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The Truth About Amnesty
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007
The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration
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ANCIR Meeting Features Julie Myers Former ICE Chief Now Heads Security Consulting Firm 
Former head of ICE, Julie Myers, will be the guest speaker at ANCIR's next meeting on Tuesday, January 13th at 7:00 PM. The meeting will be held in Arlington at 1600 South Eads Street, Suite 723N. Prior to co-founding the consulting company, Immigration and Customs Solutions, LLC, Myers served as head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly three years. In this role, she led the largest investigative component of the Department of Homeland Security and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government, with more than 17,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $5 billion.
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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