Congressman Mac Collins on Today's Immigration Protests

Like most Americans I have been watching the recent protests in cities across this nation. Today these protests are coming to our home state of Georgia with what is being termed a "National Day of Action on Immigrants' Rights".

We are a nation of immigrants but there is a true difference between those protestors filling the streets today and those that built this country. Previous generations of immigrants like our forefathers embraced the American dream and worked hard to learn our language, culture, and become part of the American landscape. These protests today have once again made it clear that immigration into this country should not be taken for granted; it is a privilege and not a right.

The time has come for real immigration reform in this county. We must secure our borders by giving the federal, state, and local authorities the resources and the power to get the job done.

* Securing our borders by giving our border patrol the resources needed to combat illegal immigration at its source.

* State and local law enforcement agencies must have the resources and authority to serve as a frontline defense against illegal immigration.

* We must institute a federal two year visa program that legally allows migrant workers into our county to work.

The United States' government must fix this problem now, there has been too much lip service and too little action on this issue.

The issue of a guest worker program is separate from the issue of illegal aliens. If illegal aliens take jobs from Americans (and they do) they take even more jobs from foreign nationals who apply by the legal route to work here and wait years for the chance. Illegal aliens steal that chance from them.

They are different groups of people, regardless of their country of origin, and the political issues that concern them are different in their effects and needs. Confusing the two may be lethal to our society, economy and sovereignty.

We already have a guest worker program, which may indeed need to be reformed. But illegal aliens are those who have not applied to be guest workers. There are 11 million of them by some estimates, 20 million by others. The only thing needing reform concerning illegal aliens is to enforce the existing laws respecting their presence and their employment here. Our sovereignty and rule-of-law demand it.

Border security is the number one problem in this debate. The flood of illegal aliens is a major factor in relation to our lack of border security but it is only one factor. There is also a matter of national security in a time of war and in an age when terrorists have set their sights on inflicting mass destruction on our society.

After the issues of border security and millions of illegal foreign nationals on our soil the matter of guest workers is very small in comparison. Until the first two problems are thoroughly and firmly addressed the guest worker issue should not even be discussed.

The President and the Senate need to get that message with unambiguous resolve.

The best methods to control the border have been studied and debated for a long time now. There are many good ideas and proven solutions. What is lacking is only the will to do it. The cost of controlling our borders will be insignificant compared to the price we will pay, both in security and economy, if we do not.

It would be nice to help everyone in the world lift themselves up out of poverty. But we cannot take that responsibility upon ourselves especially if we ignore our own welfare to the point that we are no longer prosperous.

Other nations of the world have an obligation to help their citizens every bit as much as we have to help ours. It is one thing to help other nations prosper it is quite another to relieve them of their own responsibilities. Beyond that it is simply not realistic to think that poverty can be ended around the world. We still have some in this great nation.

We must stop pandering to American employers who criminally employ illegal foreign nationals. Dry up the jobs and illegal foreign nationals will go home. Home where they can do what they must to put their houses in order just as we must put ours in order.

There is no compassion in filling a man's stomach or his pocketbook by relieving him of his responsibilities in life. Illegal aliens have abandoned their own house in order to be comfortable in ours. By so doing neither can be the master of his own house and both will be enemies in the street. This is our house, the U.S. of A., and it is our responsibility to set the rules in it.

Key to this is professionally designed and made banners with "ARAB COMMUNITY ..... ....." in both English and Arabic text - held up by hispanic illegal aliens - in LA - I believe -

Plus the red flag with the black eagle -

And those Muslims wearing "Yussah! Arabfat" designer scarves over their faces - And "Death to Israel and Americans! sign - (Try that as an well-tanned or dark-skinned American adult citizen in the suburbs on Halloween at night!)

And those banners with "WORLD WORKERS PARTY"

Those with "A.N.S.W.E.R." printed.

The American public (per the untra-liberal ABC News about 10 minutes ago) is polling over 75% against amnesty, guest workers, illegal aliens allowed to remain in the USA.

Add more to that 75% of course -

Rassmussen and even the biased leftie AP report numbers in these areas now.

The WH right now has joined the democrats and RINOS in the US Senate to sell the birthright and US citizenship of native American Indians and born in the USA Americans for the paltry sum of $2000 dollars now.

Today Hillary stood in NYC today and told thousands of illegal aliens (10%+ are violent criminal felons back in their home country per the FBI-DOJ - but "hard honest workers" in America per the WH and Senate) from Mexico, Algeria, Yemen, Korea, Venezula, Red China, Indonesia, and hundreds of other countries:

"You are the face of America!"

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