Lebanese immigrants from all over Tijuana flocked to the café under the sign with the cedar tree, the emblem of their home country. There they would find Salim Boughader Mucharrafille—the café owner who drove a Mercedes and catered to some of Tijuana’s most affluent denizens, including workers at the U.S. Consulate just a short stroll away. Behind all this facade, however, the savvy boss of La Libanesa cafe ran a less reputable business on the side.

Until the day he was arrested in December 2002, Boughader smuggled about 200 of his Lebanese compatriots across the border into the United States. Many of them were members or supporters of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah. One client who was smuggled into America even worked for a Hezbollah-owned television network that glorifies suicide bombers and is on an American terror watch list.

The most disturbing part about this smuggling operation is that it wasn’t unique. Boughader may have been locked up, yet the threat posed by Hezbollah-affiliated migrants crossing the border into the U.S. has never been more serious.

Former chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Michael Braun, has confirmed that Hezbollah has formed a partnership with the drug cartels in Mexico and is using the cartel smuggling routes to get people and contraband into the U.S.

“They work together,” Braun told the Washington Times. “They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected.”

Braun’s comments were confirmed by six other American officials, including law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism specialists.

The smuggling routes used by the Mexican drug lords are growing more sophisticated as more money pours into their hands from American drug users. Some cross-border tunnels are now located nine stories underground and equipped with lighting, ventilation and groundwater drainage systems. Hezbollah agents are infiltrating the U.S. through these organized smuggling routes. This is a major national security threat to America.

The leaders in Iran are cooperating with populist demagogues in Latin American countries like Venezuela and Bolivia in an attempt to undermine America. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2006, he embraced him and saluted “all revolutionaries who oppose world hegemony.” Yet, as the National Review Online reports, “The public love-fest between Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is just the tip of a sinister iceberg.”

Weekly flights between Iran and Venezuela are not monitored for personnel or cargo. It was this type of negligence that turned the Beirut International Airport into a terrorist hub in the late 1980s. Turkish customs officials found lab equipment for making explosives in a container labeled “tractor parts” en route from Iran to Venezuela earlier this year. What other deadly shipments have the Iranians sent to America’s southern neighbors that have not been intercepted?

“We have seen … an increase in a wide level of activity by the Iranian government in this region,” Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who oversees U.S. military interests in the region as head of U.S. Southern Command, said last month. “That is a concern principally because of the connections between the government of Iran, which is a state sponsor of terrorism, and Hezbollah.”

Connect the dots and it becomes apparent that the mullahs of Iran are cooperating with the caudillos of Latin America in order to get aid and supplies to the Hezbollah operatives stationed in the region. These Hezbollah agents in turn are cooperating with local drug cartel networks as a means of raising funds and getting into the U.S. undetected.

According to Braun, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have also recently been showing up in Latin America. “Quite frankly, I’m not opposed to the belief that they could be commanding and controlling Hezbollah’s criminal enterprises from there,” he said.

So far, there has been no major Hezbollah-initiated terrorist strike on American soil. Yet, just as Iran directed Hezbollah to hold off from joining the Hamas-led offensive against Israel last January, so Iran could be directing Hezbollah to hold off on any strike against America until other things are in place. This much is for certain: Hezbollah operatives have infiltrated the U.S. by using drug cartel smuggling routes, and these operatives want to see America fall.

Iran has the capacity to unleash a massive wave of suicide strikes and terrorist attacks against America. This would in turn unleash untold social chaos across the nation.

For more information on this scenario and how you can escape it, read Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet by Gerald Flurry.