"Here's My Donation!"
Posted on 12/28/2005 5:52:39 PM PST by SC33
Illegal or fraudulent immigration into the United States is an important tool in the toolkits of America’s enemies – and it has been exploited tirelessly, and tragically, all too successfully.
The problems resulting from the amenable and porous borders of the United States have metastasized beyond the socio-economic concerns of ruinous welfare and health care loads, and unemployment. The immigration issue has been elevated to a critical problem of national security that demands our attention.
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To our local quisling contingent, this will stick like water off a duck's back. They will learn nothing.
Bush said today that, "Illegal immigration blah blah blah. Blah blah blah and blah. And if blah blah blah, then blah blah blah blah blah. So, we're going to blah so that blah blah the blah!"
The involuntary demographic transformation created by mass immigration is the #1 threat to not only the quality of life for most Americans, but to the survival of the America we know. It's taken many, many years of grass-roots efforts to bring the issue to the fore, but it finally seems to be gaining some traction.
"Here's My Donation!"
CIS estimates that nearly half of the post-2000 immigrant arrivals – 3.7 million – are illegal aliens.
But there's something in the numbers that might explain "doom and gloom" vis-a-vis the economy even though the economy is doing very well. But there are some who "worry."
A study (covering 2000 through the first three months of 2003) by Northeastern University using CPS/BLS data reported that "recent" immigrants are getting huge numbers of the jobs created -- so many in fact that the numbers suggest that citizens and established immigrants are losing jobs to them.
This is not germane to security but it most definitely should be of concern to anyone wishing to be elected and who is concerned about security.
Security worries pretty much excludes the "we just need to tell the world that we were wrong" Rats. The Rats worry about protecting terrorists' civil rights and to get power back they sure as hell will exploit the "doom and gloom" among the relatively few.
It's almost two years after the Northeastern U. study and the numbers appear to be shooting up faster than ever.
We don't have an immigration policy we have a land grab. But since we have a ponzi scheme economy that depends on high population growth to sell widgets and houses to, when we do curtail immigration growth and the births from that we will see a slowdown of long term GDP growth. Like Japan that is at its current population peak rarely sells more crap to inflate its GDP numbers and to our economic gurus who are trained like seals for a limited number of tricks think the Japanese are about to resort to cannabilism when in fact Japan is about to become a world leader in the peak-oil age.
Just ran across this story on Fox. A good read....BTTT
Illegal or fraudulent immigration into the United States is an important tool in the toolkits of America’s enemies – and it has been exploited tirelessly, and tragically, all too successfully.
The problems resulting from the amenable and porous borders of the United States have metastasized beyond the socio-economic concerns of ruinous welfare and health care loads, and unemployment. The immigration issue has been elevated to a critical problem of national security that demands our attention.
Despite the superficial correlation between lax immigration and frequently incompetent immigration policy and terrorism prevention, immigration concerns have all too often taken a backseat in the War on Terror to military action, the freezing of terrorist finances, innovative diplomatic developments, intelligence reform, and key security measures at airports and other transportation systems.
Undoubtedly, these security measures have drastically improved our capacity to thwart our enemies from orchestrating plots against our country; however, the threat posed by the immigration crisis remains under-attended by Washington policy officials.
Earlier this week, the Center for Immigration Studies released startling numbers extrapolated from the last half decade (2000-2005), wherein they determined that 7.9 million new immigrants, both legal and illegal, settled in the United States – marking this time period the highest five-year period of immigration in American history. CIS estimates that nearly half of the post-2000 immigrant arrivals – 3.7 million – are illegal aliens.
Additionally, the number of immigrants in the United States as of March 2005 is the highest in American history – 35.2 million or 12.1 percent of the total U.S. population. The statistics reveal unsettling details on the demographics of these new immigrants.
For example, 31 percent have not completed a high school education (three-and-a-half times the rate for natives) and 29 percent of immigrant-headed households use at least one major welfare program (compared to the 18 percent for native households).
In addition, one-third of immigrants lack health insurance (two-and-a-half times the rate for natives), and one-quarter of those in poverty are immigrants and their children. The problem extends beyond a domestic, socio-economic crisis and reaches into the depths of terrorism prevention and national security policies.
America must apply common sense to comprehend that voluminous immigration – arguably the greatest influx America has ever experienced – and the resulting loophole-susceptible system facilitates terrorist operatives in America.
Terrorists are exploiting our generous, welcoming arms, shared history as an immigrant nation and political ambivalence toward loathing illegal immigration while rejecting “anti-immigration” rhetoric and action to conduct terrorist activities against America.
In an extremely informative paper, “Immigration Benefits and Terrorism: Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff Report on Terrorist Travel,” written by Janice Kephart, counsel to the 9/11 commission, Kephart details the immigration histories of 94 terrorists who operated in the United States from the early 1990s and through 2004, including six Sept. 11 hijackers who sought enhanced immigration benefits.
Kephart’s research is definitive: “Terrorists, both before and after 9/11, have and will continue to exploit the weaknesses of our lax immigration system by committing fraud and other violations.”
Of the 94 foreign-born terrorists who operated in the United States in her study, two-thirds (59 percent) were found to have committed immigration fraud prior to or in conjunction with taking part in terrorist activity. Of the 59 percent that violated the law, there were cumulatively 79 immigration violations.
Once in the United States, 23 terrorists became legal permanent residents. And 21 foreign terrorists became naturalized U.S. citizens. Terrorists need the guise of legal immigration status to support their terrorist activities on U.S. soil.
Kephart continues that “these gaps in our immigration system will remain exploited until the system becomes designed to catch terrorists better,” the U.S. can provide sufficient resources to such reforms and there is the “political will to enforce the law.”
Unfortunately, the entangled immigration problem impedes direct action and consideration for this critical issue. Politicians fear the heavy topic of immigration reform and have, therefore, side-stepped it in exchange for more resolutely agreed upon terrorism prevention tactics, such as airport security or intelligence reform.
However, with the advent of the CIS immigration report, the impending congressional vote on preliminary immigration reforms and the president’s budding interest in this topic, the facts remain – America’s enemies have exploited our immigration system – most particularly, the Sept. 11 hijackers – and the mass immigration has strained our mediocre system to the point of ineffectiveness.
To be fair, months after Sept. 11 the national security perspective of immigration was considered with the utmost seriousness.
For example, the agencies responsible for immigration made significant changes to the way in which our immigration systems operate. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services resolved to investigate the 300,000-plus foreigners who have absconded after being ordered deported, and in conjunction, these names were entered into the FBI’s national crime database.
However, if the United States is truly attuned to the critical national security perspective of the immigration crisis in America, we must unilaterally agree to reform our immigration system expeditiously in the name of protecting Americans.
Regretfully, it is questionable whether merely strict enforcement of immigration law will sufficiently protect America. At this point, policymakers must accept this hotly contested topic and develop actionable solutions before it’s too late.
The relation among mass immigration, illegal entry and fraud resulting in an overloaded bureaucracy and America’s national security is real.
Olivia Albrecht is the John Tower National Security Fellow with the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. Ms. Albrecht researches international relations and national security issues, with a focus on the ‘Islamofascist’ phenomenon. Albrecht previously worked for the Pentagon (Non-Proliferation Policy) and with the Heritage Foundation, and is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Philosophy.
Cornyn actually makes some good points. I don't dislike his immigration reform plan as much as I despise the McCain/Kennedy plan. If enforced, it actually makes sense.
If it came down to the two, I would choose Kyl/Cornyn over McKennedy.
I can find nothing here to argue about.
Your list is accurate, but far too short.
Bump that.
It's even more dumbfounding for me that many conservative talk show hosts ignore it also. I was just listening to Hewitt. He hosted a few other well-known personalities each with his own syndicated show.
I've heard a couple of them and knew that though against ILLEGAL immigration they are very much for "guest worker" six-dollar-an-hour dishwashers, as one host said once.
Their discussion of issues included ILLEGAL immigration.
Regarding ILLEGAL immigrant day labor one host even went so far to cite a poll from Los Angeles and claimed that women in the poll much preferred picking up ILLEGAL immigrant day laborers for work around the home than trusting the odd jobs to American men -- both as regards the quality of work and their safety.
I did not listen to the whole show (about one-half only) but that was it when the conversation turned to ILLEGAL immigration. On to the next issue of 2005 - 2006.
Above all I hate spiking stories. That was my main complaint against the MSM during the few decades (beginning in the 1950s advent of TV news) that they functioned as gatekeepers of information.
The likes of Hewitt, Medved spike news and studies that so many of us know from personal -- and not just anecdotal -- experience. I mention for the umpteenth time three organizations that have released studies supporting exactly what you see with your eyes -- the labor studies department of Northeastern U., the Pew Hispanic Center, and the Center for Immigration Studies.
The likes of Hewitt, Medved say that the "doom and gloomers" are dumb dupes of the MSM lies about the economy. Yes, the economy is great! It's been performing like a sustained and classical recovery -- but ILLEGAL immigration and offshore outsourcing are bringing hurt to lots of people -- people who vote. The Republicans had better pay attention.
Or, as I am wont to say, "Will there be another Falling Down movie to highlight the 'angry white male'?" Only this time it's more than just white males.
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