It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.
Benjamin Franklin, in discussing our then fledgeling nation, said that they had given us a republic if we could keep it!
What he was making clear was that this democratic republic required that its citizens take their citizenship seriously and keep the political leaders accountable.
It is time for the citizens of our nation to make certain that our nation’s leaders, on all levels, to come to terms with the fundamental fact that the purpose of our immigration laws is to protect our nation and our citizens from aliens whose presence has the potential to have a serious adverse impact. Ignoring those laws exposes our nation and our citizens to a variety of serious threats and challenges ranging from national security and criminal justice and public safety to the economy, the environment, healthcare and education!
A country without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls!
For far too long our citizens demonstrated apathy which 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.
It is therefore understandable that the politicians of both parties, are greatly concerned about the demonstrations currently sweeping our nation just as did the creation of the Tea Party. Clearly more and more of our fellow Americans are demonstrating that they are not as dumb as the politicians from both parties had expected us to be!
I am encouraged that more and more of us, We the People, are not willing to simply sit on the sidelines anymore!
If our government’s failures to secure our nation’s borders and effectively enforce our immigration laws 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!
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!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!
Democracy is not a spectator sport!
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
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Immigration
laws are among the most important laws a nation can enact and enforce.
Incredibly there are those who favor open borders and massive amnesty
programs for unknown millions of illegal aliens. They refer to those of
us who stand firm in our belief that our borders must be made secure
and our immigration laws must be effectively administered and enforced
as being “Anti-Immigrant.” This is a false accusation and they know
that they are being dishonest- but they also know that open borders and
amnesty programs will provide them with money and political power.
The purpose of effective immigration laws is to prevent the entry of
foreigners into a country whose presence would pose a problem for that
nation or its citizens. If we were to write the immigration laws for
our nation, we would have to come up with a list of aliens who should be
deemed “Problematic.”
Most people would agree that aliens who suffer from dangerous
communicable diseases should not be provided access to a country for
fear that they might spread the disease to the general population of a
nation. Whether they suffer from resistant forms of tuberculosis or
other such highly deadly and contagious diseases, it certainly makes
sense to keep such individuals from entering a country. Similarly, it
makes sense to prevent aliens who suffer from severe mental illnesses
and are prone to violence from entering a country. It is important to
remember that while advocates for open borders and sweeping amnesty
programs often get misty-eyed when they talk about Ellis Island, that,
in fact, Ellis Island was a quarantine facility that was run by the
Public Health Service in conjunction with the Immigration Service.
Next we should want to keep aliens out of our country that are
convicted felons. Certainly aliens who belong to violent gangs or
engage in human trafficking, drug smuggling, money laundering and other
such crimes should be barred from entering a country we seek to
protect. We certainly do well to also prevent the entry of aliens who
are known as human rights violators, war criminals, spies and
terrorists.
Finally, it is important to prevent the entry of aliens who lack the
monetary resources to pay their way and would become public charges-
depending on the government to pay for their expenses or aliens who
would seek to work without authority.
If you were asked to draw-up a set of immigration laws, would it not
be appropriate to codify these categories of excludable aliens to look
out for the well being of our nation and our citizens?
Could any reasonable person argue that the categories of excludable
aliens are not reasonable, prudent or, essential to the safety, security
and well-being of our nation?
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) has already codified these requirements and they are to be found in Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182.
This section of law provides a list of inadmissible aliens. It is also
vital to note that there is absolutely no distinction to be found in
our immigration where race, religion or ethnicity is concerned.
Some time ago, Ms Napolitano and others made the assertion that it is
not a crime to run our borders. While it is not a felony for an alien
to run our borders if he (she) had never been previously deported, it
most certainly is a felony for a previously deported alien to run our
borders. If the alien has no previous criminal convictions, the maximum
penalty for unlawful reentry is a two year prison sentence. If, on the
other hand, the alien who unlawfully reenters the United States had
been convicted of previous felonies, the penalty for his unlawful
reentry is a maximum of 20 years in prison.
When aliens simply run our borders to gain illegal employment,
Americans and lawful immigrants lose out on those jobs that they
desperately need- especially when our nation suffers from unparalleled
unemployment and increasing levels of poverty. The presence of foreign
workers not only costs jobs for United States citizens and lawful
immigrants of every race, religion and ethnicity, but drives down wages
for everyone! This is why, prior to the Second World War, the
enforcement and administration of our nation’s immigration laws was the
responsibility of the United States Labor Department. The effective
enforcement of our immigration laws, back then, fostered the growth of
America’s Middle Class and hence, the “American Dream.”
We are often told that America was built by immigrants. Indeed, many
of those who built our nation are either immigrants or the descendants
of immigrants. However, simply having lots of foreign nationals enter a
country is not necessarily the prescription for success but, more often
than not, is the prescription for conflict and suffering. The reason
that the immigrants who came to America were able to create the American
Dream was the ability for them and their children to acquire training
in various trades or a higher education in vital areas that enabled them
to quickly move up the economic ladder. In America each generation
expected to do better economically than the previous generation. “Aim
High” used to be the motto of the United States Air Force and could have
been the theme of Americans. Today corporations demand that they be
provided with high tech workers who will work for minimal wages and, for
the most part, their demands are being met by importing foreign workers
who undercut highly qualified Americans! They have found ways of
gaming the immigration system that is supposed to protect American
workers and nothing is done to combat this assault on American
professionals. This is nothing short of a betrayal of our hard working
and highly educated fellow Americans and it contributes to the
accelerating destruction of our Middle Class!
Our nation’s immigration laws were enacted to protect the citizens of
our nation irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity. The policies
of the Obama administration to refuse to enforce those laws imperil the
lives and safety of our citizens. Encouraging and enabling foreign
workers to enter the United States to compete unfairly with American
workers undermines American workers at all levels of the economy and
represents a betrayal of every hard working American. These policies
are bringing about the destruction of our nation’s Middle Class.
With all of the promises by virtually every politician to create
jobs, precious few politicians have demanded that our government work to
liberate jobs by enforcing our immigration laws.