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Amnesty Truth Express Heads to South Carolina Aims to Educate Voters about McCain's Record of Championing Illegal Aliens Jan. 17, 2008 The American Council for Immigration Reform (ANCIR) in Arlington, Virginia has launched its ‘Amnesty Truth Express’ campaign, a coalition education effort aimed at informing voters about the record of presidential contender John McCain to extend the rights and privileges of U.S. citizenship to illegal aliens. The Amnesty Truth Express campaign starts in South Carolina on Wednesday, January 16 with quarter-page newspaper advertisements in The State as well as banner advertisements appearing on that newspaper’s website.
There will be a number of Satellite Press Conferences that occur at speaking events for McCain. “We plan to have a fairly large contingency of South Carolina immigration reform advocates at each site where the candidate makes a stop,” noted Amnesty Truth Express organizer Bob Shoemaker. Vans outfitted with Amnesty Truth Express signage will serve as mobile offices and as props to attract media coverage. Volunteers will be identified by their T-shirts that say "Amnesty Truth Squad." The volunteers will fan out and offer an information packet to those coming to the candidate's events. Some will carry protest signs and others will talk to the press. The four-day effort by ANCIR and other groups concerned about America’s illegal immigration crisis will conclude on Saturday, January 19 – the day of the South Carolina GOP primary.
McCain's Record of Rewarding Illegal Aliens Did He Really "Get the Message" After His Campaign's Near Death Experience? According to research compiled by NumbersUSA and Congress Grades, nearly every time there is a choice, Sen. McCain favors business lobbyists’ desires for foreign workers vs. protecting American workers’ wages and jobs. View his voting record. McCain’s hopes of giving permanent residency to millions of illegal aliens will saddle American taxpayers with huge costs. A 2007 Heritage Foundation study found that a household headed by the typical high-school-drop-out illegal alien costs taxpayers a net of about $20,000 for every year allowed to stay in this country. McCain has taken the pro-amnesty position in nearly two dozen votes and co-sponsorships. View the long list. For six years after the 9/11 attacks, McCain held our border security as a hostage to his desires for amnesty. He was willing to work to secure our borders and try to prevent illegal immigration ONLY if it was tied to providing permanent residency for illegal aliens already here. For the last 2 years, John McCain and Ted Kennedy were the key leaders trying to ram a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens through Congress. Sen. McCain claims it is not amnesty to give illegal aliens U.S. citizenship if they have to pay a fine and learn English. Whatever he chooses to call it, allowing illegal aliens to keep the very things they broke the law to obtain – U.S. residency and an American job – is an incredibly generous reward for violating the rule of law. After his leadership for amnesties caused his Presidential campaign to collapse last spring, McCain said he “got the message” from the voters and no longer pushes rewarding illegal aliens ahead of everything else. He says he wants to secure our borders first. But he only promises to make 2 million of the 12-20 million illegal aliens go home. Bottom line: McCain has the worst Republican platform for ending future illegal immigration.
Michael Cutler on Lou Dobbs: “We don't have the tools to properly identify many of these criminal aliens…” 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is finally taking steps to empty our jails of some 200,000 illegal alien convicts and to send them home. But this may be only a fraction of the illegal aliens in this country's prisons. How many illegal aliens? Federal officials don't know how many illegal aliens are in U.S. prisons. But now ICE is boosting efforts to try to find out and is in process of identifying and starting deportation proceedings on 200,000 inmates, both illegal aliens and immigrants who lost their legal status because they committed a crime. Congress gave ICE $200 million to make sure that aliens are identified in all facilities. The object is to deport them directly after they serve their prison sentence, rather than the old way of releasing them onto the streets and then starting deportation hearings.
Some say more resources are needed to undertake this properly. According to Michael Cutler of the Center for Immigration Studies, “We don't have the tools to properly identify many of these criminal aliens, I suspect. Not all of them are going to jump up and be honest with you and tell you that they're illegal or deportable aliens.” Once the removable process is started, many won't be deported for years, but at least prison authorities will know not to release them back into society.
Give Me Your Murderers, Your Huddled Cons... "The Deporter" Book Review by Michael Cutler America's immigration system is obviously broken, but to get a sense for just how dysfunctional it really is, scan the pages of Ames Holbrook's “The Deporter." This first-person account of the four years Holbrook spent working to deport criminal aliens from the United States is as hair-raising as it is distressing. Read more...
Preview New Ron Maxwell Documentary... "The Promise of Home" Several months ago, former INS agent Michael Cutler went to the home of movie director Ron Maxwell in Virginia to be interviewed for a documentary he is working on concerning illegal immigration and the threat it poses to our nation's survival. Ron directed "Gods and Generals" and "Gettysburg." While the documentary is still a work in progress, Ron has released a portion of Cutler's video segment. Maxwell's documentary, coming in January 2008, is called "The Promise of Home". Here's a preview.
USCIS is Grave Threat to U.S. National Security ANCIR Hosts Panel of Immigration Experts The American Council for Immigration Reform hosted a briefing on the security crisis posed by the USCIS that threatens our nation if amnesty and guest worker elements of Senate Immigration Reform Bill 1348 ever become law. [Although this bill failed, its individual elements will likely be raised again in other legislation.] 
This charge was made and substantiated by four immigration experts at the National Press Club during a briefing hosted by ANCIR and moderated by the organization's legislative director, Bill Buchanan. All four experts are deeply familiar with the operations of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office, which is responsible for processing applications for legal permanent residency, citizenship, and evaluating supporting documents. View or listen to the panelists here... 
Rep. Ed Royce is serving his eighth term in Congress representing Southern California's 40th District, based in Orange County. He is the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee. In the previous Congress, he chaired the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation. Video | Audio 
Michael Cutler, a former Senior Investigator with INS in New York, has been an expert witness in more than a dozen Congressional Hearings. He is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and an advisor to the “911 Families for a Secure America.” Among his areas of concern is the nexus between immigration and national security. Video | Audio 
Kris Kobach is a professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He was adviser on immigration law to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft from 2001 to 2003. He holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University, a doctorate in political science from Oxford University, and a juris doctorate from Yale Law School. Video | Audio 
Rosemary Jenks has worked on immigration issues since 1990. Currently, she is Director of Government Relations for NumbersUSA. Previously, she spent two years as an independent immigration consultant providing research and legislative analyses to immigration-reform organizations across the country. Before that, she was Director of Policy Analysis at the Center for Immigration Studies. Video | Audio
Special Reports on DVD USCIS National Security Briefing 
Or download a copy in your preferred format! Based on the expert analyses of Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), former ISN investigator Michael Cutler, law professor Kris Kobach, and Rosemary Jenks of NumbersUSA. All maintain that the institutional problems within the USCIS office are so pervasive and so serious that the agency could never implement the Senate bill without fully compromising this nation’s security.
America’s Immigration Security Crisis 
Or download a copy in your preferred format! Based on Congressional testimony of Michael Maxwell, Former Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Office of Security and Investigations. “The immigration bureaucracy can't handle the current workload and I would be awfully concerned about putting another 10, 15, 20 million people into that pipeline and then tell the American people we have a secure nation. It just can't be done.” — Michael Maxwell | |
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