Posted on 06/16/2007 10:41:59 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Last night, Constitutional expert and talk-radio host Mark Levin spoke with Debra Burlingame about the now revived ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007.’ The proponents of the bill in Congress and the administration are lying to the American people. That is not new news:
Debra Burlingame: “This amnesty bill is really a boom to the enemy. I guarantee you that al Qaeda has their guys lined up to get their amnesty, the ones already here and the ones who will come here. They will defraud this system to get their Social Security cards… How do we know that? There is a history for it. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, there were more than 10 people associated with and convicted in that. Three of them got amnesty by claiming the were agricultural workers under a … special agricultural workers program that was part of the 1986 amnesty. Thank you very much, Ted Kennedy.“The CIA shooter who murdered two people outside Langley [CIA HQs], he applied for amnesty in 1986 and was declined. He stayed anyhow because we had no way of knowing that he was still here. We didn’t have an entry and exit and entry system. So, Congress ordered one up in 1996 and … we haven’t got it still. In fact, last fall [Secretary of Homeland Security] Michael Chertoff said building one would be cost prohibitive, it would cost billions of dollars and would take more than ten years. One of the things they are saying about this bill is, it is going to have an entry and exit system. That’s a lie. These people will not go home and we will have no proof whether they did or not.”
Mark Levin: “They are still litigating in the courts whether or not it is Constitutional for our government to require people who leave the country to report that they are leaving the country.”
Debra Burlingame: “…Michelle Malkin has a phrase, “It is not over, legally, until the alien wins.” I went through this bill … I went directly to border security because that was what interested me most. Every single provision has this phrase before you get to the details, “Subject to the availability of funds.” ... That's what they do when they pass these bills, they hold back the funds.
"What documents are they going to accept to prove identity with these millions and millions of people? In 2002, this was five years ago and the problem has gotten worse, the GAO did a report and they found “rampant and pervasive document fraud.” There is a backlog of Green Card cases, this in 2002, they had a backlog then of four million cases, an increase of 50% over six years and the report said, “The staff is rewarded for timely handling of petitions,” rather than scrutiny on the merits. How is this going to happen now if suddenly they are inundated with 12 to 20 million applications…”
Mark Levin: “They can’t do it. It is absolutely impossible. They can’t do it and they won’t do it.”
Debra Burlingame: “And they know they can’t do it. They are lying to the American people.
"Meanwhile, I had someone very high up in this administration tell me when I asked him, point blank … this before I was able to read the whole thing because they snuck this in and wanted to get it passed in 48 hours without anyone reading it … will this bill have authority for state and local law enforcement to enforce these laws... “Absolutely,” said this member of the Bush administration. Three days later, when all those amendments were being poured out on to the floor of the Senate, out came an amendment giving state and local law enforcement the ability with probable cause to scrutinize the legal presence of a suspect if they have probable cause to believe a person is here illegally. That was roundly voted down. So this person was not only not telling me the truth, when someone tried to put it in there, it was voted out.
"This is undemocratic, what they are doing. And we know that people -- however they feel about how these people should be managed that are here -- 80% polled say give us border security first and they are not doing it."
Mark Levin: "Why won't they do it?"
Debra Burlingame: "I think a clue is when you look at President Bush, who announced his phoney gesture of good faith, four-point-four billion dollars for a fence ... they are going to build half of what they enacted last year, he was addressing a construction trade association, the biggest users of cheap labor. I think they want an endless supply". [Editor -- This transcript above is of the first half of the interview. The entire interview can be heard at the bolded link.]
Congress and the Bush administration have used “subject to the availability of funds” to not fully implement the border security provisions of every bill they have passed and signed into law since 9/11.
The 'Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act' authorized 10,000 new border agents, 40,000 additional detention beds, and 4,000 new immigration enforcement agents yet all three were funded well below 50% of authorization. In fact, the Bush administration attempted to provide a mere 210 new border agents for FY 2006 yet was eventually forced to fund 700 new agents for both FY 2006 and 2007.
Congress overwhelmingly passed the REAL ID Act and President Bush signed it into law on May 11, 2005. Its implementation was waived until the end of next year and the administration has yet to speak out against its proposed repeal. While Peter Gadiel says, “The CATO Institute and ACLU have successfully lobbied states to not implement the provisions of the ‘REAL ID Act’,” due to “privacy concern,” the federal government has provided them further cover by authorizing less than half the needed funding
Concerning the current immigration bill's entry and exit system proposal, “In December 2006, the Bush administration decided to shelve plans to develop a facial or fingerprint recognition system to track whether international visitors leave the country on time via one of the country's many land ports of entry, although such a system is being deployed at international-gateway airports.”
Many states have authorized Mexico’s matricula ID card to be used (to varying degrees) as official proof of a person’s identity, even though one can easily be obtained on a street corner. When issued by Mexican consulates, the breeder documents accepted are highly suspect. A Mexican official has said, “[T]hey rely on the expertise of the staff in the 47 consulates to visually authenticate the documents,” yet standards vary from consulate to consulate. In addition, there probably never will be a single database for these cards. Despite these inherent security weaknesses, they are often used as picture ID to board commercial aircraft and have been used to enter federal buildings. The Bush administration has conspiring with Mexico to further a “silent amnesty” policy by allowing matricula ID cards to be used in lieu of passport and visa requirements.
We must end their lies by demanding that they secure our borders first.
Ping!
I heard the interview on Friday. She was awesome. She is a great Patriot. Mark was, as usual, passionate and telling it like it is. The fight must go on..
I Like Ike.
Take the Pledge: "I pledge to never, ever vote for anyone, for any office, who votes in favor of the Mexican Invasion Surrender Bill."
Senate bills can't authorize funding so they have to place those disclaimers. Funding bills have to originate in the house.
Missed the GREAT ONE yesterday....was busy at a WELCOME HOME THE TROOPS event. Thanks for the heads up, now I’m off to listen to the replay!
Border security?
What f-ing border security?
If you are unskilled and willing to work for low wages then come on down.
Oh come on now.
Don't be so cynical for all anyone wants to do when entering our sovereign and lawful country illegally is to help the poor rich in doing the jobs that we don't want to do and to aid us in promoting our security and well being as individuals.
Why don't you all sit back, take a deep breath and realize that this is all they want instead of promoting paranoia and appreciate the small increase in your taxes, the death and mayhem, and insecurity that comes with it to help them and the small inconvenience of having to chose a language via phone prompting is just a sacrifice worthy of personal commendation. /s
After all weren't most of us born of immigrants somewhere down the line? /major s
This "illegal" term just doesn't hold water anymore.....
Don’t tell our President that this is happening as his Alice in Wonderland view might just burst.
Evidence is all over the place and he and others just want a bill to sign they call reform.
I think Jorge and Teddy should audit the grocery stores near the borders and use their Lone Star Cards with over 50% of the shoppers and get into their airplanes and fly home.
It is time for a tea party.
It looks more and more like our whole d*mn government is a bunch of lying, corrupt b******ds. It seems time for a major revolt of some kind.
On some "angry over amnesty" threads, I've seen GWB's "hiring of 10,000 additional border agents" presented as proof that he is too serious about enforcement, and how dare you doubt him.
bookmaqrked. it seems all in Washington are lying to the people who elected them in the first place. it is a tragedy that they are burning the midnight oil for the good of foreigners who have broken the law, and not the American citizens. Who is congress working for, who is the president working for, who is the House of Representatives working for?
March 2007
MERIDA, Mexico - President Bush, working to rebuild strained U.S.-Mexico relations, promised Tuesday he would do his best to get a deeply divided U.S. Congress to change American immigration policies that are hated south of the border.
“My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I’ll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory? id=2947200
Where have you been?
Anyway, welcome to the real world YRT!
So he’s making vows to “the people of Mexico” . How sweet. Really warms my heart.
Thanks for the ping to this Sgt Tim.
I listened to the interview- it was a jaw-dropper (but we’re getting used to that)..there were some important new pieces of information.
I’m sending this link to my Senators (pppffttt Martinez and Nelson) and Fred Thompson’s campaign.
The more we learn about the bill- the worse it gets for us in the immediate and long-term future of America.
I thought that would make you all warm and fuzzy. :<)
So, the Libs want to impeach Bush.
What if we help them, and get Cheney in there instad of Bush, with the clear warning of what happens to “Republicans” who sell out conservative values?
Enough is enough.
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