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 AMNESTY TRUTH SHEET
The Truth About Amnesty
U.S. Senate
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007
The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration
GAO Testimony
Prospects For Biometric US-VISIT Exit Capability Remain Unclear
CBO Testimony
Budgetary Impact of Current and
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The War on Terror Continues After Six Years, Security is Still an Illusion  September 8, 2007 -- As I have said many times in the past, the War on Terror continues and clearly the "All Clear" has not been sounded. Today there have been a number of news stories about the emergence of another video tape of Osama bin Laden, like this one in The New York Times. The media attention to our nation's enemy is striking! He can clearly get the news media around the world and especially in the United States to sit up and take notice of him whenever he wants. Part of the strategy of terrorists is to be able to have access to our media and bin Laden certainly has no problem achieving this goal. His video tape issued as we approach the attacks of September 11, 2001 should cause concern but the question is, why is it that our nation's borders remain porous? Why is it that our government is poised to accede to the demands of the executives of the travel, hospitality and other industries that have insisted upon an expansion of the highly dangerous Visa Waiver Program when we know that this program makes it far easier for terrorists and criminals to gain access to our country? Why is it that even after spending more than a billion dollars over the last several years US VISIT, the program that is supposed to track the entry and departure of alien nonimmigrant visitors is still not tracking the departure of these visitors Why is it that there are roughly twice as many alien absconders in the United States today as there were on September 11, 2001 (slightly more than 300,000 such fugitive aliens back then, and now there are more than 600,000 such fugitives today)? Why is it that USCIS has been unable to get a handle on the issue of the integrity of its vital mission and that the GAO and Office of Inspector General have issued numerous reports concerning immigration benefit fraud by which aliens have been able to game the immigration bureaucracy and acquire various immigration benefits including resident alien status and even United States citizenship by committing fraud? When a responsible homeowner loses the keys to his home he (she) calls upon the services of a locksmith to change the locks on his home's doors to make certain that a burglar may not gain access to those keys and consequently gain access to his home. This concern also causes most of us to not leave our house keys with our car keys when we park our cars in a garage where we have to leave the keys to our cars. We are concerned that someone with malicious intent may be able to get access to the keys to our home and unlawfully enter our homes and do us harm. United States citizenship and even resident alien status represent the keys to the United States. An alien who acquires such status is able to circumvent any and all security measures implemented at our nation's borders and ports of entry. Yet USCIS provides many thousands of aliens with those keys to our country each year under questionable circumstances. To a naturalized United States citizen or resident alien, a fence on our border is no barrier to his entry into our country. I would ask you consider the very last sentence of this article poses the issue we should all be paying attention to: "Citing the findings of a recent National Intelligence Estimate about the terrorism threat, General Hayden said that American spy agencies believed that Al Qaeda was planning “high-impact plots” against the United States and focusing on targets that would “produce mass casualties, dramatic destruction and significant economic aftershocks.” He said intelligence agencies were uncertain whether Al Qaeda had again succeeded in slipping operatives into the United States." The final question I want you to consider is a simple one: Why is our nation not taking the various components of the agencies that enforce and administer the immigration laws seriously? The ease with which illegal aliens enter our country each and every day represents many threats to our nation and our citizens. The entry of illegal aliens who simply come to work has a serious deleterious impact on the American worker. The entry of criminals has a serious impact on the criminal justice system and imperils law abiding citizens and others in our country who fall victim each year to the thousands of criminal aliens and gang members who ply their "trades" in our country. Finally it goes without saying that if an illegal alien who is intent on washing dishes in a greasy spoon diner can easily enter our country, how hard would it be for a terrorist who is intent on inflicting mass casualties on our nation? The primary goal of government on all levels is to provide for the safety and security of this nation and our citizens and other law abiding residents. Porous borders, the Visa Waiver Program and the dysfunctional bureaucracy at USCIS represents threats to our nation's security and the survival of our citizens. As I have noted on many occasions, when the President states that we have tried an "enforcement only" approach to immigration and that this approach does not work, as a justification for a Guest Worker Amnesty Program (which members of both houses of the Congress are apparently attempting to resurrect once again in a piecemeal fashion) it is apparent that we have not had meaningful immigration law enforcement, only the illusion of such enforcement. Illusion does not get the job done! In order for the job to be done, we need more than blue smoke, mirrors and words. As my mother used to tell me when I was a boy, "Actions speak louder than words!" Action means enforcement. Enforcement requires leadership, resources and commitment. To date, all have been in very short supply! We the People have the absolute right to demand that our government meets the needs of our people. We the People must make our elected representatives accountable! Democracy is not a spectator sport! Lead, follow or get out of the way!
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