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America's fate in hands of illegal aliens?
worldnetdaily.com ^ | 1/7/2004 | worldnetdaily.com

Posted on 01/07/2004 2:45:15 AM PST by ovrtaxt


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America's fate in hands
of illegal aliens?

New WND book shows immgration issue could determine future of U.S.


Posted: January 7, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

With the U.S. government poised to make sweeping changes to immigration laws critics say amount to de facto mass amnesty, WorldNetDaily's publishing division, WND Books, announces a powerful new book destined to supercharge the debate over illegal immigration.


In "Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border," veteran journalist Jon E. Dougherty documents the hard truth that both major political parties have missed – namely, that sustained high immigration levels from south of the border will continue to pose economic, labor, security and criminal threats to the United States, unless American and Mexican leaders find ways to limit it.

Taking readers right to the front lines of the "border wars," "Illegals" includes interviews with citizens living along the most traveled border corridors in the American Southwest, as well as Border Patrol agents and other immigration officials who are charged with guarding and protecting America's nearly 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico.

Dougherty also brings readers along on actual "missions" involving local citizens' groups who are trying desperately to stem the tide of the illegal incursions. And he takes readers into the lives of men and women who have been victimized by hordes of illegal immigrants who cross their property by the thousands every year.

While acknowledging that most immigrants come to America to work and others come because they truly want to become U.S. citizens, "Invasion" shows that an increasing number come "merely to clamor for opportunities and benefits not available to them in their home countries."

"Worse," writes Dougherty, "there is a growing faction in America assisting them – knowing all along these immigrants aren't interested in enriching American society, but rather to take what they can from it."

"There is also a change in mindset among elements of the political establishment and among the U.S. population, in terms of immigration," writes Dougherty. "In years past, gaining access to America so one could share in its promise was treated as a privilege, not a right to be granted automatically just because you could make it over the border. Today, however, the process of immigration – indeed, the requirement our immigrants assimilate into our society – has changed dramatically."

"Illegals" is especially timely now, coming on the heels of an announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge at a town hall-style meeting in Miami Dec. 10. Ridge said Americans need to "come to grips" with an estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal immigrants and "determine how you can legalize their presence."

Though President Bush said Ridge's comments were not akin to granting illegal immigrants amnesty – a policy Bush said he doesn't support because it rewards lawbreaking – immigration-reform advocates and opponents in Congress say such a plan, were it to be adopted, would in practice be nothing less.

"Illegals" provides a gripping and profoundly disturbing dose of truth – the kind most politicians, whether Democrat or Republican, can't seem to confront – about immigration in modern America. As politicians now attempt to deal with this crucial national issue, the book couldn't have come at a more important moment.

Indeed, writes Dougherty in "Illegals": "How the problem is solved – or not solved – ultimately may decide the fate of this nation."

"Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border" is now available for pre-order exclusively from WorldNetDaily's online store, ShopNetDaily.

Related book:

Michelle Malkin's 'Invasion'


TOPICS: Announcements; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alieninvasion; aliens; biggovernment; deport; foreigninvasion; foreignoccupation; illegal; illegalmexicans; immigrantlist; immigration; invasion; mexico; nationalsuicide; thenannystate; thewelfarestate; welfarestate
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To: ovrtaxt
Were they 'civil' in the various taverns and home cellars when Committees of Correspondence met to talk about how to seize power back from the British, or the latest outrage of the Crown perpetrated on the people?

I say, people are darned right to be as impassioned on this forum as they were 4 years ago (and I recall) during the unfolding Clinton Scandal and enusing Impeachment hearings. You couldn't restrain anyone on that!

21 posted on 01/07/2004 6:00:13 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I argue as passionately on FR against ILLEGAL ALIENS as I would if Gore, not Bush were President.)
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To: ovrtaxt
This is THE coming problem for the U.S. It is larger than ANY other threat we have faced. Larger than 9-11...larger than ANYTHING we have previously faced. I've been saying that since I started posting on Free Republic. Very few are listening. I told the bunch in Austin that this is THE major problem facing this country.
22 posted on 01/07/2004 6:06:46 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: JudgemAll
I think they are afraid of a civil war.

BS...both parties seek to get votes from what is considered the future majority (if present trends continue) demographic of America: the Hispanic population. Other than a select few, they could give a damn about America, its citizens, or citizenship. Staying in power is their only goal...its pathetic, and its not going to change anytime soon. I could kick myself when I bought into the whole "change the tone in Washington" speel. Meet the new boss...same as the old boss. (besides his character and the handing of the WOT)

23 posted on 01/07/2004 6:12:21 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus
bttt
24 posted on 01/07/2004 6:15:50 AM PST by Lady Eileen
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To: ovrtaxt
Does anyone have the numbers on the expense of our social programs for these people?

For California the consequences of unregulated immigration now consume well over 1/3 of the state's budget.

30% of the public education system expenses and 25% of the criminal justice system expenses, the public health care system expenses and the cost of public welfare.

The cost of providing public services to the consequences of unregulated immigration over the past 50 years is THE largest expense the state faces.

It is fair and accurate to say that the upcoming fiscal, political battle in California revolves around unregulated immigration although both major parties are unwilling to discuss the issue in that light.

It's the 400 pound gorilla that few are willing to address honestly

25 posted on 01/07/2004 6:58:48 AM PST by Amerigomag
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To: KantianBurke
Mostly a collection of impotent fantasies. I especially liked the one which stipulated that Mexico must sell and guarantee land rights to foreigners, as if the jingoists think Mexico should not have any sovereignty over their own affairs. Also, the notation that no house-to-house searches need be made was a very generous offer on the part of the proposer.
26 posted on 01/07/2004 7:02:46 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Wow! You know how to cut and paste too???! Congrats! Guess we both can go to the front of the classroom huh.

Once AGAIN, you asked "well what's your plan?" and here it is. Impotent? If the GOP can have a "free pills for granny" medicare boost, this plan doesn't sound too farfetched.

27 posted on 01/07/2004 7:09:02 AM PST by KantianBurke (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: ovrtaxt
I don't support this plan, but I have to say that almost all of the voiced opposition I have seen to it here on FR has been misguided, I think.

His proposal is brilliant except for one flaw.

The brilliance? The part that says anyone wanting to take part in this must get their employer to show no Americans wanted the job.

That will cause the cost of those involved significantly higher. Companies will be forced to show that they tried to find Americans for the job. They will have to be prepared to defend lawsuits from out of work Americans and the ever rabid trial lawyers if they want to rely on these workers. This cost will make it so that the jobs which the people are coming across the border to get won't be there, which removes the incentive for crossing the border, particularly if the benefits only go to those who have jobs and are paying taxes.

Further, for those who do manage to get their employer to vouch that no American wanted the job, so that they can get into the program, we now know who they are and where they are, two things we don't now know, all in exchange for involvement in a program which could be legislated away at any time. Some would be skeptical that it ever would be, but in an economic downturn, ending a guest worker program so Americans could get the jobs would be very politically doable.

And of all the illegals who are out there now, there are some who are harmless and those who are not. Those who sign up for this would more often than not be in the harmless side; they are the ones who really would rather not be hiding and don't mind us knowing they are here. This would make the pool of those who are here completely illegally smaller, which would lessen the burden on our security agencies.

As specified, the proposal is worlds, worlds, worlds better than I had feared based on the initial reports and the initial debate here.

So it is brilliant in that it would put a damper on further illegal immigration, pressure companies to not hire illegals, would get many illegals to tell us who and where they are. I am pretty sure that as this debate rolls on, almost all of the leftist leaning immigration groups are going to come out hot and heavy against these proposals. That should tell us something.

But it has a fatal flaw which means that we really should be opposing it anyway- namely that the courts would very likely find some reason to strike down that one very provision, stating that it is an impossible standard to meet (you know liberal judges). And if that one aspect of the plan is removed, then the whole thing is garbage.

Relying on a single beam of support in a very large structure when there are sledgehammer weilding Judges all over the place is a very bad idea.

28 posted on 01/07/2004 7:11:48 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: KantianBurke

You must be confused, friend. I never asked anyone what their plan was.

29 posted on 01/07/2004 7:19:26 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: *immigrant_list; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; ..
ping
30 posted on 01/07/2004 8:40:48 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: Cultural Jihad
Mostly a collection of impotent fantasies.
I disagree. If the government stops rewarding an activity, it will decrease on its own. We are currently in a position where state, local and federal governments either reward illegal immigration, or pretend it doesn't exist.
31 posted on 01/07/2004 9:07:30 AM PST by wjcsux (DemocRATS, out of touch with America, out of touch with reality.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Try this article:
How Illegal Aliens are Bankrupting and Disenfranchising the American Middle and Working Classes

Also, this study:
Tired & Poor: Bankrupt Arguments for Mass, Unskilled Immigration

We at the Center for Immigration Studies estimate that the average Mexican immigrant will use $55,200 more in public services during his lifetime than he pays in taxes.

32 posted on 01/07/2004 10:12:24 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: wjcsux
So true. Removing the liberal handouts will go a long ways towards correcting this problem.
33 posted on 01/07/2004 11:27:43 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad; KantianBurke; Sabertooth
Mostly a collection of impotent fantasies.

I disagree I think Sabertooth should be commended for putting together a pretty good list of proposals. Best of all, I like his proposal number 8:

8: Seize the assets of businesses knowingly hiring Illegals under the RICO Act, as they are ongoing criminal enterprises. Prosecute executives who knowingly hire Illegals.

Don't you think that something like that might be worth a shot?

34 posted on 01/07/2004 11:41:41 AM PST by Scenic Sounds (Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
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To: Scenic Sounds
Personally, I favor building a biometric database on every lawful citizen and resident and visitor, and can envision how doing so would bring unparalleled freedom to people.

But that was not your question. Your question was about using RICO statutes to bankrupt those businesses which knowingly hire productive workers who they know to be carrying fraudulent ID cards.

No, I don't agree with that, either. Again, the problem is when ideologues mistake a relative good with an absolute one. There is no justice in throwing thousands of citizens into unemployment because the corporate gardener or janitor was hired who shouldn't have been hired. That would constitute a grave injustice.

The whole point of "knowingly hire" really becomes moot unless all employers are required by some prohibitively-costly mandate to then hire detectives, and forgery experts, etc. It's not their job to vet people's legal status. They are there to provide goods and services which benefit people and society, not to do the work of the government. They have no authority or expertise to vet the status of anyone to a 100% degree of certainty. But if someone is knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants and flouting the law, and if it can be proven, then yes, prosecute them, but don't bankrupt their business. To advocate such is only demagoguery.

Anyone can formulate a doomed or impossible plan, but seriously, I will stick with time-tested and elected leaders on formulating a workable plan on this problem.

35 posted on 01/07/2004 12:05:36 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad; Sabertooth
But if someone is knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants and flouting the law, and if it can be proven, then yes, prosecute them, but don't bankrupt their business. To advocate such is only demagoguery.

It appears that we agree on the wisdom of punishing employers who knowingly hiring undocument immigrants. As for an appropriate penalty, the usual standard is to design a penalty that is sufficiently costly to encourage compliance with the law.

The key here is to find a penalty that makes it so costly to hire illegal immigrants that rational employers will refrain from doing so. Obviously, penalties and enforcement should be ratcheted up in this area.

I have a feeling that Sabertooth and most others would agree to penalties that are less than the corporate death penalty so long as the penalties were made adequate to encourage compliance with the law. Again, I think that Sabertooth's proposals are worth some serious consideration.

36 posted on 01/07/2004 12:30:24 PM PST by Scenic Sounds (Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
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To: William McKinley
His(Bush's) proposal is brilliant .... The brilliance? The part that says anyone wanting to take part in this must get their employer to show no Americans wanted the job.

Until you look a little deeper. High tech industries are an excellent example. The system already exists in that industry through the H1B visa game.

Employers have easily shown that Americans don't want the jobs. Americans don't want these high tech jobs because the wage has been artificially depressed by the employer below the level that the American worker can economically justify.

That same manipulation of an honestly constructed system will be applied to all other industries. If you want foreign workers, simply cut the wage in half and you can have all you want.

Who benefits? The foreign country. Who loses? The American worker who was forced to pay thousands for his technical education only to be denied employment because of an excess of cheap, equally well qualified, foreign labor.

37 posted on 01/07/2004 1:17:19 PM PST by Amerigomag
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To: ovrtaxt
Crime stats show that illegal aliens dispersing into the interior of America are a prime source of illegal drugs such as Mexican "red" methamphetamine...

The drug cartels have to be jumping for joy..as well as terrorists who can sneak among the women and children and use the cover of "poor folks seeking a better life"

La Raza and the ACLU and the other American haters have got to be lovin' this.....

There is a big hole in Homeland Security's net that they seem to have not only no intention of fixing, but appear to want to make it even bigger
imo
38 posted on 01/07/2004 1:54:36 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Scenic Sounds; Sabertooth
8: Seize the assets of businesses knowingly hiring Illegals under the RICO Act, as they are ongoing criminal enterprises. Prosecute executives who knowingly hire Illegals.

When I worked in industry, environmental laws beginning to be written so that executives (company presidents, CEOs, etc.) could be prosecuted for violations, even if they had no actual personal knowledge of the crimes committed - I think in legal terms it would mean there was no "plausible deniability". The EPA assumed that if someone was in charge of a company, he "knew or should have known" about everything that happened there.

It created a bit more incentive for CEOs to take an interest in making sure things were done the correct way, especially after a couple of bigshots were prosecuted and convicted.

I see no reason that immigration laws couldn't be written and enforced in the same manner. I must say, when I was listening to the summary of the President's suggestions on the radio this afternoon I was a bit confused...if employers have to follow existing labor laws to hire illegals, is there still an incentive to do so under the proposed program? If minimum wage laws, etc, were followed, would Americans be willing to do the jobs?

39 posted on 01/07/2004 2:56:49 PM PST by Amelia
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To: Amerigomag
No, that is a different issue than the H-1b matter. H-1b's can't depress tech job wages below what an American would be able to economically justify since the holder of an H-1b visa is also living in America, facing the same level of costs as an American would. You are thinking of outsourcing to other countries.

That is not to suggest I am a big fan of H-1B visas. I think that if there is a 'shortage' of technically capable people, then wages should go up and more people will then train themselves and educate themselves to get those jobs which would expand the work pool and allow wages to come back down; I don't think the answer is to expand the work pool artificially by importing tons of foreigners. But it is a different issue.

So the question becomes, are wages be depressed in these jobs that illegals are currently working (which tend to be lower paying ones) by them being here by more than the amount of added cost there will be in ensuring that the p's and q's are taken care of in meeting the requirements of this law? I am skeptical.

Besides, I still think people are overstating how many current aliens would take 'advantage' of this system. Let's say I am an illegal immigrant. I took a job with some forged papers. I want to take advantage of this, so I don't have to worry about being caught. I go to my employer, and now my employer (who for me to become legal has to vouch for the fact that there was no American who wanted my job) has to decide if he is going to fire me for lying about things in the first place, and then may end up finding some American citizen to take my job, the very job I need to stay, in order to meet the criteria specified. I bet the percentage would be small.

But there is still my main concern, the concern I have which tells me this whole thing is a bad idea. The fact that judges could gut the good parts of any such plan, leaving only the garbage. It is too big of a risk.

40 posted on 01/07/2004 3:15:19 PM PST by William McKinley
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