America must drain the immigration swamp

www.charlotte.com/ ^ | Sat, Sep. 27, 2003 | TOM ASHCRAFT

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America must drain the immigration swamp Make borders secure and deport the illegals who are already here

The U.S. armed forces have done a magnificent job in Afghanistan and Iraq in carrying out the orders of their civilian leaders. Indeed, American blood is still being sacrificed, and the federal treasury has been opened wide for the necessary support.

As to the battle against illegal immigration at home, the political leaders have long since declared unconditional surrender. A few limited reforms since 9-11 have not changed the fundamentals. In the common parlance of those who live along America's southern border, immigration enforcement is "a joke." What's worse, after years of neglect, it's now a lethal joke that threatens the safety of every American.

According to Census Bureau estimates, among a foreign-born population of 33.1 million living in the United States, some 8 to 9 million are illegal immigrants. Others put the total at 13-14 million.

Another half million illegals enter the country every year and stay; hundreds of thousands more enter but then leave. According to a Sept. 17 NPR report, 1,000 illegals enter Arizona every day. There are probably more illegal aliens in America than the entire population of North Carolina, the 11th largest state in the union.

With this culture of immigration lawlessness, it is not surprising that five of the 19 foreign nationals who hijacked the 9-11 planes were in illegal status, largely visa overstays. Moreover, all had played the immigration system like a fiddle, freely obtaining business, tourist, vocational training and student visas, and generally entering "legally."

Among the 19, according to Robert Thibadeau at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, they held 63 state driver's licenses for identification.

The Center for Immigration Studies (www.cis.org) is a respected Washington think tank. In its May 2002 report "The Open Door: How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001," Steven Camarota reviewed 48 cases of foreign-born Islamic terrorists who have been charged, convicted, pled guilty or admitted involvement in terrorism in the United States since 1993. Their crimes involved 9-11, murders outside the CIA in Virginia, the first attack on the World Trade Center, bombing plots in Brooklyn and New York City and the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles airport, among others.

The findings of the report indicate that what is supposed to be a protective net of laws to assure an orderly flow of legal immigrants has become, in practice, an open sieve utilized by terrorists and criminals. Virtually every aspect of immigration control has been penetrated by wrongdoers. "Terrorists have even used America's humanitarian tradition of welcoming those seeking asylum," the report states.

It also identifies what is the deadly dynamic of the whole system.

Stemming from the "existence of a large illegal population" and "widely flouted" immigration laws, the report cites "a general contempt for the law among all parties involved, including those officials charged with enforcing it." It is this "contempt factor" which leaves us all sitting on a ticking time bomb of future terrorist acts inside the United States.

Nobody maintains that most illegals in the country are terrorists.

Frankly, they're often victims of, if not terrorism, at least the petty tyranny of the governments whose jurisdiction they have fled. Mexico's rulers, for example, are not totalitarian like Cuba's, but they have been corrupt for generations, robbing decent, hard-working Mexicans of the opportunity to build economic prosperity.

Nonetheless, the fact of widespread immigration lawlessness, whether originating with Mexican nationals or others fleeing injustice, has engendered disregard and contempt for our immigration system -- by foreigners, citizens and even immigration officials, especially Border Patrol agents.

Within this swamp of routine lawbreaking and endemic cynicism, terrorists find it easy to insinuate themselves. If millions can break the law every day and get away with it, why can't a few of Osama bin Laden's lieutenants do so as well?

Accordingly, we have no choice but to drain the immigration swamp. The borders and ports of entry must be made secure by whatever means necessary, including effective fortifications along the Mexican and Canadian boundaries. In addition, the illegals who are here, irrespective of the number, must be deported.

These actions amount to little more than regularizing immigration enforcement. They have been neglected for so long, however, it will take a revolution in Washington thinking to achieve them.

To succeed will restore respect for immigration law and eliminate the soft underbelly of our national security -- chronic immigration chaos. To fail will run the risk that the sacrifices of Americans in the current war on terrorism have been in vain.

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Posted on Fri, Sep. 26, 2003

More than 50 sexual offenders detained by immigration authorities

Federal immigration authorities in South Florida have detained and put in deportation proceedings 56 foreign nationals from 18 countries convicted of sexual offenses against children, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Friday.

Officials said the detainees, 49 men and 7 women, were rounded up in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties over three days and taken to detention facilities to await deportation.

Crimes for which these foreign nationals were convicted include sexual battery on a minor, lewd and lascivious behavior and child abuse, the statement said. Another case listed in the statement was manslaughter involving a 4-month-old child.

The operation is the latest under a national initiative announced in July by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to rid the country of foreign sexual predators.

According to the statement more than 1,000 such sexual predators have been detained nationwide since July 9.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6869915.htm

[gubamyster]

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INVASION (New Michelle Malkin book)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/735550/posts

[sushiman]

The damage already done is catastrophic , but if the Feds secured the borders NOW , and rounded up the illegals already in the USA , we might survive . The time is now for American citizens to get their rumps off the sofa and eyes off the boob tube and make SURE the aforementioned measures are taken . Mass demonstrations must be organized NOW .

[Steely Glint]

"America must drain the immigration swamp Make borders secure and deport the illegals who are already here."

Amen! But how do we ever get the INS to get their fat butts out of their office chairs and into the field to deport these criminals?

We spend a lot of budget money on the INS and they fail to get the job done worse than a DC elementary school does. It's time for some accountability.

[LNewman]

Sounds correct. Works for me!

[Edit35]

Agree 100 percent.

If we continue to allow this huge number of third world immigrants flood across our southern border, whether legal or illegal, it is only a matter of time before they want, make that DEMAND, economic or political control.

It might not happen next year, or even in 10 years. (Walk down any street in an east coast city, and you will barely find any english speaking people)


I keep having visions of my children or grandchildren having to fight to keep American culture alive and well in the years to come.

[AngrySpud]

I used to be a health inspector. One day I was having a particularly difficult time with the owner of a Chinese restaurant. I was trying to close it down because of a failing score and she wouldn't abide by the order, and of course the workers (all "immigrants") feigned ignorance of English.

In frustration, I said "If this restaurant doesn't close down NOW, I'll have to call the Marshall!"

Within ten seconds every employee had run out the back door.

[LNewman]

I'm one who puts it at 13-14 mil, but perhaps that's because I live in an area negotiated as neighboring cities' efforts at "containment."

[4Freedom]

BTTT!

Great article. Let's hope we see more of the same throughout the coming election year.

[LNewman]

I was on a public bus involved in a fender bender when the driver was in the right (of the law). He pulled over to wait for the authorities, and all but maybe 4 people remained on a PACKED bus after he opened the doors. They scattered like so many bugs. The driver needed "witnesses" not "deportees." However, the authorities were on there way.

As regards your service, nice to know that "someone" used to take their responsibility seriously! And I'm no longer likely to visit and/or entertain these venues that employ illegals because they have this mindset that it's "a done deal."

Far from it!

[Mears]

It's already too late.no one in government cares anymore!

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Welcome to Free Republic. Good post.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Make that a great post. Something is brewing in this country.........

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Hey, You gotta read this.......Ha!

[cyborg]

Wrong. You are so wrong. They care. CARE ABOUT VOTES.

dateless saturday night sarcasm in full effect... cheers!

[cyborg]

I walk down the street all the time and hear people speaking english. I went into a spanish bakery to buy coffee and the lady didn't know any english. I told her she has to learn english in order to succeed in America. I told her she will only get so far. Well she's now going to nightschool to learn english.

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HISPANIC POPULATION GROWTH INCREASES
The Shelbyville Times-Gazette ^ | 26 September 2003 | Anne Bullard


Posted on 09/27/2003 8:18 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin


The nation's Hispanic population is keeping up its explosive growth of the 1990s, led by states in the South and West, the first detailed Census Bureau estimates since the 2000 national head count show. Tennessee's 11.6 percent Hispanic population growth ranked 11th in the nation, from an estimated 125,330 in 2000 to 139,861 in 2002. The number of Hispanics in the United States grew by 8.6 percent.


Bedford County ranks fifth in the state in population growth (26.5 percent) and ninth in overall population, with an estimated 3,619 residents. Hispanic activists and people who work with the Hispanic population estimate these numbers to be off as much as 50 percent.

[cyborg]

People who speak spanish do not bother me. Illegal aliens do. But as long as there are politicians who cherish votes over national security,etc. do not expect this problem to go away.