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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>Obama Deports American Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats want to trade American jobs to illegal aliens for votes.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245617" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama-450x318.jpg" alt="Obama" width="300" height="212" /></a>Obama’s excuse for his illegal amnesty will be that the immigration system is “broken” forcing him to act. But when Obama says that the system is broken, he means that some parts of it still work and so he intends to break immigration all the way through to benefit his own corrupt political allies.</p>
<p>That will hurt his own voters the most, but the Democratic Party has a notoriously masochistic relationship with its voting base. It beats them up and then it gaslights them by hugging them and telling them that it was really the mean Republicans who punched them in the face.</p>
<p>When African-American unemployment rates rise, the workers who can’t find jobs because of all the brand new DREAMERs won’t blame the White House, they’ll blame the evil Republicans for income inequality, assuming Sharpton manages to read the term correctly from his MSNBC teleprompter.</p>
<p>According to Obama our immigration system is broken because it doesn’t allow illegal aliens who illegally crossed the border to take American jobs. That’s not a broken system, that’s what the system is supposed to do.</p>
<p>When illegal aliens aren’t allowed to legally take American jobs, that’s how you know the immigration system is working.</p>
<p>In the language of progressivism, helping means ruining and fixing means breaking. A system that fulfills any useful purpose must be reformed out of all usefulness. If the tattered shreds of the immigration system still keep a single Democratic voter from legally cashing a welfare check and casting a vote, then immigration must be reformed and helped and fixed until it is completely destroyed.</p>
<p>The immigration system is broken because it was reformed so many times that it makes as much sense as an outhouse on a space shuttle. Its main function now is to bring millions of people without jobs to a country where millions are out of work. Obama wants to fix that by adding millions more people.</p>
<p>Our system of immigration is a perfectly good system for importing lots of low wage workers. The only problem is they’re being imported into a country where there are a lot more low wage workers than there are jobs. The cost of providing food stamps and social services for the immigrants and the Americans they put out of work is passed on to the shrinking middle class which kills more jobs.</p>
<p>Some Republicans would like to modify it to help Mark Zuckerberg bring cheaper third world programmers and engineers to replace the Americans over at Facebook. Why settle for just wiping out the working class, when you can also take out chunks of the middle class?</p>
<p>Our immigration system made perfect sense back when we were opening factories everywhere. It made sense when new ranches needed hands and land needed working. It makes a lot less sense when the government is fighting a war on carbon, when ranches have to get out of the way of the spotted red toad and farms are starved of water in the name of the environment.</p>
<p>The million immigrants a year are not entering booming industries, but serving as cheap labor in declining ones. And they’re doing it in a country where declining industries and poor workers are already being subsidized by taxpayers in a dozen different ways. Why then should taxpayers also be subsidizing the replacement of American workers with Somali and Honduran workers?</p>
<p>Who benefits from that except the Democratic Party which not only killed the industries, but is now managing to kill the American workforce? The glorious future of the new economy is a government subsidized Chinese factory using foreign workers to make subsidized solar panels in Oklahoma while taxpayers remain on the hook for the subsidies which used bonds sold to Chinese investors.</p>
<p>Declining industries tighten their belts by cutting costs. They find the cheapest employees they can. Those cheapest employees become a constituency for the nanny state. The nanny state makes it even more expensive to operate. The cycle spins on until the only industries left are state subsidized and everyone directly or indirectly works for the state. And the only items of collateral with which to borrow more money to subsidize them with are the land and the people. That’s not America. That’s Africa.</p>
<p>The Obama economy has created mostly low wage jobs. Those jobs continue to be filled by immigrants. There still aren’t enough jobs so Obama is proposing to create even less jobs by adding more immigrants by legalizing more illegal aliens.</p>
<p>There is something broken here, but it’s not so much immigration as Obama and his party.</p>
<p>Last week I spoke to a British immigration lawyer who described how difficult it was for seniors in the United Kingdom to retire in the United States. While most countries welcome wealthy retirees, our system makes it difficult for them to move and bring their money over here.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in his 2013 State of the Union address, Obama had praised Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old Haitian woman who had moved to the United States at around 80 and never learned to speak English, but did spend hours waiting in line in Florida to vote for Obama. There are <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-coming-collapse-of-the-welfare-state/">plenty of senior immigrants</a> coming through family reunification for a big bite of a social welfare system they never paid into.</p>
<p>But the Democratic Party would rather have a voter than a worker. And so what we have is not an immigration system, but a migration system.</p>
<p>That’s why Obama and his people fought so hard against an Ebola travel ban. It’s why the <em>New York Times</em> editorialized against allowing Cuban doctors to defect because of the “brain drain” but instead urged that “American immigration policy should give priority to the world’s neediest refugees.”</p>
<p>America certainly takes in plenty of needy people, but what the <em>New York Times</em> is emphasizing is that we should be taking in people with nothing to contribute and keeping out those who do. Its ideal immigrant will at best be a low wage worker and at worst a permanent welfare case. We don’t want Cuban doctors. We want Somali muggers and Liberian Ebola cases and Pakistani terrorists.</p>
<p>Immigration is not meant to serve American interests. America is meant to serve immigration.</p>
<p>The end result of this immigration policy will be a stratified society with a permanent lower class and a thin upper class whose leftists can always start a riot by shouting about income equality without ever being able to offer it. Without social mobility what we will have left is social instability. There will be lots of young men with time on their hands to build bombs or throw stones.</p>
<p>If the left doesn’t win through the system, they’ll have their revolutionary constituency standing by.</p>
<p>The only way we can afford the immigration policy that we have now is with a lot more industry and a lot less welfare. Instead our immigration rates were widened and rerouted to the Third World even as our actual industries declined. We kept on taking workers we didn’t have jobs for. We built ghettoes and rust belts and our politicians kept on reciting robotic speeches about being a nation of immigrants.</p>
<p>Immigration requires opportunity. We still have it, but less of it than we used to. Our immigration system is not based on opportunity. It’s based on a migratory flow of Democratic Party voters.</p>
<p>What broke the system was making it as open as possible to those who had the least to offer while closing it tightly to those who had the most to offer. Now Obama wants to import illegal aliens while deporting American jobs. He wants to trade American jobs to illegal aliens for Democratic votes.</p>
<p>If the immigration system is to work again, it should work for America… not for Obama.</p>
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		<title>Washington Braces for Amnesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans weigh counter-strategy options. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245357" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G-450x340.jpg" alt="pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G" width="377" height="285" /></a>Republicans in Congress are struggling to put together a strategy to combat President Obama&#8217;s expected unilateral immigration amnesty as the administration moves closer to pulling the amnesty trigger by year&#8217;s end.</p>
<p>Their deliberations came as Vice President Joe Biden <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/15/readout-vice-presidents-central-america-events-today"><span style="color: #0433ff;">met</span></a> Saturday with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren. One of the topics was how to facilitate even more immigration from those poor Third World countries to the United States.</p>
<p>Biden said next month the U.S. would create what the White House called &#8220;an in-country refugee/parole program in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although fighting President Obama&#8217;s unprecedented threatened power grab by allowing a shutdown of the federal government is a possibility, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/16/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSKCN0J00U320141116"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Republican lawmakers acknowledge</span></a> they haven&#8217;t warmed to the idea.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t solve the problem,&#8221; Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But look, we&#8217;re having those discussions&#8230; We&#8217;re going to continue to meet about this. I know the House leaders are talking about, the Senate leaders are talking about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Republicans are looking at different options about how best to respond to the president&#8217;s unilateral action, which many people believe is unconstitutional, unlawful action on this particular issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; House Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was cool to the idea of a shutdown. &#8220;I think the president wants a fight. I think he’s actually trying to bait us into doing some of these extreme things that have been suggested. I don’t think we will.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) is opposed to a shutdown. &#8220;There’s a wide diversity of thought as to how effective that would be,&#8221; he said. A shutdown &#8220;is not a good solution.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the less appealing suggestions is to sue Obama. There is a huge problem with legal standing and is it by definition an abdication of the constitutionally-stipulated power of the purse held by Congress. Lawmakers don&#8217;t have to go to court to stop Obama.</p>
<p>Many House conservatives <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-usa-immigration-republicans-idUSKCN0IY2H320141114"><span style="color: #0433ff;">want Congress to ban</span></a> the funding needed to implement Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty. Others would attempt to keep the agencies implementing the amnesty on a short leash by appropriating funding for them on a short-term basis, theoretically allowing them to withhold immigration funds without shutting down the government.</p>
<p>&#8220;The power of the purse is what&#8217;s given to the House,&#8221; said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.). &#8220;That’s the check that we have against the White House. To the extent that that&#8217;s the lever we have, that&#8217;s the lever we&#8217;ll use.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.</p>
<p>The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans&#8217; historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.</p>
<p>Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march.</p>
<p>On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning at least 53 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 244 out of 435 seats. In the new year Republicans will control at least 31 state governors&#8217; mansions and at least 68 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber). In at least 23 states Republicans will control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature. Democrats can make the same claim about only 7 states.</p>
<p>Republican leaders have been talking out of both sides of their mouths on the amnesty issue for months.</p>
<p>Acting unilaterally on immigration would be &#8220;a big mistake&#8221; akin to &#8220;waving a red flag in front of a bull,&#8221; McConnell said. Such action &#8220;poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>But McConnell also said he&#8217;s not willing to use Congress&#8217;s spending power to stop amnesty. Right after the election he seemed adamant that he would not abide a  government shutdown.</p>
<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), whose speakership is likely to be challenged by conservative lawmakers in January, also said unilateral action would &#8220;poison the well.&#8221; Boehner warned Obama, &#8220;when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he&#8217;s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.</p>
<p>On the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/224304-dhs-chief-obama-immigration-order-in-final-stages"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confirmed</span></a> that planning for Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty, along with other changes to the immigration system, is almost complete.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re in the final stages of developing some executive actions,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;We have a broken immigration system. The more I delve into it, the more problems I see.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, it is a leftist lie to say that the immigration system is <i>broken</i>. When progressives say the system is broken, they mean it is functioning in a less than optimal manner, failing to capture every single prospective illegal alien welfare case available to wade across the Rio Grande or walk across the nation&#8217;s largely undefended border with Mexico. To them, immigration policy is a taxpayer-subsidized get-out-the-vote scheme for Democrats and the best reform they could imagine would be to abolish America&#8217;s borders altogether.</p>
<p>The system is doing what it was designed to do: 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. The radicals’ goal today is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it was in the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded leftist reforms of that era’s immigration laws through Congress.</p>
<p>The current immigration system is congested, overwhelmed, and under attack by the sheer volume of illegal aliens that Democratic policies have been bringing to the U.S. The problem isn&#8217;t so much the legal regime governing immigration but the years of non-enforcement at the border, coupled with Obama&#8217;s brazen attempts to recruit illegals from Latin America, luring them with promises of government largesse such as food stamps.</p>
<p>Most analysts haven&#8217;t noted that if Obama acts unilaterally on immigration, he is likely to do long-term damage to the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party. The voters of Oregon, a longtime Democrat stronghold, <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141116/us-immigration-oregon-3fe495c4ab.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">delivered a stark warning</span></a> on illegal immigration to the president&#8217;s party in the election a fortnight ago.</p>
<p>Even as Oregonians easily approved Measure 91, a ballot proposition legalizing possession, cultivation, and recreational use of marijuana, and added to Democrat majorities at the state level, they overwhelmingly rejected Measure 88 which would have sustained a state law giving driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The vote to legalize pot was 55.6 percent in favor to 44.4 percent against but the vote to overturn the statute providing driver&#8217;s licenses was a lopsided 66.4 percent to repeal compared to just 33.6 percent to uphold the law. The statute was approved last year without much opposition by state lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat.</p>
<p>As of a month ago, the illegal alien lobby <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Voters-61-in-Progressive-Libertarian-Oregon-Likely-to-Reject-Driver-s-Licenses-for-Illegals"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had outspent</span></a> the other side by a 10-to-1 margin.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was really the epitome of a grassroots effort,&#8221; Cynthia Kendoll, an activist for the successful &#8220;No&#8221; side told reporters. &#8220;There&#8217;s such a disconnect between what people really want and what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mark Krikorian of the respected nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the thumping voters gave Measure 88 was proof that the groups supporting endless accommodations for the illegal aliens invading this country are hopelessly out of touch. &#8220;It really highlights how this issue is not a Republican-liberal issue like, say, taxes and abortion, but an up-down issue, elites versus the public.&#8221;</p>
<p>As if on cue, left-wing elitist Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress (CAP), dropped by to smear those who voted against Measure 88 as racist, monobrowed, dimwits.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is there an instinct toward security, hunkering down and against welcoming the other?&#8221; Fitz said. &#8220;That&#8217;s part of human nature. But that doesn&#8217;t mean instincts can&#8217;t be overcome by reason.&#8221;</p>
<p>Decent, patriotic Americans are infuriated by the kind of smugness and condescension exuded by open-borders radicals like Fitz and Obama who glibly equate opposition to illegal immigration to xenophobia and racism. They are intensely angered when they are told by the leftists of the media day in and day out that if you support enforcement of immigration laws you&#8217;re a bad person. The accusation grates because Americans are among the most tolerant and generous in the world, and beyond any doubt the most accepting of immigrants.</p>
<p>People like Fitz and his former boss CAP founder John Podesta, who is now a senior advisor in the Obama White House, seem unable to fathom just how disgusted law-abiding Americans, including legal U.S. immigrants, are by illegal immigration and the coddling and granting of special privileges to illegals.</p>
<p>The issue of illegal immigration isn&#8217;t a powder keg ready to blow both major political parties to bits. It&#8217;s more like a stage coach in an old Western movie loaded with liquid nitroglycerin. One bad bump on the road and &#8212; <i>kaboom</i>! &#8212; those guiding it across the frontier are vaporized. Obama&#8217;s hugely unpopular executive amnesty threatens to render Democrats a spent force for decades. Whether Republicans will be smart enough to stay clear of the Obama-created debacle-in-waiting remains to be seen.</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/2014/10/51533286_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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		<title>Transforming America into the Killing Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A murder spree in California shows what the release of criminal aliens could mean for America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/B0wEE1lIUAA0uw0.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243899" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/B0wEE1lIUAA0uw0.jpg" alt="B0wEE1lIUAA0uw0" width="323" height="272" /></a>The Obama administration is unleashing thousands of violent criminal aliens, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/09/MD-Sheriff-Feds-Releasing-Criminal-Aliens-For-Political-Reasons">a purely political move according to some law enforcement officials</span></a>. A recent murder spree in California’s capital region shows what this release of violent criminal aliens could mean for the American public.</p>
<p>On Friday, October 24, a man identified as Marcelo Marquez deployed an AR-15 rifle and shot down Sacramento sheriff’s deputy Danny Oliver, 47, who later died. Marquez and a woman identified as his wife, Janelle Marquez Monroy, then shot a man who refused to surrender his car keys. The couple then hijacked another car and Marquez later that day shot and killed detective Michael Davis, 42, and wounded deputy Jeff Davis. The killer took refuge in a home but by late afternoon police arrested him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3348287.html">“Gun rampage kills two deputies in Sacramento region</a></span>,” read the headline in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>. That might have puzzled those who had participated in the manhunt, along with relatives of the victims. They knew it had not been a “gun” on the rampage. Rather, it was a violent criminal who used a gun to commit two murders. In early reporting not much emerged on the shooter, who despite the Marquez surname was not even described as “Hispanic” or “Latino.” But by the next day, one reality was evident.</p>
<p>“<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3368389.html">Feds say Sacramento shooting suspect was deported twice</span></a>, had drug conviction,” proclaimed the front page of the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>. So he was a criminal foreign national who had entered the country illegally. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) put out a statement that Marcelo Marquez was actually Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte, a Mexican national with tattoos reading “Mexican Pride” and “Sinaloa.” He was deported in 1997 on narcotics charges. After Monroy-Bracamonte entered the United States illegally a second time, U.S. authorities arrested him and deported the criminal to Mexico in 2001. It did not emerge how or when he entered the United States the third time but he may have used another false identity, Julian Beltran. It was not clear what violent crimes he may have committed, other than the murders of Danny Oliver and Michael Davis.</p>
<p>ICE wants Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte handed over to the feds but local authorities seem intent on prosecution on their own turf. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/%25E2%2580%259Cnothing-to-do-with-illegal-aliens%25E2%2580%259D/">As another California multiple murder case shows</span></a>, those looking for justice in local courts may be disappointed.</p>
<p>In February 2011, Saul Isidro-Aucencio and Francisco Delgado gunned down Robert Corpos, 20, Richard Ward, 16, and Jamir Miller, 15. The assailants shot Miller, an African American, in the back of the head with an AK-47. No local journalist disclosed that Delgado and Isidro-Aucencio were in fact Mexican nationals in the country illegally. Had the pair committed other crimes? Had they ever been deported? Had they ever attempted to vote in an American election? Nobody in the local media seemed at all curious, and the courts offered more obfuscation.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In one hearing Melissa Jellison, Jamir Miller’s mother, expressed anger that her son’s killers were in the country illegally. She got no sympathy from Superior Court judge Helene Gweon, a Schwarzenegger appointee and Harvard Law School alum. “This case,” Gweon told the grieving mother, “has nothing to do with illegal aliens.” That smackdown showed the kind of cognitive dissonance not normally found in a judge but common in the Obama administration.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/five-years-since-the-fort-hood-massacre/">Five years ago Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan gunned down 13 American soldiers and wounded more than 30 at Fort Hood</a></span>. The federal government called this “workplace violence,” declining even to call it gun violence. The lives of American soldiers and diplomats – as in Benghazi – are also of secondary concern to the president, so ignoring the murder of two California police officers should be no problem.</p>
<p>So it’s not a stretch that in federal custody Monroy-Bracamonte could be released yet again. If deported, the violent criminal seems to have little trouble crossing America’s southern border, which the Obama administration is now encouraging foreign nationals to do, en masse.</p>
<p>Some will come in search of a better life and pose no threat to anyone. Others will be violent criminals like Saul Isidro-Aucencio, Francisco Delgado and Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte. They know they can take American lives, including those of police officers, and preserve their own. They know they can expect preferential treatment by politically correct media, lenient courts, and a federal government bent on releasing criminal aliens for political purposes.</p>
<p>These dynamics will make the nation a more dangerous place. One could hardly blame American law enforcement officers if they take down the next cop killer with a clean head shot.</p>
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		<title>An Illegal Arab Settlement in the West Bank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the international outrage? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zhRvN.AuSt_.91.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240326" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zhRvN.AuSt_.91-416x350.jpg" alt="zhRvN.AuSt.91" width="347" height="292" /></a>Another illegal settlement has arisen in the Judea-Samaria (West Bank) territories, the New York Times reports. Surely there will soon be an expression of &#8220;deep concern&#8221; from the Obama administration, a furious resolution from the United Nations Security Council, and a letter from twelve angry congressmen mobilized by J Street.</p>
<p>Oh, wait. It&#8217;s not a Jewish settlement &#8212; it&#8217;s an Arab settlement. Cancel the outrage!</p>
<p>A feature article in the New York Times on August 31 reports that the Palestinian Authority is building a new settlement called Rawabi. The first 600 apartments are already complete, out of a projected 6,000 units that will house an estimated 40,000 people.</p>
<p>While Jewish communities in the same area, with even larger populations, are called &#8220;settlements&#8221; by the Times and the rest of the world news media, Rawabi is for some reason characterized as a &#8220;town&#8221; and a &#8220;city.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why is one man&#8217;s community called a &#8220;settlement&#8221; and another&#8217;s a &#8220;town&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Because a &#8220;settlement&#8221; sounds like a foreign implant &#8212; something that has no business being there. A &#8220;town&#8221; sounds normal and natural. Supporters of the Palestinian cause &#8212; whether in the news media, the State Department, or misnamed &#8220;peace&#8221; groups &#8212; want to award Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Arabs. They want everyone to recognize those territories to be &#8220;Palestinian.&#8221;</p>
<p>The problem they face is that there are three significant obstacles to calling the territories &#8220;Palestinian&#8221;:  international law, history, and a text of religious history called the Bible.</p>
<p>According to international law, Jews have at least as much right as Arabs to build towns in Judea and Samaria. All of the documents related to the governing of those territories throughout the past century &#8212; the Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations Mandate, and so on&#8211;specifically endorse the right of Jews to build there. The territories have never been part of a &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; state which made them legally off-limits to Jews.</p>
<p>And according to the historical record, Judea and Samaria belong to the Jews. That&#8217;s why they have been called &#8220;Judea and Samaria&#8221; since ancient times. The Jews had a sovereign state there for nearly a thousand years, then maintained a continuous presence for the past 3,000 years. Arab roots in the area are remarkably shallow: the vast majority of the Arab residents are the children or grandchildren of migrants from Arab countries who immigrated when the Jews began developing the land in the 1920s and 1930s. The local Arabs traditionally called themselves &#8220;southern Syrians&#8221; and never claimed any separate &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; identity until they began using it as a propaganda weapon against Israel in the 1960s.</p>
<p>Tens of millions of Bible believing Christians in America, and many more around the world, join millions of Jews in acknowledging that the Bible repeatedly and unambiguously refers to Judea and Samaria as the heart of the Jewish national homeland. As birth certificates go, that&#8217;s pretty strong.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a lot for proponents of the Palestinian cause to overcome. Some of them have used terrorism to try to intimidate Israel into withdrawing. Some have used threats of boycotts and international isolation to frighten the Israeli public and its Diaspora supporters.</p>
<p>And some use the weapon of language to subtly wage war, wielding labels and slogans and assumptions as rhetorical swords to slash their opponents. Exhibit A: The illegal settlement of Rawabi.</p>
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		<title>Reforming the Department of Homeland Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<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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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MG_5962.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238414" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MG_5962-450x300.jpg" alt="MG_5962" width="273" height="182" /></a>A new <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0807/70-percent-of-Americans-see-immigration-as-threat-to-American-way-of-life">Reuters poll</a> shows that not only do 70% of Americans think that illegal aliens threaten the traditional American way of life, but 45% believe that even the number of legal immigrants should be reduced.</p>
<p>Only 17% think that legal immigration should increase. That’s a problem because increasing legal immigration is one of the major planks of the “immigration reform” plan of both parties.</p>
<p>Everyone used to agree that immigration was a good thing. But that was before they saw photos of gang members slumped in their gyms and buses full of illegal aliens in Homeland Security convoys coming to hike up their taxes while lowering their property values.</p>
<p>And then immigration suddenly stopped being a Neil Diamond song and became a national crisis.</p>
<p>America is developing an anti-immigration consensus. That wasn’t supposed to happen in the nation of immigrants. Media outlets are shaking their heads over the poll numbers and correctly tying them to the border crisis. What they aren’t saying though is that the border crisis was calculatedly set off by Obama’s illegal alien DREAM amnesty. And as with ObamaCare, the radical agenda backfired.</p>
<p>The border crisis was supposed to start the amnesty machine. It was the sort of confrontational activism popular with Chicago community organizers who know that if you can’t get what you want, you dump a bunch of people on the doorstep of whatever agency you want to blackmail which creates an instant social services mess so that the politicians will have no choice but to “solve the problem” on your terms.</p>
<p>The harassment of politicians by illegal alien activists took Chicago community organizing to the national level. The border crisis was the next phase of the assault aimed at hitting Americans right where they lived by turning every state into a border state. But the rest of the United States isn’t Chicago. Or at least not the parts of Chicago that community organizers like.</p>
<p>Crowds waving American flags blocked buses. Stories leaked out about diseases being spread around. Even Democrats did their best to keep the illegal alien drops out of their states.</p>
<p>The border crisis was meant to move Americans toward an even more liberal position on illegal immigration. Instead it had the opposite effect and tainted the idea of immigration as a whole.</p>
<p>The backlash was completely predictable to anyone who had been paying attention to Europe.</p>
<p>The United States didn’t have an anti-immigration consensus until Obama duplicated the European situation by manufacturing a refugee crisis. Europe developed an anti-immigration consensus when a poor economy collided with large numbers of refugees and a central authority that remained blindly intent on pushing more immigrants and migrants through the system regardless of popular discontent.</p>
<p>Democrats and Republicans plotted amnesty while dismissing the idea of an anti-immigration consensus. They acted as if the rise of anti-immigration parties like UKIP was a purely European phenomenon and that the American political brass ring would go to the biggest amnesty shill.</p>
<p>Now the polls are telling them that they were wrong.</p>
<p>Republicans and Democrats had always been selectively reading the polls in favor of amnesty while ignoring the negative polls involving immigrants and the economy. Americans appeared to support legalization because they didn’t care much about illegal aliens. Even Latino voters ranked immigration low on their set of priorities. The passion had always been on the side of immigration opponents.</p>
<p>Just like ObamaCare, an issue that no one had particularly cared about before and for which passionate support was virtually non-existent, Obamnesty became the banner policy of the establishment and that made it possible for the opposition to define the issue through the politics of confrontation.</p>
<p>The border crisis made immigration seem urgent for the first time by visualizing a massive human tide swarming inside. Now immigration is polling as a priority and not the kind of priority that Obama had in mind. Instead the border crisis has caused immigration to be seen as an economic threat.</p>
<p>Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012 had played off isolationism among ordinary Americans while promising multilateral soft power to the elites. Pledges of opposition to the Iraq War in 2008 and the dishonest promises of “Nation Building at Home” in 2012 allowed Obama to outmaneuver a moribund Republican political machine that was desperately short of ideas.</p>
<p>But Obama forgot that isolationism tends to go together with immigration skepticism. Once people decide that the outside world isn’t worth bothering with, their suspicion of international interventions easily transfers over to immigration.</p>
<p>America today has more than a little in common with the period of the great immigration backlash of the 1920s. Economic uncertainty and a period of isolationism after an exhausting foreign war combined with the arrival of huge numbers of immigrants led to an immigration backlash back then. It would not be unprecedented for it to lead to an immigration backlash all over again.</p>
<p>Economic malaise and political isolationism are just as present in the United States as in Europe. The amnesty push polarized the issue and created a major crisis. Obama took on the role of America’s EU, an internationalist force dedicated to unlimited immigration with no concern for the citizenry.</p>
<p>The anti-immigration consensus stunned Tories and Labour alike in the UK. Both parties are still reeling from how easily UKIP exploited popular anger over immigration. And both parties have been forced to learn how to talk to working class voters again. If the same political tsunami hits America, Republicans and Democrats will be even more unprepared to deal with a phenomenon that will make the Tea Party disruptions over ObamaCare seem like a fond memory for the political establishment.</p>
<p>The two big parties are unready to deal with real isolationism. Barack Obama and Rand Paul may flirt with anti-war sloganeering, but they are also committed to amnesty, free trade and open borders.</p>
<p>Both Democrats and Republicans have made the mistake of trying to trade the white working class voters that they have for the future demographics of a transformed nation. But like their European counterparts they may find that they have prematurely buried the white working class voter.</p>
<p>Isolationism is less of a rejection of the outside world than it is a rejection of the terms on which a domestic political leadership has dealt with the rest of the world. Skepticism toward foreign intervention and immigration are really votes of no confidence in our own government. And that’s what the poll numbers for Obama and Congress have been communicating even before the border crisis.</p>
<p>In a miserable economy with living standards on the decline and little hope for the future, there is a great deal of free-floating anger in the political atmosphere. The sleeping giant of the coal mines and bars, the rust belt and the drought-plagued farmland may wake to his anger much more slowly than the mobs of migrants who have been community organized into parading back and forth all day in front of government offices waving their fists in the air, but when he wakes up, the political establishment that has gotten used to ignoring him will collapse and fall apart.</p>
<p>The amnesty radicals pushed too hard and too fast. They could have gotten everything they wanted through a consensus of both parties, but now they may end up with nothing at all.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236973" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas1.jpg" alt="pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas" width="250" height="217" /></a>House Republicans <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/23/house-calls-immigration-enforcement-central-americ/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">offered</span></a> a dozen recommendations Wednesday to address the illegal immigration crisis. “Our focus has been to ensure the safety of the children and it has remained a top priority throughout this process,” said task force leader Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX). “In our personal meetings with the Presidents of Honduras and Guatemala they both stated that they wanted their children back, and we believe that is in the best interest of all the countries involved in this crisis. We look forward to working with these countries as they prepare to receive their children back.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The recommendations offer a mixture of strategies that include more forceful border control and the elimination of intra-governmental turf fights interfering with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations on federal land. Border enforcement in Mexico and Central America, along with repatriation centers for minors set up in those countries are also part of the mix, as is an aggressive messaging campaign clarifying the downside of illegal immigration. Other recommendations include an acceleration of immigration hearings by adding additional judges to hear asylum requests, including a mandate to process “family units” within 5-7 days, tougher penalties on human traffickers, aka coyotes, and initiating law enforcement operations in both Mexico and Central America to stop the tide of illegals before they reach the U.S. border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The primary recommendation for altering the current equation is a <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/house-republicans-immigration-border-plan-109279.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revision</span></a> of the  <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/113178.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008</span></a> that would allow children from Central America to be processed and deported as quickly as those from Canada and Mexico. A revision of the anti-trafficking law is a critical necessity. Despite admirable intentions when it was enacted six years ago, the latest onslaught of 57,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) over the last nine months—more than seven times average number that came across the border each year prior to the law’s enactment—has rendered it obsolete.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The numbers tell the story: of those 57,000 UACs only 2,000 have been repatriated and immigration courts are overwhelmed with a backlog of more than 350,000 cases. As a result it will be years before many of these children will be called to show up for their day in court.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If they show up at all. Juan Osuna, who heads the Justice Department’s immigration courts, revealed the predictable truth at a recent congressional hearing, telling lawmakers that <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/few-children-are-deported-1405036369?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories"><span style="color: #1255cc;">46 percent</span></a> of UACs failed to appear at their hearings between the start of the FY2014 last Oct. 1 and the end of June. And even when they do appear and get a deportation order or are allowed to return home voluntarily, there is no guarantee that they will abide by the law. In FY 2013 two-thirds of the 6,437 cases adjudicated reached that outcome, but data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows that only 1,600 children actually returned home.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">House Republican address this reality as well. UACs who do not wish to be voluntarily returned to their home country must remain in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) while awaiting an immigration court hearing that must occur no more than 7 days after they are screened by HHS.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That last item is as critical as changing the anti-trafficking law. Right now the Obama administration is dispersing thousands of UACs and other illegals throughout the nation in an effort that <i>facilitates</i> the human trafficking they claim to oppose. That reality was <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;">affirmed</span></a> by Mark Greenberg, Health and Human Services Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, at a Senate hearing earlier this month. Under questioning he admitted that it was <i>policy</i> not to verify the immigration status of those to whom the children were being released.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, the government doesn’t even <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/overwhelmed-feds-putting-illegal-immigrant-childre/?page=all"><span style="color: #1255cc;">run</span></a> fingerprint checks on every potential sponsor who arrives to claim a child. According to HHS spokesman Kenneth Wolfe, such checks are limited to those sponsors who aren’t parents or legal guardians, if the child is under the age of 12 or if they “detect” other safety concerns. The only all encompassing criterion is a public records check of each sponsor. After that they hand the sponsor a handbook dealing with the child’s right to enroll in school and offering warnings regarding trafficking and traumatic stress. With such minimal oversight it is no surprise that a nonprofit warned that as many as one-in-ten children end up in unacceptable or dangerous conditions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There is little doubt that amending the 2008 law, coupled with keeping UACs and other aliens in custody until their immigration hearings, would be enormous disincentives with regard to the current status quo that <i>encourages</i> thousands to risk life and limb to get here. Thus it is totally unsurprising that Democrats are against the GOP plan in general, and amending the law in particular. “Almost every Democrat I talk to says we should hold the line on the laws passed to protect children from sex trafficking and smugglers,” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) who also accused Republicans of trying to “exploit” the border crisis. “The Republicans seem to be divided between the ones who don’t think the money is necessary, the ones who want to weaken laws protecting children and the ones who want to deport all of the DREAMers and other undocumented immigrants before we do anything else,” he added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The price tag for the GOP’s plan is $1.5 billion in emergency funding they would offset with spending cuts. It stands in sharp contrast to the president’s $3.7 billion request that is best summed up by Center for Immigration Studies fellow Dan Cadman who <a href="http://cis.org/supplemental-budget-request-analysis"><span style="color: #1255cc;">analyzed</span></a> the package. He called it a &#8220;closed circle of illogic” in which the government &#8220;takes a hands-off approach to the UACs being smuggled, and after a few days of detention and make-work processing, passes them over to the ones who initiated the venture.” Moreover, it scrupulously avoids addressing any changes to the 2008 law, as once again Democrats, lead by the president of the United States, insist their orchestrated humanitarian crisis be addressed <i>before</i> the border breakdown that feeds and <i>worsens</i> it.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And make no mistake: it is an orchestrated crisis because it is occurring even as <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2014/0723/Why-didn-t-some-Central-America-experts-see-the-child-migrant-crisis-coming"><span style="color: #1255cc;">crime rates</span></a> in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador—that Democrats like to cite as the primary impetus for the surge—have been <i>declining</i> for the last two years, even as the number of UACs coming to America has skyrocketed in the same time frame. The real impetus behind the surge is what it has always been: President Obama’s unilateral legalization of Dreamers in 2012, coupled with just released <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deport-children-20140706-story.html#page=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">data</span></a> showing a marked decrease in the number of children turned away at the border. In 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, there were 8,143 turn-a-ways. Last year there were only 1,669. There has also been a decrease from the 600 minors ordered to be deported each year from non-border states 10 years ago, to the paltry 95 deported in 2013.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Add the administration’s determination to conspicuously ignore an <a href="http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/articulos-prensa/pone-en-marcha-el-presidente-enrique-pena-nieto-el-programa-frontera-sur/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">agreement</span></a> between Mexico and Guatemala facilitating the passage of UACs through Mexico on their way to the United States—which Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/mexico-guatemala-fast-track-delivery-of-illegals-to-u-s/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insists</span></a> will be expanded to include Honduras and El Salvador &#8220;to make Central American migration more organized and safer”—and the message remains clear: if you get here, chances are excellent you can stay here.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In addition, Senate Democrats are formulating a $2.7 billion plan of their own that <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/07/23/house-republicans-unveil-plan-to-deal-with-border-crisis/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">omits</span></a> any effort to amend the trafficking bill. That means even under the best of circumstances, some sort of reconciliation process between the two chambers will have to take place before anything meaningful can happen. That reality pokes a giant hole in incoming House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) hopes that any bill will be voted on before Congress recesses in August.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s not going to happen.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus the massive influx of 57,000 UACs&#8211;along with the additional 240,000 illegals that have arrived here from April through June, yet somehow remain largely under the media radar&#8211;will continue. There is little doubt <i>that</i> under-reported reality would take much of the air out of the “humanitarian” balloon, as would multiplying the three-month influx by four to reach an annual total of nearly <i>1.2 million</i> illegals who could come across our Southwest border, if the current rate remains constant.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And why shouldn’t it remain constant? We have a president who won’t even <i>visit</i> the border, much less act on a crisis of national proportions. We have a Democratic Party <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/12/10/3037441/house-dems-pressure-obama-stop-deportations/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">pushing</span></a> that president to expand his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan to include their parents, as well as halt further deportations. We have an Obama administration <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/20/pentagon-looks-enlist-illegal-immigrants-seeking-c/?page=all"><span style="color: #1255cc;">looking</span></a> to put illegals in the military, even as it aims to cut the military to pre-WWII levels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In short, the entire nation is being held hostage to a despicable leftist agenda, aided and abetted by an equally compromised GOP Establishment: either Americans embrace comprehensive immigration reform, or the Cloward-Piven-inspired, “crash the system&#8221; chaos at the border will continue. The dispersal of illegals, not just to questionable individuals, but to locations in towns and cities <a href="https://www.numbersusa.com/news/not-my-backyard-feds-efforts-relocate-illegal-aliens-border"><span style="color: #1255cc;">throughout the nation</span></a>, will continue. The aiding and abetting of human trafficking by our own government will continue. The utter contempt for the rule of law and our national sovereignty will continue.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A letter signed by the governors of Alabama, Kansas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wisconsin was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/border-crisis-creates-discomfort-for-state-local-politicians-over-housing-children/2014/07/23/2835843c-1249-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html?hpid=z2"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sent</span></a> to President Obama this week. “The failure to return the unaccompanied children will send a message that will encourage a much larger movement towards our southern border,” it stated. <i>Exactly.</i></p>
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		<title>How Amnesty Will Harm U.S. Support for Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An overlooked consequence of the changing composition of America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bds-580x433.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236962" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bds-580x433-450x335.jpg" alt="bds-580x433" width="317" height="236" /></a>The more patriotic Jewish Americans may see connections between the latest Gaza uprising and the onslaught of unaccompanied alien children at our southern borders. The waves of Qassam rockets hitting Beersheva and Ashdod and the waves of illegal aliens coming over into Texas and Arizona have posed respective existential threats to Israel and the US for years and the challenge is getting increasingly serious. Although the BDS movement hasn’t died down in the US, <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;ved=0CCwQFjAD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fnews%2Fdiplomacy-defense%2F1.606557&amp;ei=SIfOU4SoMNTLsASD-oJA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxqBAyqpeQj7soTO8eq4uMvNhpag&amp;bvm=bv.71198958,d.cWc"><span style="color: #0463c1;">polls</span></a> showing continued American support for Israel’s efforts in Gaza no doubt provide reassurance to most American Jews. But depending on how the US manages its southern borders in the years ahead, broad support for Israel may not always be a sure thing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The number of Hispanics in America, both legal and illegal, has almost <a href="http://www.agencypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/140.gif"><span style="color: #0463c1;">quadrupled</span></a> since the last census in 2010. The level of support for Israel among this rapidly-expanding demographic, however, is at polar opposites with groups like traditional <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/the-israel-project-american-hispanics-are-the-most-hostile-toward-israel-1.412851"><span style="color: #0463c1;">conservatives</span></a>, the strongest supporters of Israel in the US, outside American Jews. A 2011 poll covered by the Israeli press found that nearly <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/poll-nearly-50-of-hispanic-americans-believe-u-s-too-supportive-of-israel-1.352409"><span style="color: #0463c1;">50 percent</span></a> of Hispanics thought the ‘US was too supportive of Israel.’ These results should have acted as a “wake-up call” according to the Jewish organization that commissioned it. Jewish advocacy groups in general, however, like Bend the Arc or the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), continue to <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/07/09/news-opinion/united-states/jewish-groups-call-on-obama-to-welcome-the-stranger"><span style="color: #0463c1;">support</span></a> amnesty for illegal aliens, including the latest wave we’ve seen. Whether groups such as these are paying close attention to the long-term effects of their lobbying is doubtful.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The recent waves of unaccompanied alien children have arrived mostly from <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Guatemala-becomes-latest-country-to-recognize-Palestine-309410"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Guatemala</span></a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/us-honduras-palestine-idUSTRE77P7AX20110826"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Honduras</span></a> and <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/130510/el-salvador-establishes-diplomatic-relations-palestine-authori"><span style="color: #0463c1;">El Salvador</span></a>, countries that have each made moves in the face of US and Israeli opposition to recognize Palestine as a sovereign, independent state – <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/palestinians-win-statehood-status-us-objections/story?id=17837415"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Mexico</span></a> has also made similar moves – Meanwhile, opinion <a href="http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbccntryview/backgrounder.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">polls</span></a> in other Hispanic countries, such as Brazil, Chile and Argentina, show Israel to be about as popular as North Korea and Iran. Kenya, India and Russia, countries that have very large Islamic populations and a history of poor relations with Israel, are generally <a href="http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbccntryview/backgrounder.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">shown</span></a> to be more supportive than most Latin American countries – Although polling in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.591154"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Venezuela</span></a> could not be located, just recently that country pledged to send the Palestinian Authority 240,000 barrels of oil, presumably as an act of solidarity.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As the Hispanic population and its share of the electorate continues to lurch forward, American Jews, especially those committed to open-borders, should pay greater attention to this issue. Apart from Bill Kristol, Jewish immigration-restrictionists don’t have wide profiles. Former American Jewish Congress director and senior analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), <a href="http://njjewishnews.com/article/4321/activist-blasts-jewish-groups-on-immigration#.U8280ElZSP8"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Stuart Steinlight</span></a> has warned open-borders Jewish groups that continuous waves of Hispanics will “erode Jewish political clout” in this country. Groups like HIAS, according to Steinlight, are fronted by “unelected, aging plutocrats” who are actually working against Jewish interests by “pushing to let in more and more Muslims.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Although Steinlight and CIS are frequently targeted by the <a href="http://forward.com/articles/179296/jews-unite-behind-push-for-immigration-reform/?p=all"><span style="color: #0463c1;">pro-amnesty</span></a> Anti-Defamation League (ADL), that organization found in a 2002 poll that the levels of anti-Semitism in the US was highest among Hispanics and <a href="http://archive.adl.org/anti_semitism/2002/as_survey.pdf"><span style="color: #0463c1;">triple</span></a> the rate found among Whites.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Other figures have noted the potential long-term threat to Israel from America’s immigration policy. Following Obama’s 2012 re-election, Michael Freund, ex-communications director for Prime Minister Netayahu, wrote an <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Fundamentally-Freund-Time-for-Hispanic-hasbara"><span style="color: #0463c1;">op-ed</span></a> in <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> demanding that, due to the ‘changing face of America’, Israel must “launch a comprehensive and coordinated Hasbara, or public diplomacy, campaign that makes Israel’s case to Hispanics directly and ‘en Espanol.’”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Whether a PR campaign could be so successful is unclear. The four decades-old Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), a Hispanic activist organization with a long history of pushing for open-borders, <a href="http://www.nationalmecha.org/archives/2012/03/national_mecha_endorses_palestinian_boycott_call_against_israel.php"><span style="color: #0463c1;">endorsed</span></a> the BDS movement in 2012.  Their announcement was made on <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/land-day-and-cesar-chavez-day-latin-youth-association-endorses"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Cesar Chavez Day</span></a>, which happens to fall on ‘Palestinian Land Day.’</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In a report on Hispanic and Palestinian solidarity, the anti-Zionist website <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-latino-activists-are-standing-israel-lobby/13225"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Electronic Intifada</span></a> profiled Gabriel Camacho of the open-borders American Friends Service Committee who said he was inspired after a trip to the West Bank to start a new activism project: a presentation called “Two Walls, One Struggle: a structural comparison of colonization, territorial loss, and racist aggression in Mexico and Palestine.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Electronic Intifada’s report concludes, “[a]s long as Latinos in the US are subjected to racial profiling, the deportation of undocumented loved ones, and the effects of colonialism in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in the southwest states, comparisons will be made between Latinos and Palestinians.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In pushing for increased immigration and amnesty for illegals, such a comparison could become increasingly mainstream. Some American Jewish groups may need to begin asking themselves just what they’re advocating and who they’re really advocating for.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 04:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the breakdown of the Southwest border is only the tip of the iceberg. ]]></description>
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<p>When you consider how many ways an alien may enter the United States it is absurd to focus all attention on just the Southwest Border of the United States that involves just four of America&#8217;s 50 states.</p>
<p>In point of fact, it has been estimated that 40% of the illegal aliens who are present in the United States did not run our border and evade the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would be harmful to America or Americans but entered the United States through ports of entry and went on, in various ways, to violate the terms of their admission into the United States.</p>
<p>Furthermore, some illegal aliens gain entry into the United States by stowing away on ships, illegal disembark from ships on which they work and are referred to as “ship-jumpers” or enter without inspection from Canada.</p>
<p>Yet the immigration debate has disingenuously focused nearly exclusively, on the need to secure America&#8217;s Southwest Border that is <i>supposed</i> to separate the United States from Mexico.</p>
<p>Of course, given the ongoing crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor illegal aliens, primarily from Central America, who are showing up along the Southwest Border of the United States having illegally entered the United States, it is clear that this border <i>must </i>be made secure.  However, it is foolhardy to not pay attention to all of the other entry points and methods of entry employed by illegal aliens.  It is no less foolish to ignore the other failings of the immigration system that enable criminals and terrorists to game the process by which visas are issued and immigration benefits are conferred upon aliens.</p>
<p>The easiest way to visualize the immigration system is to consider the configuration of a colander.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colander">Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a colander</a> thusly:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>col·an·der </b><i>noun</i> \ˈkä-lən-dər, ˈkə-\</p>
<p>: a bowl that has many small holes and that is used for washing or draining food</p></blockquote>
<p>Consider that each of the holes in the colander is comparable to a hole in the immigration system.  Politicians who attempt to convince us that all that is necessary as a pre-requisite for implementing Comprehensive Immigration Reform is to secure the US/Mexican border are, in essence, claiming that if you plug one hole in the bottom of a colander it could then be used as a bucket to carry water.</p>
<p>How preposterous is that?</p>
<p>If you want to use a colander as a bucket to carry water, all of the holes need to be plugged.</p>
<p>No less than national security and public safety hang in the balance.</p>
<p>Imagine that from time to time that colander is not used to carry water but a deadly liquid, that must not be released.  This is not unlike the fact that among the aliens seeking to enter the United States in violation of our laws, are terrorists and pernicious criminals with deadly intentions.</p>
<p>Yet the politicians are so hell-bent on passing Comprehensive Immigration Reform that they willfully ignore the other failures of the immigration system upon which national security depends.</p>
<p>Think back to the politicians who, in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, demanded to know “Why no one connected the dots?”  Think back to the statements frequently made that the terrorists need to get it right only once while our government needs to get it right 100% of the time.</p>
<p>Each hole in the colander represents a hole in the system which must get it right 100% of the time.</p>
<p>The concept of getting it right at all times was, and continues to be used, as justification for the continual erosion of our expectations of privacy and freedom.</p>
<p>This concept is used as justification for the ever more invasive search we are forced to undergo before boarding airliners.  Indeed, we generally accept these invasive searches because of our concerns about the potential that hijackers could once again take control of an airliner and use it as a de facto cruise missile.</p>
<p>However, there are many ways that terrorists can launch attacks inside the United States that don&#8217;t involve airliners, as we saw on May 1, 2010 when Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen who had immigrated to the United States from Pakistan and naturalized the year before he attempted to set off a car bomb, parked in highly congested “Crossroads of the World,” Times Square.</p>
<p>At the time of his arrest two days after the attempted attack, Shahzad was arrested as he sat on an an Emirates Airline flight waiting to take off for Dubai.  Reportedly more than a dozen of his accomplices were arrested in Pakistan.  All were reportedly acting under the direction of the Taliban.</p>
<p>On April 15, 2013 the Tsarnaev brothers carried out a deadly attack on the Boston Marathon.  The Tsarnaev family had been granted political asylum in the United States when they claimed “credible fear” that they could not safely return to their native Russia &#8212; that they would face persecution or worse.  No sooner had their applications for asylum been approved than they voluntarily returned to Russia.  It would certainly appear that they committed fraud in their applications.</p>
<p>On May 2, 2013 I was interviewed by Megyn Kelly of Fox News to discuss the immigration aspects of this case. Fox News posted a video of the interview on its website with the title: <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/02/immigration-expert-system-much-worse-shape-people-think">&#8220;Immigration Expert: The System Failed in Boston and Keeps on Failing.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Our government should be as determined to keep terrorists and transnational criminals out of the United States as it is determined to prevent terrorists from gaining access to airliners.</p>
<p>Yet our government refuses to do what is necessary to prevent the entry of international terrorists and transnational criminals into the United States.  As a consequence we live among millions of illegal aliens who evaded the inspections process conducted at ports of entry by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) Inspectors, that is supposed to keep dangerous foreign nationals out of the United States.</p>
<p>Consider the first paragraph found in the preface of the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_terrtrav_monograph.pdf"><span style="color: #092770;">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</span></a>:</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>If you doubt that our borders lack integrity, you may certainly consider the situation unfolding on the Southwest Border that has, of late, garnered such focused press coverage.  You may also consider that the United States is currently suffering from such a massive epidemic of heroin overdoses that police departments across the United States have taken to the unprecedented strategy of providing their officers with the antidote to heroin overdoses.</p>
<p>Heroin and cocaine are produced outside the United States.  Every gram of heroin and every gram of cocaine present in the United States represent incontrovertible evidence of a failure of border security.</p>
<p>It is worth noting that the proceeds from the sale of heroin and cocaine enrich the coffers of transnational criminal organizations and terrorist organizations, further endangering America and Americans.  It is worth noting that there is a direct nexus between drug use and crime- indeed, it is believed that the majority of crime, especially violent crime is connected to narcotics trafficking and the use of illegal drugs.</p>
<p>On July 4, 2014 NewsMax posted an article, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-border-immigration-surge/2014/07/04/id/580857/?ns_mail_uid=4092516&amp;ns_mail_job=1576071_07042014&amp;promo_code=kz5zmk6d"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Rep. Michael McCaul: Military Bases Turning Into Refugee Camps&#8221;</span></a> that began with the following paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Texas lawmakers have demanded that President Barack Obama finally secure the border, saying military bases are being overwhelmed as they house thousands of illegal immigrant children pouring into the United States every month.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The article further noted:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>During a Homeland Security Committee field hearing in McAllen, Texas, attended by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, McCaul said that government statistics show 70 percent of the alien children risk life and limb to get into the United States illegally because they believe they will be allowed to stay.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The border between the U.S. and Mexico is less secure than at any point in the recent past,&#8221; Perry told the field hearing, according to the Times. &#8220;Secure this border, Mr. president. Finally, address this issue and secure this border.&#8221;</p>
<p>Finally it is worthwhile considering this quote attributed to Rep. Bob Goodlatte the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, said Border Patrol agents had told GOP and Democratic lawmakers during their field trip that &#8220;the best way to stop this crisis is through deterrence,&#8221; The Washington Times reported.  &#8220;They were very clear that deterrence must be the focus and there must be an end to the so-called catch-and-release policy.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Chairman Goodlatte is absolutely correct &#8212; effective deterrence is undoubtedly the only effective solution to the immigration crisis confronting America and Americans today.</p>
<p>However, thus far, precious few members of Congress are willing to go beyond the concept of securing the Southwest border to include plugging the other gaping holes in the immigration system that go well beyond the U.S./Mexican border.</p>
<p>“The Social Contract,” a quarterly journal, published my article, <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_4/tsc_23_4_cutler.shtml"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Political Asylum: Where Compassion and National Security Intersect”</span></a> 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.</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On November 20, 2013, ABC News published this disconcerting article <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">&#8220;Exclusive: US May Have Let &#8216;Dozens&#8217; of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>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></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>The 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>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.  She has many like-minded colleagues on both sides of the political aisle and in both the Senate and House of Representatives.</p>
<p>These politicians need to hear from their constituents, especially as election day approaches.</p>
<p>Democracy is not a spectator sport.</p>
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		<title>There Is No Conservative Case for Amnesty</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BorderPatrolAgent2png.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234716" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BorderPatrolAgent2png-450x339.png" alt="BorderPatrolAgent2png" width="261" height="197" /></a>Under the hot sun, sweating Hondurans trudge across Mexico headed for the United States and khaki-wearing hacks in comfortable D.C. digs pound out defenses of amnesty on their iPads. The men in the desert call the thing that they want “<span style="color: #0433ff;"><i><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/weekly-update-obama-causes-border-crisis/">amnistía</a>,</i></span>” but its domestic defenders refuse to use the “A-word.”</p>
<p>To them it’s always immigration reform. But it’s not immigration that is being reformed; a word that comes from the Latin “<i>reformare”</i> which means to reshape.</p>
<p>It’s the United States of America that is being reformed and reshaped.</p>
<p>The consequences of that reformation are not only linguistic, but political. Amnesty’s reshaping of America will make conservative political positions untenable.  That is why some establishment Republicans are pushing for amnesty. A political shift that will bury small government as thoroughly as the gold standard isn’t just to the advantage of the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>It’s also to their advantage.</p>
<p>Many assume that illegal alien amnesty means cheap votes for Democrats and cheap labor for Republicans. But that’s only partly true.</p>
<p>There are powerful men in both parties who believe that the United States must “reform” to be more like Europe. That it must have a stronger central government and more controlling social policies.</p>
<p>Amnesty is an opportunity to reshape national politics by eliminating opposition to everything from Common Core (<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25623951/californians-strongly-support-common-core"><span style="color: #0433ff;">support for Common Core</span></a> in California is at 77% among Latinos and 57% among whites) to Global Warming crackdowns (<a href="http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2014/01/23/latinos-want-strong-presidential-action-to-combat-climate-change/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">90% of Latinos want</span></a> government action) and nationalized health care (74% <a href="http://healthpolicy.unm.edu/NEW%2520SURVEY%2520LATINOS%2520HEALTH%2520CARE%2520REFORM"><span style="color: #0433ff;">support  “public option”</span></a> government health care).</p>
<p>Super-Amnesty, many times bigger than the last amnesty, will kill conservative politics. The Tea Party will become a historical footnote. Taxes will go on rising. Government will grow unstoppably bigger.</p>
<p>There will still be a Republican Party. It will support nationalizing health care and expanding the welfare state. Think of today’s Democratic Party. That will be tomorrow’s Republican Party. Pick a radical left-wing party that barely registers on the polls. That will be tomorrow’s Democratic Party.</p>
<p>Articles that claim to be making a conservative case for amnesty are taking a left turn down a dead end street. There can be no conservative case for amnesty because there is no such thing as a conservative case for a policy that will not have a conservative outcome.</p>
<p>It’s possible to make a conservative case for just about anything by breaking conservatism down to a handful of supposed principles such as “free enterprise” or “stronger families” and then overlaying those principles on a policy.</p>
<p>That same technique can be used to make a conservative case for nationalizing health care or child slavery. The piecemeal principles argument is fine for constructing talking points, but it’s also cheap sophistry. It can be used to prove anything which means that it also proves nothing.</p>
<p>The only meaningful argument for a policy is based on outcomes.</p>
<p>If the outcome of a conservative policy is more liberalism, it was never a conservative policy to begin with. That is the simplest and most reliable acid test of any “conservative” policy agenda.</p>
<p>Will Policy X put the country on a more liberal or conservative track? That is a question that Republican advocates of amnesty don’t like answering. Their conservative case for amnesty is all about stronger families and free enterprise; they don’t want to talk about what the United States will actually look like after a generation of majority support for every possible big government gimmick.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://publicreligion.org/research/2013/09/hispanic-values-survey-2013/">72% of Hispanics in the US</a></span> <a href="http://publicreligion.org/research/2013/09/hispanic-values-survey-2013/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">believe</span></a> that the system favors the wealthy and that the government should intervene to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. 60% believe that hard work does not guarantee success. The majority want higher taxes over tax cuts and spending more while raising taxes to pay for it.</p>
<p>And for those holding out hope on the social conservative front, the majority supports gay marriage and opposes abortion by only a narrow margin.</p>
<p>These aren’t racial or ethnic differences. They are political culture differences. Immigrants from brutal totalitarian left-wing dictatorships, like Cuba or the USSR, often lean to the right. However immigrants from countries that lean to the left without being giant death camps, tend to also lean to the left.</p>
<p>The Swedish immigrants that I’ve met think that gun control is so common sense that only a complete maniac would oppose it. Mexico has universal health care and no matter how badly it works, Mexican immigrants think that it’s only natural that the government should have a public option. China spends vast sums of money on a public education system. Chinese immigrants expect the US to do the same.</p>
<p>Immigrants who don’t leave a home country with the understanding that it is completely broken and should only be mentioned as a cautionary tale will support repeating those same tragic errors here.</p>
<p>The Mexican Constitution specifies a minimum wage, unionization and low-cost housing. Those aren’t unusual things in Latin American constitutions. They may exist more in theory than in reality, but they are a baseline expectation.</p>
<p>Amnesty advocates claim that legalization will assimilate illegal aliens. It’s hard to tell if they’re kidding themselves or us. They will be “assimilated” by the same left-wing social system that they have already been living in. They will be assimilated by public schools and state universities, by community activist groups and media outlets and by all the other arms of the Democratic Party and its left-wing satellites.</p>
<p>Republican advocates of amnesty speak of this country as a beacon of freedom. And they’re right. That beacon of freedom has been offered to immigrants around the world. And it is in their interest and ours that the beacon remain lit by opposing a Super-Amnesty of illegal aliens that would drown out its light.</p>
<p>The American culture of freedom is already under siege. Immigration should serve America’s culture of freedom. Anything else would be unfair to Americans and to the generations of future immigrants.</p>
<p>There can be no conservative case for Super-Amnesty unless it can be argued that it will make the country more conservative, freer and less taxed than it is today. Instead the numbers show that Super-Amnesty will create overwhelming support for government power, less freedom and higher taxes.</p>
<p>America will become California.</p>
<p>Super-Amnesty is radical social change in a can. Conservatives don’t believe in radical social change. Amnesty supporters insist that conservatives should lay out a policy alternative to mass amnesty, but the very idea that massive social problems have easy solutions is an intellectual error of the left.</p>
<p>Conservatives accept that social problems arise from human frailty, rather than fundamental inequities. We do not believe in push-button solutions to social problems. Instead we affirm that in maintaining our ideals despite human frailties, we will become a better nation.</p>
<p>Illegal aliens will always exist because there will be people on both sides of the border who will selfishly break the law, harming themselves and others. The solution to this social problem is not to reject the law, abandon borders and citizenship, but to affirm these things in the face of their violation.</p>
<p>We do not fight theft by rejecting ownership. Instead we defend the value of human labor. We do not stop killing by making excuses for murderers, but by championing the value of human life. We do not protect marriage by redefining it so that it means nothing, but by recommitting to the family. And we do not end violations of the border by watering down American citizenship, but by strengthening it.</p>
<p>Making America more Socialist can never be a conservative policy. Authentic conservatism is not misled by talking points that speak of conservative principles.</p>
<p>It accepts nothing less than a conservative outcome.</p>
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		<title>Millionaires Need Your Help</title>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FARMERS-2-articleLarge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222578" alt="FARMERS-2-articleLarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FARMERS-2-articleLarge-429x350.jpg" width="300" height="245" /></a>Last Sunday, The New York Times published a front-page article about the heartfelt need of California farmers for more illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The first tip-off that heinous public policy ideas were coming was that the Times introduced farmer Chuck Herrin, owner of a farm-labor contracting company, as a &#8220;lifelong Republican.&#8221; That&#8217;s Times-speak for &#8220;liberal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Herrin admitted that he employs a lot of illegal aliens and bitterly complained that they lived in fear of &#8220;Border Patrol and deportations.&#8221; (But, apparently, he doesn&#8217;t live in fear of admitting he&#8217;s violating our immigration laws.)</p>
<p>Sorry that running a country inconveniences you, Chuck.</p>
<p>He said his illegal alien employees deserved amnesty because if &#8220;we keep them here and not do anything for them once they get old, that&#8217;s really extortion.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the punch line goes, &#8220;What&#8217;s this &#8216;we,&#8217; paleface?&#8221;</p>
<p>Taxpayers have been subsidizing Chuck Herrin&#8217;s underpayment of his illegal labor force for decades, with skyrocketing taxes to pay for schools, roads, bridges, food stamps, health care and so on. Now Herrin thinks &#8220;we&#8221; are supposed to support his illegal employees in their old age, too.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another idea: How about a federal law mandating that employers of illegal aliens take responsibility for the people they hire? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for illegal aliens&#8217; food, housing and medical care, when Chuck Herrin got 100 percent of the profit from their cheap labor?</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t allow chemical companies to dump pollutants in rivers, walk away and then say, &#8220;If we dump chemicals in rivers and we don&#8217;t clean them once the plant is gone, that&#8217;s really criminal.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, you dumped the chemicals &#8212; not &#8220;we.&#8221; And you, Chuck Herrin, got the cheap labor &#8212; not &#8220;we.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8221; got hospital emergency rooms jammed with illegal aliens when we came in with heart attacks. &#8220;We&#8221; got the crime, drunk-driving and drug trafficking associated with illegal aliens. &#8220;We&#8221; got the overcrowded schools filled with kids whose illegal alien parents don&#8217;t pay property taxes. &#8220;We&#8221; got to press &#8220;one&#8221; for English.</p>
<p>This is even worse than the Wall Street bailouts &#8212; another example of fat cats pocketing 100 percent of the profits when business is good, but demanding a taxpayer handout when their investments go south. At least the Wall Street bailouts didn&#8217;t alter the country forever by giving the Democrats 30 million new voters.</p>
<p>According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/illegal-aliens-cost-california-hospitals-more-than-1-billion-annually">over $1 billion a year.</a>. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Last year alone, California taxpayers paid <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/05/3699529/fresno-co-aims-to-cut-health-care.html">$32 million for indigents&#8217; health care</a> at hospitals located in Fresno County&#8211; which happens to be where Chuck Herrin&#8217;s company is based. How about submitting a portion of that cost to Herrin?</p>
<p><i>Here&#8217;s your bill for $13 million.</i></p>
<p>What&#8217;s this for?</p>
<p><i>The county hospital. You&#8217;ve been paying your employees $20 an hour, and that&#8217;s just not enough to pay for their measles and tuberculosis treatments, not to mention delivery of their premature babies. No one&#8217;s saying it&#8217;s your fault, but it&#8217;s not the county hospital&#8217;s fault either.</i></p>
<p>Luckily, you&#8217;ve got deep pockets, Chuck &#8211; <a href="http://www.manta.com/c/mm7pxmy/sunrise-farm-labor">several hundred million dollars a year, we understand</a> &#8211; thanks in part to how little you pay your workers, who are burdening our local services.</p>
<p>Not only should employers of illegal aliens be responsible for their employees&#8217; becoming public charges, but they ought to be legally responsible for any crimes their illegal workers commit, just as parents can be for the crimes of their minor children, and bars can be for the behavior of their over-served customers.</p>
<p>Why should employers of illegal aliens be allowed to externalize their costs, while keeping 100 percent of the profits?</p>
<p>The very fact that the American taxpayer is required to subsidize illegal alien farm labor &#8212; to say nothing of anti-competitive marketing orders, tariffs and subsidies given to farmers &#8212; proves that we&#8217;re propping up an industry the country doesn&#8217;t need.</p>
<p>If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There&#8217;s absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call &#8220;competitive advantage.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Times quotes a report by two pro-amnesty farmers groups, Partnership for a New American Economy and the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, complaining that American consumption of foreign-grown produce has increased by 80 percent since the late 1990s.</p>
<p>I see why rich farmers are alarmed by that, but why should Americans care? If food can be grown cheaper in other countries, isn&#8217;t it the very essence of libertarian free trade principles to buy it from them?</p>
<p>No. Apparently, we&#8217;re required to wreck the country by bringing in millions upon millions more poor people so we can save the buggy whip industry.</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t do that with oil. We didn&#8217;t do it with steel. We must be &#8220;Fortress America&#8221; only when it comes to asparagus!</p>
<p>Hey! Where&#8217;s the Cato Institute on this? Busy drafting another philippic against our drug laws?</p>
<p>I care more about my fellow Americans who can&#8217;t get well-paying jobs than I do about multimillionaire farmers, demanding that the rest of us pay to support an industry that claims it can&#8217;t compete without taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien labor.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mexicans-obamacare-610x400.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222327" alt="mexicans-obamacare-610x400" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mexicans-obamacare-610x400-450x295.jpg" width="315" height="207" /></a>The Obama administration and a group run by senior Obama White House veterans are encouraging illegal aliens to enroll in Obamacare at Mexico&#8217;s consulates across the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Apparently it&#8217;s not enough for President Obama to redistribute the wealth of Americans to other Americans. Now he wants to redistribute the wealth of Americans to the Third World.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">American taxpayers will undoubtedly foot the bill for these illegal immigrants who enroll in Obamacare. This enrollment free-for-all appears to be but one prong of President Obama&#8217;s program to undermine America&#8217;s market-based system of governance by overwhelming it. This subversive approach is called the Cloward-Piven Strategy, named after its creators, Marxist academic-activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Their method for hastening the fall of capitalism called for overloading the government with impossible demands in order to generate social chaos and economic collapse, which would then clear the way for socialist revolution, as I wrote in my book, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><i>Subversion Inc.: How Obama&#8217;s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Although the strategy was designed for the so-called welfare rights movement, there is no reason why it can&#8217;t be applied to other government endeavors.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Which brings us to a disturbing admission by a community organizer who is pushing illegal immigrants to jump on the Obamacare free-taxpayer-supported-healthcare bandwagon.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Whether they’re Mexican nationals or whether they’re United States citizens or whether they’re in transition &#8211; and if they’re there it is our responsibility within all of America to educate on the Affordable Care Act,” Enroll America field organizer Jose Medrano </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/27/Obamacare-Navigators-Help-Enroll-At-Mexican-Consulates">told</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Breitbart News.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Mexican government&#8217;s consular office in Brownsville, Texas, hosted an Obamacare enrollment fair last week.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The Mexican consulate is a very reliable source of information to the Latino community,&#8221; Medrano said. &#8220;And therefore when they host their events, yesterday being the health fair, there are several hundred people that show up.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Although illegal aliens aren&#8217;t supposed to be getting government healthcare benefits or subsidized coverage under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama seemed to give these individuals the green light to get covered earlier this month. Obama said that the Healthcare.gov website would not be used to ascertain an individual’s immigration status.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“None of the information that is provided in order for you to obtain health insurance is in any way transferred to immigration services,” Obama said reassuringly at the time.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Medrano said 101 families were represented at the Obamacare signup fest in Brownsville, and roughly three fifths of the representatives spoke with a healthcare counselor. The consular office is helpful “as part of the transition” to “mainstream …  America.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/27/Obamacare-Navigators-Help-Enroll-At-Mexican-Consulates">has been spending</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a lot of time in Texas recently trying to boost Obamacare enrollment figures. The former Kansas governor has made at least four visits to Texas for Affordable Care Act-related events since Dec. 20, 2013.</span></p>
<p>&#8220;I’m sure [she was aware],” Medrano said when asked if Sebelius knew about the enrollment fair at Mexican consulate in Brownsville. “We put our events in a database that several organizations are connected to at mainly HHS, so they are fully aware of who was here.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The HHS secretary&#8217;s sudden fondness for Texas </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/30/Election-Integrity-Activists-Obamacare-Biggest-Voter-Registration-Fraud-Scheme-in-History">may have</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> more to do with partisan politics than public health.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It&#8217;s no secret that Obama operatives and other Democrats are going all-out to turn the critical Republican-red state of Texas Democrat-blue. Battleground Texas, a well-connected political action committee, was founded by Jeremy Bird, who was national field director for Obama&#8217;s 2012 reelection campaign.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Guerrilla videographer James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s group, Project Veritas, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/the-obamacare-navigators-nightmare/">paid a visit</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Enroll America, which is run by Obama White House alumni. O&#8217;Keefe found that Enroll America appeared to be sharing data and working directly with Battleground Texas.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When Brian Pendleton, also of Enroll America, was introduced at a speaking engagement, he called Enroll America “the official group for the DNC [Democratic National Committee].”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And the Obama administration interprets the National Voter Registration Act (a.k.a. the Motor-Voter law) to require that voter registration services be offered when an applicant visits an Obamacare healthcare insurance exchange. Who helped to write the NVRA? Cloward and Piven, of course. President Bill Clinton thanked them by name when they attended the bill signing ceremony in 1993.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In an incredible non-coincidence, a La Mesa, California couple were recently </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.10news.com/news/local-couple-upset-after-receiving-pre-marked-voter-registration-card-from-covered-california-03282014">incensed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> when they received papers to register as Democrats from their health insurance provider Covered California, the state-run agency that implements the Affordable Care Act in the Golden State. They received a letter about voter registration and a registration card already marked with an &#8220;x&#8221; in the Democratic Party box. The longtime Republicans told local media they were &#8220;perplexed as to how the voter registration card pre-marked Democrat ended up in their mailbox.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, the Mexican consulate in Chicago was the site of an Obamacare enrollment event last month, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://politics.suntimes.com/article/springfield/head-get-covered-illinois-explains-obamacare-deadline-prep/fri-02282014-833pm">according to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Get Covered Illinois, which is part of Enroll America. The Mexican consulate in Las Vegas has </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://vegasseven.com/2014/03/22/three-questions-broken-nevadas-health-insurance-exchange/">been used</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for enrollment purposes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Mexico&#8217;s many consular offices in the U.S. have also </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/19/usda-partnering-with-mexico-to-boost-food-stamp-participation/">been used</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to encourage Mexican nationals in this country to apply for food stamps, as part of a U.S. program that predates the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/27/Obamacare-Navigators-Help-Enroll-At-Mexican-Consulates">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> “promoting Obamacare at a Mexican consulate raises three major policy concerns.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One, the possibility that illegal immigrants could fraudulently access federal subsidies; two, that such promotions provide a financial inducement to unlawfully enter the U.S. (or overstay a visa) by offering households headed by illegal immigrants federal subsidies through their legal relatives or dependents; and three, that these activities widen an existing flaw in our legal admissions process by continuing to subvert the principle that those seeking to lawfully enter the U.S. should be financially self-sufficient.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2012, ranking members of the Senate Budget, Finance, Judiciary, and Agriculture committees sent correspondence to then-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the letter they protested the fact that both the Department of State and DHS were encouraging would-be welfare recipients to flock to America by excluding &#8220;reliance on almost all governmental welfare programs when evaluating whether an alien is likely to become a public charge.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Under your interpretation,&#8221; the senators wrote, &#8220;an able-bodied immigrant of working age could receive the bulk of his or her income in the form of federal welfare and still not be deemed a ‘public charge.’” The Immigration and Nationality Act specifically states, they added, that &#8220;[a]n alien who … is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible&#8221; to the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It needs to be pointed out that the outfit Medrano works for, Enroll America, isn&#8217;t some rogue operation. It&#8217;s a shadowy quasi-official arm of the Obama administration. HHS Secretary Sebelius has engaged in legally questionable efforts to raise money for the group.</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7805">Enroll America</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/the-obamacare-navigators-nightmare/">corrupt</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> 501c3 nonprofit </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.groupsnoop.org/Enroll+America">that is funded</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5211&amp;category=79">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, H&amp;R Block, and companies that stand to profit from Obamacare, according to groupsnoop, a research website operated by the National Center for Public Policy Research.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The nonprofit organization was founded in 2011 by Ron Pollack, executive director of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7559">Families USA</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, a far-left group with ties to the labor movement. As of June 2013, Enroll America had refused to disclose how large its no doubt massive budget was.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The group&#8217;s leaders are largely Democratic Party operatives and community organizers. Pollack sits on Enroll America’s board. Its president, Anne Filipic, is former deputy director of the Office of Public Engagement for the Obama White House. The group&#8217;s managing director, Chris Wyant, was an economics advisor in the Obama White House.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Enroll America&#8217;s advisory board is chock full of left-wing pressure groups such as the Texas-based Center for Public Policy Priorities, Community Catalyst, Health Care for America Now, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Urban League, Planned Parenthood, Service Employees International Union, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Young Invincibles (a project of the ACORN-linked Center for Community Change).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As community organizers continue their frantic efforts to enroll people in Obamacare, the March 31 deadline for enrollment is upon us.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The deadline is make-believe, of course, as Americans </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/26/obama-administration-announces-health-care-extension/">learned</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> last week. The Obama administration announced that all consumers who had applied for coverage but failed to complete the process by the end of today will now have until roughly mid-April to follow through.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In congressional testimony barely three weeks ago, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius denied an extension was at hand. On March 12 when Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/03/25/surprise-white-house-to-delay-firm-obamacare-enrollment-deadline-past-march-31/">asked</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, “Are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond March 31st?” Sebelius answered, “No, sir.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But that was then. HHS claims there has been a sudden jump in enrollments.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;We are experiencing a surge in demand and are making sure that we will be ready to help consumers who may be in line by the deadline to complete enrollment &#8212; either online or over the phone,&#8221; HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said last week.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In what is likely a lie or at best a half-truth, the Obama administration </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/blog/2014/03/marketplace-enrollment-hits-6-million.html">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> last week that &#8220;more than 6 million Americans have signed up for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces since October 1, thanks to the Affordable Care Act.&#8221; As previous media exposes have shown, the administration has a habit of counting people who open accounts at Healthcare.gov or who select a plan but don&#8217;t actually pay for it as Obamacare enrollees.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sebelius rationalized away the deadline extension, which is yet another lawless presidential modification of Obamacare. She likened the in-limbo status of healthcare applications to citizens standing in line when the polls close. Those individuals are still allowed to vote even though the official deadline has passed, she said, so it&#8217;s only fair that applicants part way through the process be accommodated.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Applicants will reportedly be given an opportunity to indicate they tried to enroll before the March 31 deadline by checking a box on the website, but HHS will make no effort to verify whether previous signups were attempted.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the move rendered the Obamacare deadline &#8220;meaningless.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;The administration is now resorting to an honor system to enforce it. What the hell is this, a joke?&#8221; Boehner said last week.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Avik Roy of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Forbes</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/03/25/surprise-white-house-to-delay-firm-obamacare-enrollment-deadline-past-march-31/">says</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> this latest moving of the goalposts is obviously politically motivated. The extension is &#8220;designed to get as many people under the Obamacare tent as possible, to ensure that the law is impervious to repeal.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All of this is another reminder that the government takeover of healthcare has never been about healthcare.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">President Obama&#8217;s increasingly unpopular Affordable Care Act is about radically transforming America by extending government control over all aspects of life, redistributing wealth, encouraging dependency, and building the Democratic Party base among voters, whether citizens or not.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obama and his radical brethren want to reconstruct America so that the collective trumps the individual, and the rest of the world trumps America.</span></p>
<p>Last year the president said that Obamacare was about securing civil rights. He expounded the ugly, neo-Marxist view that every American has the right to extract free medical care from taxpayers and unwilling providers.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one should go broke just because they get sick,” he said. “In the United States, health care is not a privilege for the fortunate few, it is a right.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In Obama&#8217;s estimation this so-called right to health care supersedes all other rights.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obamacare is a means to an end and if community organizers have to troll Mexican consular offices in order to rope in enrollees, President Obama is fine with that.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/large_ICE.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222120" alt="large_ICE" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/large_ICE.jpg" width="263" height="202" /></a>The Obama administration is barely enforcing immigration laws against illegal immigrants now and intends to do even less in the future, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama).</p>
<p>“The evidence reveals that the Administration has carried out a dramatic nullification of federal law,” Sessions <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/25/Sessions-Report-Demolishes-Obama-Deporter-In-Chief-Myth">told</a> Breitbart News.</p>
<p>“Under the guise of setting ‘priorities,’ the Administration has determined that almost anyone in the world who can enter the United States is free to illegally live, work and claim benefits here as long as they are not caught committing a felony or other serious crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sessions&#8217;s comments came after his office released a three-page <a href="http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/9b44654f-04ed-4de5-8326-8f0caff2a868/critical-alert---dhs-enforcement-data.pdf">&#8220;Critical Alert&#8221;</a> prepared by the senator&#8217;s staffers. The report asserts that the Obama administration is currently blocking the enforcement of immigration laws in the overwhelming majority of violations and is planning to turn down the heat on illegals even more by further expanding the various <i>de facto</i> presidential amnesties now in effect.</p>
<p>President Obama has taken three separate, legally and constitutionally dubious actions that when considered collectively guarantee that almost no individuals illegally present in the country will be deported if their sole act of lawbreaking consists of being in the country.</p>
<p>Obama has provided executive amnesty and work permits for illegal immigrants covered by the proposed &#8220;DREAM Act&#8221; 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&#8217; guidance.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also issued a directive in August 2013 expanding that amnesty to illegal immigrant relatives of &#8220;DREAM Act&#8221; 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>The Sessions report undermines the claim by some left-wing pressure groups that President Obama is tough on illegal immigrants and is deporting them in record numbers. Some radical activists have mocked Obama, labeling him the &#8220;Deporter in Chief,&#8221; in what now appears to have been contrived criticism calculated to give the president political cover to move even further to the left on immigration policy.</p>
<p>Left-wing lawmakers are calling on Obama to scale back deportations. After Latino Democrats met with the president at the White House recently, DHS announced it was considering how to deport illegal immigrants in a more &#8220;humane&#8221; way.</p>
<p>Except for the occasional convicted criminal, hardly any illegal aliens at all are being deported under Obama, Sessions discovered.</p>
<p>According to official Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) statistics on 2013 removals, 98 percent of all removals met one of the agency’s “enforcement priorities.&#8221; Those priorities consist of: individuals convicted of a serious criminal offense; those apprehended in the act of crossing the border; those who have been previously deported; and fugitives from the law.</p>
<p>The first two categories —235,000 border apprehensions (which are not deportations as commonly understood) and 110,000 removals of convicted criminals— taken together account for 94 percent of the 368,000 removals last year.</p>
<p>Under 0.2 percent, or under two tenths of 1 percent, of the approximately 12 million illegal immigrants and visa overstayers in the U.S. were placed into removal proceedings who did not have serious criminal convictions on their record.</p>
<p>Under 0.08 percent  &#8211;that&#8217;s less than eight one-hundredths of 1 percent&#8211; of the 12 million were placed into removal proceedings who were neither convicted of a serious crime nor a repeat immigration violator.</p>
<p>This means that at least 99.92 percent of illegal immigrants and visa overstayers without known crimes on their records did not face removal.</p>
<p>Illegals are routinely taken into custody and released back into the community soon afterward. Those garden-variety illegal economic migrants not targeted for removal &#8220;are free to illegally work in the United States and to receive taxpayer benefits, regardless of whether or not they come into contact with immigration enforcement,&#8221; the report notes.</p>
<p>In a particularly disturbing incident described in the report, ICE management cautioned an ICE officer in 2011 that he would be subject to disciplinary action if he followed through and enforced the law by issuing a Notice to Appear in court to an illegal immigrant “driving the vehicle of a known fugitive without a license.”</p>
<p>“The suspect, who had multiple misdemeanor offenses on his record, was released while the ICE officer was threatened with suspension,” the report stated.</p>
<p>Amnesty opponents in the House of Representatives reacted strongly to the Sessions report.</p>
<p>“The Obama administration’s subversion of the Constitution and the rule of law make enforcement of our immigration laws virtually impossible,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said. “The law-abiding and taxpaying Americans who oppose this executive amnesty policy are paying the price with lower wages and fewer job opportunities.”</p>
<p>Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) thundered that while &#8220;President Obama hypocritically tells people he is for income equality, [at the same time] he violates federal immigration law, floods the labor market with wage-suppressing illegal aliens, and destroys the chance millions of hard-working Americans have of attaining self-sufficiency and the American dream.”</p>
<p>“It is clear that President Obama believes it is more important to pander to voters based on race than it is to enforce immigration laws that protect American workers’ ability to earn a living wage.”</p>
<p>Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) said, “This is another clear warning to anyone who thinks immigration reform is possible under President Obama. He has repeatedly shown a willingness to enforce the law selectively, while looking the other way when it doesn&#8217;t fit his agenda.”</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>So far the plan is working.</p>
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		<title>Bracing for Amnesty</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/John-Boehner-And-Paul-Ryan-500x298.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217667" alt="John-Boehner-And-Paul-Ryan-500x298" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/John-Boehner-And-Paul-Ryan-500x298.jpg" width="297" height="200" /></a>Unbelievable as it may be to their core constituency, House Republicans are now </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Boehner-immigration-GOP-retreat/2014/01/30/id/549922">embracing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> comprehensive immigration reform. Late yesterday, the Hill </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/197023-house-republican-leaders-back-legal-status-for-illegal-immigrants">obtained</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a one-page document outlining the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;statement of principals,&#8221; that endorses a path to legal status, once “specific enforcement triggers” have been achieved. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In an apparent sop to their base, House leadership stopped short of offering a path to citizenship, citing unfairness to those who have emigrated here legally, and the &#8220;harm&#8221; it would do to the rule of law. “Rather, these persons could live legally and without fear in the U.S., but only if they were willing to admit their culpability, pass rigorous background checks, pay significant fines and back taxes, develop proficiency in English and American civics, and be able to support themselves and their families (without access to public benefits),” the paper states.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Earlier in the day, GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/30/Republicans-Embrace-Year-of-Action">confirmed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the GOP&#8217;s determination to move forward on the issue. “We heard the president say this should be a year of action and that is our goal,&#8221; she told reporters. &#8220;We join the president in this effort to make this a year of action.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A year of political suicide may be more accurate. One that includes a stunning level of collective shortsightedness. Republicans intend to grant some sort of probationary legal status predicated on the federal government meeting certain, unspecified &#8220;enforcement triggers.&#8221; Undoubtedly, one of them is &#8220;border security,&#8221; the key item that is supposed to make the rest of the amnesty agenda palatable. That would be the same border security that has been routinely ignored ever since it was promised to be an integral part of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. Equally ignored was the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061026-1.html">Secure Fence Act of 2006</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, that called for &#8220;at least two layers of reinforced fencing.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A 2007 amendment to the bill gutted </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/16/barack-obama/obama-says-border-fence-now-basically-complete/">that</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> provision, giving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) &#8220;discretion&#8221; to determine what type of fencing would be used. Thus, vehicle barriers or single layer pedestrian fencing was deployed, despite its ineffectiveness. Adding insult to injury, last June, the Senate </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.examiner.com/article/why-our-southern-border-will-never-be-secure">rejected</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by a vote of 54-39 an amendment offered by Sen. John Thune (R-SD). It called for nothing more than the funding and completion of the 700 miles of double-tiered fencing along our southern border. Five Republicans voted against the measure, including the insufferable Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who ran a 2010 campaign ad with the phrase, “let’s build the dang fence!” in it.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In other words, what Republicans are willfully ignoring is the reality of a Democrat party and an Obama administration with a demonstrable record of selective law enforcement, whenever that selectivity suits their agenda. The notion that </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">this</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> time it will be different, is utterly laughable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And that&#8217;s only the issue of border security. Even though Republicans stop short of granting citizenship to illegals, and opt instead for some sort of &#8220;legal status,&#8221; how long do they think it will be before Democrats and their media allies begin an all-out campaign against the unconscionable &#8220;two-tier&#8221; immigration system created by a &#8220;nativist&#8221; GOP?  The one that denies hard-working, tax-paying people the genuine justice that only a pathway to citizenship can provide?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On Wednesday, Paul Ryan </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/01/29/rep-ryan-gop-looking-at-legal-status-chance-for-citizenship/">admitted</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> he envisions that &#8220;probationary&#8221; status, allowing illegals to work while government tightened border security and internal enforcement metrics, will be buttressed by a law the Obama administration &#8220;can&#8217;t avoid.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In reality, border metrics and/or other &#8220;specific enforcement triggers&#8221; may </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">already</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> be largely irrelevant. This week, the labor union that represents the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers and adjudicators, which is tasked with the application approval process, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/30/immigration-officials-warn-amnesty-overload/">explained</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> why. In a letter to Congress, they essentially made a mockery of the &#8220;rigorous background checks&#8221; promoted by the GOP, warning that they would be unable to handle the workload associated with investigating millions of applicants. “USCIS is not equipped to handle this workload, and due to political interference in its mission, is not empowered to deny admission to all those who should be denied due to ineligibility,&#8221; said National Citizenship And Immigration Services Council president Kenneth Palinkas. &#8220;We have become a visa clearinghouse for the world, rather than the first line of defense for a secure immigration system.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obama administration officials countered that assessment, saying they would be ready if Congress provides them the opportunity. Yet the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Washington Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> notes that key questions remain unanswered. It remains unknown what documents would be necessary to meet the criteria for &#8220;legal status,&#8221; and whether USCIS adjudicators would interview every applicant, &#8220;which would take longer but would be more likely to weed out criminals or fraudulent applications.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Those questions may remain officially unanswered, but who&#8217;s kidding whom? This is the same Obama administration that unilaterally suspended critical aspects of the healthcare law when the website they had three years to build &#8212; to </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">process applications </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8211; turned into an unmitigated disaster. On top of that, they forced both insurance companies and American citizens to rely on an &#8220;honor system&#8221; to verify subsidies and coverage based on income. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Do Republicans seriously believe the same administration would be above &#8220;streamlining&#8221; the process for verifying the eligibility of a constituency they rightly envision becoming future Democrats? How many thousands of illegal aliens might be granted probationary status based on a similar honor system, such as a promise to verify their eligibility at a later date?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That political reality is apparently a secondary consideration for Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus.“I think politically speaking it&#8217;s a mixed bag, but the question is whether or not it’s something we have to do as a country, and I think that’s what’s trumping the political answer,” he </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/29/rncs-reince-priebus-general-consensus-something-bi/">insists</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. “You see in our party, whether it’s Rand Paul, who’s called for massive immigration reform, or Marco Rubio, I think you have general consensus that something big has to happen.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Columnist Ann Coulter, who was privy to a report produced by conservative stalwart Phyllis Schlafly, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-01-29.html">reveals</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> just how &#8220;big&#8221; immigration </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">per se</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> has been for the GOP. &#8220;Schlafly&#8217;s report overwhelmingly demonstrates that merely continuing our current immigration policies spells doom for the Republican Party,&#8221; Coulter writes, later adding that &#8220;there&#8217;s never been a period when a majority of immigrants weren&#8217;t Democrats.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>The statistics are daunting. For example, while 81 percent of native-born Americans believe schools should teach students to be proud of America, only half of naturalized U.S. citizens do. Sixty-seven percent of native-born Americans believe the Constitution supersedes international law, compared to only 37 percent of naturalized citizens. Immigrants also express substantial support for ObamaCare, bigger government, gun control, and affirmative action. Every one of those positions is (or ought to be) antithetical to the interests of the GOP. Coulter then gets to the central argument that apparently eludes them. &#8220;Republicans have no obligation to assist the Democrats as they change the country in a way that favors them electorally, particularly when it does great harm to the people already here.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The harm that would befall American workers is inarguable. The CBO </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44346-Immigration.pdf">reveals</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that wages for Americans would be adversely affected for more than a decade, and that the unemployment rate would-be &#8220;slightly&#8221; higher until 2020. Black and Hispanic Americans, many of whom would be competing directly with the newly legalized immigrants for jobs, already endure unemployment rates higher than the national average. That the Democrats consider them temporarily expendable in their quest for electoral hegemony is understandable. That the GOP would blow a golden opportunity to make serious inroads with them while Democrats are pursuing that hegemony, is truly remarkable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Unfortunately the Republicans&#8217; ability to deceive themselves appears limitless. Again, is there any doubt that Democrats would insist on some sort of &#8220;readjustment&#8221; regarding fines and/or back taxes for a population that has long endured the economic deprivation engendered by &#8220;living in the shadows?&#8221;</span></p>
<p>How long before the same party that advocates for forgiveness of student loans, advocates forgiveness &#8212; along with welfare &#8212; for people who are struggling against the same “income inequality” that afflicts so many Americans?</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet perhaps the most disconcerting aspect of the GOP&#8217;s capitulation on the issue is political. In an </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/30/Exclusive-Ted-Cruz-House-GOP-leadership-s-amnesty-plan-would-destroy-chances-at-retaking-Senate-this-year?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter">interview</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with Breitbart, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) echoed what many Americans are undoubtedly thinking. &#8220;Republicans are poised for an historic election this fall &#8212; a conservative tidal wave much like 2010,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The biggest thing we could do to mess that up would be if the House passed an amnesty bill &#8212; or any bill perceived as an amnesty bill&#8211;that demoralized voters going into November. Rather than responding to the big-money lobbying on K Street, we need to make sure working-class Americans show up by the millions to reject Obamacare and vote out the Democrats. Amnesty will ensure they stay home.&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A Republican Party that seems determined to alienate their core constituency should expect nothing less. Yet that determination raises an uncomfortable question. Why? Cruz may have inadvertently provided an answer. The &#8220;conservative tidal wave&#8221; that represents Tea Party sentiment, if not the Tea Party itself, irritates the establishment GOP. It may be possible that such irritation is severe enough for establishment Republicans to operate in tandem with Democrats on this issue, to mitigate the power of that tidal wave within their ranks. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There are more than a few conservatives who believe the establishment GOP is content to be a minority party, as long as it is a minority enjoying the privileges that accrue to Washington insiders. That may not be the only explanation for their determination to embrace a position on immigration utterly inimical to their base. But it is certainly a plausible one given the irrational path House leadership is embarking on.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 05:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/111005_border_patrol_ap_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214950" alt="Border Fence Donations" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/111005_border_patrol_ap_328-450x317.jpg" width="315" height="222" /></a>With Republicans tying themselves in knots over the Democrats&#8217; destructive, but superficially appealing, demand that unemployment benefits be extended to two and a half years, I return to my suggestion that Republicans stop playing defense and go on offense.For every issue that MSNBC loves to prattle on about, gloating that it will cost Republicans this or that demographic, there&#8217;s an equivalent issue to use against the Democrats. (The difference is: Our proposals would actually be good for the country.)</p>
<p>In addition to my repeated suggestion that Republicans introduce bills to institutionalize the dangerous mentally ill and force the Democrats to defend the right of psychos to crap in libraries and shoot up schools, Republicans should take the public&#8217;s side on immigration.</p>
<p>Democrats love to pretend their sucking up to illegals is all upside for them, but that&#8217;s because they lie even when taking polls.</p>
<p>Liberals will claim that 99 percent of Americans favor national health care after taking a poll that asks: &#8220;Do you support Americans being nice to one another?&#8221;</p>
<p>WAIT! THAT&#8217;S NOT A POLL ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!</p>
<p><i>It&#8217;s the same thing. The government providing free health care to everyone is just being nice.</i></p>
<p>They&#8217;ll claim &#8220;90 percent of Americans favor banning most guns&#8221; based on a poll that asks, &#8220;Are you for common sense gun safety or are you against it?&#8221;</p>
<p>Similarly, the immigration polls triumphantly brandished by the media ask about positions no one holds, no politician has proposed and no bills would require. Polls are irrelevant if you lie to the people being polled.</p>
<p>Most immigration polls are variations on the one taken by the liberal Brookings Institution last March. Although it has been endlessly cited for allegedly showing that a majority of Americans support amnesty, the poll never asked about amnesty, or any real policy.</p>
<p>Rather, the poll gave respondents only two options, neither of which have been proposed by either political party or are up for a vote anywhere in America.</p>
<p>The options were:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The best way to solve the country&#8217;s illegal immigration problem is to secure our borders and arrest and deport all those who are here illegally&#8221;;</i></p>
<p>Or:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The best way to solve the country&#8217;s illegal immigration problem is to both secure our borders and provide an earned path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the U.S.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Neither of those choices describes the position of anyone on either side of the immigration debate. Amnesty proponents have no intention of either securing the border or making illegals do anything to &#8220;earn&#8221; citizenship. Meanwhile, not a single amnesty opponent has proposed any program to &#8220;arrest and deport&#8221; illegals.</p>
<p>But amnesty proponents turn around and cite this fraudulent poll as proof that a majority of Americans support &#8220;a path to legalization.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is how the left uses polls to manipulate public opinion, rather than find out what it is. They provide the ingredients for today&#8217;s political discussion and we&#8217;re not allowed to pick any items off the menu.</p>
<p><i>But can&#8217;t I be against amnesty without voting for rounding up illegals at gunpoint?</i></p>
<p>No substitutions! Look at the menu.</p>
<p>All the &#8220;path to legalization&#8221; polls play the same trick. Either armed men round up millions of women and children at midnight, put them in leg irons and immediately deport them on stinky buses; or we offer them a &#8220;path to legalization&#8221; after meeting all sorts of onerous requirements (none of which will ever materialize).</p>
<p>There were loads of promises surrounding Ronald Reagan&#8217;s 1986 amnesty, too &#8212; such as securing the border, punishing employers who hire illegals and forcing illegals to pay back taxes. Sen. Teddy Kennedy vowed: &#8220;We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.&#8221; (Those were the good old days when they were willing to call it &#8220;amnesty.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Obviously, that promise ended up in the same place Mary Jo Kopechne did &#8212; underwater and unmentioned.</p>
<p>After the bill passed, then-Rep. Chuck Schumer (Gov. Chris Christie&#8217;s current immigration adviser) immediately introduced a bill excusing illegal aliens from having to pay any back taxes at all.</p>
<p>Now, instead of 3 million illegal aliens living here, we have 11 million, salsa is the best-selling condiment in America, and I have to press &#8220;one&#8221; for English.</p>
<p>We already tried this the nice way. The country gets one mulligan, not two.</p>
<p>An honest poll question would ask:</p>
<p><i>Do you think people who have knowingly broken our laws to come here illegally with their families since the last amnesty should be rewarded with citizenship, or should they voluntarily go back the same way they came?</i></p>
<p>An even more honest immigration poll question would ask:</p>
<p><i>At a time of massive unemployment, do you think people who have knowingly broken our laws and come here illegally with their families since the last amnesty should be rewarded with citizenship, or should they voluntarily go back the same way they came?</i></p>
<p>Even a poll question that simply omits the lies about the theoretical hurdles illegals will have to clear (which will never happen) produces a poll in which a majority of Americans support &#8220;deportation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last year, the TechCrunch website polled this question: &#8220;Do you support or oppose deporting the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S.?&#8221;</p>
<p>Again: NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT DEPORTATION. We didn&#8217;t round up 11 million foreigners to get them here, and we&#8217;re not going to round them up to send them home. They&#8217;ll leave the same way they came.</p>
<p>But even answering a stacked poll question asking about something no one has proposed &#8212; deportation &#8212; a majority of respondents, 53.4 percent, supported deportation, compared to 42 percent opposed. Among Republicans, 74.1 percent favored deportation, with only 22.3 percent opposed.</p>
<p>Not only that, but a Fox News poll last year showed that a majority of Americans would like to curtail <i>legal</i> immigration, with 55 percent supporting a decrease in legal immigrants and only 28 percent supporting an increase.</p>
<p>My thought is: Republicans should push policies that are popular.</p>
<p>But instead of proposing immigration reforms that are runaway hits with a majority of Americans &#8212; without anyone even having made the argument! &#8212; Republicans have been hoodwinked by Democrats into trying to outbid Democrats for the Hispanic vote. They still won&#8217;t win the Hispanic vote, but now the rest of the country will hate Republicans, too.</p>
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		<title>The UK Confronts Islamism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West still remains clueless.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kl.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212793" alt="kl" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kl-450x272.jpg" width="315" height="190" /></a>A century ago the murder of a British soldier in broad daylight in London would have been an act of war. In this post-imperial and post-everything age, an atrocity leads to a task force which produces a report which is then filed in a desk drawer by the undersecretary for something or other.</p>
<p>Like clockwork, the murder of Lee Rigby led to a task force and to a report. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263181/ETF_FINAL.pdf">The report is 7 pages long.</a> It’s possible to read it in much less than the twenty minutes that it took London police to respond to the murder in progress. You could even get through it a few times in real time while a Muslim convert who describes himself as a soldier of Allah saws away at a fallen Englishman’s head with no one to stop him.</p>
<p>There is a thing that organizations say when they know that they are hip deep in a crisis. They say that “we are taking this seriously.”</p>
<p>The report, “Tackling Extremism in the UK” certainly takes matters seriously. The evidence of that is not so much in the report, as in the task force which included the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, four Secretaries of State, three Ministers, one Chancellor, one Lord Chancellor and a partridge in a pear tree.</p>
<p>Like so many of the more “serious” and “sincere” efforts at tackling the biggest threat to civilization in the twenty-first century, the report mixes occasional good ideas with politically correct absurdities. It starts off by equating Islamophobia with Al Qaeda and rolls out a plan to fight back against Islamism.</p>
<p>“As the greatest risk to our security comes from Al Qa’ida and like-minded groups, and terrorist ideologies draw on and make use of extremist ideas, we believe it is also necessary to define the ideology of Islamist extremism,” the report states. And then it goes on to carefully avoid defining it except to contend that, whatever it is; it is not Islam.</p>
<p>“This is a distinct ideology which should not be confused with traditional religious practice. It is an ideology which is based on a distorted interpretation of Islam, which betrays Islam’s peaceful principles, and draws on the teachings of the likes of Sayyid Qutb.”</p>
<p>The mention of Sayyid Qutb is startling considering that the UK seemed to be pretending that the Muslim Brotherhood was a “moderate” group. Say what you will about Cameron, but I don’t see Obama chairing a task force that would produce a report denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood’s evil genius.</p>
<p>But Qutb’s mention feels like a random aberration thrown in by someone a little too knowing. Beyond that the only further definition of Islamist extremism is that, “they seek to impose a global Islamic state governed by their interpretation of Shari’ah as state law, rejecting liberal values such as democracy, the rule of law and equality.”</p>
<p>In other words, Islamists are seeking to impose Islam on everyone. But then they aren’t a distorted interpretation of Islam. Islamism is simply the organized political implementation of Islam in the same way that Nazism was the implementation of National Socialism and Marxism is the attempted implementation of Karl Marx’s ideas.</p>
<p>Apologists can argue that Marxism distorts Marx and that Islamism distorts Islam, but those remain unconvincing defenses. Implementing a set of ideas always distorts them, but realizing ideas is the only truly objective way to assess their merit by seeing their consequences.</p>
<p>What the report is clumsily getting at is the idea that Islam is legitimate in private practice, but not in public imposition. It’s Islam when a Muslim goes to a mosque or avoids alcohol, but Islamism when he harasses barflies or chops off heads under the dictates of Islamic law. Unfortunately this distinction has no meaning in Islam which was never rewired to function as a private religion in a secular state.</p>
<p>America dealt with the clash between religion and tolerance by separating church and state allowing churches to retain their full doctrine while secularizing the machinery of the state.  Europe dealt with it by secularizing and liberalizing national churches to such a degree that they no longer had any religious content that anyone could object to.</p>
<p>Islam was absent from Europe when this rewiring took place. Unlike its Christian and Jewish antagonists, it hasn’t been liberalized or secularized. And it insists on being a public religion because theocracy is what it was built to do. Islam was not the religion of the oppressed. It was the religion of the oppressors. It equates morality with authority. If it doesn’t control the public square, then it has no function.</p>
<p>To Europeans, the infringement of religious values on public life is considered extremism. More so than blowing up buses. But Islam is dedicated to doing exactly that. It is an unreconstructed theocracy.</p>
<p>The Extremism report talks around these basic facts.  The solution of all the extremism projects is to combat Islamic theocracy by having governments distinguish “good Islam” from “bad Islam”. It’s a silly and awkward solution because it creates a government religion in the name of combating a government religion.</p>
<p>The difference, as in countries like Egypt or Russia, is that it’s supposed to end with government riding herd on religion instead of the other way around. But it’s not likely that the UK will have the stomach for the confrontation and repression that Egypt or Russia carry off with a shrug. And so Islam will ride it.</p>
<p>When Western governments talk about countering extremism, they mean picking and choosing between the obvious Islamists who march around with “Sharia for the UK” banners and the slightly more subtle followers of Qutb who promise to fight extremism with their moderate front groups.</p>
<p>True to form, the UK report tries to fight Islam with more Islam. It rightly calls for more thorough inspections of religious schools and urges universities to choose their speakers more wisely, but then it throws in proposals to equip every university and prison with more Muslim chaplains.</p>
<p>It never asks why, if Saudi-trained Imams are the solution to extremism, Saudi Arabia, which has more Imams per square metre than even Tower Hamlets, also turns out more Muslim terrorists than even Tower Hamlets.</p>
<p>Nowhere on earth has an increase in the number of Imams led to a decrease in theocratic violence. It’s like trying to slow down left-wing violence by importing more Communist agitators. It can’t ever work.</p>
<p>In totalitarian movements, the difference between the moderates and extremists lies only in the paths that they take to the same final goal. The radicals want action now. The moderates are willing to wait until the demographics are firmly on their side. The radicals want to blow up buses. The moderates want to expand immigration numbers. And both totalitarian paths ultimately lead to Londonistan.</p>
<p>Both the moderates and the extremists are Islamists. They both want an Islam that is a public religion. And that is not only a public religion, but the public religion.</p>
<p>It is not only the extremism of means by those who wish to make Islam into the religion of the state rapidly and violently that ought to concern Cameron; but it is also the extremism of ends that is Islam regardless of whether its rule is achieved by the bomb or the ballot box that ought to worry him.</p>
<p>The unlicensed beheaders are the short term threat. But the long term threat is a Britain in which the beheaders are licensed by the state.</p>
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		<title>De Facto Amnesty for Child Rapists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest “prosecutorial discretion” directive for deportation cases. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Espinoza.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203581" alt="Espinoza" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Espinoza.jpg" width="260" height="274" /></a>A new directive by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will allow even more criminal illegal aliens to avoid being deported.</p>
<p>The new directive, titled <i>Facilitating Parental Interests in the Course of Civil Immigration Enforcement Activities, </i>was<i> </i>issued by ICE&#8217;s new director, John Sandweg, to all ICE agents on August 23, 2013, and it referred to the euphemistic moniker of “prosecutorial discretion,” which has been used repeatedly to administratively direct ICE agents in the field to no longer apply immigration laws if individuals fit into the definition of the directive.</p>
<p>In this case, Sandweg directed all ICE agents to use “prosecutorial discretion” regarding individuals ICE detainees who are parents or caregivers to children living in the USA.</p>
<p>The directive identified three specific categories: 1) primary caretakers of minor children without regard to the dependent&#8217;s citizenship; 2) parents and legal guardians who have a direct interest in a family court proceeding involving child welfare proceedings in the United States; and 3) parents or legal guardians whose minor children are U.S. citizens (USCs) or lawful permanent residents (LPRs).</p>
<p>This latest prosecutorial discretion memo follows in a long line of similar memos authored by a variety of high-level Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, each of which has reduced the scope of illegal aliens who are to be prioritized for removal.</p>
<p>The so-called <a href="http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf">“Morton Memo,”</a> authored in 2011 by then-ICE Director John Morton, instructed ICE agents to treat any illegal alien not convicted of a crime as a low priority. <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/obama-administration-redefining-dangerous-illegal-aliens/">Then, in December 2012, another ICE memo instructed ICE agents to treat anyone with two or fewer misdemeanors as a low priority</a>. (ICE still considers even one felony conviction as a high priority). With this new directive, all illegal aliens considered primary caregivers for children, here legally or illegally, will also be treated as a low priority.</p>
<p>Recently, Congress has gotten into the act. Earlier in September, <a href="http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=3ad9f59c-d459-42c0-9deb-3377c41c0855%5d">liberal California Senator Diane Feinstein sent a letter to outgoing DHS Director Janet Napolitano urgin</a>g DHS to consider applying prosecutorial discretion to farm workers.</p>
<p>Jessica Vaughan is a policy analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies, <a href="http://www.cis.org/vaughan/new-amnesty-parents-and-nannies">and in a blog post</a>, she likened the new directive to the parental version of the DREAM Act. In that same blog post, Vaughan singled out a criminal illegal alien previously featured in <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/illegal-immigrant-pedophile-may-be-released-in-chicago-area/">Front Page Magazine.</a></p>
<p>Amado Espinoza-Ramirez is a suspected serial child molester, who’s accused of acts that include incest. After making bond in a criminal court in Chicago, Illinois in early September 2011, ICE took custody of Espinoza-Ramirez. ICE decided to release rather than hold him in an ICE facility because there wasn’t enough bed space in ICE facilities and he no longer fit their definition of dangerous. He was released with a tracking monitor. He subsequently maneuvered out of that tracking monitor, missed all subsequent court appearances, and is considered a fugitive, while being charged in criminal and immigration court in absentia.</p>
<p>The<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/24/congressman-blasts-ice-for-releasing-alleged-child-rapist/"> two reasons</a> identified by ICE at the time for releasing rather detaining Espinoza-Ramirez were that Espinoza-Ramirez was only suspected but not convicted of criminal acts and that he had a legal citizen child.</p>
<p>Espinoza-Ramirez is still a fugitive and likely back in his home country of Mexico. However, were he to be apprehended, the same principles would still be in place, and arguably, Espinoza-Ramirez would be eligible for release under the new directive.</p>
<p>This new directive did not escape the ire of Congress. The Chairman the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, immediately issued a statement linking this policy to a tough-on-criminal-illegal-alien bill passed out of his committee called the SAFE Act.</p>
<blockquote><p>The primary reason why our immigration system is broken today is because our immigration laws have largely been ignored by past and present administrations.  It’s imperative that we prevent this from happening again by taking away the enforcement on/off’ switch from the President.  That’s why the House Judiciary Committee approved the SAFE Act, which prevents the Executive Branch from unilaterally turning off immigration enforcement by granting states and local governments the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not everyone was attacking the directive. The American Immigration Council (AIC) defended the directive, <a href="http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/08/26/ice-policy-on-parental-rights-addresses-long-overdue-problem-in-immigration-system/">stating in a blog post</a> that this was nothing more than a sensible first step toward immigration policy which places priority in not breaking up families.</p>
<blockquote><p>The directive, signed by Acting ICE Director Jon Sandweg, reminds ICE officers that they must continue to review all cases individually and &#8220;continue to weigh whether an exercise of prosecutorial discretion may be warranted&#8221; while considering such factors such as whether the immigrant is a parent, guardian, or primary caretaker of a U.S. citizen or a minor.</p></blockquote>
<p>Tough deportation policies against criminal illegal aliens was one of the main promises of all those who have been proponents of comprehensive immigration reform. The public has been promised repeatedly that criminal illegal aliens will be pursued with vigor and all dangerous illegal aliens would face deportation. A series of memos (including this last one) prove that President Obama has no intention of getting tough on dangerous illegal aliens.</p>
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		<title>Rubio: No Friend to Immigrants and the Working Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Grabar]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The path to ending the conservative movement -- and prosperity for the poor -- begins with amnesty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sen.-Marco-Rubio_immigration-cropped-proto-custom_28.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203435" alt="John McCain, Charles Schumer, Marco Rubio, Robert Menendez" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sen.-Marco-Rubio_immigration-cropped-proto-custom_28-431x350.jpg" width="259" height="210" /></a>When it comes to immigration, our terms have been redefined in an Orwellian sleight of hand.  Today, the one who comes over the border illegally is called the same thing as the one who waits to come over legally, as those of my parents’ generation did.</p>
<p>Back in the late 1950s when my parents and aunts and uncles escaped from communist Yugoslavia being an immigrant meant staying off the government dole and having “sponsors” guaranteeing that you would.  My relatives spent years as refugees in Austria, where they worked on farms, often living in barracks.  Once here, they were greeted by sponsors who guaranteed housing, food, and medical care until the new immigrants could find jobs.  It was a mark of shame to receive public assistance.  Immigrants skimped and saved.  They struggled to learn English and what they could not learn they demanded their children learn.  When I and my cousins went to public school, we were inculcated with American values and strove to become Americanized.</p>
<p>This is not true today where government-paid workers search out immigrants, offering them government assistance.  In schools, immigrant and illegal alien children get anti-American lessons, and often in their own language.</p>
<p>Now Republicans are embracing the same ideas.  They even use the language of the Marxists who have been behind the push to legalize millions of illegal aliens in order to gain Democratic voters.</p>
<p>As New Zealand blogger and researcher Trevor Loudon documents in his <a href="http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/08/trevor-loudon-presents-his-new-book-the-enemies-within-tues-aug-27th-in-columbia-sc/">new book</a>, <i>The Enemies Within</i>, the push for amnesty for new Democratic voters began in 1995 when the unions, that had previously fought amnesty to protect jobs, were taken over by Marxists who then infiltrated the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>A key player is SEIU leader, and Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Elisco Medina.  In 1999, he convinced the AFL-CIO convention that U.S. immigration policy was “broken and needs to be fixed.”  In 2000, the AFL-CIO called for a new amnesty and the repeal of the 1986 law that criminalized hiring illegal aliens.</p>
<p>In 2009, Medina spoke about the need for “’comprehensive immigration reform’” at America’s Future Now! conference in Washington, D.C.   Noting that two out of three Latino voters voted for Barack Obama, he presented a two-part strategy:</p>
<p>In order to expand their power, he said progressives need to be “solidly on the side of immigrants,” who would remember “who was there with you.”</p>
<p>Second, with “reform of immigration laws,” 12 million people would be put on “the path to citizenship, and eventually voters.”  Medina asked attendees to imagine the gain in voters even if only two out of three voted Democrat.</p>
<p>But if one does not believe Loudon that Democrats/Marxists are using the case of “immigration” for vote harvesting, one should listen to esteemed political science professor Alan Abramowitz, author of <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Polarized_Public.html?id=JhLSygAACAAJ"><i>The Polarized Public</i></a><i>: Why American Government Is So Dysfunctional</i>.  A year ago, at our annual Labor Day book festival in Decatur, Georgia, he told an Obama-pumped audience that the demographics were on their side.  Abramowitz is known for his accuracy in predicting election outcomes.  But it’s not rocket science.  Abramowitz<i> </i>simply looked at the demographics and correctly predicted a Democratic victory.  (Political polarization was attributed to conservative “extremism” on the part of conservatives, which would disappear once they were outnumbered.)</p>
<p>As Abramowitz showed the charts and graphs, as well as photos of multihued Obama rallies, I thought of how sad it was that he would brag that the gains in Democratic voters was not due to the appeal of ideas but to racial and ethnic pandering. It was a celebration of vote-buying.</p>
<p>This Labor Day weekend, at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation conference, I heard hecklers interrupt Senator Marco Rubio’s speech with chants of “no amnesty.” Rubio has used rhetoric about the “broken system” to sell the “Gang of Eight’s” senate bill 744.  Many in the audience were annoyed by the hecklers, still seeing Rubio as a shining star, an old-fashioned immigrant success story.  “He’s right on most of the issues,” a woman told me.</p>
<p>Yes, Rubio did hit all the talking points about economic freedom.  But these were the same canned lines that I had heard in the summer of 2008 at the first Red State conference in Atlanta.</p>
<p>In 2013, in front of nearly 2,000 activists he became flustered as he tried to ignore calls of “traitor.”</p>
<p>As I left the room, I saw three individuals in bright pink t-shirts emblazoned with “Pink Slip Rubio.com” standing in the hall.  One was Jack Oliver, legislative director for Floridians for Immigration Enforcement, a decade-old group.  Oliver feels betrayed by Rubio, who had shaken his hand and promised that he would never support comprehensive reform, legalization, or the Dream Act.  According to his group’s <a href="http://www.flimen.org/">website</a>, Senate Bill 744 gives work permits and legalization to over 11 million illegal aliens, doubles authorized immigration to 22 million over the next decade, and adds millions to welfare and entitlement rolls.  Oliver calls it “amnesty first and a promise for enforcement lager,” and contends that the bill never would have gotten through the Senate without Rubio acting as the immigrant “poster child” of the sponsoring “Gang of Eight.”</p>
<p>Oliver began his career in construction as a plasterer laborer in 1968, a time when such a trade could support a family.  He got involved in the immigration fight when he heard George W. Bush claim that illegal aliens were needed to do the jobs Americans wouldn’t do.  He saw his wages drop 30 percent under Bush’s lax policies.  He had left Florida in 1986 and returned in 2002.  As a field superintendant he saw that construction workers were making less in actual dollars than what they had been making in 1986.</p>
<p>“I saw how devastating illegal labor is to the domestic labor market,” he says, citing the millions of young people who aren’t going to college.  “If they’re not going to make a living in the trades we’re going to have to subsidize those families.  It’s an expansion of the welfare state.”  Especially hard hit is the black community.  He estimates that 75 percent of the construction laborers with whom he worked in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., were black.</p>
<p>The immigration bill will change demographics forever, he contends, with Democrats fast-tracking the newly legalized immigrants to citizenship and voting rolls.   It will end the conservative movement.</p>
<p>Post-election quarterbacks attributed Mitt Romney’s loss to a “conscious decision to blow off Hispanic voters.” Republicans sounded like a party that “hates brown people,” said <a href="http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/07/status-quo-ante/">Erick Erickson</a>. Others made similar analyses until the real numbers came in, showing that the deciding factor in the Republican loss was the abandonment by white working class voters—like Oliver.  Furthermore, as <a href="http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/11/07/gop-outreach-to-hispanics-wont-work/">J. Christian Adams</a> pointed out, going back to the George W. Bush administration, the policies of the left don’t work with conservative Hispanics, the only ones the GOP can realistically count on.</p>
<p>I am reminded by Jack’s story about my immigrant family, about an uncle who was a bricklayer, about my father who was a welder.  Other legal immigrants I knew worked in manufacturing or such skilled labor jobs.  Today they would not have a chance.</p>
<p>So Rubio, despite the rhetoric from the powerful large business interests in the Republican Party, is no friend of the middle class or of legal immigrants.</p>
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