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Immigration and the Unlearned Lessons of 9/11
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| September 11, 2017
| Michael Cutler
Posted on 09/11/2017 8:02:37 AM PDT by SJackson
Politicians and the courts block Trump administrations efforts to safeguard America.
It is hard to believe that it has been 16 years since four passenger airliners were used as de facto cruise missiles to carry out the most horrific terror attack in the history of the United States.
That attack was against the entire United States of America, however, for those who were in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on that day, the attack was also personal -- all too personal.
I will never forget the sight of the ashes from the conflagration at what came to be known as Ground Zero fluttering down on my neighborhood in Brooklyn on that day. I will never forget my neighbors screaming and wailing as they watched the televised coverage of that act of violence and destruction playing out just miles from our homes, knowing that their loved ones and friends went to work only an hour or two earlier at the World Trade Center, or in one of the buildings near the World Trade Center complex.
I will never forget what I came to think of as the stench of death, the horrible, sickening odors emanating from the smoldering debris at Ground Zero that lasted for months, permeating the air in New York City.
So many of us still suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. How could we not?
Today the death count from 9/11 continues to climb as more people, especially first responders, slowly and torturously succumb to the diseases that were caused by their exposures to and ingestion of the toxins released when the World Trade Center collapsed.
For nearly every year since the attacks of 9/11 I have written retrospectives to lay out how both the Bush administration and especially the Obama administration failed to take the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission into account, particularly where the issue of immigration was concerned.
I provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission about the nexus between the terror attacks of 9/11 and multiple failures of the immigration system.
Today, thankfully, Donald Trump is the President of the United States and the Attorney General is not Loretta Lynch but Jeff Sessions.
Trump and Session are both clearly committed to enforcing our immigration laws, securing our nations borders and addressing the immigration failures and vulnerabilities that the 9/11 Commission identified.
For the first time since the attacks of September 11, 2001 I truly believe that the President of the United States is determined to use the
The 9/11 Commission Report and official companion report,
9/11 and Terrorist Travel: Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States as the starting point for formulating immigration enforcement strategies and policies.
However, dont break out the champagne just yet.
At every turn the measures taken by the Trump administration to secure the borders of the United States and effectively and fairly enforce our nations immigration laws are being thwarted, hobbled and even blocked by politicians from both political parties in Washington and elsewhere.
Sanctuary Cities harbor and shield illegal aliens from detection by ICE enforcement personnel. Among these illegal aliens are criminals, fugitives and terrorists. Without access to smuggled aliens ICE is unable to identify and act against human traffickers.
Incredibly some Sanctuary Cities have decided to solve the problem of undocumented aliens by providing them with documents often referred to as municipal IDs. The term Undocumented Immigrant is an artifice created by President Jimmy Carter to blur the distinction between illegal aliens and lawful immigrants. In the years since further blurring of distinction has served to minimize the distinction between citizens and aliens.
Meanwhile the idea of providing illegal aliens whose true identities, backgrounds and even entry data are unknown and unknowable are being provided with the illusion of legitimacy by being provided with those municipal identity documents which also runs contrary to the
REAL ID Act
passed by Congress to address issues identified by the 9/11 Commission.
Nearly five years ago the NY Times published an important and illuminating article,
Roosevelt Avenue, a Corridor of Vice that reported on the nexus between illegal immigration, crime (including human trafficking, prostitution, narcotics) and the use of false identity documents.
Finally, supposed journalists who could be gainfully employed by Orwells Ministry of Truth in his novel 1984 castigate the President and anyone who would dare suggest that the United States not welcome every single foreign national irrespective of how they enter the United States.
They routinely refer to anyone who draws a distinction between lawful immigrants and illegal aliens as being Anti-Immigrant while those who advocate for pure immigration anarchy are kindly looked upon as compassionate and refer to them as Pro-Immigrant.
When President Obama issued his Executive Orders on immigration the media immediately and accurately published the actual name of the Executive Order. Today the term DACA (Deferred Action- Childhood Arrival) is well-known because the media published the actual name of ObamasExecutive Order.
The media reported that the Executive Order would benefit young undocumented immigrants even though illegal aliens as old as 31 years of age could participate in this wrong-headed and dangerous program, if they claimed that they entered the United States prior to their 16th birthdays.
With no in-person interviews and no field investigations, however, fraudulent claims were extremely unlikely to be uncovered by the adjudications officers at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services).
In the years since 9/11 still more terror attacks have been committed in the United States by aliens who committed visa fraud and/or immigration fraud.
Case in point, the Tsarnaev brothers who were granted political asylum and subsequent lawful status before they carried out the deadly terror attack on the Boston Marathon.
President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are determined to identify and prosecute aliens and co-conspirators who engage in visa fraud and immigration benefit fraud and end Sanctuary City policies.
Additionally, President Trump promulgated anExecutive Order that has universally been reported as the Travel Ban that purportedly was focused on citizens of Muslim majority countries.
All of the supposed controversy surrounding President Trumps Executive Order is contrived and would end overnight if the media simply published the actual name of President Trumps Executive Order:
For Americans who are justifiably concerned about the dangers posed to America and Americans, especially in the wake of a series of worrying reports about terror attacks carried out overseas, the title of President Trumps Executive Order would be comforting and reassuring.
A review of that Executive Order makes it clear that its purpose is not to single out aliens by religion but by the potential threat that they pose to national security and public safety and that where this Executive Order is concerned, beauty is more than skin deep.
Other Executive Orders issued by President Trump call for ramping up the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States to identify and remove criminal aliens and aliens who are members of violent gangs such as the notorious MS-13.
Sanctuary Cities obstruct these important efforts.
What has also not been reported by the media is that while President George W. Bush and his Secretary of Homeland Security issued an improperExecutive Order to protect illegal aliens under the Privacy Act, even though that law, as enacted, only protects United States citizens and lawful immigrants, President Trump has issued anExecutive Order that rescinds the Bush Executive Order.
President Trump has been acting in the best interests of America and Americans.
The bottom line: Opposition to President Trumps immigration policies is opposition to national security and public safety.
TOPICS: Editorial; Government; War on Terror
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:02:37 AM PDT
by
SJackson
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:12:09 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
To: SJackson
Sad. I remember thinking on that day, “At least we’ll finally get serious about controlling immigration and protecting the borders.” Guess I was wrong.
To: Dr. Pritchett
I remember thinking on that day, At least well finally get serious about controlling immigration and protecting the borders.I had those same thoughts. 9/11 didn't even slow down the globalist Juggernaut.
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:14:49 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Not even a little bit... its like it never happened in that respect.
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:15:37 AM PDT
by
wyowolf
(Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
To: SJackson
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:17:47 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Dr. Pritchett
My first thought was, “how are we going to find terrorists among all these illegal aliens?”
The situation has only gotten worse.
The Bush administration actually REDUCED border and interior enforcement.
The Kenyanesian Usurper reduced it even further.
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:20:46 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: SJackson
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:24:53 AM PDT
by
patriot08
(5th generation Texan-(girl type) We won! Ok, Donald, let's ROLL!)
To: patriot08
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:32:09 AM PDT
by
timestax
To: Dr. Pritchett
[Sad. I remember thinking on that day, At least well finally get serious about controlling immigration and protecting the borders. Guess I was wrong.]
Yep, the Globalists and Open Borders Lobby had other ideas. Immigration actually sped up.
I seem to remember a president telling us to all go out and go shopping.
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posted on
09/11/2017 8:44:09 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: SJackson
The main unlearned lesson is lucifer is in firm control of all the worlds governments.
Why else this global acceptance and rush to import his murder puppet slaves?
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posted on
09/11/2017 9:17:25 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
To: Dr. Pritchett
Sad. I remember thinking on that day, At least well finally get serious about controlling immigration and protecting the borders. Guess I was wrong. Ditto.
As a matter of fact it has gotten 1000X worse.
Homeland Security and TSA are a redundant, disgusting,bloated,top heavy,political government tool. The Patriot Act shredded the Constitution.
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posted on
09/11/2017 9:35:26 AM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: shanover
At what point do we cease to console ourselves by asking, “How much worse would things have been under President Hillary?”
President Trump is worlds more intelligent & competent than the drunken harridan of Chappaqua, but is he trying to melt an iceberg with a campfire? Is the Deep State of such a depth?
Sadly, it begins to seem so. Pray for this nation, FRiends.
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posted on
09/11/2017 10:59:02 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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