Posted on 01/30/2004 7:03:45 AM PST by Theodore R.
Bush promotes law breaking
Posted: January 30, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Common sense says if you tell people they will have a better shot at attaining legal status as Americans if they just come to this country to work for a while, more people will enter the country illegally.
Common sense has now been borne out by hard statistical facts provided by the Border Patrol.
In the month since President Bush floated his non-amnesty amnesty program, the number of immigrants caught attempting to enter the country illegally at the biggest border crossing checkpoint is up 15 percent.
In other words, George Bush rolled out the red carpet for more illegal immigration. In other words, George Bush sent out engraved invitations for more illegal immigration. In other words, George Bush undermined the immigration laws of this country. In other words, in a time of heightened national security concerns, George Bush has helped to overwhelm our already stretched law-enforcement resources at our borders. In other words, George Bush is promoting law breaking.
That's right, the chief executive of the federal government – the man constitutionally mandated to enforce the laws of the land – is promoting the breaking of our laws. He's encouraging more law breaking and the results speak for themselves – even after only 30 days.
If you think maybe there is no cause and effect between Bush's words and the attempted illegal border crossings at San Ysidro, listen to this: More than half of those caught using phony documents say the president's offer of de facto amnesty motivated them to attempt to sneak into the United States.
"This surge in unlawful attempts to cross the southern border is precisely what U.S. border enforcement officers and immigration policy experts predicted," said the normally subdued and moderate San Diego Union-Tribune in an editorial. "By proposing to forgive millions of illegal aliens their trespasses against this country, President Bush has encouraged even more illegal aliens to join those already here."
Bush wants new laws on immigration. But he has shown no interest in enforcing the old laws. Why should we listen to him now?
The response from the American people should be this: Let's try enforcing the old laws before we pass any new ones. Let's try beefing up the Border Patrol. Let's try pressuring the companies hiring these illegal aliens to hire legal Americans. Let's try denying taxpayer-supported social services to lawbreakers. Let's try deportations. Let's try enforcing criminal laws against illegal aliens just as we prosecute American citizens. Let's encourage states and local governments to cooperate with immigration to uproot the illegals – especially those who continue to break the law. Let's even try putting the National Guard at our borders. If it works in Afghanistan and Iraq, why shouldn't it work here?
The Union-Tribune said the White House is not learning the lessons of 1986, "when Congress granted amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. The amnesty did absolutely nothing to discourage future illegal immigration. In fact, the number of illegal immigrants has increased exponentially since then."
Not only that, as we now know, terrorists who later attacked America at the World Trade Center established residency in the U.S. as a result of that amnesty program. Let us never make that mistake again.
A recent New York Times poll indicates two-thirds of Americans oppose a temporary worker program for illegals. What is it about the law of the land and the will of the people George Bush doesn't comprehend?
This is the wrong plan at the wrong time.
It rewards law breaking.
It establishes a double-standard for immigration rules.
It threatens the jobs and wages of American workers.
It costs hard-working Americans more in tax-supported benefits.
And, most of all, it undermines national security at a time when the president claims this as America's No. 1 priority.
It isn't like we've just now started asking this to be done....
Hmmmm...I have only seen this claim once before...but it was only one terrorist and it applied to the WTC attack in 1993. Why was the author so vague? Or would applying the truth undermine their agenda?
I still don't know why people are wasting their breath bashing the Bush proposal, the final bill will be nothing like what he proposed. Congress makes laws, not the President and he clearly stated he would leave the details up to Congress. We all should quit squabbling amongst ourselves and contact our Congresscritters to support H.R. 3534 (introduced by Rep. Tom Tancredo).
As for the increased activity at the border, from what I've heard the Mexican media mischaracterized the proposal as a blanket amnesty, which it is not.
Kerry is not President.
Better Red than Dead. Strange how that has become the republican mantra lately.
And this changes reality how?
Good luck...local law enforcment, backed by the ACLU are not cooperating with the new regulations set down by Ashcroft. The ACLU even accused the U.S. of deliberately driving illegal border crossers into mortal harm's way by enforcing the border. Tancredo went as far as submitting a bill to cut off Federal funding to those local entities that do not cooperate, but the Dems are fighting it. One new bill that we should support is Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's (R-CA) H.R. 3722, which requires hospitals to report illegal immigrants that are treated in their facilities. However, the hospitals are complaining about that proposal as well. And of course, there are the socialists complaining about checkpoints set up inside the border of the U.S. within a 100 mile limit.
Let's try beefing up the Border Patrol.
Done...
Border Patrol has increased from a strength of 9,788 on September 11, 2001 to 10,835 on December 1, 2003. Between ports of entry on the northern border, the size of the Border Patrol has tripled to more than 1,000 agents. In addition, the Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity.Source
Let's try pressuring the companies hiring these illegal aliens to hire legal Americans.
Operation Tarmac targeted airports that hire illegals. They have raided fruit and vegetable farms, meat packing plants, hotels, etc. Remember the Walmart raid?
Let's try denying taxpayer-supported social services to lawbreakers.
Illegal immigrants themselves are ineligible for welfare and can't get unemployment benefits or Social Security, but there is a loophole...they can get benefits for children they have in the U.S. We need to close that loophole by ending the "anchor baby" problem. Tancredo's proposal does that...we should support it by writing our Congresscritters.
Let's try deportations.
Not feasible, especially when local law enforcement won't cooperate. Some cities have even passed sanctuary laws.
Let's try enforcing criminal laws against illegal aliens just as we prosecute American citizens.
Let's encourage states and local governments to cooperate with immigration to uproot the illegals – especially those who continue to break the law. Let's even try putting the National Guard at our borders.
Again, local law enforcement agencies will not cooperate.
It doesn't, but I just wanted to clarify that is the reason they are coming in such large numbers at this point. We all need to support Tancredo's proposal by writing our Congresscritters. Better than wasting our breath arguing against Bush's proposal that is not going to pass in Congress anyway. I do have to give him credit for throwing the debate on the table however.
But now it's their ox being gored. Suddenly, the laws of the United States passed by the freely elected representatives of American citizens on the entry, residence, employment, and naturalization of aliens are a trivial matter in their eyes; to be slighted as "unworkable," "unrealistic," "racist," and so forth; to go unenforced even in the face of the most brazen violations thereof; to be sacrificed on the altar of mere political expedience and election year politics.
It's been a real eye-opener for me. I'll never take such people seriously again as moral agents, as political conservatives, or as American citizens.
...the National Council of La Raza, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Latin American Workers Project and the New York Immigration Coalition and Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, which recently filed suit in U.S. District Court, questioning Mr. Ashcroft's authority to enlist state and local police in the enforcement of federal immigration law.
Another excerpt that provides some hope...
Mr. Ashcroft has taken some small steps in the right direction by entering the names of such people into the NCIC database, but much more needs to be done to secure our borders. Rep. Charlie Norwood, Georgia Republican, has put forward a sensible proposal, the Clear Law Enforcement for Alien Removal Act, or CLEAR, which has 112 co-sponsors in the House. The CLEAR bill would facilitate greater cooperation between the federal government and state and local governments, and include provisions requiring that the latter provide the Department of Homeland Security with information about illegal immigrants that police capture during the course of their duties.
That may be the only way to enforce it, will see what I can find out about the status of that bill and the litigation.
The [Ashcroft] proposal is in direct contradiction of a 1996 opinion issued by the Justice Department's office of legal counsel that prohibited local law enforcement officers from tracking down illegal immigrants. Moreover, a draft memorandum last November by the same office reiterated that opinion.
Sounds like Ashcroft is probably waiting on the District Court decision.
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