First of all, here is the first paragraph from the preface of that report:
“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.”
Here is a paragraph under the title “Immigration Benefits” found on page 98:
“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.”
field office in El Paso, Texas. You may recall that El Paso is situated directly north of Ciudad Juarez- arguably Mexico’s most violent city!
Victims of Illegal Immigration
Our nation is greatly benefited by the rich diversity of our people which is why I could never imagine living anywhere except New York City, arguably the most diverse city in our nation if not, in fact, the world. However, my idea of diversity most certainly does not include members of MS-13, the Mexican drug cartels or members of other transnational gangs or members of al-Qaeda or other terrorist organizations!
It is also vital that American workers never be made to compete with foreign workers for their jobs! (This requirement is a component of the Immigration Laws that are not being enforced today!)
If our government’s failures to secure our nation’s borders and effectively enforce our immigration laws that are intended to protect our nation and our citizens 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!
We the People must 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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On September 27, 2012 the New York Post published an article, “Bloomberg blasts Bronx DA for not prosecuting trespassing arrests” which stated:
“Mayor Bloomberg blasted the Bronx DA’s controversial policy of not prosecuting some trespassing arrests in public housing — saying that the move will bring the city back to its bad old days of crime and disorder.”
I wrote a commentary for CAPS about that article comparing those who would trespass into public housing buildings with aliens who trespass into the United States- drawing the obvious analogy.
Now “Crusader Mayor” Bloomberg is adamant about mandating background checks for those who purchase firearms, but apparently couldn’t care less about the identities and backgrounds of millions of illegal aliens.
On March 24, 2013 Bloomberg Businessweek, ran a story headlined:
Mayor Bloomberg Unveils $12 Million Ad Campaign for Gun Checks
Bloomberg’s concern, and one I share, is that it is important to be sure that those who would purchase firearms aren’t convicted felons or mentally ill. Certainly it’s a bad idea to have criminals or the unstable given access to guns.
However, when aliens enter the United States by evading the inspections process, no record of their entry is created. There’s no way to know anything about their backgrounds: Not their names, their dates of birth, their criminal histories or even their actual birth countries or true citizenship.
The inspections process conducted at ports of entry is designed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would be detrimental to the United States and its citizens. Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182 enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded. Among these classes are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable diseases or extreme mental illness. Additionally convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies are excluded as well as aliens who would seek unlawful employment or become public charges.
Aliens who circumvent the inspections process belong to one or more classes of inadmissible aliens. Yet Bloomberg’s sanctuary policies prohibit the NYPD from notifying ICE when a suspected illegal alien is encountered during the course of routine police work. Sanctuary policies shield illegal aliens whose true identities, backgrounds and intentions are unknown and unknowable. As the saying goes, “You cannot tell a good guy from a bad guy without a scorecard.”
“Undocumented” aliens have no scorecards!
Incredibly while Bloomberg is nervous about who gets to carry a gun, he’s not nervous about the identities and intentions of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who live and work in the “Big Apple!”
There’s a saying that “Guns don’t kill people but people kill people.” Guns are involved in crimes but so are knives and other weapons. Auto accidents kill far more people than firearms, yet Bloomberg apparently does not care if illegal aliens are able to drive on New York’s roads. NYPD officers are ordered to not take immigration status into account when stopping a motorist or making an arrest.
Consider this quote from the preface of the 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel
“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….We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it (border security ) must be made one.”
Bloomberg and all of our elected officials should be at least as concerned about the aliens present in the United States as they are about the identities of those who would purchase firearms.