By Debbie Schlussel

I’m not surprised at all that would-be Federal Reserve Bank of New York bomber Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis came to the United State on a State Department-issued student visa. In 2011, the State Department issued 476,000 student visas, many of them to Muslims, including over 66,000 to Saudi-sponsored Muslim students. Do you think the U.S. government is keeping tabs on all of them or even a sufficient fraction? Think again. But this is part of the Obama-Push ever since 9/11 to increase student and other visas to the U.S. And I’ve written about many Muslim student visa holders also engaged in Islamic terrorism, dry runs, violent crimes, and terrorism recruitment, among other fatal shenanigans. But I’m also not surprised that Nafis had an accomplice in Sand Diego, who was arrested on child pornography charges. Hey, yet again, it’s that “Islamic modesty” that Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby told us about when he had a fit over U.S. interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay. The accomplice and Nafis were allegedly planning to murder Presidenti Obama.

Oh, and remember how Mitt Romney said he would end Islamic extremism by giving Muslims “the dignity of work”? Guess what? Nafis’ family is middle class and his father is a banker, who spent his life’s savings to send his son to school here in America. Not exactly a deprived child, was he? And yet he was ready to blow up plenty of Americans in a bank building and assassinate the President.

One other note: Nafis was working at a Manhattan restaurant. But that’s a violation of his student visa, which forbids employment. How did he get the job? What’s the name of the restaurant? And why did it hire Nafis? Can you imagine if Nafis had decided to poison the food instead (and didn’t tell an FBI informant)?

More:

A man identified as a co-conspirator in an alleged plot to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was taken into custody Wednesday but won’t face terrorism charges, people familiar with the matter said.

The suspect was detained in San Diego in the same Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation that nabbed Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, who was arrested Wednesday after allegedly trying to detonate what he thought was a bomb from a hotel room near the Fed in Manhattan’s Financial District.

The suspected co-conspirator, identified only as “Yaqueen” in a criminal complaint against Mr. Nafis, won’t face terrorism-related charges in part because he was physically far from Mr. Nafis and apparently had little role in the alleged plot. The San Diego man is being investigated for allegedly possessing child pornography, the people said.

Mr. Nafis was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda. He faces life in prison if convicted. He hasn’t entered a plea, and his public defender hasn’t commented.

Mr. Nafis recruited the San Diego man to participate in an attack, communicating over Facebook FB +0.11% about targeting a high-level American public official, according to the complaint. A law-enforcement official said that target was President Barack Obama, but the notion had never risen beyond the level of chatter. . . .

New details of Mr. Nafis’s life emerged Thursday. New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the suspect worked as a busboy in a Manhattan restaurant and lived in Queens.

Again, who is this restaurant owner who illegally employed this Muslim alien? And what is happening to him/her?

Probably nothing. And that’s why employers continue to employ people like him. We’re simply not serious about enforcing immigration law or fighting Islamic terrorists.