by Tina Grazier
”This week we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong.” Senator Harry Reid
So goes the continuing saga on the Hill regarding Immigration Reform. Meanwhile, we “peons” in the heartland look for better ways to sound the alarms. My own search found me reading Michael Cutler over on Counterterrorism Blog. Michael is an expert on immigration issues and law enforcement having worked in the field over thirty years. He has been called to testify in Congressional hearings nine times. You can read his latest offering, “‘Guest Worker Amnesty Program’ Would Not Protect America, by scrolling down a bit on the blog. Heres a sampling:
The problem is that the United States is being inundated by aliens on a daily basis who manage to gain entry into the United States through a wide variety of methods. These vulnerabilities can be most effectively countered by having an adequate number of well-trained and well-equipped special agents operating within the interior of the United States, yet little has been offered to address this critical shortage of enforcement resources.
Those pushing the “Guest Worker Amnesty Program” who claim that our nation has attempted an “enforcement only program,” and that this approach has not worked, fool no one! All that we have been provided with is the illusion of enforcement and it is the illusion that has failed to work! A Guest Worker Amnesty Program will not help to get our border under control, it will do just the opposite, providing a huge incentive to millions of aliens to run our borders with the hope (indeed, expectation) that they will be able to participate in this program!
It has been estimated that some 40% of the illegal aliens currently present in the United States did not run our nation’s borders but rather entered the United States through a port of entry and then, in one way or another, violated the terms of their admission. Virtually no thought is being given about preventing aliens from gaming the bureaucracy to acquire immigration benefits through fraud even though a number of terrorists who have been identified as operating in our country in the decade leading up to the attacks of 9/11 used immigration benefit fraud to either enter the United States and/or embed themselves in the United States.
Michael Cutlers article includes several related links that if read will find you better informed if not alarmed. He closes his piece with a quote (prayer) from Mohammed Atta:
“OH GOD, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me.’
Making law that ends up aiding and assisting terrorists further would be madness…the mere thought is enough to depress as we end this Fathers Day. That’s why you’ve also got to read Mark Steyns article, Immigration bill is a fraud, in the Sun Times. He reveals a little oops in Senator Reids comment quoted above and, as usual, finds a way to make the gloomiest subject a laughing matter…well, for the moment anyway.