Posted on 12/03/2004 5:11:21 AM PST by StoneGiant
Activists smear anyone who wants better borders
By MICHELLE MALKIN
THE OBTUSENESS of the open-borders lobby never ceases to amaze. Here we are, three years after the 9/11 hijackers easily exploited lax borders, and the OBL continues to argue that cracking down on illegal immigration and tightening terrorist-friendly loopholes are “anti-immigrant.”
How do you maintain sanity when wading through the emotional drivel that passes for the OBL’s reasoning? Tip: Whenever they say “anti-immigrant,” substitute “pro-enforcement.” Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism. By smearing the overwhelming majority of Americans who support real borders as racists and xenophobes, the OBL obscures its deadly agenda: sabotaging our existing immigration laws and blocking any new efforts to punish those who abuse the system.
Flavia Jimenez of the National Council of La Raza illustrates perfectly this blustering open-borders tactic in a hysterical “action alert” this week titled: “Stop anti immigrant provisions from becoming part of the intelligence reform bill.” La Raza and their fellow travelers argue that tough enforcement measures “needlessly scapegoat all immigrants,” are “extraneous” and “harsh,” “would not have prevented the terrorist attacks and will not make us safer,” and are “non-solutions that will only drive people further underground and cause panic among immigrant communities.”
“Extraneous”? These same critics had no problem when a $1 billion illegal alien health care bailout for border hospitals was tacked on to the mammoth Medicare prescription drug bill.
“Non-solutions”? The 9/11 commission itself blamed “a lack of well-developed counterterrorism measures as part of border security, and an immigration system not able to deliver on its basic commitments, much less support counterterrorism.”
“Anti-immigrant”? If you actually read the immigration enforcement provisions supported by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner and his fellow maverick House Republicans you will see clearly and unequivocally that these vital measures are anti-terrorist. Anti-criminal. Anti-fraud. And above all, pro-enforcement.
Open-border activists not only oppose the most-publicized provision that would deny drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, they also oppose provisions:
· Adding at least 2,000 new border patrol agents, 800 new interior enforcement investigators, and 150 additional consular officials overseas.
· Increasing illegal alien detention facility space by 2,500 beds.
· Expanding the number of foreign airports with counterterrorist passenger prescreening programs.
· Creating a uniform identity document rule for all aliens present in the United States.
· Toughening criminal penalties for using or trading false identification documents.
· Reducing bureaucratic delays that allow illegal aliens who obtained fraudulent visas to re-enter or remain in the country even after their visas have been revoked.
· Creating an information- and intelligence-sharing system at the Department of Homeland Security to track terrorist travel tactics, patterns, trends and practices and disseminate the data to front-line personnel at ports of entry and immigration benefits offices.
· Making it easier to deport terrorists and alien supporters of terrorism by curbing their avenues for appeal and delay.
· Speeding up the development of a long-delayed entry-exit system to guard against terrorists slipping through the cracks.
· Requiring asylum-seekers tied to guerrilla, militant or terrorist organizations, and who claim asylum without submitting corroborating evidence, to provide credible proof of their “persecution.”
As usual, mainstream reporting on these specific immigration-related measures at issue has been skimpy. That’s because so many national editors themselves subscribe to the open-borders gospel. Since
9/11, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have published countless news items and editorials decrying immigration enforcement: sob stories about families caught evading deportation orders; foreign students complaining about new registration requirements violating their “privacy”; Latino activists outraged about border patrol agents doing their jobs; Middle Eastern tourists protesting visa screening measures; and illegal aliens clamoring for protection of their “rights.”
Rep. Sensenbrenner and his GOP colleagues face not only the OBL on the left and in the media, but also at the highest echelons of the Bush administration. The mavericks need all the help they can get. Before it’s too late, call the White House now and yell: It’s the enforcement, stupid!
Michelle Malkin can be reached at malkin@comcast.net
A powerful, disturbing image...You've visually described the essence of this crisis.
Tel. 202-785-1670
Tell them Americans are for enforcement!
Please contact F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., (Jim),
sensenbrenner@mail.house.gov.
Outside the Milwaukee Metro calling area, call my toll-free HOTLINE number: 1-800-242-1119.
Give Congressman Sensenbrenner your full support. Send to all – lets help this man who is trying so hard to help us!
YES to Profiling for all law enforcement people and lift the No Profiling provision imposed on the Air Lines, trains and buses.
We will have no national security until Profiling is allowed and illegal immigrants are stopped at the borders.
Call your Senators and Congressmen today! Saturday or not - just do it.
"We will have no national security until Profiling is allowed and illegal immigrants are stopped at the borders. "
Exactly. The 911 families for a secure America were just on Cspan. They are convinced the Senate has told the other group of 911 families that there will be no discussion of anything to do with immigration and if they don't support the senate bill (no border control etc) it will never come up and they better take this empty bill or nothing.
And yes, Minetta of Transportation needs to pull his pc head out of the sand.
I caught Michelle Malkin on radio last night. How I wish everyone could hear her! She had a lot of information, as usual, and suggested this as a bumper sticker:
PRO-ENFORCEMENT IS NOT ANTI-IMMIGRATION.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.