Being 'sensitive' at our own risk

Jewish World Review ^ | Nov. 13, 2001 | Linda Bowles

[DLfromthedesert]

Our politicians would rathe dismantle the Constitution than tighten up the immigration laws. That way everyone living here is treated equally: as subjects of the government. Wait til they overturn Posse Comitatus!!

[DLfromthedesert]

FYI

[ikanakattara]

The reason the gov't will not restrict immigration is because both parties believe they'll gain voters. Both parties KNOW full well that immigrants are illegally registering to vote (thanks to motor-votor; giving illegals drivers' licenses, etc.) They just want their piece of the pie too, rather than throwing the whole rotten recipe out.

[B4Ranch]

Here's part of a email I received this morning. This sounds like a damn good idea to me.

ISSUE: The Council for Government Reform, a grassroots advocacy organization seeking responsible and limited government (www.govreform.org), has alerted us to a bill that would bring much-needed reform to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

It shouldn't surprise anyone to find out that Subash Bahadur Gurung, the armed man who tried to board a United flight at O'Hare Airport last weekend, was an illegal alien. It turns out that Gurung held an expired student visa and phony work authorization papers from the INS.

While most news stories on Gurung have focused on the fact that he had no apparent ties to the September 11th terrorists, they have almost unanimously ignored the fact that he was a criminal. He was a visa overstayer, in this country illegally since December of 1999. The INS had no idea where he was or even that he was in our country. That is the case with millions of illegal aliens living here. They are all criminals -- violating U.S. immigration laws by living among us.

Earlier this week, the Office of Inspector General at the Justice Department issued a report finding no evidence that the INS had the ability to locate those who remain illegally in this country. The INS even admits that it has deportation orders against 250,000 illegal aliens that it simply cannot enforce because it can't find them.

What's the answer, you ask? Reform the INS.

Today, the INS fails both immigrants and the American people. It doesn't carry out either its law enforcement or service missions very well. In fact, the 1994-1997 U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform concluded in its final report that the INS suffered from "mission overload" -- it has the responsibility for more priorities than one agency can handle.

ACTION ITEM: House Judiciary Chairman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, has introduced legislation to alleviate the mission overload of the INS. H.R. 3231 would split the two missions of the INS into separate bureaus -- one to handle the law enforcement actions of the INS and Border Patrol and one to handle the customer service functions necessary to ease the transition for legal immigrants.

This distinction is necessary because, due to the breaches of immigration law that facilitated the tragic events of September 11th, illegal immigration has become an issue of national security and safety.

Contact your Senators and Congressman, and urge them to support H.R. 3231, The Immigration Reform and Accountability Act, to create a better immigration agency with a clear mission and more accountability:

[anniegetyourgun]

Thanks for the ping, B4. I'm all for reform, but creating yet another agency by splitting the INS in two parts? I've seen this kind of thing on the state level and instead of one spending monster, we have two. I'll have to think about this one....

[summer]

BTTT to your post #5. Sounds like a great bill.

[harpseal]

btt

[Taxman]

Thanks for the ping, B4.

Send 'em all home!

Deporting all illegal aliens will work for me.

P.S. Hug Annie for me.

[Native American Female Vet]

Sounds good to me.

[Brian Allen]

Ping!

[mommadooo3]

The govt is derelict in its duty. Sounds like it's time for average citizens to start finding illegals and then turning them into ins or shipping them out of country.

[summer]

As a FL certified teacher, I can tell you for a fact that the tremendous increase of non-English speaking, newly arrived students into the public school systems has resulted in enormous changes for teachers. Here in FL, every public school teacher must now also be "ESOL-endorsed" on their teaching certificate, meaning: a series of classes must be taken so the teacher can also teach English to Speakers of Other Languages.

It is very difficult to teach an elmentary school class to read when you have not only a wide variety of achievement levels, as is often the case, but now, in Florida, also a wide variety of languages. The article was certainly truthful in pointing out the following, in bold:

One powerful and courageous voice speaking for English as America's official language is that of John H. Tanton, M.D., founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and co-founder of ProEnglish. He reports that new data released by the U.S. Census Department show that the number of Americans who do not speak English has soared in the past 10 years. The number who do not speak English at all or speak it poorly has increased by 60 percent since 1990. Nearly 20 percent of Americans do not speak English in their own homes. Neither, of course, do their children.

[summer]

Re my post #14 -- Also see this article, bookmarked on my profile page, if you're interested:

Reading By [Age] Nine: Mix of Languages Taxes Teachers
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b9ca1621f69.htm

[Valin]

Deporting all illegal aliens will work for me.

No flame intended, getting rid of all illegals is a wonderful idea and one I support. But it doese beg the question how are we going to do it given the numbers involved.

[Brian Allen]

Pity that the man who in 1992 made the best, wisest, kindest, most loving, most sincere, most gentle -- and Truest -- political speech I have ever heard -- Mr Patrick Buchanan -- self destructed into a left-winged trade-Luddite charicature of himself.

Oh that, now that we need him more than ever, he was still a viable politician!

[ST.LOUIE1]

BUMP!

If they're 'illegal'....toss 'em!

*Sensitivity* be damned!.

[Brian Allen]

..... it does beg the question how are we going to do it given the numbers involved .....

1. Congress declares war and closes our borders;

2. All illegals are warned that in 30 days they are liable to arrest trial, punishment and expulsion -- and are given 30 days -- and any reasonable assistance -- to leave;

3. All those who remain are arrested, those guilty of crimes are hauled before military tribunals and incarcereated or executed and all of the rest -- with great force -- are expeditiously expelled and their papers marked "FOR EVER!"

[Mudboy Slim]

"...new data released by the U.S. Census Department show that the number of Americans who do not speak English has soared in the past 10 years. The number who do not speak English at all or speak it poorly has increased by 60 percent since 1990. Nearly 20 percent of Americans do not speak English in their own homes. Neither, of course, do their children."

Yer Federalized Publik Skewl System at Work!!!

SHEEEESH...MUD