Homeland Insecurity

Washington (CNN) -- Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York's Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says "the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period."

That grim assessment is contained in an unclassified DHS intelligence memo prepared for various law enforcement groups, which says terror groups are expected to try attacks inside the United States with "increased frequency."

CNN obtained a copy of the document, dated May 21, which goes on to warn, "we have to operate under the premise that other operatives are in the country and could advance plotting with little or no warning."

An increased frequency of terror attacks and attempts. Could that be aided and abetted by the porous border to our south, where not everyone is coming here for a better life? (unless you count the 72 virgins!)

Law enforcement in Houston has been asked by U.S. Homeland Security to be on the lookout for a suspected member of an al-Qaida ally, the al-Shabaab group, based in Somalia.

We have an increased frequency of terror activities, and an alert because of an al-Qaida ally is suspected of coming across our open border.

Note to the reality impaired: It's not about race, it's about securing our border.
Always has been.