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Failure to Remove Illegal Aliens in Sufficient Numbers Encourages Tidal Wave of Illegal Immigration  September 29, 2007 -- The news article, Alien lockup program mulled, appeared in The Washington Times. It is an article of interest because of a number of factors. First of all, it makes it clear that when the open borders advocates talk about illegal immigration being a "victimless crime" it is apparent that not all illegal aliens are as benign as those advocates for illegal immigration would have us believe. Next, I would briefly like to revisit the issue of the cost of removing illegal aliens from the United States as was noted by Julie Myers when she recently testified on Capitol Hill. The fact that our nation does not remove illegal aliens in sufficient numbers to create a true deterrence winds up costing our nation significant sum of money because of the negative impact that these trespassers have on our country. The cost of incarceration is just one of many costs that impact local governments and their economies and budgets. Finally, as the old adage states, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!" While Congress continues its debates about the fence that was to have been built on our southern border and while the Boeing Company tries to figure our why the portion of the "virtual fence" that they are supposed to have up and running along our border with Mexico, God knows how many illegal aliens simply walk across our nation's all too porous border. Additionally, the failure of Accenture to get US VISIT up and running to determine whether or not alien visitors depart the United States when their authorized period of admission has expired prevents our government from knowing just how many "temporary" visitors literally overstay their welcome. The failure of US VISIT to track the departure of temporary alien visitors also makes it impossible to know the impact that the insane Visa Waiver Program has in terms of how many alien non-immigrants take advantage of the relative ease by which they enter the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program and fail to depart. The point is that if our nation was truly serious about illegal immigration and secured its borders, both those to be found along the geographic perimeters of the United States as well as at ports of entry including seaports and airports, then we would not now be dealing with the huge number of illegal aliens who have entered our country and violated our immigration laws. Every day that our nation fails to act is another day that the human tidal wave of illegal aliens pour across our borders at one place or another; in one way or another. The fact is that finally politicians, at least on the local level are finally hearing their constituents voices, at least in Virginia! As you read the article, make note of the fact that both Democratic candidates as well as Republican candidates are now competing with one another to find real solutions to the illegal immigration crisis plaguing the state of Virginia! This substantiates what I have been saying all along; the immigration crisis is neither a Democratic issue nor a Republican issue: the immigration crisis is an American issue! The politicians in Virginia are being made to "see the light" by their constituents! We the People across this great nation should see, in the responsible citizens of the state of Virginia, a role model for all of us! If the politicians from both sides of the political aisle in that state can be forced to take appropriate action, then the politicians in and every city and state can be similarly forced to do what is necessary to secure our nations borders and deprive illegal aliens the ability to conduct "business as usual" in our country since they are here in violation of law. We the People can similarly force the issue with the members of both houses of Congress from both political parties. We can demand that the immigration system finally possess meaningful integrity so that the nonsense that was documented in a recent GAO report will never happen again. I refer to the claimed loss of some 111.000 immigration alien files relating to aliens applying for a wide variety of immigration benefits including some 30,000 such files relating to aliens who applied for United States citizenship. USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) then went on to adjudicate all of those applications without those critical files! USCIS is a division of DHS which for fairly obvious reasons, I have come to refer to as the Department of Homeland Surrender! We the People can also demand no increase in H-1B visas for so-called high-tech workers who compete unfairly with American citizens and resident aliens for jobs in industries such as the computer industry. In the 1940's the enforcement and administration of the immigration laws was directed by the Labor Department because the biggest concern, back then, was that illegal aliens would displace American workers. Back then, in the era of the "Greatest Generation" the United States government was actually concerned about the well-being of our nation's citizens! What a novel approach! We can bring back that aspect of the "good old days!" All this would require is that We the People become involved in our government. We forced the Senate, at least for the moment, to end efforts to ram the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill (that I renamed the Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act of 2007) down our throats. The phone calls that so many of us made did the trick! Some of the politicians are bright and some cannot walk and think at the same time! All of them are smart enough to know that they want to get re-elected. Those phone calls put the fear of the electorate into them! Not all politicians needed those phone calls to know what the right thing was but it sure straightened out those who lacked the spine, the moral compass or a combination of both! If ours is supposed to be "government by the people and for the people," then why do most of us now see our government as our adversary? This must change and can be changed! We must take back control of our government and our nation's borders. Our survival and the survival of our nation is literally, "On the line!" Democracy is not a spectator sport! Lead, follow or get out of the way!
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