A Message from the Chairman
October 3, 2010
The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) is a national, non-profit, public interest organization of concerned citizens. Our ranks include officers who spent their careers on the Canadian and Mexican borders, in Florida, on the Gulf Coast, in Puerto Rico, and in foreign lands enduring discomfort and danger as they worked to protect and serve our nation. Many of us went on to high positions in the Border Patrol or its parent organization, the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Now, though we are retired we recall our oath of office and we share a common bond and heritage with our brothers and sisters who still serve our country as members of the Department of Homeland Security. With that oath and bond in mind, we submit to you A Proposal for Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement and Reform.
We ask that you take the time to read it and as you do, please remember that our credo is and always will be: "If we didn't live it, if we don't know it, if we can't prove it, we won't say it".
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Thomas J. Cronin
Thomas J. Cronin
Chairman
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
A Message from the Chairman................................................................ 1
Introduction............................................................................................ 1
Executive Summary................................................................................ 1
A Proposal for Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement and Reform.. 1
Step 1 – Secure our borders.................................................................... 2
Step 2 – Interior enforcement.................................................................. 3
Step 3 – Enforce existing laws and use other existing tools.................... 4
Step 4 – Identification fraud.................................................................... 6
Step 5 – Temporary worker programs.................................................... 6
Step 6 – Amnesty.................................................................................... 8
Step 7 – What to do with those here now?........................................... 10
Step 8 – Immigration Legislation.......................................................... 11
Step 9 – Other Matters.......................................................................... 12
Step 10 – Summary and Closing........................................................... 16
Introduction
Illegal immigration and how to deal with it is a grave problem confronting this nation. It generates highly-charged, emotional responses that often destroy any attempts to create rational solutions. For decades, through the tenure of many administrations both Republican and Democrat, the United States has neglected to properly address immigration issues. It has only made token efforts to control illegal immigration. We are now paying the price for that neglect.
People from around the world want to come to this country to reside but we cannot uncritically open our borders to the masses of the world. What we must do, then, is create immigration policies that address, first, national needs and well-being, and second, honor our history as a nation of immigrants.
We are surrounded by a world in chaos and it is impacting the everyday lives of our citizens. A war on terrorism, rampant drug and alien smuggling, sexual slave trading, criminal gangs, fraud of many sorts: all have roots in illegal immigration and all are tearing at the fabric of our society and eroding our sovereignty.
Americans are worried about our national security, about our jobs, about crime in our communities, about overcrowding in our schools, about emergency room chaos in our hospitals, about increases in our taxes, all of which can be attributed in some degree to illegal immigration. We should first address the concerns of our own people before expending time and treasure on resolving other nations’ problems with our immigration policies.
Recognizing that past arbitrary, fragmented efforts to end illegal immigration have not succeeded, NAFBPO has drawn upon its body of collective experience to compose an outline of an overall, coherent solution.
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http://nafbpo.org/editorial-cier.html
Not at all.
Violent, nonselfsupporting, criminal, or separatist immigrants are a problem. Immigrants who come in following the rules, work hard, pay their own way, learn the language, and apply for citizenship are an asset.
They are not really A problem. They are THE problem. If the Democrats didn’t have so many socialism-loving “immigrants” voting for them, the country wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in. If only Americans had voted in our recent elections, the DemocRATS would be history by now.
BTTT
“The Transatlantic Trends survey is sponsored by several institutions in the United States and Europe. Most Europeans and Americans believe that immigration is a problem rather than an advantage for their respective countries, according to a survey published Thursday by a group of foundations. The survey shows that citizens whose personal situation worsened due to the economic crisis in the past two years believe that immigrants are to blame for it. 65% of Britons believe that immigrants are a problem, followed by Spanish (53%) and Americans (52%), and then by French (42%), German and Dutch (39%).”
I don’t see any problem with immigrants. We need immigrants.
I see a problem with illegal invaders and illegal aliens sneaking across our borders and a problem with the last and current administration in blocking them, and in the failure of elected officials to step up to the plate and oppose them and the fawning toleration for these people extended by too many religious groups in the U.S., and the shameless encouragement of and employment of these invaders by too many American businesses.
It’s not immigration that is the problem — it’s the lack of quality control of the many immigrants that we have let in ever since the Johnson years that has been the problem.
Too many have become a burden to society, have no intention to integrate, have contributed little or nothing and some have become a danger to our national security.
Immigrants are not the problem, border jumpers are a the problem.
Too many times we let people into the country for the wrong reasons (i.e. Somalis). Too many times organizations with their own agendas (Microsoft and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) want to flood the country with immigrants to keep salaries down.
Here’s a question the Brits are facing (and other European countries will be facing shortly): at what point do you allow so many immigrants into the country that you lose your national identity? We are about 20 years behind Europe on the continuum.