On the radio today, Friday, Sept 5th beginning at 8:45 AM, Eastern Time

Hi Gang:

Happy Friday!

Today, Friday, September 5th, at 8:45 AM, Eastern Daylight Saving Time, I will be a guest on Bobby Gunther Walsh’s show on NewsTalk 790 WAEB that is broadcast from Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.  

Both programs will take a hard look at how the failures of the administration to secure our borders and effectively enforce and administer our immigration laws greatly increase the risk of terrorists carrying out attacks in the United States.  The corollary of course, is that the administration’s abysmal failures to enforce our immigration laws endanger national security and the lives of Americans across the United States.

We began this particular discussion last week and will continue to look at how immigration must be made an integral part of the overall strategy to protect America and Americans from ISIS.

Local cities and states that declare themselves to be “Sanctuaries” for illegal aliens exacerbate the threats to national security and public safety.

The voters of the state of Oregon will have to decide on whether or not illegal aliens in that state should be granted “Driver Privilege Cards” which would grant illegal aliens the authority to drive motor vehicles and, of necessity, official identity documents.  I provided a document that will be provided to voters as they go to vote to provide my concerns about this issue and why this must not be permitted to happen.

Here is the link to my statement of endorsement for legislation that would block the implementation of this wrong-headed and, indeed, dangerous program:

Adding to the discuss is the startling but not unprecedented news report posted by ABC News earlier this week:

 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. 

On Feb. 18, 2013 Accuracy In Media (AIM) published my paper- it is important to remember that leaders of both parties and most journalists are pushing for “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

The “Gang of Eight” and Immigration Reform: “Bordering on a National Security Nightmare” 

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.”

On May 22, 2014 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my commentary:

Border Security Is Not An Option

The importance of our borders and our immigration laws cannot be overemphasized.  In the war on terror and transnational gangs, they are our first line of defense and our last line of defense. They are equally important to American workers who are facing unfair competition from foreign workers, aided and abetted by the administration and advocates for “Sanctuary Cities” and Comprehensive Immigration Reform,