Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

President Obama has sought to grant amnesty to aliens through “immigration reform” since he took office, and now he’s apparently ready to get around to that work.

At least, that’s according to Vice President Joe Biden, who told CBS News in a report this week that Obama is “absolutely committed to moving forward.”

Speaking at a Hispanic Heritage Month reception recently, Biden explained Obama’s moves would be political.

“I know you’re all waiting and you’re frustrated,” he said. “Watch when this election is over, watch what happens when all of a sudden (our) friends in the other team realize their prospects for future electoral success hinge upon acting rationally. They will either act rationally, or we will act for them, and if we have to act for them, they will not be around a whole lot longer to act in large numbers.”

But a retired senior special agent for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has called on lawmakers to slow down until some key questions are answered.

How, for example, will the system protect America from “transnational criminals and terrorists,” who “could easily game the legalization process by using a false name”?

“Despite Senate approval of [a] bill last week, these questions have not yet been asked – let alone answered,” wrote Michael W. Cutler in a recent article for the Washington Times.

He pointed out many illegal aliens from Latin American countries falsely claim to be Mexican so they will not be deported to their home countries.

“They calculate they will be simply pushed back into Mexico, where they can easily make another attempt to run the border just hours after the Border Patrol releases them,” he said. “Additionally, we know that there is a growing population of Iranian shock troops arriving in Venezuela each week, and there are also increasing members of Hezbollah present in Latin America.”

WND reported only weeks ago that the Department of Homeland Security confirmed ISIS terrorists could be plotting entry through America’s southern border.

According to a Bloomberg report, Francis Taylor, the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, provided that assessment to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“There have been Twitter and social-media exchanges among ISIL (ISIS) adherents across the globe speaking about that as a possibility,” Taylor said.

A related AP report said Taylor’s assessment included the opinion that ISIS “doesn’t pose an immediate threat,” but the terrorist organization that has bulldozed through Syria and Iraq, setting up what it calls a caliphate, can attack American targets overseas without warning.

Taylor explained during the hearing that ISIS has “capabilities” that most jihadist groups lack.

Taylor’s warning was echoed by Nicholas Rasmussen, the deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who explained that there already have been attacks in France and Belgium by those who have fought with ISIS.

“The United States is not immune,” Rasmussen warned, according to an AP report, because ISIS has been willing to target “apostates” who don’t follow their interpretation of Islam.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney recently said in a Fox News interview near the anniversary of Sept. 11 he is “absolutely certain that someday there will be another mass casualty attack against the United States, except next time they will have far deadlier weapons.”

Last week, Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, said there is a “real and serious threat” of ISIS terrorists gaining entry to the U.S., either through an open border or “loose” visa policies.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told a House hearing he had “reason to believe” four people with “ties to known terrorist organizations in the Middle East” recently were caught trying to cross into the U.S.

A Washington Free Beacon report Thursday said the legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S. hit 41.3 million just last year. The number doubled from 1990 over a time period in which the general population rose just over 20 percent.

The report by the Center for Immigration Studies said the biggest jump was between 2010 and 2013, with an influx of people from the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean.

At the same time, the Washington Times reported immigration from Saudi Arabia, which 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers called home, almost doubled from 2010 to 2013, when nearly 90,000 Saudis came to the U.S. The report said Pakistan and Iraq also saw big increases.

WND also reported a Washington watchdog organization warned there was an ISIS presence in Mexico, just across the border from Texas.

The warning was followed by an increase in security imposed at Fort Bliss, Texas, which analysts suggested indicated an increasing threat.

“It’s a significant issue when this is done,” retired Army Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin said of the higher security measures at Fort Bliss, which is just across the border from Juarez, Mexico

“That means they’re getting a threat stream. Fort Bliss had to have a clear and present threat,” said the former Delta Force commander, who also spent four years as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

Spokesman Lt. Col. Lee Peters said that based on Department of Defense “guidance from recent nationwide incidents and our own internal assessments coupled with recent media reporting, we decided to implement increased security measures on Bliss.”

“These changes are not as a result of a specific threat but rather to simply get prudent security measures in place to protect our military, employees and visitors,” the statement said.

The move was made shortly after Judicial Watch said Islamic terrorist groups are “operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices.”

Judicial Watch said high-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources confirmed that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued.

“Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat,” Judicial Watch said.

The organization said the sources “reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas.”

“Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.”

At the online news source Policy.Mic was the comment, “Forget immigration: The Islamic State may be the best reason yet to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.”

The report noted Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned a Heritage Foundation audience weeks ago that ISIS militants “may have already slipped across the Mexican border.”

While he said there was no clear evidence of terrorists being in the U.S., he said, “I think there is the obvious, great concern that – because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secure and us not knowing who is penetrating across – that individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states could be.”

While many commentators dismissed the idea, the fact that ISIS could be planning a border breach is consistent with what DHS previously reported, Policy.Mic said.

“In 2012, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress that terrorists enter the U.S. from Mexico ‘from time to time.’ And a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office noted that U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoints reported that ‘there were three individuals encountered by the Border Patrol at southwest border checkpoints who were identified as persons linked to terrorism,’ in 2008,” the report said.

One Texas sheriff said he wasn’t really worried about it.

“If there are ISIS fighters that may already be in the United States, or in your area who’ve crossed the border, what’s your message to them?” CNN’s Don Lemon asked Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter.

“If they rear their ugly heads, we’ll send them to hell,” Painter said.

A former top U.S. Defense Department analyst under President Bush says ISIS could use the Mexican border to infiltrate America, and it could happen “sooner rather than later.”

The New York Times reported an estimated 290,000 illegal immigrants, including 52,000 unaccompanied children, have crossed the border illegally in the Rio Grande Valley to cities around the county, just in recent months.

“There are more people coming across the border than we sent to invade France in World War II,” marveled Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, speaking to WND shortly after returning from a tour of the border.

“That is an invasion of our nation, and most of them are coming into Texas,” he said. “We need to take quick action.”