Just last summer. in Detroit. a Lebanese national named Mahmoud Youssef Kourani. who was in the United States illegally. pled guilty in Federal court to conspiring to raise money for a recognized terrorist group. He was in the United States raising money to fund terrorists. That is outrageous. But what is equally outrageous is how he came into the United States in the first place. Kourani took advantage of our porous border. Kourani paid a Mexican consular official in Beirut $3.000 for a visa to enter Mexico. Once in Mexico. he snuck across the U.S.-Mexican border in 2001 and settled in Michigan. According to Federal prosecutors.