crap. A lot of illegal immigrants do illegal things - they've already broken border laws to start with. It's a safe bet that a very large percentage of crime rings, great and small, are run by foreigners, and this is true for most western countries.

Now, post 9/11, and despite any claims on the contrary, people of Arabic origin have come under much closer scrutiny than other nationalities - any statistics showing more crime being committed by them would be completely skewed.

And finally, the whole money-wiring deal...whatever. The only reason people like that come to any western country in the first place is to make money, money that feeds and clothes their, usually huge, entire families back home. Even here, with the standard of living not so high, hundreds of millions of dollars are "lost" every year because (we call them "gast arbeiter" ) illegal immigrats are sending the money they earn back home. (How they earn any money is beyond me: they take salaries no one else would touch with a stick, making $100 a month. That's not a lot, but they consider it good money... :?)

But, no, no... I guess I'm completely wrong and the millions of dollars sent to Mexico every year are obviously used to fund Mexican terrorists .

I just read an article about this Mexican teenager who made $16,000 in 3 months by taking 40 people into the US.
Prior to that, he was making $53 a week cutting lettuce.

If they would get a damn work visa or something, they could at least make $5.15 and make a lot more than $53 a week in the US.

My friend has a chinese restaurant in Houston. He bought a large house, employs a bunch of illegal immigrants. He pays them less than he would a normal worker but he bought the house so they could all live there (and he does on occasion when he's in the area.) He's saving thousands per month doing this, buying a house in the process, and has good workers.

I do admit, the ones coming from Mexico are hard workers.. it's too bad they don't realize that they're working hard for nothing when they could be getting so much more.

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Nay. Local police had a warrant on him as a local thief. Then, the next higher warrant was issued when they found out he attended the same mosque as one of the 9/11 hijackers, so they had evidence they knew each other and along with his criminal investigation, they explored more. After that, the Patroit Act was approved and issued on this guy. At that point, they were able to trace he was funding terrorist 'charities' which linked him to the larger picture and a larger rink of formula theft for funding terrorism..

It went step by step up to the point of furhter investigation linking him to funding terrorism.. The Patroit Act wasn't issued on this guy right away.. it came into play after reasonable doubt was founded.

Yeah. I guess the part that he already had a criminal investigation going on takes back seat to the fact he was a Muslim eh?