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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “Immigration Wars,” which took place at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Sen. Jeff Sessions:</strong> For 40 years really, the American people have been right and just in pleading with their Congress to create a lawful system of immigration that&#8217;s fairly enforced and that serves the national interest.  It&#8217;s the politicians and the establishment that one time after another, that it always succeeded somehow in keeping the will of the people from being effectuated.  It&#8217;s just amazing.  I said in 2007 we&#8217;d offer amendments and they would offer things that would pass and we&#8217;d offer things, it wouldn&#8217;t pass, and I finally realized this was the test.  If it worked they wouldn&#8217;t pass it.  If it wouldn&#8217;t work, they&#8217;d pass it.  You&#8217;ve seen that, Louie, I know, and the bills that come through. If they&#8217;re moving and got a lot of support you&#8217;d read it carefully and there&#8217;s one loop hole after another and it doesn&#8217;t work.  So first the American people are right, decent and just in making that demand of their government.</p>
<p>Are we a sovereign nation or not?  A sovereign nation controls its borders.  If you have laws it should set forth criteria for entry that are objective and ascertainable and they ought to be followed.  People who apply that don&#8217;t qualify should not get in, and those who qualify should get in.  This is the right way America&#8217;s always thought about its business, and that&#8217;s the way we ought to do now, and that&#8217;s the biggest problem we&#8217;ve got.</p>
<p>The executive amnesty is one of the most breathtaking things I&#8217;ve seen since I&#8217;ve been in Washington.  I do believe it is a constitutional crisis.  It&#8217;s an overreach.  It&#8217;s an attempt by the President to do what a lot of liberal federal judges used to do.  This is the way they explain it.  Well, Congress won&#8217;t act, so I have to act.  When if Congress votes and rejects a bill, it is active.  It has made a decision.  This idea that just because you won&#8217;t pass the bill I want I&#8217;m now able to do it through my executive powers, is so far from the heritage of America, the constitutional order that we&#8217;re so proud of and served us so well is just beyond my comprehension.  So I hope people will push back on that.</p>
<p>So in the first executive amnesty that we probably did not hammer enough with the American people, the people that were here illegally now up to 30/31 years of age, they are given an I.D. card with a Social Security number and it says work authorization across the top of it.  Now the law of the United States is you enter the country unlawfully businesses cannot hire you, they commit an offense, and you&#8217;re not able to work.  Simple enough, first thing you do is you come to a country illegally you don&#8217;t let people start extracting money from the country and so that deal was a presidential overreach, really.  Because the President doesn&#8217;t have the power to authorize somebody to work in contravention of established law passed by the Congress of the United States.  He&#8217;s the chief executive officer.  He&#8217;s supposed to see the laws are enforced, not violate them by the millions, and now he&#8217;s talking about 5 to 6 million more, all of which would put us in a position I think of just collapsing any moral integrity that we have in the legal system.</p>
<p>So if the President, the chief executive, the prosecutor appoints immigration officers and ICE officers, if he just basically says, not only are we not going to deport anybody anymore, we are just gonna give you the right to work in the country, then I think we&#8217;ve reached a point in immigration law that&#8217;s really dangerous.  I just think it&#8217;s, the American people that need to know the enormity of it. And what about the people who didn&#8217;t get it? So there&#8217;s 11 million here, and now we do 5.  Is anybody going to deport the other 5 million?  Oh, you didn&#8217;t get in somehow, you didn&#8217;t make the cut?  There&#8217;s no plan to deport anybody else.  They&#8217;re not going to deport anybody else.</p>
<p>Then finally I would mention this point, and the polling data is very strong on it. Asked a simple question.  Should, at a time of high unemployment, millions of people unemployed, should we attempt to get our people working rather than bringing in people from abroad to take the jobs?  And this is an 80 percent polling number.  I mean we&#8217;ve got to get our people working.  Wages are down since 2000, wages are down about $3,000.00, median household income, $2,300.00 for a family since 2009.  This is not a healthy trend out there.  Dr. Borjas at Harvard has studied this meticulously and has demonstrated how much of that was caused by this very large, unprecedented historically, flow of immigrants into our country.  We are at about the highest level we have ever been and it&#8217;s continuing upward.  So I wanted to say that.</p>
<p>Republicans stopped it.  Not all Republicans, but Republicans did stop it.  You guys in the House, Louie and John, and the others were just heroic because they were trying to pass this thing and they just stood up and read the bill, fought back and were able to stop it right before we recessed for the election and I pleaded with them to also pass language that would block funding to execute the executive amnesty.  So you have to have money to buy I.D. cards, to process all these people.  Congress has the power of the purse.  We barred the President from spending any money to close Guantanamo Bay and he can&#8217;t close Guantanamo Bay because it cost money to close it.  And we do that all the time, every defense bill has things in it like that and other bills to do too, so we should simply say to the President &#8212; so the House passed it right before they left and I think it was a significant factor in the Senate elections that our candidates were demanding of Democrats, why are you blocking simple legislation that would block this President from executing an unlawful order?  And that exit polling that Louie mentioned showed that 80 percent of the American people opposed executive amnesty, who voted in this last election. 80 percent. And so the way it would work in my mind, you fund an entire government of the United States or a portion of it and you simply say also, but you can&#8217;t spend any money to execute the President&#8217;s dream of unlawful amnesty.</p>
<p>Finally it was a near run thing, Louie.  I really think it would have been bad, bad, bad had that bill passed without other things happening as it did on the your, and John&#8217;s leadership and others over there.  It was a battle, there was a lot of courage, there was a lot of pressure came on.  The last day they made Congress stay another day, people had their planes hooked up ready to fly and you all just shut it down and helped, I believe, put us in a position to preserve the rule of law.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Thank you, Senator.  Congressman Fleming</p>
<p><strong>Rep. John Fleming: </strong>Yes, thank you.  It was great to be with you here for my first freedom session.  First word about my two friends and colleagues to my left, Louie Gomer talks about speaking truth to power but trust me I&#8217;ve been there many times.  He really does speak truth to power.  Yeah, absolutely.  Sometimes I slink down because I&#8217;m afraid something&#8217;s going to get thrown, but he&#8217;s very courageous when it comes to that, and his great leadership.  He really does, he&#8217;s often times, may times, if not all the time, ahead of many of us in the House when it comes to where we&#8217;re going and what we need to do to stop that forward motion.  Senator Sessions, vanguard on this and many other subjects, if you know anybody from Alabama you know just how highly respected Jeff Sessions is, so much so that I believe you didn&#8217;t have an opponent for your recent reelection.  And members of the House, and I have a lot of good friends from Alabama, we kind of work together as kind of a southeastern &#8212; they all look to Jeff Sessions for leadership, so he continues to be a vanguard on this and many other issues.</p>
<p>You may recall Milton Friedman, the famous 20<sup>th</sup> century economist.  He really said it best.  He said you can have open borders, but you can&#8217;t have a welfare system.  Now you can have a welfare system but you can&#8217;t have open borders, and that&#8217;s playing out today because really these were no problems until our welfare system, the infrastructure was put in place about 1965.  That&#8217;s when we began to have border problems.  Now it&#8217;s true that we all come from immigrants in one or way another, but the way it worked traditionally in America is it was the best and the brightest.  The people who were willing to take the risk who came here for greater opportunity, and still many do.  But what we also find is two important factors.  No. 1, if they don&#8217;t find that opportunity they find a very comfortable safety net system here, upon which to stay.  The other thing is that folks who immigrate here today, most of them come from countries where they look to the government.  That&#8217;s their tradition, is the government takes care of him.  Now when it destroys their civilization, when it destroys their economy, they look for another place to go and where do they come? They come here.  But then what you see is a progressive lowered standard of living.  Well, have we have seen that?  Well look at California today.  California today is not the California that we knew a generation ago and it&#8217;s going down rapidly, so these are all important factors.</p>
<p>Now Senator Sessions, we are pretty sure, is going to be our next budget chairman in the Senate and he will tell you that back in 1997 when we had the last balanced budget, two thirds of our budget was discretionary spending.  That is what we plan to spend each year on defense and on our agencies and departments out there, things that we could cut spending or increase spending from year to year.  Only a third was what we call automatic pilot spending, which is of course entitlement spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and all of these things.  Today it&#8217;s reverse.  It&#8217;s almost two thirds built in infrastructure spending which we can&#8217;t change from year to year and the other third is discretionary and it&#8217;s shrinking rapidly.  The point being that if you were entitled to a benefit we have to pay you whether we have the money or not.  We don&#8217;t plan that spending and so if we continue to grow our entitlement society we will eventually completely displaces discretionary spending and our ability to amount a defense, a common defense and to operate our government.  Remember we&#8217;re $18 trillion in debt and so there&#8217;s no way we can have open borders, accepting peoples with our arms open, allowing them then to fall back on our safety net system and think that we&#8217;re ever, ladies and gentlemen, going to balance our budget.  It just isn&#8217;t going to happen.  So it&#8217;s important that we get honest about the situation.  We do have a right to have sovereign borders; we do have a right to ask of people who come here that they carry their own weight.  Otherwise this nation, as we know it, not because we dislike them, not because we&#8217;re xenophobic, but only because there&#8217;s only so much taxpayers can do to support people from other nations who come here.  Many of them now when they come they refuse to learn our culture, they refuse to learn our language, they refuse to have or build the skills necessary to be successful in America. And as a result of that, that&#8217;s just an economic reality we have to understand, and if we&#8217;re going to remain the only super power in the world and our rightful place in leadership around the world, for what is good and what is generous, and to keep this world a peaceful place, we can&#8217;t allow our economic situation and the opportunities that come from that to diminish.</p>
<p>So I look forward to responding to questions as well but I think it&#8217;s important that we understand that there really is a serious economic issue behind this that even Republicans seem unable to understand.  I understand why Democrats want to do this.  Because as immigrants come into this country, they&#8217;re going to vote.  Usually they&#8217;re going to vote two to one Democrat.  I understand why they do it.  I don&#8217;t understand why Republicans want open borders and amnesty.  We hear that maybe it&#8217;s the Chamber of Commerce that somehow businesses want cheaper labor.  I&#8217;m a business owner; I have 500 employees still today in my private business.  I can tell you I&#8217;m not interested in that.  I want to have good American workers who are skilled and trained.</p>
<p>And finally I will tell you that we actually had a debate about a year ago.  Cato Institute said that it&#8217;s going to help our economy to really have open borders and amnesty.  Okay fine, then Robert Rector, who as you may recall from the Heritage Foundation, the guy who led the effort to put work requirements into Welfare, Welfare reform under Clinton that really dramatically improved the situation in those days, which since have been wiped away by President Obama.  And we have a debate between the two and Robert Rector went through line by line and in great detail to show how open borders are going to destroy our economy and our future and our opportunities that we hope are going to leave a better nation to our children.  The Cato Institute every time their answer was this, we have computer models that tell us that it&#8217;s going to make our economy better.  Well folks you can make a computer model say anything you want, it&#8217;s always garbage in and garbage out.  So once again thank you and I look forward to this important discussion.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>Thank you Congressman.  And Mike Cutler</p>
<p><strong>Michael Cutler: </strong>It&#8217;s absolutely a pleasure to be here and a privilege to share the stage with three true leaders in the Congress.  For all the complaints we hear about Congress we do have some real good guys and Jeff Sessions in particular.  I&#8217;m going to tell a quick anecdote and then we&#8217;re going to get into what I want to say, but after 911 I started doing everything in my power to try to wake people up to the immigration issues, the immigration component to the terror attacks.  The ashes landed on my home.  My neighbors died and I had testified four and a half years earlier before a House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on the nexus between visa fraud, immigration benefit fraud and terrorism.  Yes we had two terror attacks in &#8217;93 and it was because of those two failures of the immigration system that those attacks were possible.  And my wife and I &#8212; as you know, if you&#8217;re married you know how the back and forth goes &#8212; kept thinking, well, what are you doing? You&#8217;re spending all this time and effort and it&#8217;s going nowhere.</p>
<p>And I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times back in &#8217;07 that I had testified before three House and one Senate hearing about comprehensive reform.  And I wrote a commentary with bleary eyes and I decided to rename it.  I&#8217;m working on my candor, but you tell me if I&#8217;m being successful.  I called it the &#8220;Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act.&#8221;  I think we&#8217;re getting somewhere but I think Senator Sessions liked it so much that he quoted me on three separate occasions.  The last time you did this, Senator, I got a frantic phone call from one of the 911 family members, a former New York City police officer whose son-in-law was obliterated on 911.  I&#8217;m getting a little choked up.  He said Mike, quick, put the TV on and go to C-SPAN.  I said, Bruce, I&#8217;m in my car, I can&#8217;t.  He said shut up and listen and he held the phone next to his TV and there was Senator Sessions from the floor of the United States Senate quoting me by name, urging his colleagues to take my advice and telling them that I had referred to comprehensive reform as the &#8220;Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act.&#8221;  My wife gets into the car, I&#8217;m in Brooklyn, and she looks at me and says, &#8220;Are you okay?&#8221;  I said, &#8220;Why?&#8221;  She said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen that weird look on your face.&#8221;  I said, &#8220;You mean more than usual?&#8221; and she said, &#8220;What happened?&#8221; and I told her the story, and a couple of days later &#8212; so many people love to plagiarize and we&#8217;ve all experienced it, but not Senator Sessions.  This man is a class act from square one to whatever square you want to go to, sent me a certificate to commemorate this.  So this package comes, my wife opens it, it&#8217;s from Washington and her eyes get bigger and bigger and bigger and she turns to me and says, &#8220;My gosh, do you see what this is?&#8221;  I said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;  I said, &#8220;Are we done arguing?&#8221;  She said, &#8220;Yes,&#8221; and she ran out and framed it and it hangs on the wall in my home and I want to thank you for that, Senator.  So when I heard I was going to be here and I heard that Senator Sessions was going to be here, I said, &#8220;Well, I hope I get to see him,&#8221; never thinking that I would have the privilege of sharing the stage with these three amazing leaders, so I thank all of you for all your dedication and hard work on our behalf.</p>
<p>Our immigration laws are not a single issue, but a singular issue because they impact every challenge and threat that America faces today.  I started working for the INS in 1971 as an immigration inspector at Kennedy Airport.  Did that job for four years, for one of the four years I was assigned as an adjudications officer doing the marriage interviews, like you&#8217;ve seen in the movies. And when I worked with the law firm retained by Governor Jan Brewer to defend that state against the outrageous lawsuit over SB1070, I said that for that four-year period that I had that inspector&#8217;s badge I had my eye to the peep hole on America&#8217;s front door.  Houses come equipped with doorbells, peepholes and door locks so we make certain not to allow people into our homes to pose a threat to our safety or wellbeing.  Why in the world shouldn&#8217;t the United States as a minimum do that for us and our nation today?</p>
<p>I happen to be registered as a Democrat, I&#8217;ve always voted as an Independent.  I think anybody who votes a straight party line without paying attention to who the person is, is an idiot.  I have campaigned for conservative Republicans.  I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re with the Hopping Kangaroo Party, there&#8217;s only one question for me in this day and age.  Do you stand with America and do you stand with Americans?  I became a special agent in 1975.  In 1976 I tripped over a PLO plot to blow up an Israel oil refinery.  Thank God we prevented it.  For the balance of my career I had a wonderful relationship with the Israeli National Police.  It was my introduction to the nexus between immigration and international terrorism.  1988 I was assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of DEA as the first INS agent assign to that position and in &#8217;91 I became a senior special agent with the Drug Task Force, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force.  I spent the next ten years there.  And I want you to understand something, with all the nonsense about the arrest statistics &#8212; I was on with Neil Cavuto and Neil said, &#8220;Well, if arrests are down it means that there&#8217;s fewer here,&#8221; and on and on and on.  I said, Neil, I don&#8217;t trust the arrest statistics and it&#8217;s just not the Mexican border.  I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re so fixated on that one border.  I wrote an article for Front Page Magazine.  I&#8217;m honored to be a columnist for Front Page, and I called the border security the immigration colander.  This notion that if we halfway, kind of, sort of plug one hole in the bottom of the colander that you use to drain pasta that now we can use it as a bucket to carry water is nuts.  We are a country of 50 border states.  In fact there&#8217;s an excellent film that just came out by the Tea Party Patriots.  I&#8217;m very pleased to be in it, Jeff Session, Louie Gohmert are also in that film, and it&#8217;s called the &#8220;Border States of America,&#8221; and they borrowed my tag line, the subtitle is &#8220;Every State is Now a Border State.&#8221;  See, we have 50 border states.  Any state with an international airport, any state that has access to our coastline, any state that lies along the northern or southern borders are all border states.  Now when aliens run our borders they don&#8217;t come by the way Neil Armstrong went to the moon.  They&#8217;re not coming to stand on our side of the border, plant a flag, grab a couple of rocks and go home.  They&#8217;re headed for the rest of the country, and people that are evading the inspection process know they&#8217;re excludable, and we&#8217;ll get into it in one moment about who we&#8217;re trying to exclude and who we&#8217;re supposed to exclude, but I said to Neil, this notion of figuring out who&#8217;s here based on arrest statistics is kind of like trying to take attendance by asking people not present to raise their hand.  It doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>You want to know if the border is secure, do you want a really great solid metric that can&#8217;t be screwed around with?  Look at the price and availability of heroin and cocaine. Those poisons are not produced inside the United States.  Every gram of heroin, every gram of cocaine present in the United States provides graphic evidence of a failure of border security and they fund the cartels, the proceeds, those proceeds fund terrorism.  Those proceeds are funding the people who want us destroyed and those drugs are a big part of the violent crime we&#8217;re facing in cities across America and in destruction of American lives. So let&#8217;s come back to a primary idea.  America&#8217;s immigration laws and America&#8217;s borders exist for two primary reasons.  Protect innocent lives and the jobs of American workers.  What is unreasonable about that?  And now you mention the 911 Commission, so I want to read two quick sentences, and this is from the 911 Commission Staff Report on terrorist travel, and you should know that I provided testimony to the 911 Commission.  I&#8217;ve arrested several terrorist in my career in fact.  This is to be found in the preface, the very beginning of the 911 Commission Staff Report.  These are the agents and attorneys who worked with the 911 Commission.  It starts out by saying,</p>
<blockquote><p>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country.  Yet prior to September 11 while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal.  Indeed even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. Visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy.  We believe for reasons that we discussed in the following pages that it must be made one.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now I want you to know on 911 there were 26 visa waiver countries.  They warned us that the way that visas were processed created vulnerabilities.  Today we have 38 visa waiver countries. Chili became number 38 March 31 of this year in large measure of pressure being applied by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they created a program known as the Discover America Partnership.  They&#8217;ve joined with hotel hospitality travel industries, and they&#8217;re pushing for it and they&#8217;re spending a ton of money.  Isn&#8217;t it nice to know that the people responsible for room service are now making national security decisions for the United States of America?  Think about it.</p>
<p>Now this is on Page 98 of that 911 Commission Staff Report:</p>
<blockquote><p>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or imbed themselves in the United States if they&#8217;re operational plans were to come to fruition.  As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status [think of the DREAMers] or applying for asylum after entering.  In many cases the act of filing for immigration benefits sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated.  Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials and execute an attack.</p></blockquote>
<p>The DREAMers are not even being interviewed, folks.  We&#8217;re giving identity documents to people who could be as old as 31 years of age and the magic word is &#8220;I came in when I was 15.&#8221;  They&#8217;re in.  There&#8217;s no field investigations. What could possibly go wrong? Please understand what we&#8217;re talking about. And when I&#8217;m accused of being anti-immigrant I&#8217;ll end by saying this, and I hope you guys have some great questions so we can go further with the conversation, but let me tell you something: If you look at how bad it is right now, if we go down this path of providing these documents and we allow ourselves to be intimidated &#8212; when people say to me you&#8217;re anti-immigrant, there&#8217;s a very easy answer.  I am pro enforcement.  The same laws that tell us who to kick out and who to keep out also tell us who to let in.  Every year this country admits more than a million lawful immigrants, more than the rest of the world combined.  Every year this year provides naturalization, citizenship, to more than a half-million new citizens.  These are the laws that I support, that I enforced and administered for 30 years.  How in the world can you be anti-immigrant when you support the laws by which we admit more immigrants legally than the rest of the world and we are now admitting more foreign workers legally entitled to work in the United States each month than the number of new jobs we&#8217;re creating?  My suggestion is this, rather than create jobs, we need to liberate our jobs and get Americans back to work.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. Louie Gohmert: </strong>I can&#8217;t emphasize it enough. You heard me, you&#8217;ve heard everybody up here.  John Fleming and I border, we share the Louisiana-Texas line and he&#8217;s an MD. Wouldn&#8217;t you have loved to have a doctor with his demeanor?  He&#8217;s brilliant.  His integrity is impeccable.  You&#8217;ll never tempt him to break his word, to be dishonest, and I can&#8217;t tell you what an honor it is to serve with a guy like that.  Just methodical, brilliant and impeccable integrity.  And then Mike has said many times, and it&#8217;s caught on big, but every state is a border state, and some of us, I think everybody up here, is pushing to have an analysis done of the enterovirus strain, that all of a sudden just appeared in all these different states at the same time.  It happened to be states where ironically our health and human services department shipped people without proper bedding medically all over the country and then all of sudden this enterovirus that&#8217;s killed more people in the U.S. than Ebola.  It is a danger, and then quickly, just so you understand, even though we have a lawless President, there are people that believe in following the law that are still able to come up with ways to enforce it around our President.  Spent many days and nights on the border in the last months, and you&#8217;ve seen on the news there&#8217;s a place, Anzalduas Park, south of McCallen.  There&#8217;s a big park on the Mexican side, a park on the American side, and people buy guys on jet skis to bring them across, and I&#8217;ve seen several guys do that.  The last one was a Chinese national.  Why he was there, but anyway, he paid them to bring them across.  But each time they come across a constable &#8212; they don&#8217;t come if they see any border patrol trucks or anything, but they come across and then all of a sudden the constable appears and arrests them.  And so I asked the constable, I&#8217;ve seen you do this a number of times.  You know after the Supreme Court case in Arizona, case said you can&#8217;t, local and state law enforcement, can&#8217;t enforce federal law.  I&#8217;m thrilled that you&#8217;re doing that &#8212; and they turn them over to the border patrol &#8212; but what&#8217;s your basis since the Supreme Court said that?  And the constable said, &#8220;Did you pay $4.00 to get in the park?&#8221; and I said, &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; and he said they didn&#8217;t, they&#8217;re trespassing.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>Thank you, Congressman Gohmert.  We&#8217;re going to start the questions.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>I&#8217;m Bob Lawn. I&#8217;m from California, and my question is, just direct to the panel is, I&#8217;d like to, instead of talking about policy, I agree with policy, but I&#8217;d like you to talk about strategy.  We know that Barrack Obama doesn&#8217;t care about policy.  He only cares about winning the presidency for the next Democrat and that the reason that he&#8217;s doing what he&#8217;s doing is to activate the Hispanic base &#8217;cause he knows that they often don&#8217;t vote, but the one thing that activates them is that you can, everybody&#8217;s distracted by this issue, and I wonder what things can be done by Republicans to strategically tell people in the Hispanic base or find ways to counter his tactics in this situation?  He knows that we will come in and talk policy and do what we do in order to turn off that base.  Are there ways for us to let the Hispanic American voters who have Hispanic heritage know that we care about them and kind of counter what he&#8217;s trying to do?</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>And just again to save time I&#8217;m going to ask our Republican Congressmen and Senator here to caucus and pick one of them to answer that question, just to save time.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. John Fleming: </strong>Apparently I&#8217;ve been chosen for that.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Cutler: </strong>Congatulations.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. John Fleming: </strong>Let me first of all say that the thing we haven&#8217;t done as Republicans and what we should do really as Americans is attack the myth that we have to be pro-amnesty, pro-open borders in order to win elections.  The data doesn&#8217;t support that.  Even when you, and Louie was quoting this a few moments ago, if you ask the immigrants, people who are here already, they don&#8217;t want to be displaced by other immigrants.  What&#8217;s important to them is again kitchen-table issues just like everything else, so somehow somebody has gotten into the heads of Republicans, again I told you, Democrats, we know why they&#8217;re doing what they&#8217;re doing, but we need to get Republicans turned around on this issue to say look, this is not popular with the American people, it&#8217;s not even popular with recent immigrants and that what we really need is, again, a nation where people can have jobs and an economy again and get off this idea that we have to have open borders to win elections and that we&#8217;ll never get a President again.  That is absurd, folks.  Just look at the pyramid we have today.  We have more Governors, more State Houses than we&#8217;ve ever had in probably a hundred years.  We have the largest House majority than we&#8217;ve had since 1929 or 8, it depends on what number you land on, and in the Senate we&#8217;ve regained just in a few short years.  The American people are with us on these issues. &#8230; I&#8217;ll toss this, but I really think that&#8217;s a myth.  I think that people of color are with us as well.  We just don&#8217;t recognize it.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Cutler: </strong>I just want to take 30 seconds.  You know it&#8217;s amazing that the same journalists who jump up and down and talk about race, politics and police officers that profile, when you can say that everybody who&#8217;s last name is Rodriguez thinks and votes the same way, or every Jew thinks and votes &#8212; I&#8217;m Jewish.  I get crazy when I hear this.  It&#8217;s an insidious form of racism and profiling and they need to be talked about, and by the way, immigration laws don&#8217;t distinguish by race, ethnicity or religion and the members of the ethnic immigrant communities, Russian, Asian, Latino, Caribbean, doesn&#8217;t matter, they&#8217;re at the greatest risk from illegal immigration because that&#8217;s where the gangsters and the fugitives set up shop, set up houses of prostitution and peddle narcotics.  If you want to win their votes, tell them the truth, that this is about protecting them.  The grounds for exclusion are aliens with dangerous diseases, mental illness, convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, spies and terrorists.  Who do you want living next door to you if we fail on that mission?</p>
<p><strong>Louie Gohmert: </strong>During those nights I&#8217;ve spent down on the border, I was talking to an Hispanic Border Patrolman, and this is follow up to what you&#8217;re saying, and you&#8217;ve heard there are so many tens of thousands of children that come across unaccompanied &#8212; not a single child, young child, ever comes across unaccompanied. I&#8217;ve watched them separate after they get over to our side, but they don&#8217;t cross that river unaccompanied. But this Border Patrolman said we&#8217;ve got all these form questions we ask, and he said, I will ask, we&#8217;re supposed to ask, why did you leave your home country, Guatemala, El Salvador, and come here, and he said over 90 percent of the time they say to get away from gang violence. And he said since I speak better Spanish than a lot of them I don&#8217;t let them get away with it and I bear down on them and I say, now you may find some Gringo that buys that stuff, but you and I, you paid a gang to bring you into this country, so don&#8217;t tell me you came to escape gang violence, and he said then of those 90 percent that say that, 90 percent of them say well, you&#8217;re right, but we were told to say we&#8217;re coming to escape gang violence.  They know the game and we need to get engaged.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>Thank you Congressman and thank you everybody for attending today.</p>
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		<title>Amnesty Showdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will the GOP respond to Obama's executive power grab? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-immigration.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246550" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-immigration-401x350.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="343" height="299" /></a>On Tuesday, Republicans <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/01/Scalise-Boosts-Yoho-Bill"><span style="color: #1255cc;">met</span></a> behind closed doors to plot their response to President Obama’s unilateral decision to grant de facto amnesty and work permits to five million illegal aliens. That response centers around the House’s control of government spending, and according to sources that contacted Breitbart news, the GOP rank-and-file will be setting the agenda. “It&#8217;s not just for show,” said Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ). “[Party leaders] don&#8217;t want to get something to the floor and then have some big rebellion, they really want to get it right the first time. And they&#8217;ve learned the hard way that the way to do that is to build everything from the bottom up instead of shoving it from the top down.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A number of different options are being considered, but all of them are seemingly aimed at avoiding a government shutdown. That’s because a government shutdown of any kind, regardless of who initiated it, is invariably blamed on the GOP, according to inside-the-beltway thinking.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Columnist Charles Krauthammer <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/01/krauthammer-to-gop-see-a-psychiatrist-for-rage-over-exec-amnesty-dont-vote-for-govt-shutdown-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">illuminated</span></a> that reasoning Monday on Fox’s “Special Report” with Bret Baier. &#8220;There’s reality, and there’s the way reality is reported in the media,” he explained.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">We know that you’re right, if there were a government shutdown under these circumstances, it would be Obama being the one shutting it down with a veto. However, we also know that as night follows day, it will be reported everywhere as a Republican shutdown and they will suffer as they suffered last October, 2013, and it was a disaster. Republicans are finally ahead of Democrats in the poll about who do you favor, and this would be the worst time to blow it.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">However, one cannot discount the impact the previous government shut down had on the 2014 elections &#8212; which was seemingly not very much. The GOP <a href="http://www.electionprojection.com/2014-elections/races/2014-senate-races.php"><span style="color: #1255cc;">picked</span></a> up at least 8 Senate seats to capture a majority and 11 House seats to strengthen one.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On the other hand, there is little doubt the media would indeed blame Republicans for any shutdown. Most Republicans apparently understand this and were said to be discussing a normal “omnibus” spending bill, a hybrid “cromnibus” bill that provides a temporary funding extension for immigration, and a number of options for each. The omnibus part of the package would fund most of the government at current spending levels for ten months through September 15, while the cromnibus portion provides the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the government agency that oversees service related to immigration, funding for only a few months. House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) envisions a <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/225690-boehner-backs-two-step-plan"><span style="color: #1255cc;">two-step</span></a> process for passage, holding a vote on the omnibus bill this week, and the cromnibus bill next week.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One of the options being considered was introduced late last month by staunch conservative Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL). The sophomore lawmaker <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/20/Republicans-Leave-Town-Without-A-Plan-To-Fight-Obama"><span style="color: #1255cc;">proposed</span></a> a bill that would rescind the discretion by the executive branch to exempt entire categories of illegal aliens from prosecution and deportation. Though the gesture is chiefly symbolic, Boehner and other GOP leaders have reportedly embraced it as a way to simultaneously assuage conservative GOPers concerns with Obama’s unconstitutional overreach, and move them away from demanding a government shutdown.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In addition, Salmon wants to add language to the omnibus bill preventing the president from issuing work visas to illegals. It is an omnibus package House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said would include 11 appropriation bills, with the separate funding for the DHS maintained on a continuing resolution (CR) that would last until “sometime in March.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Time is of the essence. The current emergency funding keeping the government open expires on Dec. 11, giving the GOP six more days to get their strategic ducks in a row. And despite their cleverness, they still must contend with the reality that outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will scuttle any effort that would accrue to the GOP’s benefit. While Reid <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-gop-unveils-omnibus-plan-to-keep-immigration-pressure-on-obama-20141202"><span style="color: #1255cc;">agreed</span></a> to consider a spending package that only funds DHS through March, he said he would only do so if the deal didn’t include any riders unacceptable to his party.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Reid stood in stark contrast to the position taken by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. She insisted it would be &#8220;dangerous and irresponsible to engage in stunts and gimmicks affecting funding for the agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.” She was echoed by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, who testified at a House hearing Tuesday morning. He claimed temporary funding would make it harder to run his department in an efficient manner. As for Obama, White House Press Secretary John Earnest said the president would prefer a bill covering all spending for the entire year. But he <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/us-usa-congress-shutdown-boehner-idUSKCN0JG1MH20141202"><span style="color: #1255cc;">refused</span></a> to say whether the president would veto a bill with short-term funding for the DHS.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Both Houses of Congress are scheduled to go on recess December 12, but Reid <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/225597-reid-senate-might-work-the-week-before-christmas"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> the Senate that it might be necessary to extend their time in Washington through Dec. 19. “We have a lot to do and not a lot of time to accomplish it,” Reid said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One effort is aimed at passing a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-divided-over-renewing-tax-breaks-1417481046"><span style="color: #0433ff;">short-term extension</span></a> of approximately 50 tax breaks benefiting businesses, individuals and nonprofits. The vast majority of them expired at the end of 2013. The extension would last only until the end of the year, but that would allow those breaks to be claimed during next year’s tax-preparation period. The move was precipitated by a veto threat from Obama, <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/225584-house-moves-toward-vote-on-expired-tax-breaks"><span style="color: #1255cc;">undermining</span></a> a two-year, $400 billion deal being worked out between Reid and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI). It would have extended some of those tax breaks for two years and others indefinitely. “We were making really good progress until the president issued a veto threat,” Camp said Monday. “That brought a halt to everything,”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Obama objected to the deal because he considered it too favorable to business, and because it failed to extend an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit set to expire in 2017. The GOP contends those tax breaks have been illegally exploited by taxpayers and illegal aliens fraudulently claiming those credits, further insisting Obama’s recent action on immigration exacerbated the problem. Hence the House&#8217;s $45 billion extension, which could be voted on as early as today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Democrats have mixed feelings regarding the proposed legislation. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) remained non-committal, Committee member Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVA) was adamantly against it, and Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, was in favor.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, like everything else being proposed here, the outcome remains in limbo.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Some GOP conservatives still remained wedded to addressing Obama’s lawlessness, regardless of the consequences. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wants even a short-term extension for the DHS to cut off funding for the president’s immigration agenda, even if the government shuts down as a result. &#8220;It isn’t us bringing about a shutdown,” he insisted. &#8220;We fund everything else, and then the president has to argue that he’s going to shutdown the government in order for him to carry out his lawless, unconstitutional act.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wasn’t buying it. &#8220;We need to quit, you know, kind of rattling the economy with things that are perceived by the voters as disturbing,&#8221; he told a Washington conference.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Voters themselves apparently agree. A Qunnipiac <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us11252014_uh2ddgk.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">poll</span></a> released Nov. 25 shows they oppose shutting down “major activities of the federal government&#8221; as a means of blocking Obama’s agenda by a 68-25 percent margin. Even Republican voters oppose the idea by a 47-44 percent margin. “Americans seem divided on immigration, but they agree on one thing: They don’t want a government shutdown over President Obama’s action on immigration,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those same voters, however, mostly oppose Obama’s immigration agenda. Democrats favor it by a 74-18 percent margin, but Republicans and independent voters oppose it by margins of 75-20 percent, and 51-40 percent, respectively. In short, ambivalence prevails.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How long it prevails is hard to say. Much of it depends on how far next year&#8217;s GOP congressional majority is willing to go to illuminate the ideological differences between the two parties, and whether they are willing to frame an agenda, or continue reacting to the one proposed by Obama and a Democrat minority.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Immigration aside, it is worth noting that on Monday, America’s national debt <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-01/total-us-debt-rises-over-18-trillion"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reached</span></a> $18 trillion. That number represents a 70 percent increase in the debt amassed during Obamas’s tenure. On Tuesday it was revealed Social Security will become <a href="http://www.mrctv.org/blog/chart-social-security-s-end-date-fast-approaching-far-earlier-expected"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insolvent</span></a> by 2024. That’s 34 years earlier than originally projected. In other words, we remain on an unsustainable trajectory, one driven overwhelmingly by the exponential expansion of government championed by Democrats. Spending cuts aren’t popular, but genuine statesmen propose ideas that put the good of the nation above the good of the party. Embracing such statesmanship seems like a pretty good point of departure for next year’s GOP majority. If nothing else it would stand in stark contrast to the president’s me-first agenda and a Democratic party extremely comfortable with putting its own interests above those of the nation.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The catastrophic impact Obama's immigration power grab will have on America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6364423ec44b012d660f6a70670060f2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246042" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6364423ec44b012d660f6a70670060f2-417x350.jpg" alt="6364423ec44b012d660f6a70670060f2" width="311" height="261" /></a>That we live in a perilous era is hardly a headline &#8212; this is a well established fact.  America and Americans face an existential threat posed by terrorist organizations.  Additionally, huge quantities of heroin and cocaine have flooded across our borders, smuggled by pernicious drug trafficking organizations that have set up shop in communities across the United States.  There is a strong nexus between narcotics trafficking and narcotics use and crime, especially violent crime.</p>
<p>The tens of billions of dollars, the annual proceeds from the drug trade, flow into the coffers of transnational drug trafficking organizations and international terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>Finally, our nation&#8217;s economy continues to falter and struggle as do tens of millions of American workers and their families find that their incomes shrink as their expenses rise as more foreign workers enter the United States each month than the number of new jobs that are being created.</p>
<p>All of the above-noted issues have a clear nexus to failures of our nation to secure its borders and enforce the immigration laws effectively.  In point of fact our immigration laws were enacted with two primary goals, protect American lives and the jobs of American workers.</p>
<p>In point of fact, our borders and our immigration laws are supposed to shield America and Americans.  Given all of the threats and challenges confronting America and Americans those shields should never be more important.  However, you would never know it to listen to the President and, frankly, to all too many of our nation&#8217;s politicians from both sides of the political aisle in Washington and on the state and local levels.</p>
<p>On November 20, 2014 President Obama went before the cameras at the White House and laid out his plans to unilaterally “fix” the broken immigration system.  That there are millions of illegal aliens present in the United States indicates that our immigration system is failing.  That terrorists have been able to enter the United States and embed themselves in the United States provides further evidence of failures of the immigration system.  Consider, if you will, that the Tsarnaev brothers were able to gain lawful entry into the United States and apparently game the political asylum program. This provides a graphic example of a failure of that component of the immigration system.</p>
<p>“The Social Contract” published my article in its Summer 2013 edition, on how fraud in the political asylum program currently enables our enemies to see in America&#8217;s compassion, weakness. The title of my article was <span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_4/tsc_23_4_cutler.shtml">&#8220;Political Asylum: Where Compassion and National Security Intersect.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>What has never been explained, by President Obama or others who claim that the immigration system is <i>broken,</i> is how their proposals will greatly reduce the number of illegal aliens present in the United States.  What has never been explained is how the proposed “fixes” will create integrity to the processes by which aliens are granted visas or immigration benefits such as gaining lawful immigrant status or United States citizenship.  These are critical issues that were identified by the 9/11 Commission.</p>
<p>Traditionally when laws are violated our leaders call for enhanced enforcement efforts to combat and deter the crimes.  Because of concerns about those who have trespassed on New York City landmarks, Senator Chuck Schumer has proposed that a law be enacted that would subject those trespassers to a period of imprisonment of five years rather than the maximum of one year currently on the books.  He stated in part:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>“While individuals like this (trespassers) may have meant no harm, their acts put commuters and first responders at risk,” Schumer said. “They also inspire copycats who may have much more evil plans in mind.”</i></p>
<p><i>Critical infrastructure is defined by the Patriot Act as systems and assets so vital to the U.S., that the incapacity or destruction to them would have a debilitating effect.</i></p>
<p><i>“That would be a bridge, a power plant, the air vents to one of our tunnels,” Miller said.</i></p>
<p><i>Miller and Schumer said </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/sen-schumer-proposes-bill-to-make-trespassing-on-critical-infrastructure-a-federal-crime/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>the new legislation</i></span></a><i> will help serve as a deterrent.</i></p>
<p><i>“When stunts like this occur, the New York City trespassing law has a maximum of one year and it’s often three months,” Schumer said. “That’s not enough punishment to deter this behavior. It’s time to change that.”</i></p>
<p><i>Schumer said this legislation is based on another federal law protecting railroads.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">His statements were reported upon in an October 14, 2014 CBS News report, <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/mayor-de-blasio-heads-to-d-c-for-meetings-on-nyc-security-and-counter-terrorism/">&#8220;Mayor De Blasio Heads To D.C. For Meetings On NYC Security And Counter-Terrorism.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>However, Senator Chuck Schumer has been the staunchest advocate for providing a pathway to United States citizenship to illegal aliens who have trespassed on America by running our nation&#8217;s borders and evading the crucial screening process conducted by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors at ports of entry.  This serves to encourage, not deter, aliens to run our nation&#8217;s borders.</p>
<p>Where our broken immigration system is concerned, the obvious questions not being asked or answered is, “Where is the deterrent?”  “How is the lack of integrity in the immigration adjudications program being addressed?”</p>
<p>President Obama&#8217;s tone has been defiant, claiming that if members of Congress wanted to stop him from taking his actions that they should pass an immigration bill that he agreed with.  It was a stunning statement especially considering that Obama was a constitutional law instructor.  On numerous previous public appearances he made it clear that he did not have the authority to act alone to take the actions that he is now taking to deal with immigration.  Yet, for reasons never articulated, he has now made it clear that he will now do what he had previous claimed he lacked the legal authority to do.</p>
<p>He has also never explained how his actions would curtail future illegal immigration or address the recommendations and findings of the 9/11 Commission.  But then, these are critical questions that virtually no journalists have ever asked or members of the Republican Party have ever addressed, either.</p>
<p>Obama is attempting to extort immigration legislation by using the sort of “strong arm” technique of Tony Soprano rather than the conciliatory and constitutionally mandated technique befitting the President of the United States, who leads the most powerful democratic republic on the planet.</p>
<p>While the media has fixated on the procedural issues of whether or not what Obama is promising (threatening?) to do is within the bounds of his legal authority as the President of the United States, what has never been discussed to any great degree is the other procedural question &#8212; how would USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) implement this massive amnesty program involving millions of illegal aliens with even a sliver of integrity?</p>
<p>On November 30, 2013 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my commentary, <span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Political Asylum Fraud: Where America&#8217;s Compassion Becomes Vulnerability&#8221;</span>that was predicated on a hard-hitting report posted by ABC News on November 20, 2013, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Exclusive: US May Have Let &#8216;Dozens&#8217; of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>The number one priority of the government of the United States is national security and, with it, public safety.  How on earth could the administration successfully administer that program in a manner that would not undermine national security and public safety?  Let us remember that America&#8217;s borders and immigration laws are its shields, its first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists, transnational criminals and other foreign nationals whose presence in the United States would undermine national security, public safety, public health or otherwise compromise the well-being of America and Americans.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2014 the New York Post published a disturbing report, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/10/homeland-security-we-cant-stop-isis-from-coming-into-us/"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Homeland Security: We can’t stop ISIS from coming into US.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>Here is an important quote from this report:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>‘Terrorists could be just one visa-free flight away from arriving in the United States.’</i></p>
<p><i>-Rep. Candice Miller</i></p>
<p><i>Members of Congress cited estimates that 12,000 foreigners have traveled to Syria to engage in the civil war, including more than 1,000 Europeans and more than 100 Americans, with a dozen Americans believed to be fighting alongside ISIS.</i></p>
<p><i>“ISIS is a threat to the United States and to the people of the United States,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).</i></p>
<p><i>“We may be reminded on 9/11 the count was approximately 19 who created the most heinous terrorist attack, killing more than 3,000.”</i></p>
<p><i>One Frenchman who trained with ISIS went to Brussels to murder four people at a Jewish museum in May, authorities say.</i></p>
<p><i>State Department and Homeland Security leaders said they’ve been working diligently with the tools at their disposal, including constantly upgrading border security procedures, reviewing the terror watch list and vetting visas.</i></p>
<p><i>“Though we currently have no credible information to indicate that ISIL is planning to attack the homeland, we remain concerned in the long term that their access to Westerners … will allow them to plan and coordinate attacks in the US,” Lasley said.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On November 10, 2014 Newsweek published a report about how the CIA is unable to effectively vet just 5,000 Syrians who claim to be moderates who want to help fight ISIS.  Realize that these are people who are in their country of citizenship and the CIA is able to conduct in-person interviews and are able to conduct investigations in the towns and villages where these people live, yet the vetting process is a disaster.  If it is virtually impossible to effectively screen 5,000 Syrians within their own country, how on earth could USCIS properly vet 5 million or, likely, many more aliens in the United States without an interview or field investigation?</p>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Newsweek article, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/21/moderate-rebels-please-raise-your-hands-283449.html">&#8220;Inside the CIA&#8217;s Syrian Rebels Vetting Machine,&#8221;</a> begins with this passage:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Nothing has come in for more mockery during the Obama administration’s halting steps into the Syrian civil war than its employment of “moderate” to describe the kind of rebels it is willing to back. In one of the more widely cited japes, The New Yorker’s resident humorist, Andy Borowitz, presented a “Moderate Syrian Application Form,” in which applicants were asked to describe themselves as either “A) Moderate, B) Very moderate, C) Crazy moderate or D) Other.”</i></p>
<p><i>After Senator John McCain allegedly posed with Syrians “on our side” who turned out to be kidnappers—a report later called into question—Jon Stewart cracked, “Not everyone is going to be wearing their ‘HELLO I’M A TERRORIST’ name badge.”</i></p>
<p><i>Behind the jokes, however, is the deadly serious responsibility of the CIA and Defense Department to vet Syrians before they receive covert American training, aid and arms. But according to U.S. counterterrorism veterans, a system that worked pretty well during four decades of the Cold War has been no match for the linguistic, cultural, tribal and political complexities of the Middle East, especially now in Syria. “We’re completely out of our league,” one former CIA vetting expert declared on condition of anonymity, reflecting the consensus of intelligence professionals with firsthand knowledge of the Syrian situation. “To be really honest, very few people know how to vet well. It’s a very specialized skill. It’s extremely difficult to do well” in the best of circumstances, the former operative said. And in Syria it has proved impossible.</i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a></span>was prepared by the staff that assisted the 9/11 Commission.  The preface of that document began with this paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>That report also detailed numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States, but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is significant to note that the Seasonal Agricultural Program, also known as the Special Agricultural Program (SAW), were major components of the 1986 amnesty and that New York&#8217;s then-Congressman Chuck Schumer was one of that program&#8217;s major architects even though there were absolutely no farms in his congressional district when he concocted it.</p>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 of the report, under the title “Immigration Benefits”:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The program that the administration is about to create violates the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission yet, incredibly, this issue is never raised in the mainstream media or members of either political party in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.</p>
<p>While Obama and others have stated that the program being by the administration would involve five million illegal aliens, there is no assurance that humongous as that number is might not quickly swell to double or triple that number.  In 1986 the Reagan administration predicted that roughly one million illegal aliens would participate in the amnesty program that was a part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. By the time that the bureaucratic dust had settled between 3.5 and 4 million aliens had gained lawful status.</p>
<p>While the majority of these illegal aliens are not likely to have serious criminal histories or affiliations with terrorist organizations, the sheer magnitude of this program would create a monstrous haystack in which some truly deadly needles will easily be able to conceal themselves.  Because of the huge number of applications that will likely be filed, there would be no capacity to conduct routine face-to-face interviews with the applicants.  There would be no capacity to conduct routine field investigations to seek to verify information contained in the applications.</p>
<p>Furthermore, because of the huge number of applications and relatively sparse numbers of USCIS adjudications officers, applications will need to be processed quickly.  This raises yet another area of concern.  It takes just minutes for an adjudications officer to approve an application but may take hours, days or even weeks for those adjudicators to deny an application.  Adjudications Officers will be required to process a minimum number of applications per day or week to satisfy the standards established in their evaluations which are prepared periodically.  This will force these dedicated employees to be pressured to approve the great majority of the applications that they are given to adjudicate.</p>
<p>On November 1, 2013 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization posted my commentary: <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/speed-kills-uscis">&#8220;Speed Kills at USCIS”</a></p>
<p>USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is the woebegone division of the DHS that would be tasked with administering this program. As it is, this beleaguered and inept agency cannot keep up with its workload without “rubber-stamping” approvals on many applications where this slipshod approach enables fraud to often go undetected.  It only takes minutes for an Adjudications Officer to approve an application for a benefit such as lawful status or citizenship, but it may require hours or days to deny an application.</p>
<p>The adjudications officers will be pressured to “get to yes” as was reported by the media about instructions given to these USCIS officials.  Furthermore, their evaluations contain productivity requirements (quotas).  A diligent adjudicator will find his/her career imperiled for not meeting quotas that all but preclude denying more than a very few applications.</p>
<p>I wrote an article about the plight of these officials in my article for CAPS, <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/immigration-bon-bon-factory"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;The Immigration Bon Bon Factory.&#8221;</span></a>  In my piece I noted that a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbNcQlzV-4"><span style="color: #011480;">hilarious episode of &#8220;I Love Lucy&#8221;</span></a> found the hapless Lucy and her comedic side-kick Ethel working in a candy factory and were assigned to wrap morsels of bon bons. They were unable to keep up with the pace of candy hurtling at them on a conveyor belt that started slowly but quickly accelerated to warp speed.  They were warned that if they failed to keep pace with the candy they would be fired.  To keep from losing their jobs they began stuffing the candy down their clothing and eating them, but to no avail.</p>
<p>While the situation Lucy and Ethel found themselves in were designed to entertain their audience, there is nothing amusing about the plight of the employees of USCIS or what it means for national security.</p>
<p>This is not just speculation on my part but is, in fact, based on the current reality in terms of how the hundreds of thousands of applications for DREAMERS are being adjudicated now.  Indeed, the approval rate for the DREAMERS under the DACA (Deferred Action- Childhood Arrivals) Program now exceeds 95%.</p>
<p>Because of this illegal aliens, who, for reasons only known to them, evaded the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would be problematic for America and Americans, will see an opportunity to secure lawful status and official identity documents by committing fraud that is most likely to go undetected.  Aliens will be able to succeed in lying about their identities, including potentially their true countries of citizenship.  They will also likely be able to successfully make false claims concerning their dates and methods of entry into the United States.</p>
<p>That these aliens evaded the inspections process is all but ignored in the media and in the statements made by our supposed political leaders.  Aliens who run our borders entered the United States by evading the inspections process conducted at ports of entry by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens into the United States whose presence would be dangerous to the safety and well-being of America and Americans.</p>
<p><span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a></span><span style="color: #0d2f87;"> </span>enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded. Among these classes are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable diseases or extreme mental illness. Additionally convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies are to be excluded, as well as aliens who would seek unlawful employment thus displacing American workers or driving down the wages of American workers who are similarly employed and aliens who would become public charges.</p>
<p>It should be obvious that aliens who evade that inspections process do so because they know that they belong to one or more categories of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the United States.  What is not obvious about these aliens is any information as to what would prevent them from being lawfully admitted.  There is no way to readily determine their true identities or backgrounds.  This means that they may successfully lie about their countries of citizenship as well as their names and dates of birth.  Their is no way to even know when or how they actually entered the United States.</p>
<p>The National Review Online posted an article that coincided with the New York Post Post article, <b> </b><span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/389829/isis-fighters-getting-caught-coming-across-us-mexican-border-jim-geraghty">&#8220;ISIS Fighters Getting Caught Coming Across the U.S.-Mexican Border?&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>Here is the text of this relatively short and disconcerting report:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>From the midweek edition of the </i><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>Morning Jolt</i></span></a><i>:</i></p>
<p><b><i>Say What? ‘At Least Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Caught Coming Across the Border’</i></b></p>
<p><i>Rep. </i><a href="http://hunter.house.gov/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>Duncan Hunter</i></span></a><i>, Republican of California, does not seem like a nut job or prone to wild exaggerations. But </i><a href="http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/10/stunner-rep-duncan-hunter-r-ca-ten-isis.html"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>last night he said something that should make jaws drop</i></span></a><i>:</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> Hold on. Stop for one second.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> They are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> Let me ask a question. You say that they are coming in the southern border, which changes all the dynamics Do you have any information that they are coming in through the southern border now?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> Yes.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> Tell me what you know.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> At least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> How do you know that?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> Because I’ve asked the border patrol, Greta.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> And the border patrol just let’s ISIS members come across the border?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> No. They caught them at the border. Therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them, you know that there are going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol. That’s how you know. That’s where we are at risk here, is from ISIS and radical Islamists coming across the border. Once again, they don’t have a navy, air force, nuclear weapons. The only way that Americans are going to be harmed by radical Islam — Chairman Dempsey said the same thing. He said that’s where the major threat is here, that’s how these guys are going to infiltrate through America and harm Americans.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Providing millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and official identity documents would not provide a deterrence to millions of aspiring illegal aliens from around the world and with the abject lack of integrity to the process, could potentially wind up with the additional consequences of providing terrorists with official identity documents in false names.</p>
<p>Mr. Obama&#8217;s plans could be the ultimate bad news.</p>
<p>Given the foregoing, Star Trek&#8217;s Captain James T. Kirk would likely command, “Shields up!”</p>
<p>Incomprehensibly, Mr. Obama is ordering just the opposite and the focus of attention of the media and politicians from both parties is solely on whether or not the President&#8217;s executive orders are constitutional, certainly a major issue.  However, what is being ignored is the impact this will have on our nation and our citizens in this particularly perilous era.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/51533286_custom-d3a6c58e870df3bee1f4b9bd0ce279d571233bb3-s6-c30.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243982" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/51533286_custom-d3a6c58e870df3bee1f4b9bd0ce279d571233bb3-s6-c30-450x296.jpg" alt="51533286_custom-d3a6c58e870df3bee1f4b9bd0ce279d571233bb3-s6-c30" width="307" height="202" /></a>On October 22, 2014 CBS News, New York posted a brief report, <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/22/city-council-bill-seeks-to-protect-jailed-immigrants-from-feds/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;City Council Votes For Bills To Protect Jailed Immigrants From Feds.&#8221;</span></a> This report illustrates the unholy alliance forged between many politicians and news agencies to skew the truth about immigration. The article begins with this excerpt:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)</i></b><i> — Bills passed by the City Council Wednesday aim to </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/02/lawmakers-to-introduce-legislation-to-only-honor-immigration-detainers-with-federal-warrant/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>keep detained immigrants from being deported by the federal government</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The City Council voted in favor of the legislation 41-6 Wednesday.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>As WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported, the measures, supported by </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/18/nyc-municipal-id-cards-to-offer-free-incentives/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>Mayor Bill de Blasio</i></span></a><i>, would prohibit correction officials and police from handing over detainees to immigration officials.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The report went on to note:</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>The law will only allow the city to honor the detainer if the subject has been convicted of a violent or serious felony in the last five years or if the person is a possible match on the federal terrorist watchlist,” she said.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The bill would also shutter the federal immigration office </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/22/ap-rikers-island-deaths-suggest-poor-medical-treatment-of-inmates/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>on Rikers Island</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">First of all, let&#8217;s consider that the title of the CBS article incorporates the phrase, “Protect the Jailed Immigrants From the Feds.” There are two key words that paint a deceptive image and both evoke a strong emotional response and virtually create the illusion that the efforts to impede the effective enforcement of our immigration laws against aliens who have been arrested for allegedly committing crimes is no less than <i>heroic.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The term “protect” is a term that engenders a sense of an appropriate action taken to make certain that no harm comes to someone, especially an innocent person. Police departments around the United States adopted the phrase “to protect and serve” as their mission statement. In considering this infuriating news report, the question that must be asked is: “Who is being protected and who is being served?”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our nation&#8217;s borders and our immigration laws are America&#8217;s first line of defense and last line of defense to protect America and Americans from aliens whose presence poses a threat to the safety and well-being of our nation and our citizens.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our immigration laws are utterly blind as to race, religion or ethnicity and were enacted to achieve two primary goals: <i>protect</i> innocent lives and <i>protect</i> the jobs of American workers. While the CBS report focuses on how the majority of the members of the City Council are seeking to protect illegal aliens who have been arrested from being deported, the article neglects to mention that this proposed action would fail to protect Americans and others present in the United States by blocking ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents from being able to identify and take into custody aliens who are subject to being removed (deported) from the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It would be wrong-headed to shield any illegal alien from detection by ICE (although ICE is no longer mounting a meaningful effort to enforce our immigration laws). However, in this instance we have the great majority of the members of the NYC Counsel seeking to prevent the removal of aliens who have been arrested by the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The term “immigrant” as used in the headline is currently being used deceptively throughout the United States to describe all foreign nationals (aliens) who are present in the United States, irrespective of their status. The term “alien” has come to be (falsely) equated with a slur, not unlike the “n-word.” In reality, under the immigration laws of the United States, which are encompassed within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the term <i>alien</i> simply means, “any person, not a citizen or national of the United States.” There is no insult of any sort in that definition &#8212; only clarity. Clarity is something that must be avoided at all costs when a con artist attempts to swindle his (her) intended victim. This is no different from the dreaded and infamous “small print” contained in contracts designed to confuse the person signing the contract to get them to agree to terms that they would never knowingly agree to.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">By using the term “immigrant” to describe all aliens present in the United States it then becomes easy to talk about the wonderful contributions that immigrants have made to the United States. After all, they remind us, “We are a nation of immigrants!” Of course this fails to note that among illegal aliens are criminals, fugitives from justice in foreign countries and others whose presence is harmful or even dangerous.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">By hammering away at the lie that all aliens should be deemed “immigrants” immigration anarchists have set the stage to label as “anti-immigrant” anyone of wanting our borders to be secured against those who would evade the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would pose a threat to national security, public safety, public health or otherwise be detrimental to the well-being of America and/or Americans. They go on to attack anyone seeking effective immigration law enforcement branding them “bigots,” “racists” and “nativists.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In my effort to provide clarity to this issue I have come to say that the difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is comparable to the difference between a houseguest and a burglar. It is not anti-social or uncharitable for a person to lock his (her) doors at night to make certain that burglars or criminals do not enter their homes as they sleep. It is only prudent and commonsense.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In point of fact, our immigration laws not only establish the grounds by which aliens are to be prevented from entering the United States and the grounds under which aliens should be deported from the United States, but also establish the lawful means by which more than one million aliens legally immigrate to the United States, are granted Alien Registration Receipt Cards and are immediately placed on the pathway to United States citizenship. These laws also provide for the naturalization of hundreds of thousands of lawful immigrants each year, conferring United States citizenship upon them.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, the most likely victims of crimes committed by transnational criminals are the members of the ethnic immigrant communities of the same origins of the criminal aliens. This holds true for all ethnic communities, not just from Latin America. As an INS agent I investigated and arrested many such individuals from countries around the world.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Therefore, how on earth can supporting the effective enforcement and administration of our immigration laws constitute an anti-immigrant position?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let us briefly revisit the notion of “protecting immigrants” as noted in the headline. The more appropriate phrase should be “shielding and harboring.” Theses terms appear in the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that addresses alien smuggling.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Consider that under <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324"><span style="color: #386eff;">8 USC § 1324 &#8211; Bringing in and harboring certain aliens</span></a>, a section of law that is comprehended within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), it is a felony to aid, abet, encourage or induce aliens to enter our country illegally or remain in our country illegally and a crime to harbor, shield or conceal such aliens from detection.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is an excerpt from that section of law:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) Offenses</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Harboring &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Encouraging/Inducing &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Conspiracy/Aiding or Abetting &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(v) expressly makes it an offense to engage in a conspiracy to commit or aid or abet the commission of the foregoing offenses.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">On February 25, 2014 Californians for Population Stabilization published my article <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/nyc-mayor-determined-give-illegal-aliens-id-cards"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;NYC Mayor Determined to Give Illegal Aliens ID Cards&#8221;</span></a> that addressed the program being created by New York City&#8217;s Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide illegal aliens with identity documents, violating commonsense and the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commmission.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I focused on the nexus between immigration and the threat of terrorism and how the creation of “sanctuary cities” undermines national security in my September 24, 2014 article for FrontPage Magazine, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/sanctuary-cities-or-safe-havens-for-terrorists/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">‘Sanctuary Cities’ or ‘Safe Havens’ for Terrorists?</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What is truly incomprehensible is how New York Senator Chuck Schumer recently railed against those who have trespassed on important landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the new World Trade Center Tower. Consider the October 14, 2014 CBS News report on de Blasio heading to Washington to participate in meetings focusing on city security and counter-terrorism, <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/mayor-de-blasio-heads-to-d-c-for-meetings-on-nyc-security-and-counter-terrorism/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Mayor De Blasio Heads To D.C. For Meetings On NYC Security And Counter-Terrorism.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The article noted that the meetings would be held the day after, “<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/schumer-wants-tougher-bridge-trespassing-laws/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Sen. Charles Schumer</span></a> proposed making trespassing on critical infrastructure like major bridges or important buildings punishable by up to five years in prison.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is the brief report in its entirety:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) –</i></b><i> Mayor Bill de Blasio is heading to Washington, D.C. Tuesday for meetings about city security and counter-terrorism.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>De Blasio, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism John Miller are set to meet with the heads of Homeland Security and the FBI.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The meeting comes a day after </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/schumer-wants-tougher-bridge-trespassing-laws/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>Sen. Charles Schumer</i></span></a><i> proposed making trespassing on critical infrastructure like major bridges or important buildings punishable by up to five years in prison.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The proposal was made in the wake of several recent trespassing cases in the city.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Over the summer, two German artists climbed the Brooklyn Bridge, switching the American flags with white washed versions.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Berlin-based Mischa Leinkauf and Mattias Wermke said they replaced the flags on top of the bridge </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/08/bratton-says-nypd-has-idea-of-who-was-involved-in-brooklyn-bridge-flag-swap/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>with bleached-out versions</i></span></a><i> as a tribute to public art.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>The stuntman placed aluminum pans over the floodlights to keep them from being seen and for awhile, it was scary,” Schumer said Monday.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>A Russian tourist was then arrested in August after </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/19/russian-tourist-facing-charges-for-climbing-brooklyn-bridge-signs-up-for-community-service/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>climbing the Brooklyn Bridge</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Yaroslav Kolchin was seen walking back and forth on the landing, taking photos with his iPhone, police said. They said once a police aviation unit was hovering at an altitude next to the tower, Kolchin began to descend safely down the same way he had climbed up.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>He was met by police at the security gate, where he was taken into custody without further incident.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Also in August, an activist group </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/20/police-investigate-after-palestinian-protest-flag-is-unfurled-on-manhattan-bridge/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>unfurled a Palestinian flag</i></span></a><i> on the span of the Manhattan Bridge.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>In March, 16-year-old Justin Casquejo was charged after climbing to the top of the World Trade Center. He </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/30/nj-teen-pleads-guilty-in-1-world-trade-center-climb/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>admitted in July to breaking a city misdemeanor law</i></span></a><i> against scaling tall buildings without permission.</i></p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><span style="color: #232323;"><i>About a week after his trade center climb, </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/port-authority-wtc-parachute-jump-lawless-selfish/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>three extreme-skydiving fans were arrested for a leap off the tower last year.</i></span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>While individuals like this may have meant no arm, their acts put commuters and first responders at risk,” Schumer said. “They also inspire copycats who may have much more evil plans in mind.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Critical infrastructure is defined by the Patriot Act as systems and assets so vital to the U.S., that the incapacity or destruction to them would have a debilitating effect.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>That would be a bridge, a power plant, the air vents to one of our tunnels,” Miller said.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Miller and Schumer said </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/sen-schumer-proposes-bill-to-make-trespassing-on-critical-infrastructure-a-federal-crime/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>the new legislation</i></span></a><i> will help serve as a deterrent.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>When stunts like this occur, the New York City trespassing law has a maximum of one year and it’s often three months,” Schumer said. “That’s not enough punishment to deter this behavior. It’s time to change that.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Schumer said this legislation is based on another federal law protecting railroads.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">This is the same Schumer who, as a member of the “Gang of Eight,” has championed providing a pathway to United States citizenship for millions of illegal aliens who evaded the vital inspections process designed to prevent the entry of aliens who would pose a threat to public health, public safety and, indeed, national security by <b><i>trespassing</i></b> on the United States. There can be no greater example of a lack of mouth-ear coordination than that demonstrated by Mr. Schumer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In case you missed it, this is the next to last paragraph of the news report, quoting Schumer:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>When stunts like this occur, the New York City trespassing law has a maximum of one year and it’s often three months,” Schumer said. “That’s not enough punishment to deter this behavior. It’s time to change that.”</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Schumer&#8217;s own ears apparently are unable to hear the words he utters from his own mouth when the issue of immigration is raised. Clearly, he understands that undesired behavior can be deterred by tougher laws coupled with tougher enforcement, particularly where the crime of trespassing is concerned.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Schumer, however, is hardly the only politician to be afflicted with a lack of mouth-ear coordination. On September 27, 2012 New York City&#8217;s then mayor, Michael Bloomberg, was the focus of a New York Post article, <a href="http://nypost.com/2012/09/27/bloomberg-blasts-bronx-da-for-not-prosecuting-trespassing-arrests/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Bloomberg blasts Bronx DA for not prosecuting trespassing arrests.&#8221;</span></a> It must be pointed out that Bloomberg continued the immigration sanctuary policies of the previous administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The continuing sanctuary policies were, in fact, the subject of a hearing conducted by the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on February 27, 2003 on the topic, <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju85287.000/hju85287_0f.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;New York City&#8217;s &#8216;Sanctuary&#8217; Policy and the Effect of Such Policies on Public Safety, Law Enforcement and Immigration.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I was one of the witnesses called to testify at that hearing, more than a decade ago. As the saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We are continually told that the immigration system is broken. The reality is that what is broken is the moral compass of this administration and all too many politicians. The administration lacks the will to effectively secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws and follow the advice Schumer provided concerning trespassing: increase the penalties for such crimes and effectively enforce the laws.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There is an old Yiddish expression that translated declares, “When the fish goes bad, it smells from the head!” The lack of moral leadership in Washington permeates our nation and is being felt from coast to coast and border to border.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing history of known terrorists exploiting the southern border. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/A82.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242745" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/A82-450x337.jpg" alt="A82" width="330" height="247" /></a>During the recent race riots in Ferguson, Missouri, CNN’s Jake Tapper was walking down a street and filming a segment when someone emerged out of the shadows behind him, holding a banner emblazoned, “ISIS is here.” At that point it was just a threat, or a boast, or both, but on Tuesday Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/gop-rep-at-least-ten-isis-fighters-have-been-caught-coming-across-the-mexican-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a> that the Islamic State was doing all it could to make it a reality: “At least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas.”</p>
<p>“There’s nobody talking about it,” Hunter added. “If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border. It’s that simple…They caught them at the border, therefore we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them then you know there’s going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol.”</p>
<p>Indeed. And jihadist exploitation of our southern border is nothing new. In June 2014, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) foreshadowed Hunter’s announcement <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/06/18/iraqi-extremist-group-could-slip-through-texas-mexico-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">when he said</span></a>: “This jihadist group ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have promised direct confrontation with America. He is looking forward to that day and he has said that publicly, we should believe him when he says that. These folks hate everything about the United States.” What’s more, “Of course the way they would come to the United States would be through the porous border with Mexico. The drug cartels will bring people into the country no matter who they are — for money. Everyone in the world knows that the border between the United States and Mexico is completely porous.”</p>
<p>Jihad terrorists and their enablers and accomplices have been entering the U.S. illegally by means of the Mexican border for many years. According to <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/03/iran-aggressively-recruiting-invisible-army-of-latin-american-converts-to-infiltrate-u-s-through-southern-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">TheBlaze</span></a>, “Hezbollah members and supporters have entered the U.S. through the southern border as early as 2002, with the case of Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison by Mexican authorities on charges of organized crime and immigrant smuggling. Mucharrafille had owned a cafe in the border city of Tijuana, near San Diego. In 2002, he was arrested for smuggling 200 people into the U.S., including Hezbollah supporters, according to a 2009 Congressional report.”</p>
<p>And in May 2010, the Department of Homeland Security <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/28/homeland.alert.somali/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">warned local police</span></a> along the southern border about a Muslim named Mohamed Ali who was suspected of being a member of the jihad terror group al Shabaab. An official who spoke to CNN about the warning said that it wasn’t clear whether or not Mohamed Ali was trying to enter the country illegally, but it seems unlikely that such an alert would have been sent out to police along the border if that had not been the case. Ali was, in any case, apparently <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/terror-alert-mexican-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">involved in operating</span></a> a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” that had brought hundreds of Somali Muslims into the U.S. illegally.</p>
<p>Top officials in Washington have known about how jihad terrorists have attempted to exploit the vulnerabilities of the southern border for many years now. In 2006, the House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee, under the leadership of Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), issued a report entitled <i>A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border</i>, <a href="http://www.azgovernor.gov/documents/BorderSecurity/LineintheSand_Report_2006.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">which stated</span></a>: “Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered to the United States across our Southwest border.”</p>
<p>Nothing changed. Investigative journalist <a href="http://humanevents.com/2010/06/28/our-border-is-a-moving-sidewalk/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Deroy Murdock reported</span></a> in 2010 that “according to the federal Enforcement Integrated Database, 125 individuals were apprehended along the US/Mexican border from Fiscal Year 2009 through April 20, 2010. These deportable aliens included two Syrians, seven Sudanese, and 17 Iranians, all nationals from the three Islamic countries that the US government officially classifies as state sponsors of terrorism.” During the same period, border agents also apprehended “two Afghans, five Algerians, 13 Iraqis, 10 Lebanese, 22 Nigerians, 28 Pakistanis, two Saudis, 14 Somalis, and three Yemenis. During FY 2007 and FY 2008, federal officials seized 319 people from these same countries traversing America’s southwest border.”</p>
<p>Murdock grants that these illegals may simply have come to pursue the American Dream, as Leftist dogma would have it. But he notes disturbing signs to the contrary: “Besides Iranian currency and Islamic prayer rugs, Texas Border Patrol agents discovered an Arabic clothing patch that reads ‘martyr’ and ‘way to immortality.’ Another shows a jet flying into a skyscraper.” And for some, their malign intentions were unmistakable: “The Department of Homeland Security issued an April 14, 2010 ‘Intelligence Alert’ regarding a possible border-crossing attempt by a Somali named Mohamed Ali. He is a suspected member of Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based al-Qaeda ally tied to the deadly attack on American GIs in 1993’s notorious ‘Blackhawk Down’ incident in Mogadishu.”</p>
<p>Murdock offered an update in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346591/southern-border-our-welcome-mat-terrorists"><span style="color: #0433ff;">an April 2013 article</span></a>, in which he gave the numbers of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally via Mexico from countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.</p>
<blockquote><p>As indicated by the latest information in Table 34 of Customs and Border Protection’s <i>Immigration Yearbook 2011,</i> 198 Sudanese were nabbed while penetrating the USA. Between FY 2002 and 2011, there were 1,207 such arrests. (These figures cover all U.S. borders, although, as Table 35 confirms, 96.3 percent of the overall detainee population intruded from Mexico.) Like other immigrants, most Sudanese seek better lives here. But some may be vectors for the same militant Islam that literally tore Sudan in two.</p>
<p>In FY 2011, 108 Syrians were stopped at our borders; over ten years, the number is 1,353. Syria is a key supporter of Hezbollah, and Bashar Assad’s unstable regime reportedly has attacked its domestic opponents with chemical weapons.</p>
<p>As for Iranians, 276 were caught in FY 2011, while 2,310 were captured over the previous ten years. Iran also backs Hezbollah, hates “the Great Satan,” and craves atomic weapons.</p>
<p>The other ten “countries of interest” are Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, and:</p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: The Taliban’s stronghold and current theater of America’s longest war. Afghans halted in FY 2011: 106. Prior ten fiscal years: 681.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: The land of underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab suffers under sharia law in its northern provinces. Respective data: 591, 4,525.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: Hideaway of the Pakistani Taliban and the late Osama bin Laden. 525, 10,682.</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>: Generous benefactor of radical imams and militant mosques worldwide; birthplace of 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. 123, 986.</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>: Home of Indian Ocean pirates and al-Qaeda’s al-Shabaab franchise. In October 1993, Islamic terrorists there shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, killed 18 U.S. soldiers, and dragged several of their bodies through Mogadishu’s streets. 323, 1,524.</p></blockquote>
<p>Each passing year brings new stories of this kind, new investigations and new recommendations – but no real action to secure our southern border. And in July 2014, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/08/Muslim-Prayer-Rug-Found-on-Arizona-Border-By-Independendent-American-Security-Contractors"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Breitbart News published</span></a> what it described as “photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/14/urdu-dictionary-found-on-texas-ranch-near-border-we-just-dont-know-whos-here-already/">That same month</a></span>, Texas rancher Mike Vickers found an Urdu-English Dictionary on his property, which runs along the border and is frequently trespassed upon by illegals. Urdu is, of course, the language of Pakistan, an Islamic Republic that has produced a healthy number of jihad terrorists. A Texas Border Patrol Agent noted: “We’ve found Korans, prayer rugs and many other unusual items at the border that certainly raise concern.”</p>
<p>All these warnings, all this information, and yet year after year, nothing is done. And as long as Barack Obama is President and the Democrats are the majority party, nothing will be done – except the repetition of the charge that concern about border security is “racist.” If the Islamic State manages to get jihadis into the country from Mexico and they succeed in mounting a large-scale attack, our leaders can console themselves amid the carnage that at least they were never “racist.”</p>
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		<title>Turkey: The Jihadists’ Fifth Column in NATO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new passageway of ISIS terrorists into Syria. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PJ-Erdogan-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241923" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PJ-Erdogan-1.jpg" alt="PJ-Erdogan-1" width="293" height="230" /></a>Turkey may well be the jihadists’ fifth column in NATO.</p>
<p>Turkey’s autocratic Islamist president, Tayyip Erdogan, has allowed Turkey’s border to become a passageway for jihadist fighters streaming into Syria to join ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra.</p>
<p>Oil from fields in Iraq and Syria under ISIS control has been regularly transported into Turkey, and sold to black market traders at below international oil market prices. Turkey itself is reportedly a major buyer of the cheap black market oil. The income from ISIS’s oil sales through the black market, as much as $30 million a month, helps finance ISIS’s expansion, making Turkey one of ISIS’s key bankrollers and enablers.</p>
<p>Turkey has also allowed ISIS recruiting networks operating online and through religious study groups to flourish within its borders. Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper reported that as many as 3,000 Turks have joined ISIS. For a government that has cracked down harshly on Kurdish dissidents and on journalists reporting inside Turkey who dare to question Erdogan’s policies, Erdogan’s regime has not appeared to have discouraged ISIS recruitment within its borders or the flow of recruits from Turkey, and the flow of recruits from other countries traveling through Turkey, who are joining ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Despite pressure from the United States, Erdogan has held back from making any significant contributions to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, fearing that Syria’s Assad regime and Kurds would benefit to Turkey’s detriment.  Even after Turkey secured the release of its citizens held by ISIS – reportedly through a prisoner exchange with ISIS – Turkey is not acting like an active NATO partner.</p>
<p>Turkey may now decide to provide a show of token support to the coalition to humor Obama and win U.S. support for Turkey’s bid to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council next year. However, the fact is that Erdogan is on the side of the jihadists and will use a seat on the Security Council to push an agenda that is both pro-Islamist and anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s active support of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood speaks for itself. And if there were any doubt where Erdogan’s sympathies lie, one only need to take a look at his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week.</p>
<p>Instead of expressing moral outrage at the jihadists’ slaughters in Iraq and Syria, for example, Erdogan engaged in a gratuitous attack on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who had responded to mass demonstrations in Egypt demanding an end to the theocracy that the jihadists were seeking to impose forcibly on Egyptian citizens. Erdogan was upset that his Muslim Brotherhood jihadist buddy Mohamed Morsi was no longer Egypt’s leader:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The United Nations as well as the democratic countries have done nothing but watch the events such as overthrowing the elected president in Egypt and the killings of thousands of innocent people who want to defend their choice. And the person who carried out this coup is being legitimized. If we are going to defend people who come to power through coups, then I ask the question why we exist as the United Nations.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan’s pettiness was evidenced by reports that he refused to attend a luncheon hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week when he learned he would be sitting at the same table as President Sisi.</p>
<p>Instead of playing a constructive role, like Egypt did, in trying to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza on terms that were not a complete give-away to Hamas’s demands, Erdogan did what he could to undermine Egypt’s efforts. He has previously referred to President Sisi as a “tyrant” who could not be trusted to broker a cease-fire.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry put out a statement after Erdogan’s General Assembly speech exposing Erdogan’s hidden agenda to restore the Ottoman Empire’s glory days of the past:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no doubt that the fabrication of such lies and fabrications are not something strange that comes from the Turkish President, who is keen to provoke chaos to sow divisions in the Middle East region through its support for groups and terrorist organizations. Whether political support or funding or accommodation in order to harm the interests of the peoples of the region to achieve personal ambitions for the Turkish president and revive illusions of the past.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan told the Council on Foreign Relations, in a speech he delivered a day before his General Assembly address, that everything would have been hunky-dory if only the Ottoman Empire had remained intact. He said that “we see significant crises taking place in the Middle East and Eastern Europe today, and up until 100 years ago, these areas were governed from the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. The Palestinian issue, the problems in Iraq and Syria, Crimea, the Balkans are all issues that emerged following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.”</p>
<p>Erdogan has in the past evoked the imagery of the Battle of Manzikert as a symbol for Turkish youth to look up to and emulate. The Battle of Manzikert occurred in 1071, when the Seljuk Turks decisively defeated the leading Christian power of that era, the Byzantine Empire.</p>
<p>In sum, Erdogan shares the same goal as ISIS – the restoral of an Islamic caliphate – even if they ultimately spar over who will control the caliphate.</p>
<p>Erdogan said in his General Assembly speech that Turkey stands against terrorism. But Erdogan’s concept of whom qualifies as a terrorist is focused on the Jewish state.  “Israel is a terror state; they are creating a wave of terror with what they’re doing now,” he told CNN in an interview last July, referring to Israel’s military actions to defend its civilian population against Hamas’s rocket attacks and terror tunnels. “Right now, we are a member state of NATO and we are a country which acts within the framework together with our partners in NATO. We have an international identity, a character. We never got involved with terror – we have always fought against terror.”</p>
<p>Erdogan is engaging in taqiyya, the Islamic doctrine of deceit. Turkey, for example, actively supports Hamas, a jihadist group that engages in terror against civilians and is the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood which Turkey supports as well. While denying in his remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations that he harbored any anti-Semitic feelings, Erdogan condemned Israel for what he called its ”massacres” in Gaza. He said the Palestinian issue “is an important issue that has an impact not just on the Palestinians, but on all the Muslims and everyone who has a conscience in the world.”</p>
<p>But Turkey’s “conscience” is very selective. Turkey has a double standard when it comes to the issue of “occupation” and “settlers.”  While consistently condemning Israel for alleged occupation of Palestinian lands and allegedly illegal settlements, Turkey continues its own illegal occupation of northern Cyprus following its invasion of the island in 1974. Tens of thousands of mainland Turks have settled on Cypriote land that does not belong to them, under the protection of thousands of Turkish soldiers who do not belong in Cyprus.</p>
<p>At a UN press briefing by Republic of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasidades on September 26<sup>th</sup>, I asked him to comment on Turkey’s evident hypocrisy regarding the occupation and settlements issue, which it raises in every available forum with regards to Israel but evades when it comes to itself. President Anastasidades agreed that Turkey was displaying a double-standard.  This exchange was later removed from an official UN video record of the press conference. Did Turkish officials, who several years ago made UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologize for an alleged incident involving an altercation between UN security personnel and Turkish personnel, demand a censoring of the video to remove the criticism of Turkey’s hypocrisy on the occupation and settlements issue? Given the Turkish government’s regular anti-press campaign of intimidation in its own country, it would not be surprising if they did, but we will probably never know for sure.</p>
<p>However, one thing is for sure. Turkey is not a reliable member of NATO or U.S. ally. Its president’s sympathies lie with the jihadists and the enemies of Western style democracy. If Turkey does not unequivocally change its ways, steps should be considered to end its membership in NATO and to re-align the U.S. strategic relationship in the region further away from Turkey.</p>
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		<title>Terrorists at the Border</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/border.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241345" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/border-450x300.jpg" alt="border" width="306" height="204" /></a>A Democratic congressman tried to use the might of the federal government to crush an investigation into reports that an Islamic terrorist group is using the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez as a base for launching an attack on the U.S. using car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs).</p>
<p>The Islamofascist group in question is the extraordinarily brutal Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) that has been conquering swathes of the Middle East with the long-term goal of establishing an Islamic Caliphate. (ISIS is also known as the Islamic State group and by the Obama-preferred acronym ISIL, which stands for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.)</p>
<p>U.S. Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke of El Paso, Texas, <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/09/feds-el-paso-rep-orourke-called-ban-contact-jw/">contacted</a> the local offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) &#8220;in an effort to identify—and evidently intimidate—sources that may have been used by&#8221; Judicial Watch, federal law enforcement sources told the  nonprofit good-government group.</p>
<p>Judicial Watch, which has been legally recognized by the courts as a media outlet, reported on the terrorist conspiracy on August 29. Citing high-level federal law enforcement, intelligence, and other sources, the group reported that the federal government was bracing for an imminent terrorist attack on the southern U.S. border.</p>
<p>Agents in the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and Justice are all reportedly on alert and have been directed &#8220;to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat,&#8221; Judicial Watch reports.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s office denies wrongdoing, but according to Judicial Watch the congressman&#8217;s telephone calls were followed by &#8220;a memo that came down through the chain of command threatening to terminate or criminally charge any agent who speaks to media of any kind.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the Obama administration, Islamic terrorists are not operating in Ciudad Juarez. But the administration isn&#8217;t known for truth-telling. The White House has long downplayed the wave of violent crime, much of it committed by drug cartels, that rages along the U.S.-Mexico border.</p>
<p>The U.S. Border Patrol instructed its officers to steer clear of the most crime-infested portions of the border because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could lead to an “international incident” involving a cross-border shooting, Judicial Watch previously reported.</p>
<p>Yet a parade of Democratic politicians including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have declared the southern border to be secure despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>In addition to being soft on immigration and national security issues, left-wing lawmakers also don&#8217;t like being exposed by reporters.</p>
<p>In the Obama era Democratic politicians have a habit of punishing pesky journalists for doing their jobs. Many suspect the Obama White House played a decisive role in investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson&#8217;s abrupt departure from CBS News this past March after several of her news stories proved embarrassing to the administration.</p>
<p>Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/18/department-of-justice-media-matters-coordinate-to-attack-reporter/">cracked down</a> on investigative reporter Matthew Boyle, compounding its wrongdoing by unethically coordinating with the George Soros-funded character assassins at Media Matters for America.</p>
<p>And the Obama administration, in the words of CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, has <a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/jake-tapper/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-espionage-act-more-all-/">used</a> &#8220;the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists &#8230; more than all previous administrations combined.&#8221; At least twice federal investigators have meddled in newsroom practices and put journalists in legal jeopardy.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s hostility to press freedoms doesn&#8217;t end there. His Federal Communications Commission <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/02/fcc-backs-off-newsroom-study-183772.html">wanted to place</a> federal observers in newsrooms, ostensibly to study the news-gathering process. The media cried foul and the study has been dropped, at least for now.</p>
<p>Federal Election Commission chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/23/fec-chairman-warns-book-publishers-at-risk-regulation-at-heated-meeting/">warns</a> that his Democratic FEC colleagues could try to ban books during election season by regulating book publishers. &#8220;We have wounded the free-press clause of the First Amendment,&#8221; Goodman said earlier this year after the commission failed to rule that a book by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was entitled to a routinely granted so-called media exemption.</p>
<p>This is &#8220;the same exemption that typically lets newspaper editorials, television channels and other outlets say what they want about political figures without worrying about campaign finance laws,&#8221; Fox News reported.</p>
<p>Many leftists want <a href="http://capitalresearch.org/2014/09/the-push-for-state-controlled-media-for-years-the-left-has-fought-to-increase-regulation-of-the-news/">to go even farther</a> in regulating the media by abolishing private news organizations altogether.</p>
<p>While the Obama administration dithers, the Australian government dramatically dismantled an ISIS plot to murder Australians for propaganda purposes.</p>
<p>Police in Sydney, Australia <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/18/isis-intelligence-sets-off-counter-terrorism-raids-in-australia/">thwarted a plot</a> Thursday by Islamic State supporters down under to randomly behead Australians.</p>
<p>&#8220;The raids involving 800 federal and state police officers – the largest in the country’s history – came in response to intelligence that an Islamic State group leader in the Middle East was calling on Australian supporters to kill, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said,&#8221; according to the <i>New York Post</i>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Abbott was asked about reports that the detainees were planning to behead a random person in Sydney. &#8216;That’s the intelligence we received,&#8217; Abbott told reporters. &#8216;The exhortations – quite direct exhortations – were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country.&#8217;</p>
<p>Will the Obama administration be as conscientious and effective as Australia has been when U.S.-born jihadis fighting for ISIS begin to return to America?</p>
<p>We&#8217;re going to find out, and probably sooner than you think.</p>
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		<title>Reforming the Department of Homeland Surrender</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Department+Homeland+Security+Headquarters+TpSfGFx0T7-l.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239255" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Department+Homeland+Security+Headquarters+TpSfGFx0T7-l-450x293.jpg" alt="Department+Homeland+Security+Headquarters+TpSfGFx0T7-l" width="306" height="199" /></a>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.  Federal agencies understood to play an integral role in protecting the American homeland from terrorist attacks were folded into this bureaucratic leviathan and included, among other federal agencies, the Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and components of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service).</p>
<p>The title of the agency, &#8220;Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; certainly created the appearance that the issue of national security was at the heart of the massive reorganization of federal agencies, but it became readily apparent that this was not the case.  In fact, the myriad failures of this agency have caused me to come to refer to the DHS as being the “Department of Homeland <i>Surrender.</i>”</p>
<p>As noted on the <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget"><span style="color: #011480;">official DHS website</span></a>, the budget for the DHS for Fiscal Year 2015 has been set at more than $60 billion.  ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been provided with more than 5.4 billion dollars, CBP (Customs and Border Protection) has been budgeted for nearly 12.8 billion dollars while USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) has been budgeted to receive more than 3 billion dollars and the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) will receive more than 7.3 billion dollars.</p>
<p><span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.dhs.gov/our-mission">The Official DHS Website</a></span> lists it mission as follows:</p>
<p><b>The Core Missions</b></p>
<p>There are five homeland security missions:</p>
<p style="color: #011480;">1. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/prevent-terrorism-and-enhance-security">Prevent terrorism and enhancing security</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">2. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/secure-and-manage-borders">Secure and manage our borders</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">3. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/administer-immigration-laws">Enforce and administer our immigration laws</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">4. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/safeguard-and-secure-cyberspace">Safeguard and secure cyberspace</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">5. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/building-resilient-nation">Ensure resilience to disasters</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p>While all sorts of arguments are being made about how secure or insecure our borders truly are, the irrefutable metric about border security has nothing to do with the arrest statistics offered by the administration (which are, at best, highly suspect), but can be found in the fact that our nation finds itself awash with heroin and cocaine.  In point of fact, police departments and other first responder agencies across the United States are providing their members with the antidote to heroin overdoses.  This is an unprecedented measure.</p>
<p>Neither heroin nor cocaine are produced in the United States.  Therefore, every single gram of these substances that are present in the United States provides graphic and incontrovertible evidence of a failure of border security.</p>
<p>How secure can our nation be when our borders are not secure and unknown millions of foreign nationals freely roam the towns and cities of our nation while their very presence in the United States represents a violation of the essential immigration laws that are America&#8217;s first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals?</p>
<p>If a company made promises such as those articulated in the DHS mission statement, and did as an abysmal job as the DHS does, it would face all sorts of lawsuits and sanctions &#8212; ultimately putting it out of business.  These failures of the DHS are hardly “victimless.”  Every year thousands of people in the United States die because of crimes committed by criminal aliens.  Illegal drugs play a role in most violent crimes committed in the United States &#8212; creating still more carnage.</p>
<p>Terror attacks have killed and injured thousands of innocent victims and we have never been more vulnerable to this threat than we are today.</p>
<p>No one has been made accountable for these failures of the immigration system.  The only people who have lost their jobs were those who were slaughtered because of those attacks.</p>
<p>There is an expression that mocks those who fail to act until a tragedy strikes &#8212; doing too little, too late.  The expression is, “Closing the barn doors after the horses are stolen.”  This administration, aided an abetted by politicians from both sides of the aisle and those local and state politicians who gloat about creating “Sanctuaries” for illegal aliens are in fact, guilty of taking the barn doors off the hinges after the horses were stolen.</p>
<p>Of course, if, God forbid, there is another terror attack carried out on American soil, these supposed leaders may claim the “insanity defense.”  It has been said that insanity is “Doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different outcome.”</p>
<p>On March 9, 2005 I testified before the Subcommittee on Management, Integration and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security on the topic: <i><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg20756/html/CHRG-109hhrg20756.htm">CBP and ICE: Does the Current Organizational Structure Best Serve U.S. Homeland Security Interests? </a></i></p>
<p>In my <a href="http://cis.org/node/544"><span style="color: #011480;">prepared testimony</span></a> I made it clear that in my judgement, the creation of the DHS caused many more problems than it solved.</p>
<p>This is an excerpt from my prepared testimony:</p>
<blockquote><p>The fact that the issue of re-organizing the agencies which bear the responsibility of securing our nation&#8217;s borders is the focus of this hearing encourages me that this subcommittee is intent on making the protection of our borders and the enforcement of the immigration laws the priorities as well they should be. But I would implore you and your colleagues who represent us in both houses of congress to act swiftly and resolutely to secure our nation&#8217;s borders which at present are anything but secure. The clock is ticking and time is on the side of our nation&#8217;s enemies. To quote the first two sentences of the preface of a report entitled, &#8220;9/11 and Terrorist Travel, A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,&#8221;</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and </i><i>carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the </i><i>country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance </i><i>border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border </i><i>security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The failure of our nation to impose even a modicum of control over who is able to enter our nation, even now, is a clear indication of the inability of the United States to protect its citizens from the potential of another terrorist attack. And it is not only terrorists who threaten our well-being. It has been estimated that 30% of the federal inmate population is comprised of aliens.</p></blockquote>
<p>I concluded my testimony at that hearing by stating:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is my opinion, and the opinion of many of my former colleagues at the former INS, that this management structure is unwieldy and ineffective. The enforcement of the immigration laws is critical and shares little with the other agencies which have been combined with the former INS. The mission of each of these agencies is critical, but also unique. The mission of the former U.S. Customs Service bears little in common with the work and priorities and orientation of the former INS. In fact, prior to the merger, Customs was a division of the Treasury Department and the INS was a division of the Department of Justice. Its primary responsibility was to prevent contraband from entering the United States and to collect tariffs and duties. Customs is responsible for the movement of goods and currency across our nation&#8217;s borders.</p>
<p>The INS was concerned with the movement of people across our nation&#8217;s borders and has been involved with issues that more closely paralleled what the employees of State Department, the Labor Department, and the FBI are involved with. To re-enforce this point, I would point out that while it was relatively rare for INS agents to work with their Customs counterparts it was relatively common for us to work with agents of the other agencies I have just mentioned. The primary similarity between Customs and the INS was the border. Once you remove the border from the equation the differences become obvious and profound.</p>
<p>Since the merger of INS into ICE the new special agents who are now being trained are no longer even receiving Spanish language training. It is estimated that some 80% of the illegal alien population is Spanish speaking. This language training was an integral part of the curriculum for all new enforcement officers at the old INS. You cannot investigate people you cannot communicate with. It is worth noting that most of the Special Agents-in-Charge of the ICE offices came from the U.S. Customs Service further eroding the immigration mission. I have come to think of the current situation as the &#8220;Customization of immigration law enforcement.&#8221; I have been told that few, if any employers of illegal aliens were fined under the auspices of the employer sanctions program in the United States last year. Additionally, the investigation of immigration benefit fraud has been relegated, from what I have been told, to being pursued by very few field agents and computer systems.</p>
<p>We are currently engaged in a war on terror where control of our nation&#8217;s borders is critical to the outcome of this battle where the stakes are so high. In order for the borders to be secured we need to have a coordinated enforcement program that creates a seamless effort from the borders to the interior. This can best be done, in my estimation, by putting the CBP and ICE under one roof. It is also essential that separate chains of command be established for the immigration enforcement program with specific training and funding and accountability. This is the era of the specialist. One size does not fit all. It is critical that our nation gains control of its borders and the entire immigration bureaucracy if we are to protect our nation from illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has a profound impact on more other aspects of this nation than does any other issue. It impacts on everything from education, the environment, health-care and the economy to criminal justice and national security. It is vital, in my view, that this mission be effectively dealt with. The current structure does not provide the framework or leadership to enable this to happen. Morale among the former INS personnel is at an all-time low.  Clearly this situation needs to be remedied. A reorganization such as I outlined would represent a major step in the right direction.</p></blockquote>
<p>On March 10, 2005 I testified before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on the topic: <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju99785.000/hju99785_0f.htm"><i>Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources.</i></a></p>
<p>Here is how my prepared testimony began:</p>
<blockquote><p>A country without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls. The task of securing America&#8217;s borders falls to the dedicated men and women of CBP and ICE. These law enforcement officers are often put in harm&#8217;s way as they try to prevent aliens from gaining unauthorized entry into our country. They are not succeeding in this vital mission as evidenced by the millions of illegal aliens who currently live within our nation&#8217;s borders. This is not because of failings for which the employees of ICE or CBP bear the responsibility, but rather because our government has consistently failed to provide them with the resources they need to make certain that this basic job gets done.</p>
<p>The 9/11 Commission ultimately came to recognize the critical nature of immigration law enforcement where the &#8221;War on Terror&#8221; is concerned. In fact, page 49 of the report entitled, <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf"><span style="color: #386eff;"><b><i>&#8216;</i></b><i>&#8217;9/11 and Terrorist Travel, A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States&#8221;</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="color: #386eff;"><b><i> </i></b></span>contains a sentence that reads, &#8221;Thus abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In point of fact, there are precious few members of Congress who are even willing to suggest that America&#8217;s borders be made truly secure or that our immigration laws be effectively enforced even though the 9/11 Commission and its staff of federal agents and attorneys identified failures of border security and the overall lack of integrity to the immigration system as playing a key role in enabling the terrorists to enter the United States and embed themselves in the United States as they went about their deadly preparations.</p>
<p>To this very day, it is all but impossible to find members of Congress willing to talk about the nexus between immigration and terrorism or other threat to national security or public safety.</p>
<p>On Sunday, August 10, 2014 South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham went on Fox News to discuss his concerns about members of ISIS attacking the United States.  The Huffington Post ran a report about Graham&#8217;s televised interview.  The title of the article summed up Graham&#8217;s statements, succinctly: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/10/lindsey-graham-syria_n_5665831.html">Lindsey Graham: If Obama Doesn&#8217;t Go On Offense, Terrorists Are &#8216;Coming Here.&#8217;</a></p>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">Fox News also reported on Graham&#8217;s interview:  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/10/graham-islamic-state-will-attack-on-us-soil-obama-must-stop-terror-groups-rise/">&#8220;Graham: Islamic State will attack on US soil, Obama must stop terror group’s rise.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the Fox News article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>However, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat and the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is taking a more hawkish stance, similar to Graham’s.</i></p>
<p><i>“It takes an army to defeat an army, and I believe that we either confront [Islamic State] now or we will be forced to deal with an even stronger enemy in the future,” she said Friday after the airstrikes were announced. “Inaction is no longer an option.”</i></p>
<p><i>She and others have said for months that Islamic State is recruiting and training fighters from Europe and the United States who could come home and launch a terror attack.</i></p>
<p><i>Graham also argued that Islamic State’s nearly unchecked rise is the result of Obama failing last year to take action against the group in Syria, even after the FBI and other U.S. intelligence officials warned the White House and Congress of its growing, global threat.</i></p>
<p><i>“Your game plan cannot protect the United States,” Graham said Sunday, addressing Obama.</i></p>
<p><i>Such rhetoric tracks closely to that used in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lawmakers from both parties voted to give President George W. Bush the authority to take military action against Iraq in the hopes of combating terrorism.</i></p>
<p><i>At the time, many said the United States faced a choice of fighting terrorism on American soil or on foreign soil.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>What is being ignored by the politicians and most news organizations is that the “War on Terror” is not an “either/or” situation.  Terrorists can certainly launch attacks inside the United States whether or not we hammer them with our military forces in the Middle East.</p>
<p>While the emergence of ISIS has justifiably ratcheted up concerns about the Damoclean threat of global terrorism, these concerns have been raised for years and, incredibly, many of the very same politicians have turned the issue of border security into a bargaining chip for a program that would ultimately provide unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and official identity documents even though they know full well that there would be no way to interview those aliens in person &#8212; let alone conduct actual field investigations to determine the truthfulness of the claims made in their applications.</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On December 1, 2013 the Huffington Post ran a worrying report:  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/01/dianne-feinstein-america-less-safe_n_4367906.html">&#8220;America Is &#8216;Less Safe&#8217; Than 2 Years Ago, Intelligence Committee Chairs Say.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>The report focused on statements made by Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate&#8217;s Intelligence Committee, when she was interviewed for CNN&#8217;s program, “State of the Union.”</p>
<p>Here is how the report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Interviewed on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she believed that there are now more terrorists with the technological means to carry out a bombing in the U.S.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Here is an additional important excerpt from the Huffington Post article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I think terror is up worldwide,&#8221; said Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. &#8220;There are new bombs, very big bombs, trucks being reinforced for those bombs. There are bombs that go through magnetometers. The bomb-maker is still alive. There are more groups than ever. And there is huge malevolence out there.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>Feinstein added that there was &#8220;a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community, and that is that the West is responsible for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that&#8217;s going to solve this is Islamic Sharia law.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On the same day, December 1, 2013 Newsmax posted the report that provided an even more dire warning: <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/feinstein-rogers-terror-threat/2013/12/01/id/539316?ns_mail_uid=4092516&amp;ns_mail_job=1548232_12012013&amp;promo_code=15C7C-1">&#8220;Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Rogers: Terror Threat Greater Than Before Sept 11&#8243;</a></p>
<p>This report began with this unambiguous assessment:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The U.S. is in greater danger of a terrorist attack than it was prior to September 11 and has less ability to prevent such aggression by Islamist radicals, key congressional intelligence leaders said Sunday.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This report ended with the following statement:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Feinstein is pushing legislation to protect NSA practices but require more congressional reporting.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The disconnect is nothing short of astonishing.  Feinstein is willing to accept a loss of privacy in the name of national security while she blithely ignores anything that relates to the 9/11 Commission, its findings or its recommendations.  Having mentioned the 9/11 Commission, the first paragraph of the preface of the &#8220;<span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a>&#8220;</span><span style="color: #011b44;"><b><i> </i></b></span>begins with the following paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United </i><i>States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were </i><i>efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border </i><i>security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers </i><i>demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the </i><i>United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security </i><i>policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made </i><i>one.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist travel went on to detail numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits:”</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.</i>”</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On July 20, 2013 the Washington Times published a truly disturbing report:  <i><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/homeland-security-loses-track-of-1-million-foreign/print/">&#8220;Homeland Security loses track of 1 million foreigners; report could hurt immigration deal.&#8221;</a></i></span></p>
<p>Here is how this important report begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won&#8217;t meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system. </i><i>The findings were revealed as Congress debates an immigration bill, and the Government Accountability Office&#8217;s report could throw up another hurdle because lawmakers in the House and Senate have said that any final deal must include a workable system to track entries and exits and cut down on so-called visa overstays.</i></p>
<p><i>The government does track arrivals, but is years overdue in setting up a system to track departures — a goal set in a 1996 immigration law and reaffirmed in 2004, but which has eluded Republican and Democratic administrations.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is foolish &#8212; indeed extremely perilous &#8212; to think that terrorists would not want to strike at the heart of America today to demoralize our nation.</p>
<p>We have numerous examples of terror attacks that had been carried out, or were attempted to be carried out in the United States.</p>
<p>But then you need to remember that Graham was one of the “Gang of Eight” that concocted Comprehensive Immigration Reform.  On Feb. 18, 2013 Accuracy In Media (AIM) published my paper:  <span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-gang-of-eight-and-immigration-reform-bordering-on-a-national-security-nightmare/">The “Gang of Eight” and Immigration Reform: “Bordering on a National Security Nightmare.”</a></span></p>
<p>From the day that the DHS was created concerns about the ability of this huge agency to truly enhance national security was questioned by the employees of the various component agencies.  Many of my former colleagues at the INS who suddenly found themselves to be part of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) became concerned that by splitting up the immigration mission among three agencies and positioning many managers from what became known as “legacy customs” in charge of the enforcement of the immigration laws would compromise the ability of this cobbled-together entity of ICE to properly enforce the immigration laws.</p>
<p>Additionally, while the former INS had its share of problems, putting the Border Patrol and inspectors assigned to ports of entry into the newly created agency known as CBP (Customs and Border Protection) would only exacerbate the challenges to mounting a coordinated effort to secure our nation&#8217;s borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws.  There were additional concerns that moving the adjudications officers who were charged with adjudicating applications for immigration benefits, such as conferring refugee status and resident alien status as well as United States citizenship upon lawful immigrants, would add to the lack of coordination that is vital to making certain that there is meaningful integrity to the immigration mission</p>
<p>It is unlikely that DHS was created to truly cure the ills of the former INS, but if it was, then you could compare the creation of this Frankenstein agency with the statement, “The surgery was a success but the patient died.”</p>
<p>I have testified before more than a dozen congressional hearings and on several occasions I was called upon to provide insight about my concerns about how the creation of the DHS migh impact effective enforcement and administration of our immigration laws.</p>
<p>In the days, weeks and months after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 a veritable parade of political “leaders” seeking that all-important photo-op and print in the newspapers, stood before the forest of microphones and television cameras and thumped their chests and the podiums demanding to know, “Why no one had connected the dots?”</p>
<p>Of course, the vulnerabilities created by failures of the immigration system were well known to many politicians for years prior to the attacks of 9/11.</p>
<p>On May 20, 1997, more than four years before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I participated in my first Congressional hearing. That hearing was conducted by the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and was entitled: <i>&#8220;</i><a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju44195.000/hju44195_0f.htm"><i>Visa Fraud and Immigration Benefits Application Fraud.&#8221;</i></a></p>
<p>This important hearing was predicated on two terrorist attacks that were carried out more than four years earlier, in 1993 by aliens from the Middle East who, as was determined, gamed the visa process and/or the immigration benefits program.</p>
<p>In January 1993 a Pakistani national by the name of Mir Kansi stood outside CIA Headquarters with an AK-47 and opened fire on the vehicles of CIA officials reporting for work on that cold January morning in Virginia. When the smoke dissipated, two CIA officer lay dead and three others were seriously wounded. Kansi fled the United States and was ultimately brought back to stand trial.  He was found guilty and executed for his crimes. He had also been granted political asylum and had been subsequently found to have lied on his application, thereby committing a felony: fraud. Had the fraud been detected and had he been deported from the United States, those who were killed and wounded would not have been harmed.</p>
<p>Just one month later, on February 26, 1993 a bomb-laden truck was parked in the garage under the World Trade Center complex and detonated. The blast nearly brought one of the 110 story towers down sideways. As a result of the explosion, 6 innocent people were killed, hundreds were injured and an estimated one half billion dollars in damages were inflicted on that iconic complex of buildings located just blocks from Wall Street. That attack was also carried out by alien terrorists who managed to not only game the visa process in order to enter the United States, but the immigration benefits program that enabled them to remain in the United States and embed themselves as they went about their preparations to carry out that attack.</p>
<p>Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 there have been numerous congressional hearings that focused on how the terrorists were able to enter the United States and carry out their attacks.  In fact, there have been other terror attacks and attempted attacks.  Many experts from many fields have consistently warned about the existential threats America and Americans face today.  Yet, for the most part, they are ignored by the news media and ignored by our “leaders.”</p>
<p>I am only one of many witnesses who have done everything possible to get the “Fools on the Hill,” as I refer to all too many of our supposed political representatives in Washington, to listen.</p>
<p>It has been said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  Where terrorism is concerned, in point of fact, nn ounce of prevention is worth many tons of cure.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When terrorists finally exploit our open borders, how will progressives save face? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border-Fence.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238489" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border-Fence-450x327.jpg" alt="Border-Fence" width="271" height="197" /></a>Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera accused Matt Drudge&#8217;s website of &#8220;the worst kind of jingoistic rhetoric ever&#8221; for carrying news stories about the dangers of illegal immigration. He said Drudge &#8220;is doing his best to stir up a civil war. I mean, shame on Matt Drudge.&#8221; Republican Rep. Todd Rokita and his Indiana delegation have been criticized for suggesting the possibility that Latin American children pouring across our southern border are carrying deadly diseases. Some of them have already been discovered to be carrying lice and suffering from disease. We&#8217;ve yet to find out what kind of communicable diseases they could spread to American children when schools across the country are forced to admit them.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, many people approach our recent southern border problem as a &#8220;humanitarian crisis&#8221; and hint that congressmen who want to make securing our border our No. 1 priority are, as President Barack Obama says, &#8220;mean.&#8221; Others who argue for border security run the risk of being dismissed as racists. The Democrats are hoping that painting the Republicans as mean racists will help them with the Latino vote in November.</p>
<p>Securing our border is not only an immigration issue but, more importantly, a national security issue. International terrorists know that our southern border is insecure. They can simply fly to a Latin American country and then sneak across the border with deadly germ or chemical warfare weapons and dirty bombs, which could be planted anywhere.</p>
<p>According to Breitbart, &#8220;a leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from more than 75 different countries.&#8221; It reports that 28 &#8220;individuals from Pakistan were caught attempting to sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 211 individuals either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry.&#8221; Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that the number of apprehended illegal aliens who come from countries with &#8220;substantial terrorist ties&#8221; is at a record high, countries such as Yemen, Somalia and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>On top of this, individuals from nations currently suffering from the world&#8217;s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak into the U.S.</p>
<p>Deroy Murdock&#8217;s article titled &#8220;The Southern Border: Our Welcome Mat for Terrorists,&#8221; for National Review Online (April 25, 2013), reports that &#8220;Somalia&#8217;s Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane told authorities in 2011 that he earned up to $75,000 per day smuggling East Africans into America. His clients included three al-Shabaab terrorists. As the House report states: &#8216;Dhakane cautioned that each of these individuals is ready to die for their cause and would fight against the United States if the jihad moved from overseas to the U.S. mainland.&#8217;&#8221; Many Syrians and Iranians have been caught making illegal entry. Both Syria and Iran are supporters of Hezbollah, have chemical weapons and materials for dirty bombs, and hate &#8220;the Great Satan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Murdock makes reference to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency study titled &#8220;A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border.&#8221; It explained that between September 2001 and September 2012, there were 59 homegrown violent jihadi plots within the United States. The study said that the more violent threat to Americans is the ability of Islamist terrorist organizations, resulting from their growing presence in the Western Hemisphere, to exploit our porous southwestern border and enter the United States undetected.</p>
<p>Here are some questions that should be of concern to every American: Can the U.S. Customs and Border Protection assure Americans that it has arrested every terrorist attempting to make illegal entry to our country? Can it assure us that there are no terrorist cells operating in our country and awaiting word from our enemies to attack us? There&#8217;s another question that&#8217;s just as important: If there is a terrorist attack through our southern border, will Americans allow President Obama, congressional Democrats, the news media and progressives and liberals to deny that their weak border security policy was responsible?</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Obama's refusal to secure the border to blame for Agent Javier Vega's death?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238069" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing.jpg" alt="JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing" width="292" height="219" /></a><span class="zw-portion">The brutal slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent by illegal aliens </span><span class="zw-portion">highlights the perils of the Obama administration&#8217;s </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">de facto</span><span class="zw-portion"> open borders policy that has transformed the nation&#8217;s southern boundary into a taxpayer-funded welcome center for desperately poor unskilled and low-skill workers, sick children, welfare mooches, and violent criminal gang members.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This horrific crime happened not too far from the same border that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sedately insisted was &#8220;secure.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;We hear a lot on TV that the border is secure, that the border is safer and that couldn&#8217;t be any farther from being true</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Chris </span><span class="zw-portion">Cabrera</span><span class="zw-portion">, vice president of </span><span class="zw-portion">Local 3307 of the </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Council </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65132" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">told</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Neil Cavuto of Fox News.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">It seems to be getting more and more dangerous as the days go by</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">It seems with all of this talk about amnesty or comprehensive immigration reform, getting [legislation] through</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> people seem to be more and more desperate to get into this country.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">While off duty this past Sunday, Border Patrol Agent </span><span class="zw-portion">Javier Vega</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Jr.</span><span class="zw-portion">, just 36 years old, died in south Texas, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">gunned down</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> by two illegal immigrants trying to rob him while he was on a fishing outing. He was murdered in </span><span class="zw-portion">front of his family, including his two children and parents.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">bandidos</span><span class="zw-portion"> ordered the family to get on the ground and were surprised to discover that Vega and his father were armed, unlike the typically helpless victims in Mexico and other Latin American countries where life is cheap and privately owned firearms are forbidden or severely regulated.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Vega suffered a mortal wound in the chest during the bungled attack, but as life drained out of his mangled body he pleaded with his dad to &#8220;keep shooting.&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Vega&#8217;s father </span><span class="zw-portion">took a non-fatal shot in the hip</span><span class="zw-portion"> and his </span><span class="zw-portion">mother picked up an AR-15 rifle and fired upon the killers&#8217; vehicle, hitting it several times as the two assailants fled the scene. The vehicle apparently broke down and was found abandoned a few miles from the site of the shooting.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Other robberies that fit the same pattern as the Vega case had been taking place locally, police said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Willacy County, Texas Sheriff Larry Spence, who has held his post for nearly three decades, said the crime was heartbreaking. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">I called out a prayer asking the Lord, help us resolve this and five hours later, we found the individuals,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">he </span><span class="zw-portion">said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol Council</span><span class="zw-portion"> praised Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officials for apprehending the killers. &#8220;It is through their professionalism and tenacity that the wretched animals who committed this crime will face the full measure of Texas justice.&#8221; The Council created a memorial fund for Vega&#8217;s surviving family members.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Cabrera </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/08/07/national-border-patrol-council-vice-president-the-border-is-getting-more-dangerous-n1875904" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">complained</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">about the strictures the Obama administration places on border guards, explained his lack of surprise at the illegal alien status of the two suspects.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Unfortunately it&#8217;s not surprising to me, the laws that we have on the books aren&#8217;t enforced the way that they need to be</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">The time served, the detention time that they&#8217;re giving is often very short,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating to see and then when something like this happens, whether or not it&#8217;s a Border Patrol agent that gets killed, there&#8217;s multiple people killed everyday, some of them by illegals and it&#8217;s just frustrating.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The NBPC </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/06/Slain-Border-Patrol-Agents-Blood-On-Hands-of-Congress-and-President-Says-Union" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">expressed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> its members&#8217; outrage at the Vega murder</span><span class="zw-portion"> on its official Twitter account, stating,</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega: MURDERED by two illegal aliens. Victim of lax border enforcement. Blood on hands of Congress and President.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The suspects in the killing have long rap sheets.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Gustavo Tijerina</span><span class="zw-portion">, who also uses the surname Tijerina-Sandoval,</span><span class="zw-portion"> was reportedly arrested on at least four occasions from 2007 to 2010 for illegally entering the U.S. He pleaded guilty to illegal entry on July 9, 2007 and was sentenced to 30 days with credit for time served, plus a $10 fee. Oct. 4 that year he was convicted of the same offense, and was given a 60-day sentence plus a $10 fee. According to court records, he waded his way through the Rio Grande River. On Oct. 25, 2008 he illegally entered the country the same watery way again. Next month he was sentenced to 90 days and handed another $10 fine to pay.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">On Dec. 15, 2009, a grand jury indicted Tijerina on illegal entry charges. </span><span class="zw-portion">The indictment</span><span class="zw-portion"> stated that he</span><span class="zw-portion"> &#8220;had previously been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed, knowing and unlawfully was present in the United States having been found near Edinburg, Texas.&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">He failed to secure the consent of the U.S. attorney general and homeland security security to seek lawful admission to the country. At some point a warrant was issued for his arrest. It indicated he could receive as much as 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Tijerina was held by authorities without bond on Jan. 26, 2010, and sentenced to a nine-month jail term and given a $100 fine.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hernandez&#8217;s rap sheet is less expansive. He has reportedly been removed from the U.S. just twice for unauthorized entry.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Tijerina</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">and</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Hernandez </span><span class="zw-portion">were arraigned this week. After reportedly confessing their crimes, they were denied bail and now stand formally accused of </span><span class="zw-portion">capital murder of a peace officer, attempted murder, and </span><span class="zw-portion">some</span><span class="zw-portion"> lesser charges.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Sheriff Spence said the two men told him that they did not know their victim was an off-duty Border Patrol agent. </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;They do now,&#8221; he </span><span class="zw-portion">added.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The men were </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">caught</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> in a shed behind the home of a local man</span><span class="zw-portion">. When they were informed that their now-dead victim was a Border Patrol officer, they reacted with &#8220;shock and concern,&#8221; Spence said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The two men are probably connected to organized crime, he added.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;They claim to have been involved in other incidents, this means you&#8217;ve got stolen vehicles going into Mexico,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Spence</span><span class="zw-portion"> said.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Everything is going to be cartel-related, there&#8217;s a connection somehow.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;This is not the first episode of border violence in Willacy County but it&#8217;s the first time someone&#8217;s been killed,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">the sheriff</span><span class="zw-portion"> said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Vega isn&#8217;t the only Border Patrolman to be murdered in the Obama era.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Brian Terry was </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/08/01/second-brian-terry-murder-suspect-extradited-us/13448915/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">shot and killed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">by illegal aliens in December 2010 while on patrol in the desert near Nogales, Ariz. The foreign gunmen had obtained firearms from the U.S. government as part of President Obama&#8217;s morally reprehensible Fast and Furious program. Under the program Mexican gangsters were provided with guns by the U.S. in the hope that they would go on a killing spree that would whip up public hysteria that might have led to a crackdown on gun ownership.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Terry died during a firefight after having suffering the bad luck of coming across a so-called rip crew. These criminal gangs steal illicit drugs that have already been smuggled into the United States. (This means illegals illegally steal illegal drugs from others who have illegally snuck them into the country.)</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The U.S.-Mexico border has become increasingly anarchic since the Obama regime took over. It </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/border-crisis-illegal-immigrant-children-include-ms-13-gang-members/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">has become</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">a recruiting center for Latin American criminal gangs, according to the Border Patrolmen&#8217;s labor union.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We know the cartels were exploiting this and continue to exploit this crisis in south Texas, it makes sense that MS-13 and other gangs would do the same,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">Shawn </span><span class="zw-portion">Moran</span><span class="zw-portion">, national v</span><span class="zw-portion">ice </span><span class="zw-portion">p</span><span class="zw-portion">resident of the </span><span class="zw-portion">17,000-member </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol Council </span><span class="zw-portion">told Fox News.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">MS-13 (the MS stands for </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">Mara Salvatrucha</span><span class="zw-portion">, apparently a reference to El Salvador) has been taking advantage of a Red Cross telephone bank on the border that was created to help unaccompanied illegal alien minors to reach relatives. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">These phones are being utilized by gang members to recruit, to enlist, to pressure people, other juveniles into joining the MS-13 gang</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Moran said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Because border officials are required to treat minors with kid gloves, they are unable to separate gang members from other detainees.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re being told we have to look the other way</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Moran explained.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">If we see gang tattoos, we</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re not allowed to treat them any differently than anybody else applying to be allowed to stay here or to apply for asylum.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">It</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s a security issue that we feel could really snowball out of control and it would put agents at risk. It puts the other detainees at risk</span><span class="zw-portion">.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">MS-13 is </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">one of the biggest threats we face on our southern border</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said. &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">They do not hesitate to use extreme violence if necessary. They are considered one of the top threats to border patrol agents.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Juveniles, apparently including MS-13 members, are being shipped all over America by the Obama administration. Patriots in some communities have organized to prevent their relocation, with some success.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, KRGV in Weslaco, Texas is </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.krgv.com/mobile/news/2-accused-of-assaulting-border-patrol-agent/?test3" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reporting</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> that two Honduran men suspected of being in the U.S. illegally have been arrested in the beating of another Border Patrol officer. Investigators say </span><span class="zw-portion">Nelson Chavarria-Ramos punched the </span><span class="zw-portion">officer</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the face</span><span class="zw-portion"> several times as </span><span class="zw-portion">Marco Avelar-Gomez</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">held down </span><span class="zw-portion">the legs of the victim. </span><span class="zw-portion">The agent</span><span class="zw-portion">, whose name was not provided in the news report,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">somehow </span><span class="zw-portion">arrest</span><span class="zw-portion">ed</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">duo</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This is just the beginning, of course.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The ongoing assault on the Border Patrol is completely preventable. Evidence strongly suggests it is part of President Obama&#8217;s plan to cause chaos on the border as part of his larger assault on the nation&#8217;s free institutions. Obama&#8217;s policies encourage illegal aliens, including gang members and other violent criminals that are part of the Democratic Party&#8217;s natural constituency, to invade the United States in record numbers.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is a kind of Mariela boatlift in reverse in which the U.S. president is aggressively recruiting and importing the dregs of Latin American society into the U.S.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is taking a grave toll on the people of the United States.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As Breitbart News </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://tiny.iavian.net/2oow" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reports</span></a><span class="zw-portion">, a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice states that roughly half of all federal criminal cases in 2013 were filed in regions close to the southern border.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">To no one&#8217;s surprise, the news report states:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">During </span><span class="zw-portion">[Fiscal Year] </span><span class="zw-portion">2013, U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices filed a total of 61,529 criminal cases against defendants, according to the DOJ. Regions along the border each had more convictions than in any other district. 6,341 cases were filed in Western Texas, suggesting it is home to the country&#8217;s most severe crime patterns. 6,130 cases were filed in Southern Texas; 4,848 were filed in Southern California; 3,889 were filed in New Mexico; and 3,538 were filed in Arizona.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The lawlessness will continue and undoubtedly escalate in the remaining two and a half years of Obama&#8217;s term of office.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">More Border Patrol deaths are inevitable thanks to the dangerous policies of this malevolent administration.</span></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ImmigrationReform.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238030" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ImmigrationReform-450x232.jpg" alt="ImmigrationReform" width="306" height="158" /></a>Congress is now in recess. We can now all exhale.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While the media makes much of how members of both the Senate and House of Representatives have left Washington without accomplishing anything, I would offer a different perspective.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let&#8217;s be fair: everyone who works is entitled to vacation &#8212; even members of Congress.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here are some additional things to consider. When Congress is not in session they cannot do harm to America or Americans at the behest of their respective political party bosses or their deep-pocketed contributors or special interest groups and their lobbyist who promise to deliver blocks of votes.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When members of Congress go home they will hopefully, take some time out to meet with their constituents. This is at least as important as having them convene hearings which, having testified before so many of those hearings, myself, I have often lamented that perhaps instead of hearings they should conduct “<em>listenings</em>.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I often wonder how many people who are disdainful and contemptuous of Congress have ever actually met with, or attempted to set up a meeting with, his (her) elected representative. In all fairness, not unlike other people, members of Congress cannot read minds. Also, human nature being what it is, when politicians don&#8217;t hear from their constituents they may presume that their constituents are not particularly displeased with how they are being represented. In any event, the slogan “Out of sight-out of mind” certainly does apply.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Therefore a significant part of the blame for the mess America is in today can be traced back to lazy and uninformed citizens, who not only are likely to not vote, and do not make an effort to truly understand the issues. This is exacerbated by Americans who likely don&#8217;t even know the names of the politicians who are <i>supposed</i> to represent them on the city, state or federal levels, let alone contacted them to discuss their concerns and ideas.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When we go to a restaurant we are generally very specific about the meal we want to eat and how we want it prepared. No one would walk into a restaurant and tell the waiter or waitress, “Just throw some crap on my plate you think I should eat, and I will gladly eat it!”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If the meal that is served is not to our liking we will most probably send it back. If that doesn&#8217;t work, we are likely to “vote with our feet” and walk out the door of that restaurant and never return.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We must be no less specific or demanding in articulating our concerns with our elected representatives as we are when placing an order with those waiters and waitresses.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let&#8217;s now contemplate the accusation that the Congress has not accomplished much. I, for one, would actually take issue with this charge. Voting down bad legislation is not a failure to accomplish something, it is an example of using proper discretion to save us from some terrible legislation and the damage it would do to America and Americans.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The pressure is on for passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Journalists on virtually every news program have been beating the drum for this legislative train wreck making all sorts of extravagant and wrong-headed claims about the wonders Comprehensive Immigration Reform and how much America needs it.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">To quote my late parents, “We need Comprehensive Immigration Reform like we need a hole in the head!”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There are many who would profit from that legislation, but they are not the average American workers or their families. Indeed, American workers would be harmed by this legislation that would provide corporations with a virtually inexhaustible supply of cheap and compliant labor. While most people focus on how this program would provide unknown millions of heretofore illegal foreign workers with lawful status and official identity documents so that they could compete with tens of millions of unemployed or underemployed American and lawful immigrant workers &#8212; mostly for low paying jobs &#8212; Comprehensive Immigration Reform would also provide for many more H-1B visas which would apply downward pressure on wages and working conditions for highly educated and highly skilled American professionals such as computer programmers, engineers and technicians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I have addressed the issue about the profiteers of immigration in several articles I have written for a number of websites and publications including my previous article for FrontPage Magazine, <span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/immigration-reform-engineered-destruction-of-the-middle-class/">“Immigration ‘Reform’: Engineered Destruction of the Middle Class”</a> </span><span style="color: #011480;"><i>(</i></span><span style="color: #000000;"><i>The real reason high-tech titans are lining up behind the amnesty effort)</i> which was published on July 22, 2014.</span></p>
<p>Additionally, the winter 2014 edition of the quarterly journal, “The Social Contract” included my article: <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/twentyfour-two/tsc_24_2_cutler.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;American Dream Being Sold at Auction &#8211; America’s Middle Class to Be Put on Endangered Species List&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Congress acted wisely and did not accede to the demands of the “President who would be king.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He has bullied and threatened to once again use his pen to write more executive orders and policy memoranda to circumvent the legislative process that is an integral part of how our democratic republic is to conduct business as per that document Obama taught his students when he was a college instructor, the Constitution of the United States.</p>
<p>On June 17, 2012 Fox News posted my Op-Ed, <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/06/17/obama-invokes-prosecutorial-discretion-to-circumvent-constitution-and-congress/"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Obama Invokes Prosecutorial Discretion to Circumvent Constitution and Congress.&#8221;</span></a> I wrote it in response to the speech the president made two days earlier in the White House Rose Garden when he addressed a press conference and claimed “prosecutorial discretion” to justify essentially enacting a temporary version of the DREAM Act without the benefit of legislation. In my article I stated that he had not used prosecutorial discretion but “prosecutorial <em>deception</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps he needs to be reminded that our government is a democratic republic and not a thugocracy.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In any event, a sufficient number of members in the House of Representatives refused to be bullied and resisted the extreme pressure applied by so many to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform.</p>
<p>Most medical doctors take the “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html"><span style="color: #386eff;">Hippocratic Oath</span></a>” when they graduate from medical school, to provide them with a moral compass to guide them in their practice of medicine, concerning how they will treat their patients.</p>
<p>“<b><i>I will keep them from harm and injustice.”</i></b></p>
<p>The classic version of that oath contains a sentence that should be added to the oaths of office for all of our elected officials, but rather than apply to patients, as it does for medical practitioners, it should apply to the constituents, the American citizens our politicians are elected to represent.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, that elegant ph</span>rase also eloquently describes what must be the goals of all of our laws, especially our immigration laws where the citizens of this great nation are concerned.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/illegal-aliens-3.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237842" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/illegal-aliens-3-450x339.jpg" alt="APTOPIX Mexico Migrants" width="285" height="215" /></a>Before Friday night&#8217;s DACA-gutting immigration bill was passed in the House, rookie Majority Whip, Steve Scalise (R-La.) had been getting <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/steve-scalise-day-one-109612.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">pounced</span></a> on by the liberal media for his “inability” to push wavering House Republicans into getting something out the door before the recess-break. Ever since the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill was introduced last year, the media has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/03/19/the-gop-dilemma-on-immigration/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">claimed</span></a> that it&#8217;s Republican intransigence that is obstructing immigration and border security “reform.”</p>
<p>Whether true or not, it’s important to point out that this has never been the case for our conservative representatives at the state and local-level. In 2007 alone they <a href="http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/hazleton-and-beyond-why-communities-try-restrict-immigration"><span style="color: #0463c1;">introduced</span></a> over <i>1,500</i> immigration bills in state assemblies across the nation with 240 being enacted into law. They’ve been just as busy since, probably because they’ve had to. The problems from decades of open-borders faced by state and local governments are getting ever closer to crisis-proportions. Given that Friday’s much improved bill will surely not survive the Senate’s or Obama’s chopping block, it may be time to reassess what our representatives at the state-level can and have been doing to deliver true patriotic immigration reform.</p>
<p>In a newly published book of academic essays about state-level immigration regulation, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Neighbors-Immigration-Citizenship-Migration/dp/0814737803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407008550&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=strange+neighbors+immigration"><span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>Strange Neighbors</i></span></a>, immigration law guru Kris Kobach declares that “every state is a border state now.” Indeed, immigration-induced problems are the “new normal” for most state governments which will be compounded by a perennially underperforming national economy and budget-busting pension and welfare obligations. Drawing on Milton Friedman’s statement that “you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state,” Kobach reminds us that “[a] massive influx of individuals who either pay very little in income taxes or evade income taxes entirely, but consume public services at a relatively high rate, is costly for any receiving state.” This is clearly seen in the predominately Democrat-run “<span style="color: #0463c1;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/sanctuary_cities_and_states_will_bear_the_lions_share_of_amnesty_cost.html">sanctuary cities</a>,</span>” which have some of the most unstable governments in the nation.</p>
<p>Despite the flurry of state and local bills over the past few years, states have been restrained from regulating immigration where it really hurts: education costs. It’s now <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/articles/plyler-v-doe.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">estimated</span></a> that around 50 percent of the increase in the national school-age population going forward will come from illegal aliens. But in the landmark 1982 decision of <i>Plyer v. Doe</i>, statutes denying free education for illegal alien children were deemed unconstitutional by a bare majority of the Supreme Court. In a display of ignorance startling even for liberals, then-Chief Justice William Brennan wrote for the court that “few if any illegal immigrants come to this country… in order to avail themselves of a free education.” On the contrary, says John Eastman, constitutional lawyer and fellow contributor to <i>Strange Neighbors</i>, a free top-notch education is “one of the three great magnets” for illegal aliens to come across our border – the others being employment and birthright citizenship.</p>
<p>According to Brennan in the <i>Plyer </i>decision, the statute in question (which originated from Texas) was struck down because “the record in no way supports the claim that exclusion of undocumented children is likely to improve the overall quality of education in the State.” Although there may not have been a lot of data available to counsel for Texas then, that was over 30 years ago and we now have a ton of statistics on education costs from illegal immigration. According to a 2010 report from the <a href="http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/USCostStudy_2010.pdf?docID=4921"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Federation for American Immigration Reform</span></a>, the <i>largest</i> cost of illegal immigration to states today is, in fact, education. Just in Arizona that year alone, it cost taxpayers close to $1.5 billion. It now looks likely that what was missing for Brennan can now be met.</p>
<p>In 2011, Alabama attempted to build such a challenge to <i>Plyer</i>. It enacted a <a href="http://www.fairus.org/publications/hb56-helping-to-move-alabama-s-economy-forward"><span style="color: #0463c1;">law</span></a> that sought to gather information on education costs of illegal aliens and how it affected state-wide education in general. Although it sought to merely gather data, the statute was immediately challenged by treasonous lawfare groups, like the SPLC and ACLU, and implementation of the law has been delayed. But for states hoping to turn off the education magnet, Alabama’s efforts are instructive.</p>
<p>Since <i>Plyer</i>, Eastman reminds us, the Supreme Court has made some positive shifts towards states’ rights, as seen in such cases as <i>US v. Lopez</i>, <i>US v. Morrison</i> and <i>Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting</i>. It is hoped patriotic state legislators and attorneys general across the nation will follow Alabama and take up similar legislative initiatives. Considering our congress is compromised and our president wants the borders erased, it may be our only hope.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/article-new_ehow_images_a06_7l_or_information-illegal-immigration-800x800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237788" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/article-new_ehow_images_a06_7l_or_information-illegal-immigration-800x800.jpg" alt="article-new_ehow_images_a06_7l_or_information-illegal-immigration-800x800" width="265" height="199" /></a>Conservatives in Congress scored a major triumph last week as the House approved emergency legislation that strengthens border security and attempts to rein in a lawless president.</p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a conservative champion, took a well-deserved victory lap in an </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/08/conservative-plan-could-save-border-bill/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">interview</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">with the WND news website.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The &#8220;legislative miracle&#8221; approved by the House represents </span><span class="zw-portion">a </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">stunning turnaround</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">and </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">a huge victory for the conservatives in Congress.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> Its approval is also a big win for the American people </span><span class="zw-portion">who</span><span class="zw-portion">, Bachmann said,</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">saved Congress from itself</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">by </span><span class="zw-portion">jamming the congressional switchboard to state their opposition to President Obama&#8217;s planned immigration amnesty.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Bachmann noted the legislation pays states to place National Guard troops on the border, doubling funding for that program. It also responds to the president&#8217;s threat that </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">he would act alone, lawlessly, to grant work permits to 5-</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">6 million illegal foreign nationals.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We have taken the strongest possible action, legislatively, to stop him</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Bachmann said.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">We</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">ve put the president on notice by saying, </span><span class="zw-portion">‘</span><span class="zw-portion">You better not issue these work permits because we</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">ve said no. You better not try it, Mr. President.</span><span class="zw-portion">’”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The bill also provides funding to immigration agencies to house illegal alien children and also amends a 2008 law that was created to block the sex trafficking of young people but which has been used to provide asylum to illegals coming from Central American countries.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Bachmann also marveled at the fact that the bill was even tougher in her view than what anti-amnesty stalwarts Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had thought was politically possible to achieve.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">She also rejected </span><span class="zw-portion">President Obama</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8216;s mischievous comment Friday afternoon in which he attacked conservatives for supposedly preventing the House from approving a border-fix measure.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">That </span><span class="zw-portion">comment</span><span class="zw-portion"> was</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">infantile,</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion spell-error">Bachmann</span><span class="zw-portion"> said, noting that the Democrat-controlled Senate is the chamber that has yet to approve a border bill. Republicans hope Senate Democrats take a public relations drubbing in coming weeks for failing to act.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Victory came a day after a</span><span class="zw-portion"> conservative-led uprising among House Republicans</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/conservatives-kill-amnesty-bill/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">scuttled</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Speaker John Boehner</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) </span><span class="zw-portion">told </span><span class="zw-portion">FrontPage </span><span class="zw-portion">on Thursday.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The showdown between rank-and-file Republicans and their leaders in the House came as Americans grow increasingly angry over the border crisis that has been </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062514-706233-texas-border-immigration-wave-orchestrated-by-administration.htm" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">staged and carefully choreographed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">by the far-left levelers of the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Conservatives worried that the GOP establishment bill did not even try to block Obama&#8217;s upcoming mass amnesty and did not do enough to crack down on the recent surge of illegals streaming across the country&#8217;s southern border.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But on Friday conservative and moderate Republicans united during a House GOP conference meeting and approved stronger legislation to replace the GOP establishment&#8217;s weak border bill that Boehner put on the back burner the day before. A </span><span class="zw-portion">$694 million </span><span class="zw-portion">emergency measured aimed at fixing the border crisis was approved by the House later that day on </span><span class="zw-portion">a vote of 223</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">189</span><span class="zw-portion">, freeing House members to begin their delayed three-week summer recess that was supposed to begin Thursday.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The legislation attempts to defang President Obama&#8217;s wildly unpopular </span><span class="zw-portion">Deferred Action for Children Arrivals, or DACA, policy </span><span class="zw-portion">that he used to provide asylum to more than 500,000 illegals who came to the U.S. as minors. Separately, the House approved a bill to reverse DACA, which encourages youngsters to make the dangerous trek north from Central America to sneak across the border, on a vote of 216 to 192. Four Democratic lawmakers voted for the measure.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, the Obama administration is pressing ahead with plans to illegally grant amnesty to millions of immigration law-breaking foreign nationals present in the country.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is </span><span class="zw-portion">just one in a long series of Reichstag fires calculated to enhance the power of the neo-Marxist despot who now occupies the Oval Office.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">O</span><span class="zw-portion">n ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; yesterday </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama palace heel-clicker Dan Pfeiffer </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/03/wh-adviser-dan-pfeiffer-the-president-has-no-choice-but-to-act-on-immigration/?advD=1248,53299" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reaffirmed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">that a huge amnesty is coming. Obama &#8220;has no choice but to act&#8221; to grant amnesty to as many as five million illegal aliens &#8220;at the end of summer,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After pointing out that Obama said last year that he did not believe he had authority to act unilaterally, an incredulous George Stephanopoulos asked Pfeiffer, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t a reversal like that fuel the arguments of those who say that the president is overstepping his authority?&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Pfeiffer said that &#8220;whatever [Obama] does in this space will not be a substitute for comprehensive immigration reform. Congress will still need to act.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;But because of Congress&#8217;s failure to fix the immigration system and to pass the supplemental appropriations bill needed to deal with the specific crisis on the border, the president has no choice but to act &#8230; at the end of the summer.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Even the cripplingly affective leftist dead-ender Ed Schultz </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/30/msnbc-host-obamas-amnesty-could-doom-democrats/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">thinks</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">amnesty-bound Obama is politically suicidal.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Hold the phone &#8212; this would be a mistake if the president were to do this,&#8221; Schultz told the phone booth that consists of his MSNBC audience last week.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Politically, there is no way Democrats can go home and campaign on across-the-board amnesty for millions of undocumented workers &#8230; it could be an electoral death knell for the Democrats,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Recent surveys show Obama&#8217;s pro-illegal immigrant policies have the strong support of just 18 percent of the public, compared to the nearly 60 percent who strongly oppose those policies.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like government by executive order,&#8221; said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.). &#8220;I just don&#8217;t, generally, so I&#8217;d have to look and see specifically what [Obama is] proposing and what he&#8217;s talking about,&#8221; said the left-winger.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Polls now suggest Pryor stands a very good chance of losing to Republican challenger Tom Cotton in November.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Perhaps the senator should have spoken out against the president&#8217;s reckless policies earlier.</span></p>
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		<title>Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill &#8212;- For Now</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border_crossing_sign_Connell.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237637" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border_crossing_sign_Connell-450x337.jpg" alt="Border_crossing_sign_Connell" width="302" height="226" /></a>A conservative-led uprising among House Republicans scuttled Speaker John Boehner&#8217;s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation yesterday but party leaders vowed to try again today to pass the emergency funding bill.</p>
<p>&#8220;The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,&#8221; Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said in a statement released exclusively to FrontPage late yesterday.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tonight, many members were able to come together and hammer out many of those problems so that we could live with the result. Whether the final product gets the needed 218 votes will depend on how the final product looks once it is typed and printed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Conservatives are apparently doing the people&#8217;s will. A new poll <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/31/Exclusive-Polling-Data-Shows-GOP-Voters-Think-Republicans-Standing-Tough-On-Immigration-Most-Important-Issue"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suggests</span></a> Republican voters side with conservative lawmakers over House GOP leadership. Breitbart News reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>Polling data compiled by Tea Party Patriots and provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows that a majority of Republican voters think Republicans standing strong on immigration is more important than repealing Obamacare, getting to the bottom of the Benghazi or IRS scandals—or anything else for that matter.</p>
<p>When asked by TPP’s pollster which issue they think is the [most] important for Republicans in Congress to deal with, 34.6 percent of GOP voters said stopping the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border. Stopping Obama’s &#8216;illegal overreach&#8217; with executive power came in a distant second with 24 percent of GOP voters saying that’s the most important, while 23 percent saying repealing Obamacare is the most important and just 7.2 percent say the IRS scandal is the most important issue and 2.8 percent say the Benghazi scandal is most important. A total of 8.4 percent of GOP voters said they don’t know or refused to answer.</p>
<p>The poll was conduc[t]ed with 1,000 likely GOP voters on Thursday, July 24 via a combination of cell phones and landlines nationwide, with a margin of error of 3.2 percent.</p></blockquote>
<p>The showdown between rank-and-file Republicans and their leaders in the House comes as Americans grow increasingly angry over the border crisis that has been <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062514-706233-texas-border-immigration-wave-orchestrated-by-administration.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">staged and carefully choreographed</span></a> by the far-left levelers of the Obama administration.</p>
<p>President Obama threatens to plunge the nation into a grave constitutional crisis after Labor Day by using executive orders to grant a huge amnesty to millions of illegal aliens now in the United States. Of course, in the American system of government, Congress, not the president, is supposed to make laws. Congress has repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks, but the president refuses to take no for an answer, pressing on regardless of how much damage he does to the country.</p>
<p>Lawmakers in the nation&#8217;s capital had been racing to wrap up legislative business and leave Washington for a five-week summer recess yesterday but Boehner put their vacation plans on hold after a revolt forced him to temporarily shelve his border bill that conservatives say is really amnesty legislation.</p>
<p>Some House members were already at the airport preparing to fly back to their congressional districts but &#8220;a sudden and fierce backlash forced Boehner to rescind the decision&#8221; to put the bill on the back burner, Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/31/Leaders-Try-To-Resusciatate-Dying-Border-Bill/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reports</span></a>.</p>
<p>Lawmakers held a two-hour emergency meeting in mid-afternoon and agreed to stay in town and try to get some kind of legislation aimed at the border crisis to a vote.</p>
<p>Tea Party-backed Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a prominent anti-GOP establishment figure, said he was optimistic that a legislative package would pass.</p>
<p>“We are a good working team in there, it didn’t start with acrimony and didn’t end with acrimony, and now we’ve got a little work to do and I think we’ve got a shot to get’r done,” he said.</p>
<p>House Republicans are scheduled to meet at 9 o&#8217;clock this morning for a strategy session.</p>
<p>Conservatives scratch their heads, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/31/conservatives-battle-gop-leaders-on-immigration/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">complaining</span></a> that excessively risk-averse GOP leaders refuse to take aim at the Democrats&#8217; unpopular immigration policies &#8212; even when the American people overwhelmingly side with Republicans.</p>
<p>The Boehner measure is so Obama-friendly that it constitutes the political equivalent of “catching your opponent’s Hail Mary pass and running it into your own end zone for them,” said Daniel Horowitz, policy director for the Madison Project.</p>
<p>Conservatives don&#8217;t like the bill because it would boost and speed up the migration of low-skilled workers from Latin American, give Democrats and lobbyists a chance to resurrect the Senate-approved amnesty measure from last year, but do zilch to prevent President Obama from unilaterally, unconstitutionally handing out millions of work authorizations to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Instead of pounding away at Obama, whose poll ratings are deteriorating dramatically because of his irresponsible immigration polices, GOP leadership is content to let Obama walk all over them, conservatives say.</p>
<p>Republicans cannot exploit Obama&#8217;s political weaknesses because the party&#8217;s leaders “suck at politics,” Horowitz said, a viewed also held by Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been trying to convince House members to reject any bill that fails to curb Obama&#8217;s amnesty-granting powers.</p>
<p>The immigration measured backed by leadership “is a plan for expedited asylum, not expedited removal” of the more than 100,000 illegal aliens from Central America, Sessions said.</p>
<p>Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) and John Fleming (R-La.) say few lawmakers, even those with Rs after their names, are serious conservatives.</p>
<p>“In my judgment, a majority of the senators and the House members of both parties are more than happy to betray America and the principles who made us who we are, first and foremost of which is the rule of law,” Brooks said. “Those of us who are fight for hard-working families, unfortunately, we’re in a minority.”</p>
<p>Fleming said that the “GOP leadership has two audiences, two bases.”</p>
<p>“One is the established Chamber of Commerce group that is looking for less expensive labor and they’re the ones who contribute a lot of money and so the [leaders] want to keep them happy,” the Louisiana lawmaker said.</p>
<p>“On the other hand, the Republican voting public out there wants the problems fixed, they want illegals treated humanely and they want border security and they want the newest wave sent back,” he said.</p>
<p>But if President Obama gets his way, no one will be deported.</p>
<p>The huddled masses yearning to get free stuff who insert themselves into the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley are <a href="http://www.krgv.com/news/immigrants-to-be-housed-in-suites-near-san-antonio/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">going to be held</span></a> in relative luxury in a newly renovated 532-bed immigration detention complex for women and children near San Antonio, Texas.</p>
<p>Word of American taxpayers&#8217; decadent generosity will no doubt spread at lightning speed to prospective uninvited immigrants in Matamoros, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, and points beyond.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will refer to everyone in this facility as a resident,&#8221; said Enrique Lucero, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) San Antonio field office director. &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;ICE generally refers to people in custody as detainees,&#8221; he added sanctimoniously.</p>
<p>While the nation&#8217;s veterans suffer and die after being stuck on the falsified waiting lists produced by Obama administration bureaucrats, federal officials plan to roll out the red carpet for the alien invaders whose housing and amenities will cost the government an average of $140 per day per detainee.</p>
<p>Newly arrived lawbreakers will be housed in what federal officials call &#8220;suites,&#8221; that will feature bunk beds, flat-screen TVs, and landline telephones. The facility also has a soccer field, ping pong tables, a weight room, and basketball courts. A playground will be added soon. Children will attend a nearby charter school and receive medical screenings, dental care, and new clothes.</p>
<p>It is unclear if youthful aliens will be taken to Disneyworld or to branches of the more modestly priced Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain for birthday celebrations.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, CNSNews <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/1000-children-fleeing-violent-honduras-heading-violent-chicago"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reports</span></a> that &#8220;a thousand children said to be fleeing the violence in Central America will be welcomed to Chicago, where local children are routinely in the cross-fire of gang-related grudges.&#8221;</p>
<p>“The influx of unaccompanied child migrants is a growing humanitarian crisis that we can no longer ignore,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, an Alinskyite charlatan who no doubt helped to engineer the ongoing invasion when he served as President Obama&#8217;s White House chief of staff.</p>
<p>“While we have our own challenges at home, we cannot turn our backs on children who are fleeing dangerous conditions,&#8221; Emanuel said of young people who are probably just fleeing the ordinary perils and inconveniences of everyday life in Latin American banana republics. &#8220;We will do our part to ensure that these children are given access to services and treated fairly and humanely.”</p>
<p>Socialist kook Luis Gutierrez, a Democratic congressman from Illinois who wants to import even more illegals into the U.S. in order to help President Obama destabilize the country, said the fact that Chicago is &#8220;welcoming migrant children and working with them as their cases are resolved&#8221; made him proud of the Windy City.</p>
<p>Those young people aren&#8217;t exactly healthy, reports <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/31/dhs-report-tuberculosis-and-scabies-spreading-in-migrant-holding-facilities/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suggest</span></a>. A Department of Homeland Security study indicates that the “unaccompanied alien children,” or UACs, from Central America are spreading tuberculosis (TB), chicken pox, and scabies, a contagious skin disease spread by mites. Several DHS workers at the various facilities where these aliens are being warehoused have been infected.</p>
<p>Many of the facilities are filthy because the new arrivals don&#8217;t know how to use bathroom facilities and have been relieving themselves at will, exposing DHS employees to human waste.</p>
<p>And over on the Left Coast, California&#8217;s far-out governor, Democrat Jerry Brown, offered the startlingly idiotic suggestion that climate change will somehow exacerbate the invasion of the U.S. by Central Americans, the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reports.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can see how some are fearful of children walking across the border,&#8221; said the man who is presiding over California&#8217;s ongoing fiscal collapse. &#8220;What will they think when millions of people are driven north from the parched landscapes of a world degraded by intensifying climate change?&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps Gov. Brown needs to lay off the medical marijuana.</p>
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		<title>The Loophole Is Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237472" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later-450x337.jpg" alt="the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later" width="258" height="193" /></a>It&#8217;s been reported everywhere &#8212; The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News &#8212; that the William Wilberforce Sex Trafficking Act requires that any non-Mexican children who show up on our border be admitted and given a hearing. (New York Times, July 7, 2014: &#8220;Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking.&#8221;)</p>
<p>The problem, we&#8217;ve been told, is that a loophole in the sex trafficking law mandates these hearings &#8212; or &#8220;removal proceedings.&#8221;</p>
<p>But there is no such loophole.</p>
<p>The fact that people on both sides of the aisle are telling the same lie about this law is worrisome. Are Republicans being tricked into thinking we need an emergency bill, so that, two weeks later, we&#8217;ll see them emerging from a conference, saying:</p>
<p>We fixed the loophole! We didn&#8217;t get everything we wanted, but you can hear about that later.</p>
<p>No, tell me now.</p>
<p>Well, remember amnesty? It&#8217;s kind of in this bill. But the headline is: We closed the loophole! So no more worries about that loophole. But yeah, amnesty passed.</p>
<p>Why else would everyone be carrying on about a non-existent loophole? I know they&#8217;re mistaken because I read the law.</p>
<p>The Wilberforce law states, in relevant part:</p>
<p>&#8220;Any unaccompanied alien child sought to be removed by the Department of Homeland Security, except for an unaccompanied alien child from a contiguous country (i.e. Mexico &#8212; or Canada, so as not to sound discriminatory) &#8230; shall be &#8212; placed in removal proceedings &#8230; eligible for relief &#8230; at no cost to the child and provided access to counsel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously, that&#8217;s the whole ball of wax. Once a kid is in, given La Raza attorneys and a hearing date, he&#8217;s never going home. No immigration judge is going to listen to a lawyer-manufactured sob story and say, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sorry, that didn&#8217;t touch my heart. You have to go back to Huehuetenango.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the law&#8217;s definition of &#8220;unaccompanied alien child&#8221; limits the hearings to kids who have no relatives in the United States. If your relatives live here, the law assumes you&#8217;re not being sex-trafficked &#8212; you&#8217;re trying to join them.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the definition &#8212; note subsection (C):</p>
<p>&#8220;(g) Definitions</p>
<p>&#8220;(2) the term &#8216;unaccompanied alien child&#8217; means a child who &#8211;</p>
<p>(A) has no lawful immigration status in the United States;</p>
<p>(B) has not attained 18 years of age; and</p>
<p>(C) with respect to whom &#8211;</p>
<p>(i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or (ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.&#8221;</p>
<p>The law is not &#8212; as George Will suggested on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; &#8212; a general humanitarian mandate allowing all 2 billion poor children of the world to show up at our border and be told, &#8220;Welcome to America!&#8221; It&#8217;s a law to combat sex trafficking.</p>
<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Vice President Joe Biden wrote the law &#8212; and Feinstein isn&#8217;t stupid. She&#8217;s well aware of illegal immigration. That&#8217;s why the law specifically excludes two huge categories of illegal aliens from getting hearings: (1) Mexicans; and (2) children who have relatives in the U.S.</p>
<p>Those cases look more like illegal immigration than sex trafficking. (Didn&#8217;t anyone wonder why Mexican kids are excluded?)</p>
<p>Mexicans make up the lion&#8217;s share of illegal immigrants in the U.S., and children with relatives already living in the U.S. are probably just trying to rejoin family &#8212; not trying to escape a fiendish kidnapper about to sell them into sex slavery.</p>
<p>According to last Friday&#8217;s New York Times, almost 90 percent of the 53,000 illegal alien kids given refugee status since October have already been transferred to parents or relatives living in the U.S. By the law&#8217;s clear terms, those 47,000 kids should have been summarily turned away at the border &#8212; just as Mexican children are.</p>
<p>(Democrats wailing about a &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; crisis &#8212; after calculating the precise number of voters they need &#8212; evidently don&#8217;t care about the Mexican kids.)</p>
<p>No law needs to be fixed. The only thing that needs to be fixed is the president.</p>
<p>Obama has gone mad and is defying the law in order to &#8220;fundamentally transform America&#8221; &#8212; as he pledged to do during the 2008 campaign &#8212; into Latin America. (Luckily for George Will, he won&#8217;t be around by the time Latin America gets to his neighborhood.)</p>
<p>Any Republicans pushing for an immigration bill to seal an imaginary loophole aren&#8217;t fighting Obama; they&#8217;re helping him.</p>
<p>Constitutionally, the remedy for a president defying the law so he can assist an alien invasion is impeachment. But the media won&#8217;t let us impeach Obama &#8212; and Republicans don&#8217;t have the votes, anyway. The only way for Americans to fight back is to put large Republican majorities in the House and Senate this November.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/352675200-170802451.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236796" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/352675200-170802451-431x350.jpg" alt="352675200-17080245" width="281" height="228" /></a>Texas Governor Rick Perry <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/21/Our-Citizens-are-Under-Siege-Perry-Sends-National-Guard-to-Border"><span style="color: #1255cc;">announced</span></a> Monday afternoon that he is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the U.S.-Mexican border. “Over the years I have repeatedly called on the federal government to live up to its responsibility of protecting this great nation by securing the border,” said Perry, who added that he will “not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault and little children from Central America are detained in squalor.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Under assault might be an understatement. According to Perry, more than 203,000 illegal aliens responsible for committing more than 640,000 crimes, including 3000 homicides, have been booked into Texas county jails since 2008. He further pointed out that the thousands of unaccompanied minors apprehended crossing the border comprise less than 20 percent of total influx and while enforcement agents are giving humanitarian aid to these children, “drug cartels, human traffickers and individual criminals are exploiting this tragedy for their own criminal opportunities.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perry’s contention about the percentage of children that illegally gain entrance to the United States was given substantial credence by the Obama administration itself. In a late Friday afternoon news dump aimed at minimizing media coverage, U.S. Border Patrol <a href="http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/SWB%20Family%20and%20UAC%20Apps.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">data</span></a> revealed that while the number of unaccompanied alien children crossing the border has doubled to 57,525 in the nine month period from the beginning of FY2013 to the present, what the agency refers to as “family units” has seen a <i>493 percent</i> increase from 9,350 to 55,420 over the same period. As the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/18/white-house-hid-huge-spike-of-families-crossing-border/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a>, the far more explosive growth of these family units &#8220;has been hidden by White House and agency officials, who have tried to portray the influx as a wave of children fleeing abuse and violence.” He further notes this portrayal &#8220;has been picked up and spread by Democratic legislators, reporters and bloggers” in an effort to mute the public’s anger regarding the Obama administration’s failure to secure the border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, a de facto invasion becomes a “humanitarian” crisis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perry was forced to address that portrayal on Sunday with Fox News’s Brit Hume who <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/2014/07/21/video-perry-to-deploy-national-guard-but-will-militarizing-the-border-actually-secure-it-top-of-the-stack-07-21-14/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">wondered</span></a> if sending the National Guard to the border would actually work when children who have “undergone these harrowing journeys to escape from the most desperate conditions in their home countries” are confronted by troops “who won’t shoot them and can’t arrest them.” Perry replied that Hume was talking about “two different things” and that it was necessary to “send the message back now so that we can staunch (sic) the bleeding” even as the humanitarian crisis that already exists is addressed. “The issue is with being able to send that message,” Perry said. “The visual of it is more important. We know that. We listen to those conversations&#8211;or, I should say, conversations are being monitored with calls back to Central America&#8211;and the message is, &#8216;Hey, come on up here, everything is great, they’re taking care of us,’ and that needs to stop.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The 1,000 troops are ostensibly a stopgap measure until Congress and the Obama administration address Perry’s request to hire 3,000 additional border patrol agents to work the Texas corridor. In a <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/09/obama-reveals-the-one-thing-he-and-gov-rick-perry-disagreed-on-during-border-crisis-meeting-calls-on-congress-to-act/#"><span style="color: #1255cc;">meeting</span></a> with Perry and other officials in Dallas on July 9, Obama made it clear that despite Perry’s request he act unilaterally to address the crisis, he would not do so. “He suggested, well maybe you just need to go ahead and act and that might convince Republicans that they should go ahead and pass the supplemental,” Obama said. “I had to remind him, I’m getting sued right now by Mr. Boehner apparently for going ahead and acting instead of going through congress. Well, here’s a good test case.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nonsense. In 2006 George W. Bush <a href="http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/06/15/national-guards-border-security-role-in-jeopardy/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ordered</span></a> 6,000 troops to the border, (a number that has since dwindled to a current level of approximately 300) and Obama could do the same were it not for the reality that he prefers holding such action hostage to Congress passing his massive $3.7 billion emergency funding package. It is a package <i>designed</i> to remain in legislative limbo, as Republicans <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-to-seek-38-billion-for-border-control-more-than-previously-signaled/2014/07/08/ac95a56e-06a9-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insist</span></a> the primary focus should be stopping the influx at the border, while Democrats demand that the “humanitarian” crisis &#8212; in the form of new facilities and legal services — be the first agenda addressed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, the border remains a sieve.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus it was no surprise that Perry accused the federal government of paying &#8220;lip service” to the border crisis as he announced his deployment of “Operation Strong Safety.” He explained the National Guard will function as a “force multiplier on the ground and providing additional air assets beyond their current efforts.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because Perry has been forced to take this action after repeatedly asking the Obama administration to do it, Texas, rather than the federal government, will be picking up the tab for the deployment, expected to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lawmaker-texas-send-1000-guardsmen-border-24646712?singlePage=true"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cost</span></a> approximately $12 million per month. This arrangement also makes Perry the commander in chief of the troops unless Obama is willing to take over the mobilization at the federal level.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest made it clear that isn’t going to happen anytime soon, even as he characterized Perry’s efforts as symbolic. &#8220;Gov. Perry has referred repeatedly to his desire to make a symbolic statement to the people of Central America that the border is closed,&#8221; said Earnest. &#8220;And he thinks that the best way to do that is to send 1,000 National Guard troops to the border. It seems to me that a much more powerful symbol would be the bipartisan passage of legislation that would actually make a historic investment in border security and send an additional 20,000 personnel to the border.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Again, utter nonsense with a dollop of disingenuousness plopped on top. As the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-aides-were-warned-of-brewing-border-crisis/2014/07/19/8b5d2282-0d1b-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a>, &#8220;top officials at the White House and the State Department had been warned repeatedly of the potential for a further explosion in the number of migrant children since the crisis began escalating two years ago, according to former federal officials and others familiar with internal discussions.” And the very same Lackland Air Force base that was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">opened up</span></a> as a shelter for illegal youths in May, served in precisely the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/us/some-question-use-of-temporary-shelter-for-children-in-country-illegally.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">same capacity</span></a> more than two years ago. “There were warning signs, operational folks raising red flags to high levels in terms of this being a potential issue,” one former senior federal law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the paper.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for Perry’s symbolic statement, it is far better than the no-so-subtle <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/16/feds-to-house-illegal-immigrants-at-multimillion-dollar-hotel/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">message</span></a> sent by the Obama administration as recently as last week. That’s when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was on the verge of completing a deal with non-profit network <a href="http://bcfs.net/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">BCFS</span></a> to house as many as 600 illegal alien children between the ages of 12-17 at a resort hotel complex in Texas, replete with three swimming pools, lighted tennis courts, and a Jacuzzi. The deal fell through when the reality of taxpayers footing the bill for the resort—along with a combination of BCFS services and newly-hired workers that could have cost as much as <i>$50 million</i>—became a public relations nightmare.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be the same Obama administration that <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/30/obama-admin-launching-information-campaign-to-tell-would-be-illegals-they-cant-stay-in-the-u-s/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">initiated</span></a> a public relations campaign in June to deter the massive influx of illegals from Central America. Americans might ask themselves which message resonates more: the notion that those getting into the country <i>might</i> not be able to stay here, or the one that lets those who do know there is a possibility they could be ensconced in a luxury hotel?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet even that message pales in comparison to another agenda being <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/new-obama-rule-could-force-cities-to-house-illegals/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">pursued</span></a> by the Obama administration. A rule change known as the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule” introduced by the administration in 2013 and set to take effect in October would give the administration vastly increased power over local zoning laws in any municipality that that accepts block grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The rule is backed by pro-amnesty advocates who see it as a vehicle allowing the administration to force those municipalities to house illegals.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus, it is unsurprising that Gov. Perry’s announcement was met with derision by Democrats who <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/rick-perry-texas-border-national-guard-109165.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> him of “militarizing&#8221; the border. “Militarizing our border is the wrong response to the arrival of children,” said Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-TX) in an email. “I remain hopeful that our state can provide a more helpful response than to send armed soldiers to greet children seeking refuge from violence.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perry rejected that notion. So did Congressman Louis Gohmert (R-TX). “Our nation is being invaded in what the U.S. Commanding General of SOUTHCOM described as an &#8216;existential threat,’” he said in a statement.  As articulated in Article I, Section 10, of the United States Constitution, the State of Texas has the right to defend herself, as the largest invasion is coming into Texas.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Americans must decide which assessment is closer to the truth. Thus, a critical question arises: is the current fiasco occurring on our Southwest border a humanitarian crisis that has engendered an invasion, or an invasion that has engendered a humanitarian crisis? Our national sovereignty may depend on the answer.</p>
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<p>Daniel discussed <em>The Invasion on Our Southern Border, </em>unveiling the horror of Obama’s border disaster. <span class="userContent">He also discussed Israel vs. Hamas, Obama&#8217;s Iraq Throwaway, Hillary&#8217;s Rape Defense Lies, and much, much more. </span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usa-obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236298" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usa-obama-450x295.jpg" alt="usa-obama" width="285" height="187" /></a>After years of working hard to comfort America&#8217;s terrorist enemies and erase U.S. borders, the nation&#8217;s perpetually embattled attorney general is suddenly concerned that Middle Eastern jihadists are working together to create undetectable explosives that could be used to blow up U.S. airliners.</p>
<p>Intelligence reports suggest Islamic terrorists in Yemen and Syria have joined forces to make the stealthy bombs and this development is &#8220;more frightening than anything I think I&#8217;ve seen as attorney general,” Eric Holder said on ABC’s “This Week.”</p>
<p>The collaboration between Islamist militants in the two Muslim countries is a “deadly combination” of those who have technical skills and &#8220;people who have this kind of fervor to give their lives in support of a cause that is directed at the United States and directed at its allies.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that gives us really extreme, extreme concern,&#8221; Holder said.</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s comments come as the U.S.Department of Homeland Security announced it was ratcheting up security measures at international airports. Individuals will now be made to demonstrate that their electronic devices such as cellphones and laptop computers are not bombs by turning them on at security checkpoints.</p>
<p>Such measures are &#8220;prudent steps that are necessary to protect the flying public,” Holder said.</p>
<p>Yet while Holder pretends to be a responsible adult, at the same time evidence has surfaced that security measures have been all but suspended at U.S. airports for newly arrived illegal immigrants in the southern states.</p>
<p>Breitbart Texas reports that illegals are being allowed to board commercial airliners without valid ID. “The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms,” said Hector Garza, a spokesman for Local 2455 of the National Border Patrol Council. (NBPC is the labor union representing about 17,000 Border Patrol agents and support personnel assigned to that law enforcement organization.)</p>
<p>“This is not the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] or another federal agency renting or leasing an aircraft, these are the same planes that the American public uses for domestic travel,” said Garza.</p>
<blockquote><p>This just adds insult to injury. Not only are we releasing unknown illegal aliens onto American streets, but we are allowing them to travel commercially using paperwork that could easily be reproduced or manipulated on any home computer. The Notice to Appear form has no photo, anyone can make one and manipulate one. They do not have any security features, no watermark, nothing. They are simply printed on standard copy paper based on the information the illegal alien says is the truth.</p></blockquote>
<p>Added Garza:</p>
<blockquote><p>We do not know who these people are, we often have to solely rely on who they say they are, where they say they came from, and the history they say they have. We know nothing about most of them, ICE releases them into the American public, and now they are boarding aircraft at will with a simple paper document that anyone can easily alter or reproduce themselves.</p>
<p>Central Americans are not the only people crossing our border and being released. Does anyone actually think that cartels and others criminal or possible terrorist organizations are not taking advantage of the fact that we are having to leave our border wide open while we reassigning the majority of our agents to process family units and minors? Of course this situation is being exploited by such threats.</p></blockquote>
<p>NBPC Vice President Shawn Moran told Washington, D.C. radio station WMAL&#8217;s Larry  O&#8217;Connor yesterday that the ongoing invasion by illegal aliens is straining Border Patrol resources.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t normally have these large groups of people trying to surrender to us,&#8221; Moran said. &#8220;They are tying up officers in the field and we believe this is being orchestrated for the benefit of the drug cartels.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Border Patrol has caught plenty of illegal immigrants from countries that the U.S. regards as state sponsors of terrorism, he said, adding he is concerned that terrorists are &#8220;trying to fit in with the groups that we&#8217;re catching.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama administration officials like Holder are now giving Oscar-worthy performances, posing as public servants deeply worried about the nation&#8217;s porous southern border. They are providing political cover for the president who has been trying ever since his January 2009 swearing-in to generate disorder at the border.</p>
<p>President Obama gave a green light to the current wave of illegal immigrants when he indicated he has no interest in enforcing U.S. immigration laws.</p>
<p>Obama has provided executive amnesty and work permits for illegal immigrants covered by the proposed “DREAM Act” that Congress has repeatedly rejected. That legislation, if enacted, would cover individuals who claim to have entered the U.S. as minors under their parents’ guidance.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a directive in August 2013 expanding that amnesty to illegal immigrant relatives of “DREAM Act” beneficiaries. DHS issued another directive in December 2012 reinforcing the existing policy under which almost all immigration offenses were deemed unenforceable absent a separate criminal conviction.</p>
<p>Throughout all of this, Holder has functioned more as Obama&#8217;s consigliere than as the American people&#8217;s lawyer.</p>
<p>And just last week Holder met with officials in Oslo, Norway and London in an effort to get European allies to do more to stem the the possible flow of terrorists into their countries. The meetings were an opportunity to &#8220;exchange information in the way that you can&#8217;t if you&#8217;re not present&#8221; and &#8220;come up with techniques to thwart those who would try to do us all harm.”</p>
<p>It is unclear if the foreign dignitaries laughed in the face of Holder, who has long worked to frustrate policy initiatives aimed at making Americans safe from terrorist attacks and invasions.</p>
<p>Every month tens of thousands of illegal aliens, some of whom may be terrorists or part of organized crime, are now streaming unimpeded into the southern United States from Mexico. Some of these illegals are being allowed on domestic airline flights without providing proper identification. And everyone knows that in Democrat-administered regions these illegal immigrants won&#8217;t be asked for ID when they try to vote for Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren for president in 2016.</p>
<p>After all, Holder is a poster child for &#8220;man-caused disasters,&#8221; the Obama administration&#8217;s hideous euphemism for acts of terrorism. He is the top law enforcement official serving a president who has provided military and other support to Islamic totalitarians in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Holder orchestrated or at least silently assented to the Obama administration&#8217;s Fast and Furious gun-running operation that cost Border Patrol officer Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican nationals their lives. This Reichstag fire-like piece of political theater that provided firearms to drug cartels was designed to cause an outbreak of violence and mayhem in an effort to whip up public hysteria against the Second Amendment.</p>
<p>Holder himself has done more to undermine U.S. national security than just about anyone else in the Obama administration, except perhaps for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Janet Napolitano, and President Obama.</p>
<p>The ultimate political fixer, Holder has a long history of aiding, and in some cases, abetting terrorists. Like Obama, he appears to have a soft spot for bombers in particular, and also like Obama, he has become the envy of sociopaths the world over for his impressive lying and obfuscation skills.</p>
<p>While serving as deputy attorney general, Holder was a principal figure in the vetting of the Clinton administration’s infamous 176 last-minute clemencies in January 2001. Those benefitting from Holder&#8217;s questionable recommendations included former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. Rosenberg was a suspect in the deadly 1981 armed robbery of an armored car and was given a 58-year prison sentence for possessing more than 700 pounds of explosives and an arsenal of illicit weapons. Evans received 40 years for harboring a fugitive from the robbery and using false identification to purchase firearms. She also received five years in connection with eight bombings. (Note: July 18 is the first anniversary of the untimely passing of Larry Grathwohl, a Vietnam War veteran who infiltrated the Weather Underground and later provided evidence against Evans.)</p>
<p>Holder was also involved in President Clinton’s 1999 pardon of 16 members of FALN, Armed Forces of National Liberation—a violent terrorist organization (as designated by the FBI) that was active in the U.S. from 1974 to 1983. The Marxist-Leninist group detonated almost 130 bombs in government and corporate buildings in Chicago, New York, and the nation&#8217;s capital in a failed bid for Puerto Rican independence. FALN bombs killed six individuals — including Chile&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S. —and wounded at least 80 others. Congress subsequently condemned the acts of clemency by votes of 95-2 in the Senate and 311-41 in the House.</p>
<p>An enabler of Islamic terrorists, former lawyer Lynne Stewart was released from prison last year after serving only three years of a 10-year prison sentence for terrorism-related offenses. The premature return to society of Stewart, who has terminal cancer, was made possible after Holder&#8217;s Justice Department relaxed the criteria for early release on compassionate grounds.</p>
<p>During George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency, Holder was a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington &amp; Burling, which represented Islamic terrorists. At one time he condemned the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay as an “international embarrassment.” As U.S. attorney general, Holder has sought to try Muslim terrorists in civilian courts instead of military tribunals and has lauded Supreme Court decisions that undermine what the previous administration called the Global War on Terror.</p>
<p>With policies like these, more Holder-made disasters are a dead certainty.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Murrieta-Patrice-Lynes.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236053" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Murrieta-Patrice-Lynes-450x337.jpg" alt="Murrieta-Patrice-Lynes" width="266" height="199" /></a>For all intents and purposes, the Obama administration is engaged in human trafficking.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Health and Human Services Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families Mark Greenberg <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/09/HHS-Official-Obama-Admin-Bans-Asking-Immigration-Status-of-Adults-Who-Pick-Up-Illegals-from-Detention-Centers"><span style="color: #1255cc;">admitted</span></a> that, even if the Obama administration knew it was releasing Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to other illegal aliens, they would do so based on the &#8220;totality of the circumstances” that apparently justifies such irresponsibility. However, when pressed by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Greenburg made it clear the Obama administration doesn’t even want to know to whom they are releasing the children, disclosing the reality that HHS does &#8220;not verify the immigration status of the individual.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Pressed further by Coburn, who wanted to know if HHS thinks it would be less likely for illegal alien parents to bring their children back to deportation hearings, Greenburg <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/09/the-one-question-the-government-doesnt-ask-when-handing-over-illegal-immigrant-children-to-relatives/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">dug</span></a> himself a deeper hole. “This is about who the child should live with while they’re awaiting the removal proceedings and during the removal proceedings,” he insisted. Coburn wanted to know if the refusal to inquire about the status of family members taking custody of illegal immigrant children was HHS <i>policy.</i>  “Yes, that is the case,” Greenburg replied.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">National Review’s Victor Davis Hanson <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382335/moral-crisis-our-southern-border-victor-davis-hanson"><span style="color: #1255cc;">emphasizes</span></a> the utter lawlessness of such a policy. “Here in the U.S., how can our government simply choose not to enforce existing laws?” he wonders. Hanson then eviscerates the administration’s “Catch and Release” policy. “How can American immigration authorities simply send immigrant kids all over the United States and drop them into communities without firm guarantees of waiting sponsors or family? If private charities did that, would the operators be jailed? Would American parents be arrested for putting their unescorted kids on buses headed out of state?”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hanson further notes the Mexican government is abetting the human trafficking. Despite having some of the “harshest” immigration laws in the world, where those illegally crossing the Mexican border are either summarily deported or jailed, there are &#8220;tens of thousands of Central American children crossing with impunity hundreds of miles of Mexican territory, often sitting atop Mexican trains,” he writes.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The network of Mexican freight trains to which Hanson refers are so well known that they have a name: Tren de la Muerte,&#8221; or &#8220;Death Train.&#8221; That appellation refers to the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/21/Illegal-Immigrants-Hopping-Death-Train-to-US-Hoping-for-Amnesty"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reality</span></a> that children must hop aboard the trains while they are moving, and those that don’t make it are often severely injured. &#8220;The couplings between the cars are notoriously dangerous. I see children who have lost an arm and a leg or both legs,” said Erica Dahl-Bredine, an El Salvador representative for Catholic Relief Services. An aid group in Honduras <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/homero-aridjis/migrants-train-of-death-america-_b_5568288.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">confirms</span></a> that assessment, tallying more than 450 illegals who have been mutilated.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it’s not as if the Mexican government is unaware of the situation. The trains, also known as La Bestias, aka The Beasts, are a <i>regular feature</i> on the evening news in Mexico. They regularly depart from a depot at Arriaga, in the state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border for the two-week journey to the U.S. border, during which they are routinely accosted by gangs, and drug traffickers who subject the “passengers” to rape, kidnapping, extortion and mugging. In addition, corrupt local officials demand bribes in exchange for allowing those passengers to continue on their journey.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How is this possible? &#8220;Human despair has been turned into a commodity, a flourishing business for illicit enrichment,” explains Huffington Post contributor Homero Aridjis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is illicit enrichment that flows overwhelmingly to a number of drug cartels. They have <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">taken over</span></a> a largely informal border smuggling business formerly operated by “coyotes” and turned into a sophisticated human trafficking operation where they maintain control of the entire border, as well as the routes leading up to it. As a result there has been a tenfold increase in the cost of getting across the border, from approximately $300 to $500 often paid to a single coyote, to as much as $3,000 to $6,000 per person, with prices often determined by age, gender and country of origin.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, this “business model” may be successful to the point where it might be more lucrative than drug smuggling. According to statistics from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), total seizures of cocaine, heroine, marijuana and methamphetamine have declined in every state that shares a border with Mexico. Yet most telling, that decline has been greatest in Texas, which is the epicenter of the current crisis. The DEA and the U.S. Border Patrol refuses to confirm that the two are causally related, but Arizona Border Patrol spokesman Peter Bidegain insists the smugglers will &#8220;use what’s successful, so they’ll try anything.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The apprehension of a staggering 57,000 UACs since October 2013—the latest revision of the total <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/07/09/unaccompanied-children-swells-to-over-57000-this-year/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowski at a Senate hearing Wednesday&#8211;coupled with the additional 240,000 illegals <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/05/border-meltdown-obama-delivering-290000-illegals-to-u-s-homes/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">apprehended</span></a> since April, suggests the success has been overwhelming. If one takes the <i>lowball</i> figure of $3,000 per person and multiplies it by the number of apprehensions, human trafficking has turned a profit of $891 million over the last eight months.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And all of it is being abetted by an Obama administration that <i>knows</i> the overwhelming majority of UACs released into the general population will never show up for their deportation hearings. At the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing Wednesday, Thomas Winkowski, deputy assistant secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/07/09/just-3-percent-of-central-american-children-detained-this-year-have-been-deported/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">admitted</span></a> as much, revealing that only 1300-1500 of the UACs from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the three countries fueling the crisis, have been deported so far. That number represents just over 3 percent of the total number of UACs apprehended to this point.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Statistics presented at a House Judiciary Committee just over two weeks ago <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/25/ICE-Removal-Operations-Director-Will-Be-Years-Before-Unaccompanied-Minors-Have-Cases-Heard"><span style="color: #1255cc;">paint</span></a> an even grimmer reality. First, Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) revealed that since 2011, ICE has only been able to remove fewer than 2,000 minors per year. Tom Homan, the official overseeing ICE’s removal operations, revealed a big reason why. “Last year we removed 1,800, but again as I said about the immigration courts: When we looked at all the unaccompanied alien children that were filed with the immigration court in the last five years, 87 percent of them are still in proceedings. We have no final orders,” Homan said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Naturally, President Obama blamed Republicans for the crisis. At a press conference Wednesday night he <a href="http://www.tpnn.com/2014/07/10/all-too-predictable-obama-blames-border-crisis-on-republicans/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a> their opposition to his $3.8 billion spending request—along with their failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform&#8211;is facilitating it. “Are folks more interested in politics or are they more interested in solving the problem?” Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/us/influx-of-central-american-migrants-roils-murrieta-calif.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> he asked Texas governor Rick Perry. “If they are interested in solving the problem then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics then it won’t be solved.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Obama’s idea of “solving&#8221; the problem is to <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org//news/obama-perrys-request-national-guard-assistance-id-be-happy-consider-it"><span style="color: #1255cc;">wait</span></a> until Congress passes the appropriations bill before he will do anything about sealing the border—if at all. Hot Air’s Noah Rothman <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/10/obamas-pathetic-border-crisis-blame-shifting/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cuts through</span></a> such transparent disingenuousness, explaining that in an emergency, &#8220;the executive branch does not wait for Congress to pass funding before it acts. It is beyond insulting to suggest that emergency supplemental funding is a precondition for a response to an emergency,” he writes.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is even worse than that when one recalls Obama <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/14/obama-on-executive-actions-ive-got-a-pen-and-ive-got-a-phone/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">telling</span></a> Americans in January that he has a pen and a phone, ”And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions…”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And as hypocritical as the president is, the appropriations package is even more so. Dan Cadman at the Center for Immigration Studies <a href="http://cis.org/supplemental-budget-request-analysis"><span style="color: #1255cc;">analyzed</span></a> the bill. He explains that 49 percent, or $1.8 billion, of the total requested by Obama would be spent on resettlement costs, not just for UACs, but entire family units. Another $5 million would be spent breaking the law because it would go to DHS attorneys tasked with defending UACs in court, even though &#8220;Section 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act specifically <a href="http://www.cis.org/cadman/will-taxpayer-funded-defense-illegal-aliens-deportation-become-norm-despite-law"><span style="color: #1255cc;">prohibits representation of aliens in immigration proceedings at government expense</span></a>.” Much of the enforcement portion of the funds would be spent on recouping costs for temporary detention and subsequent resettlement of illegals, 47 percent of whom are adults.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He also notes the “meager” $109 million being requested to facilitate anti-smuggling investigative efforts is destined to achieve limited success because the U.S. has &#8220;very little influence over ineffectual or corrupt police and military services in the source and transit countries, to ensure that they root out criminal gangs responsible for the smuggling.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Cadman then levels the boom on the Obama administration.&#8221;On the U.S. side, the ones responsible for predicating the effort through contact with, and payment to, the gangs are often the parents or other relatives of those being smuggled and, rather than investigate and prosecute such individuals to the full extent of the law, the government instead acts as the ultimate delivery agent, passing along the smuggled-but-apprehended alien to the people who paid to have him or her smuggled,” he explains.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On Tuesday, Fox 11 News reporter Gigi Graciette <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/07/01/Report-Three-Illegals-On-Terrorist-Watch-List-Detained-Crossing-Border-In-Calif"><span style="color: #1255cc;">tweeted</span></a> that sources have informed her that three individuals on the government&#8217;s terrorist watch list attempted to cross the border from Mexico to California. Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/07/01/Report-Three-Illegals-On-Terrorist-Watch-List-Detained-Crossing-Border-In-Calif"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reports</span></a> that six individuals from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen were recently picked up by the U.S. border patrol near Laredo, Texas. A November 2012 House Committee on Homeland Security report from the Oversight Sub-Committee <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/08/Muslim-Prayer-Rug-Found-on-Arizona-Border-By-Independendent-American-Security-Contractors"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> that &#8220;the U.S. Border Patrol regularly apprehends aliens from the 35 &#8216;special interest countries&#8217; designated by our intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Between Fiscal Years 2006 and 2011, apprehensions of 1918 special interest aliens occurred at the nation’s Southwest border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“The drug cartels will bring people into the country no matter who they are&#8212;for money,” <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/06/18/iraqi-extremist-group-could-slip-through-texas-mexico-border/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a> Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX). “Everyone in the world knows that the border between the United States and Mexico is completely porous.” That includes an Obama administration that abets human trafficking—and a Commander-in Chief whose immigration agenda trumps any connect-the-dots commitment to national security. Pathetic.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/UTI1782821_r620x349.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/UTI1782821_r620x349.jpg" alt="UTI1782821_r620x349" width="256" height="204" /></a>When President Obama began dumping busloads of newly arrived illegal aliens on small town America to force so-called immigration reform he probably didn&#8217;t expect residents of a small California city to take a heroic stand against his lawless assault on the nation&#8217;s immigration system.</p>
<p>But grassroots activists in Murrieta, California, near San Diego, have been using the Left&#8217;s own playbook against the Community-Organizer-in-Chief&#8217;s efforts to force an unprecedented loosening of the nation&#8217;s largely unenforced immigration laws. Last week the protesters used the tactics of civil disobedience by blocking federal authorities from bussing in hundreds of illegal immigrants who snuck into south Texas. The feds have vowed to don riot gear in order to transport the illegals to Murrieta but that has not happened yet.</p>
<p>The illegals turned back by angry crowds were bound for what federal authorities called a &#8220;housing facility,&#8221; but local residents say such a facility doesn&#8217;t exist in Murrieta.</p>
<p>Longtime Murrieta resident John Henry said it appeared federal officials intended to place the aliens in the local Border Patrol station, which has only five holding cells.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are no showers, and there&#8217;s only one toilet in each cell. There&#8217;s really no place to give them hot food and no beds. There&#8217;s nothing here for them&#8211;we literally don&#8217;t have any way to take care of these people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Henry added, &#8220;We additionally don&#8217;t have any places for these people to go after they are processed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Henry <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/08/Murrieta-Residents-Obama-Admin-Flooding-Our-Streets-to-Force-Immigration-Reform"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told</span></a> Breitbart News that the illegals, unaccompanied minors and women from Central America, are being sent to Republican-supporting communities like his city to send those opposed to open borders a political message.</p>
<p>&#8220;The administration thinks that if it floods our streets, in small town America, they can force us into immigration reform,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These immigrants should not be here. The only reason that they are coming here is for political reasons.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a small town &#8211; it&#8217;s mostly conservative &#8211; and the federal government knows that. The main reason a lot of us are out here protesting is because we do not want these people being dumped into our small town where we do not have programs or the resources to take care of them properly.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Henry and his fellow protesters have been attacked by left-wingers who prefer hurling epithets to answering arguments.</p>
<p>In a Huffington Post op-ed, commentator Raul A. Reyes <a href="http://bit.ly/1oIZSAW"><span style="color: #0433ff;">smeared</span></a> the protesters as &#8220;anti-immigrant.&#8221; The protests themselves were motivated by &#8220;racism and xenophobia&#8221; and constituted &#8220;a shameful, sickening display of anti-immigrant sentiment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Except there is no evidence the activists were motivated by anything other than disgust at the Obama administration&#8217;s failure to enforce federal law. Nor is there proof that the activists were &#8220;anti-immigrant.&#8221; Anti-illegal immigrant, sure, but that&#8217;s an altogether different thing.</p>
<p>A group calling itself the Tequila Party is <a href="http://bit.ly/1qXugLh"><span style="color: #0433ff;">demanding</span></a> the activists be jailed for daring to protest.</p>
<p>California attorney Ruben Salazar, pro-amnesty activist Dee Dee Garcia Blase, and Nebraska attorney Shirl Mora James wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey asking for an &#8220;outside investigation&#8221; of local politicians and law enforcement officials in Murrieta.</p>
<p>They accuse activists in Murrieta of being &#8220;homeland domestic terrorists (masquerading as patriots),&#8221; and claim that they were &#8220;obstructing federal law enforcement from performing their jobs and terrorizing small refugee immigrant children from Central America with racial slurs.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apparently civil disobedience is only acceptable when left-wingers do it.</p>
<p>Moreover, the Tequila Party doesn&#8217;t understand the meaning of the word <i>refugee</i>.</p>
<p>A refugee, under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a multilateral treaty that was ratified by the United States, is:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of <i>race</i>, <i>religion</i>, <i>nationality</i>, <i>membership of a particular social group</i> or <i>political opinion</i>, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country &#8230; &#8221; [italics added]</p></blockquote>
<p>Barring evidence of persecution under any of the five specific grounds, these people are in fact economic migrants, as opposed to refugees. The fact that life is less than optimal in countries like Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador doesn&#8217;t make those who leave their countries to sneak into the U.S. legitimate refugees.</p>
<p>The chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border that is now being swamped by uninvited visitors has been a long time coming.</p>
<p>Obama and generations of leftist politicians before him have been using immigration to subvert the American system. In the 1960s the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded reform of that era’s immigration laws through Congress. The concept is simple: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/piven-fiery-and-fearful/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Cloward-Piven Strategy</span></a> of orchestrated crisis as applied to immigration policy.</p>
<p>In the Sixties, Marxist academics and activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven called upon activists to pack the welfare rolls in order to spread dependency, bankrupt the government, and cause uprisings against the capitalist system.</p>
<p>Overburdening government bureaucracies would cause “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level,” they argued in their seminal 1966 <i>Nation</i> article.</p>
<p>Overwhelming local and state governments with illegal immigrants, who qualify for taxpayer-supplied benefits such as free health care, education, and housing aid, might make those governments so desperate that they throw their political support behind the kind of so-called comprehensive immigration reform that the Left favors. After all, when was the last time Congress refused a bailout to anybody?</p>
<p>Although the disorder at the border has been building over time, President Obama gave a green light to would-be illegal immigrants when he indicated he has no interest in enforcing U.S. immigration laws.</p>
<p>Obama has provided executive amnesty and work permits for illegal immigrants covered by the proposed “DREAM Act” that Congress has repeatedly rejected. That legislation, if enacted, would cover individuals who claim to have entered the U.S. as minors under their parents’ guidance.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a directive in August 2013 expanding that amnesty to illegal immigrant relatives of “DREAM Act” beneficiaries. DHS issued another directive in December 2012 reinforcing the existing policy under which almost all immigration offenses were deemed unenforceable absent a separate criminal conviction.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, local media <a href="http://blog.pe.com/news/2014/07/09/murrieta-no-more-flights-of-migrants-arriving-this-week-police-say/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported</span></a> late yesterday that no new arrivals are expected to fly into nearby San Diego for the rest of this week: &#8220;Murrieta police say Border Patrol officials notified them late Wednesday afternoon that there will be no flights of immigrants from Texas arriving in San Diego on Thursday or for the rest of the week.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a small, and likely temporary, victory.</p>
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