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by Michael Cutler
Holding Congress accountable.
August 25 2014
On May 2, 2013, I was interviewed by Megyn Kelly of Fox News about the terror bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013:
“Immigration Expert: The System Failed in Boston and Keeps on Failing”
On September 20, 2013 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my article about the failures of the vetting process for alien applicants who apply for immigration benefits:
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Background Checks Require a Reality Check”
On July 30, 2012 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my commentary:
“Fraud: The Immigration Vulnerability That Undermines the Immigration System and National Security”
On November 20, 2013 ABC News reported:
“Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees”
This is not a new problem, on July 13, 2011 the Washington Times published a truly disturbing article:
“Visas reviewed to find those who overstayed / Aim is to find any would-be terrorists”
The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and essentially vanished — exploiting a security gap that was supposed to be fixed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“My greatest concern is that they could be doing anything,” said Peter Edge, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who oversees investigations into visa violators. “Some of them could be here to do us harm.”
Homeland Security officials disclosed the breadth of the student visa problem in response to ABC News questions submitted as part of an investigation into persistent complaints about the nation’s entry program for students.
ABC News found that immigration officials have struggled to keep track of the rapidly increasing numbers of foreign students coming to the U.S. — now in excess of one million each year. The immigration agency’s own figures show that 58,000 students overstayed their visas in the past year. Of those, 6,000 were referred to agents for follow-up because they were determined to be of heightened concern.
“They just disappear,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. “They get the visas and they disappear.”
Coburn said since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, 26 student visa holders have been arrested in the U.S. on terror-related charges.
Coburn said since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, 26 student visa holders have been arrested in the U.S. on terror-related charges.
The starting point for any discussion about immigration must be the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
The 9/11 Commission Report was released more than a decade ago.
Yet there are precious few members of Congress in either the House of Representatives or the United States Senate from either party willing to even mention the fact that there was a 9/11 Commission- when the topic of immigration is raised!
Here are a couple of important quotes to put things in proper perspective:
The first paragraph of the preface of the The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel begins with the following statement:
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.
The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist travel went on to detail numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:
Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.
This paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits:”
“Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.”
Who will find the answers while there’s still time to prevent a disaster?
The interview runs about 4 minutes and is worth watching.
“We’re not holding anything, we’ll let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly, and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy.”
Pushing back against Comprehensive Immigration Reform is the same as holding position. The time has come for us to advance by demanding that our borders be made truly secure and our immigration laws be effectively administered and enforced.
The findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission must be the starting point for any discussion about immigration legislation. That commission determined that a lack of border security, including the visa process. and fraud in the immigration benefits program, enabled terrorists to enter and embed themselves in the United States, as they went about their deadly preparations.
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!
-michael cutler-
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https://www.michaelcutler.net/
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[Watch] One in Ten California Workers is an Illegal Alien, Governor Still Welcomes All
Posted on 5 September, 2014 by Rick Wells
For the unemployed American citizens in the State of California, it’s probably a difficult thing to accept. Ten percent of the available jobs in the state are filled right now by illegal aliens. Those are jobs that would be available to citizens, if our government were protecting us as they are sworn to do.
Michael Cutler, a former INS special agent discusses that statistic with Neil Cavuto. He says he writes for a group, Californians for Population Stabilization, an organization that contends that 98 percent of the growth in population in that state is due to immigration.
Cavuto notes that the unemployment rate in California is reported to be above the national average, in the neighborhood of 8%, but they note that those figures are artificially low, as the more longterm unemployed are deemed to have given up working and are conveniently no longer included in the statistics.
He says California has two negatives working against them, Jerry Brown and the connection to the Mexican border.
Cutler says the claim that Americans don’t want to do the jobs that the illegals have is false, that Americans would love to have those jobs. He cites experiences as an INS agent in which they would raid factories and immediately upon the word getting out, there would be people lined up to take the jobs.
Cavuto asks why we don’t crack down on the employers, and they discuss politicians on both sides of the aisle who simply throw their hands up and say there are too many illegals to get rid of. They then decide the appropriate remedy is to reward them with some type of legal status.
The correct response is to make them ineligible for employment through jail terms for employers, make them ineligible for benefits through identification verification and case supervision, and provide them a means through which to self-deport. There will be a tsunami of people heading south.
He asks why would anybody take the time and expense to come to America legally when they can simply circumvent the system by coming illegally.
Cutler harkens back to the first four years of his 30 year INS career, detailing how there are specific groups that those who control access to the country are looking for. They include aliens with communicable diseases, mental conditions, sex offenders, violent offenders, convicted felons, human right violators, war criminals, spies and terrorists. He says if someone is sneaking in, there is good reason to suspect that they belong to one of the excluded categories.
Cutler is also very worried about the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 and he relays a chilling incident he was a party to just prior to the 2001 attacks.
Rick Wells is a conservative author who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us
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