The Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act (Comprehensive Immigration Reform)

Just yesterday I wrote a commentary about the value of United States citizenship not only to decent law abiding citizens of our country but also to a small group of terrorists and criminals who understand that the coveted United States passport that citizens of our nation are eligible to receive enables them to move freely across our nation, gain access to various jobs that may have national security implications and also provides them with the ability to move freely across our nation’s borders and often easily gain entry into other countries.

The commentary I wrote yesterday related to a United States citizen who exploited his citizenship in our nation by seeking to identify potential terrorist targets overseas. In that case, an individual by the name of Headley, was apparently linked to the horrific terrorist attack that was carried out in Mumbai, India.

Today, the Washington Times published a news report about how Pakistan has arrested five United States citizens who are believed to have been involved in terrorism overseas, once again, this time, purportedly in Pakistan.

To again hammer the nexus between United States citizenship and the value of that citizenship and the United States passport that goes with it, consider this quote from the news report I have attached below:

“[CIA Director] Michael V. Hayden, [Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike]Mullen and others have long said that al Qaeda was recruiting and training Westerners and people familiar with the West,” the military intelligence official said. “U.S. passports are especially prized.”

The enormous value of Americans to al Qaeda means that the group takes extra care with U.S. recruits. However, the military intelligence official explained, this also makes it difficult to determine at what stage of training the group may have been.”

As you read the news article, please pay special attention to the way that terrorists often use false names or alter their names in order to hide in plain sight as they go about their preparations to carry out terrorist attacks.

The use of false names is a component of how immigration fraud is often perpetrated. I have been doing everything in my power, ever since I decided to speak out about the way that terrorists and criminals have become adept at gaming the immigration system in order to conduct their crimes of extreme violence against their innocent victims.

Immigration fraud was what made the terrorist attacks of 1993 in our country possible, first at the CIA in January 1993 and then, just one month later when terrorists planted and detonated a powerful truck bomb in the garage of the World Trade Center that left 6 innocent people dead, hundred injured and an estimated one half billion dollars in damage inflicted on that iconic jewel of the Manhattan skyline.

As I have also noted, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the agency of the Department of Homeland Security that is charged with adjudicating all of the various applications for immigration benefits including the conferring of resident alien status upon aliens and even United States citizenship. That agency has been blasted in a succession of reports of investigations conducted by the GAO (General Accountability Office) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) which is the “Internal Affairs” unit for every government agency.

The picture painted in report after report makes it clear that the only apparent goal of that agency is to move he bureaucratic assembly line ever faster to keep up with the massive deluge of applications that land on the desks of the adjudicators who work for that overburdened and inept agency. USCIS is a bit like a dog that run in a circle attempting to catch his own tail- pity the dog that finally succeeds in catching up with his elusive tail and sinking his sharp teeth into it! Pity our nation and our citizens as USCIS emulates that crazed dog!

Anyone with a shred of commonsense knows that there is an inverse relationship between quality control and speed. The faster you move any assembly line, the more that quality will suffer. The more that quality suffers at USCIS, the more that alien determined to defraud the system get away with it. When these aliens succeed in defrauding the system, the more that it emboldens others to do the same. As more aliens file applications laden with fraud, the more that the system needs to run ever faster to keep pace with the influx of applications.

Since the number one priority at USCIS is to keep up with the backlog of applications, the adjudicators must now work even faster and thus even more fraudulent applications are filed and approved and so it goes!

Now the administration is gearing up for a massive program they call “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” I have come to refer to this as the “Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act!”

If USCIS is unable to deal with its current workload, what do you suppose will happen if ten, twenty or even thirty million illegal aliens who have no reliable way of verifying their true identities file for amnesty under Comprehensive Immigration Reform?

The adjudicators will be adjudicators in name only. They will simply be rubber stamp operators whose mission will be to slap approval stamps on applications as they fly by on the bureaucratic conveyor belt at warp speed!

For all intents and purposes, under those circumstances, our government will have all but declared anyone born on the planet Earth to be a United States citizen!

If you wonder why I have said that perhaps thirty million illegal aliens will file applications to participate in that massive amnesty program, here is my reasoning: (I challenge our nation’s “leaders” such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Janet Napolitano and even the President to tell me I am wrong- I would gladly debate them, but I assure they would never want to debate me!)

In 1986 when our nation enacted amnesty for illegal aliens, the original estimates of the number of illegal aliens who would avail themselves the opportunity to “come out of the shadows” was pegged at somewhere between one and one and a half million. By the time the bureaucratic dust settled, an estimated 3.5 to 4 million illegal aliens filed their applications.

Perhaps there was an error in the way that the original estimate was arrived at. Certainly you cannot rule out the idea that those who were so eager for that program might have intentionally misstated the number of illegal aliens who would jump on the line for amnesty.

Here is another factor, however: It is my belief and the belief of many of my former colleagues at the INS, as the agency was known back then, that many illegal aliens simply entered the United States long after the cutoff date and fraudulently claimed to have been physically present in the United States for the requisite period of time. Remember, we are talking about illegal aliens who had no verifiable way of proving their true identities. There were no resources to have INS special agents head out into the field to conduct investigations to determine when illegal aliens actually entered the United States.

While it is true that the advocates for the Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act (Comprehensive Immigration Reform) tout the fact that the aliens will have to undergo a background check, as I have noted on so many occasions, including when I have testified before Congressional hearings, a background check bears absolutely no relationship to a background investigation.

A background investigation requires that the applicant who requires a background investigation be fingerprinted and fill out a lengthy form that asks many, many questions and then agents interview the applicant at great length, seeking to identify potential investigative leads. These agents (or investigators) then head out to knock on doors and ask neighbors, colleagues and others all sorts of relevant questions to determine the necessary information in order to complete the investigation, This process is costly and time consuming, often requiring several weeks to complete.

Today there are at least ten times as many illegal aliens who would avail themselves the opportunity to participate in the Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act (Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) This would make it impossible for USCIS or ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to conduct any field investigations to seek to uncover fraud. If the estimated number of aliens who were expected to participate in the 1986 amnesty ballooned from the original estimate of 1 million to perhaps 4 million, why would it not be reasonable to expect that ten million illegal aliens might suddenly become thirty or forty million?!

A background check, on the other hand, simply requires the applicant to fill out a relatively simple form and be fingerprinted. A government employee or, perhaps, contractor, simply runs the fingerprint card through a computer database and also run the name that the applicant wrote down on his (her) application through a database. If the applicant’s fingerprints come back as a “No Hit” meaning that he has not been convicted of a serious crime and if the name he gave comes back “clean,” then within 24 or 48 hours that alien would be provided with a temporary identity document that would enable him to immediately apply for and receive a Social Security card, a driver’s license and other such identity documents. That is why such immigration identity documents are referred to as “breeder documents.”

If the alien in question was a terrorist who made a concerted effort to never run afoul of law enforcement, then it is a virtual certainty that his fingerprints would come back “clean.”

If the alien in question provided a false name because he (she) knew his real name was possibly on a terror watch list, the false name would also come back clean because it is a false name! Suddenly, by gaming the immigration system that terrorist would have placed himself, in a manner of speaking, into his own “witness protection program!”

If, as I have often noted that the only thing worse than no security is false security, then this program would provide our nation with tons of false security!

Now if that doesn’t do enough to keep you awake at night, here is something else I am willing to bet most of you did not know about the citizenship process.

When an alien files to become a United States citizenship through the naturalization process, he is able to also legally change his name!

If an alien was concerned, for example, that his real name might be on some country’s terror watch list and if we somehow provided him with resident alien status because his application for residency was among the 6 million or 7 million applications that were filed with USCIS when he applied for residency, perhaps by committing a marriage fraud, then that alien might decide that a bright shiny new United States passport in a brand new shiny identity might be the best way to easily travel around the world and gain access to the borders of a variety of countries he might be interested in entering in conjunction with his nefarious terrorist goals.

All that the terrorist would have to do is indicate on his naturalization application that he wants a new name.

Our government would then provide him with a brand new name and a United States passport in that brand new name!

Many years ago, Yakov Smirnoff, a Russian comedian who immigrated to the United States used to tell a bunch of jokes about the difference between Russia and the United States. He would often end the string of differences with the three word line about America: “What a country!”

Our nation truly appears to be led by the “Not ready for prime time players” or worse! Any politician who refuses to work to secure our borders and create an immigration system that has integrity is either corrupt or too dumb to keep his (her) job. Any politician, irrespective of party affiliation who favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the outrageous betrayal that this would represent given the national security implications that this program would have, should be shown the door at the next election! If you find yourself to be in agreement with this commentary, I ask that you forward it to as many of your friends and family members as possible and encourage them to do the same. Next year each and every member of the House of Representatives is up for reelection. Next year more than one third of the members of the United States Senate will have to face their constituents. They need to be reminded that they work for us, We the People!

However, the practice of good citizenship does not end in the voting booth, it only begins there.

The large scale apathy demonstrated by citizens of this nation has emboldened elected representatives to all but ignore the needs of the average American citizen in a quest for massive campaign funds and the promises of votes to be ostensibly delivered by special interest groups. There is much that we cannot do but there is one thing that We the People absolutely must do- we must stop sitting on the sidelines!

The collective failure of We the People to get involved in make our concerns known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians.I implore you to get involved!

Any American who has lost his job certainly has enough time on his (her) hands to get involved! Any American who fears the loss of his job must make effective use of his spare time to make certain he keeps his job! (Remember, the job save may be your own!)

If this situation concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and Congressional “Representative. This is not only your right- it is your obligation!

You need to politely but pointedly, demand to know what they are doing to protect our nation. You need to ask them how they are protecting you and your families. You can also forward this commentary to them.

All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as dumb as they hope we are!

We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance

This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!

Also in todays news (AMNESTY!):

Rep. Luis Gutierrez renewing push for immigration reform Tuesday By Lynn Sweet on December 11, 2009 8:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Below, from Gutierrez....

"Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity" to be Introduced December 15

(Washington D.C.) On Tuesday, December 15, Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) will introduce new legislation, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP), to the U.S. House of Representatives. Gutierrez will be joined by members of many different faiths and backgrounds, including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Black Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus and Progressive Caucus.

Who:

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (IL-4), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-12), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (NY-11), Whip of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Mike Honda (CA-15), Chair of Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA-6), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Rep. Judy Chu (CA-32) Rep. Joseph Crowley (NY-7) Rep. Pedro R. Pierluisi (PR-At large) Rep. Jared Polis (CO-2) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) Rep. Jose E. Serrano (NY-16) Other Members of Congress

What: Introduction of Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation

When: 12:30 pm, Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Where: Room 2220, Rayburn House Office Building

"We have waited patiently for a workable solution to our immigration crisis to be taken up by this Congress and our President," said Rep. Gutierrez. "The time for waiting is over. This bill will be presented before Congress recesses for the holidays so that there is no excuse for inaction in the New Year. It is the product of months of collaboration with civil rights advocates, labor organizations, and members of Congress. It is an answer to too many years of pain --mothers separated from their children, workers exploited and undermined security at the border-- all caused at the hands of a broken immigration system. This bill says 'enough,' and presents a solution to our broken system that we as a nation of immigrants can be proud of."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/12/rep_luis_gutierrez_renewing_pu.html

http://washingtonindependent.com/70548/hearing-lays-out-immigration-battle-ahead

Hearing Lays Out Immigration Battle Ahead

[snips]Thursday’s hearing, ostensibly about how ICE should improve its immigrant detention system, underscored the fundamentally inconsistent positions of lawmakers who either view illegal immigrants as dangerous criminals that need to be locked up and ultimately deported, or as hapless men and women who only broke the law in the hopes of attaining the American dream: a better life for themselves and their families.

“I think the most effective immigration reform is to truly enforce the laws on the books,” said Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.), who stands squarely in the former camp. “Detention is an important part of enforcement,” he said, a view repeated by most Republican lawmakers and witnesses. “It is not safe or efficient to release thousands of foreign nationals who are in this country illegally,” he continued. “Aliens in detention facilities are not here on vacation . . . They should not be kept in facilities that are better than we give to U.S. citizens who are arrested and awaiting trial.”

Democrats, meanwhile, were concerned that the U.S. is detaining too many immigrants in unnecessarily restrictive conditions, and hampering their ability to claim a right to remain in the United States. Recent reports from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and Human Rights Watch have concluded exactly that, as did a recent report commissioned by ICE itself.

Committee vice-chair Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), presiding over the hearing, said she was “more concerned about the cost of incarcerating people and what type of people we’re incarcerating,” and “if these people have a claim under current law to be in this country that they get through the process in a timely manner in order to put that forward,” she said. “That’s why I called this hearing — not to purchase Hilton hotels,” she quipped, responding to Souder. “They’re not good investments these days anyway.” The Detention and Removal Operations division of ICE had a budget of about $2.6 billion in fiscal year 2009, according to a recent ICE report.

But many Republicans and immigration restrictionists scoff at such proposals. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the immigration restrictionist group Center for Immigration Studies, testified that alternatives to detention are merely “a synonym for ‘catch and release.’ ”

“A majority of criminal aliens who promise to appear for their court dates are simply lying to the immigration authorities,” he said. “We’d be better advised to increase ICE’s bedspace,” although ICE has not requested a budget increase for incarceration, he said.

Krirkorian warned that the problem will only become worse as ICE continues to step up enforcement. ICE has been expanding efforts to encourage local law enforcement to arrest more illegal immigrants. The Secure Communities program requires that local law enforcement fingerprint everyone housed in local jails and send that biometric information to ICE, which can compare it against their databases. The 287(g) program, meanwhile, authorizes local law enforcement to arrest anyone suspected of violating the federal immigration laws. Krikorian on Thursday noted that such programs will lead to a huge increase in the number of illegal immigrants arrested, yet ICE has not sufficiently planned for what to do with them.

Jail space will diminish dramatically, he predicted, and fewer illegal aliens not arrested for criminal behavior will be held. “So the absconder population will resume rapid growth,” he said. Eventually, “criminal aliens will end up having to be released for lack of space” and “those people are going to commit further crimes.” Congress will see “political blowback” from that, he predicted. “And that outrage is going to be deserved.”

I have said this until I’m blue in the face, but that’s not to say that some folks don’t fully understand it. The trouble is, far too few do understand it.

The Demcorats in the United States are alligned with every vile entity on the planet.

The Republican party is not so much, but it gives the Democrats a run for the money. Read on...

The Left in the U.S. sees nothing wrong with Marxism, Communism, and Fascism. Not only do they not find anything wrong with it, they support most of it with all their might.

The world’s number one scourge today is the global socialistic effort. And when I say this, there is much more that comes with this than people understand.

Al Qaeda and the Taliban are not the enemies of the Left. Think about that, don’t just read it and pass it over. When the U.S. went to war to rid the world of Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorist organizations, who disagreed? The global Leftist movement did. Ron Paul did also. A number of folks who thought they were great Conservatives did too. And folks, who did that aide? Why it aided Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists and their networks. It continues today. People are actually proud to denounce the U.S. for taking action against rogue nations, terrorists, and terrorist networks. Those who do, evidently don’t understand who they are fronting for, or are quite happy to do so knowing full well who they front for.

What side does the world’s left support in the Middle-East, Israel or the Palestinian? Do I even need to say it? Israel is the agressor in the minds of the global Left. You’ve even heard it said that the illegal immigrant is the equivelent of the Palestinians, and the U.S. is the agressor against them. Some illegal immigrant sites actually provide anti-simetic matrials. They are anti-Israel, and vehemently so. These groups are tied at the hip. La Raza, MALDEF, Mecha, and other organizations supportive of illegal alien rights are very critical of the United States government, and there-by us. Yes, folks, they are anti-US. And the Left in the United States thinks they’re right. A lot of business minded globalist types think the U.S. would be wrong to put an end to illegal immigration. Are they even aware that they are aligned with people who support things across the board that would destroy them? In a word no.

Then there’s the global warming crowd, the land conservancy fraud, and the attempt to bankrupt the U.S. via cap-n-trade. The run on the U.S. treasury doesn’t stop there either. The Left engineers financial crisees and this costs the U.S. dearly. And the Republicans let them get away with it. While you come to grips with the idea we’ve been had, consider the rest of this.

Then there’s the push for abortion, euthenasia, and a nationalized health care that will see non-producers eliminated. Sound familiar? It wreaks of Hitler’s attempt to destroy the non-producers in Germany in the 30s and 40s.

The United Nations has wanted to place the United States in a subservient position since it’s inception. The Left in the United States as well as the Left around the world, supports this. I’ll be damned if I can find one Republican that wants us out of the U.N., and will say so publicly. Both parties think it’s a swell organization, one we just couldn’t get along without.

Obama trots around supporting all of this. As the head of the United States, he takes a subservient postion on behalf of us to other world leaders on camera, and doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks about it. He thinks the United States has much to be appologetic about, and he says so.

Now he seems hell bent on granting Hamas a nation of it’s own from which to destroy Israel. Name one concession the terrorists in the Palesinian territories have made, to gain peace. Just one. Hamas has tried to kill as many Israelis as it could. And while the U.S. nearly coughed up a lung when Israel built a wall to defend itself, it said absolutely nothing when Hezballah militarized Southern Lebenan to the highest level in recorded history.

Both parties in the U.S. have wittingly or unwittingly flirted with allowing terrorists to position themselves against Israel, while we demanded Israel make concession after concession in the interest of peace. Folks lets just call that what it is, anti-Simetic, anti-Israel, anti the God of our fathers. And yet we fail to make the full connection.

There are only two sides on this planet. There is the side of the global Leftist terrorist supporting anti-God and anti-Israel players, and there’s the side of Conservatism in the United States and those around the world who support the same basic principles.

For those that can’t put two and two together, I am saying that the Democrats and a significant portion of the Republican party are both part of the evil empire.

The rebellion has begun, but let’s be perfectly clear who is and who isn’t on our side.

There needs to be a litmus test for everything we do. If it can been seen to strengthen the left in any way, we MUST oppose it. If the left suppports it, there has to be a reason. It fits into their game plan. Don’t EVER forget that.

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