Usually the study is directed toward the criminal aspects of terrorism, which are present in all areas, and into the criminal aspects of illegal immigration. Clearly, migration (regular or not) and criminal activity that may fall under illegal immigration, have a general and wider dimensions than the pure criminal dimension of terrorism. There are related criminal elements in the criminal aspects that are of primarily police interest having a look to the illegal immigration, with all those intrinsically elements belonging to terrorist violence.
In general, both phenomena have as parallel to contain destabilizing elements (further terrorism) for a society. A large number of countries affected, have an impact on governance and others significant social and economic impacts among others, are present in both aspects. Especially whereas in the case of immigration is seen as the constant search for more favorable conditions for those who decide to impose their point of view by violence with terrorism.
To study terrorism and immigration, analyzing its effects with a perspective of one country and one environment, it is logical that within terrorism, has among its forms of action the character of transnational or, more ambitious, globalist, is the root of Islamic terrorism, and consequently it is who has more features and overlap with the activities of immigration.
The latest operations against this scourge have revealed that in the composition of terrorist operational and logistical support of the cells has its origin and links with certain aspects of immigration.
Foreigners, who were part of these cells, the less, had come within the accepted legal quotas or through legal ways.
Many members of extremist cells linked to radical Islamic coming through immigration networks were involved in common crime, including participation in such networks or criminal act in fields related to immigrants smuggling.
The relationship between terrorist activity and crime, with varying degrees of organization, has been most evident in the operations carried out against Islamic terrorism, both common criminals catchment which can provide a profile of aggression and easily manipulation sought by these groups, for use for the terrorist logistics of goods, components and products that are obtained in this criminal activity.
With especial interest are certain aspects of crime that are associated with human trafficking for the organization and survivors of terrorist groups making this form of organized crime, essential for some components associated with criminals. This appears in the orbit Islamic terrorism.
The manipulation of religious beliefs and biased interpretation of reality, or the use and abuse of situations that are presented as intolerable and clearly damaging, are also part of the tactics to employ. In this sense, the creation and management attitudes of racism or xenophobia as an excuse both to recruit or as a justification for action towards different than appear in the background inspired terrorist groups.
There are several examples of people involved in Islamic terrorism that have been presented as though the situation unbearable helplessness and contempt felt by Westerners towards Muslim the absolute impossibility of living for themselves among the ignorant disbelievers true faith.
The situations of oppression and helplessness with which terrorist organizations are playing for handling its militants, or the need to possess and dispose of all assets necessary to carry out a divine mission to establish radical Islam.
Members of the cells are allowed or rather blessed to get anyway regardless of what human laws provide all necessary and available resources to implement its mission and achieve its objectives. Thus, criminal activities, the possibilities for asylum, the use of any tools (Internet, telecommunications, etc.), social or economic aid, are naturally used to acquire financial and logistical resources that support terrorist activity.
Studying the dimensions of the Islamic terrorist phenomenon and its people in our society, there are elements of a repeatedly presented in the individuals and activities related to these cells. It has been appreciated, especially those identified or arrested in Europe related to radical Islamic extremism, which dealt a very high percentage of immigrants who have acquired legal status and are installed, and in many cases integrated in the countries European host. Many have been recruited in the prisons where he there is most criminals or immigration from where there was a marginal situation and proximity to the crime.
In terms of their motivations, combines a radical interpretation of Islam along with other elements of xenophobia, designed to induce desired extremist behavior, submission to the cause and the submission of exclusion and struggle as the holy and only way forward.
In terms of logistics activities in nature, common elements are seen as the use of falsified documents, both to support terrorist activity as their impunity, or the use of regularization processes documentation for any identities and legalize an administrative situation.
Within the use of crime to support terrorist activities is common to find links to drugs and stolen vehicles, weapons and explosives trafficking, among others.
Getting the embrace of radical causes and direct choice of behavior without the jihadists is essential to the nature and expansion of these groups, so that their performance is directed towards the aspects and situations that can accommodate more favorably and incorporate these militants ideas.
Mosques, especially those that are outside the loop of official installations in warehouses or garages, are a preferred venue for recruitment, indoctrination and manipulation that leads to extremism.
Necessarily be a biased interpretation, interested and radical Islam, first fish in these lakes but quickly distanced themselves from them to get the assignment of the subject outside the official doctrines taught in the worship centers, limiting the ability to discern the captured, ensuring cohesion to the group and the doctrine that the radicals have to be true.
This cohesion, indispensable for indoctrination, in depth knowledge of the band members and security and secrecy of their activities, are still held in makeshift places of worship outside the official, while using business, home or any meeting place of immigrants as contact points, host sites and reference.
However, this remoteness of the sites concerned and current official is not complete to ensure everything is framed and conducted in the true religious dimension.
We therefore stress within the profiles of people and activities of Islamic cells that certain behaviors are revealing when establishing a parallel with the criminal aspects of immigration.