Posted on 01/26/2009 8:48:19 AM PST by AuntB
When individuals enter our nation with out undergoing the mandated inspections process that this effort to avoid the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors, it is not the equivalent of a motorist who fails to pay a toll before crossing a toll bridge – it is comparable to someone breaking into a home in the dead of night.
While the majority of illegal aliens who run our nation's borders are simply seeking to attempt to get a job, a significant percentage of those illegal aliens may well be intent on violating other laws in the United States. Some may be fugitives from justice in their own country or in another country. Others may have already been deported from our country for having committed felonies and are seeking to return to the United States covertly to continue their criminal "careers" here.
This article from the CBP website chronicles how 11 criminal aliens where apprehended as they joined other would-be illegal aliens, while this article deals with a United States citizen who was identified as being the subject of an outstanding criminal warrant when she sought to enter the United States through the inspections process.
When advocates for open borders make light of the presence of illegal aliens in our country, it is important to remember that the inspections process – which illegal aliens often avoid – is designed to protect our nation and our citizens from the potential harm that such aliens may pose to our nation.
At the very least, an illegal alien who seek unlawful employment, does harm to our nation's already weakened economy. This is not a "victimless crime."
Here is something for you to consider when pondering the impact of illegal aliens who work in the United States. In fact, this also applies to foreign workers who succeed in obtaining "temporary" work visas: When an American citizen or resident alien receives a paycheck, he is likely to spend, save or invest that money in the United States. This is how our economy is supposed to grow – moving money through the economy, providing economic opportunities for our citizens, our lawful immigrants and our nation.
Foreign workers have a different goal for their earnings. They are intent on sending that money back to their families in their home countries. Each and every year, tense of billions of dollars are wired or otherwise sent from the United States to other countries. Last year, it was estimated that more than $40 billion was wired from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean by aliens – most of who are believed to have been living and working in the United States illegally. Additional money was otherwise sent to Latin America and the Caribbean. Still more money was sent, in one way or another, to Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere by foreigners working in the United States.
Meanwhile, our nation's "leaders" talk about providing approximately a $1,000 "economic stimulus" check to American families to stimulate the economy. This is not the sort of money that will keep a family facing foreclosure from losing their house. These Americans need steady employment with a paycheck that will enable them to be economically self-sufficient.
This requires that our nation finally secure its borders from the entry of illegal aliens. It means that the emphasis must be on making the economic success of the citizens of our nation the priority of our government. With all of the talk about the need to do things differently, I hope that the issues on the list of President Obama's "change we can believe in" will reflect the way our nation used to do business: aliens who might displace – or harm – American workers were kept out of the United States.
Back in 1997, I gave testimony at a Senate subcommittee hearing entitled “Visa Fraud and Immigration Benefits Application Fraud.” The impetus for the hearing was an attack on the CIA by a Pakistani national, and the first World Trade Center bombing, both having taken place in 1993. Then-committee chairman Lamar Smith, who is now the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, had invited me to testify at that hearing and asked me a question I recall to this day: if there was an issue that I could identify as a former immigration inspector, as a former immigration examiner and as an INS senior special agent (my position at the time of that hearing).
I told him that there was a very serious problem with imposters, and that we needed to use biometrics – whether they be fingerprints or some other sort of bio metric identifier – that could quickly help INS personnel to identify an individual that they encountered. Believe it or not, back then, in 1997, there was no quick way to determine the identity of people the INS arrested. We had occasionally used the resources of the DEA and the FBI to quickly identify individuals we arrested, but we did this on a very sporadic basis and often found that the electronic fingerprint system enabled us to identify all sorts of fugitives, yet the INS had no such capability back then. This was another example of why I often used to say that the INS was the agency that refused to take itself seriously.
I was certainly gratified that within about a year, the INS made its first tentative forays into electronic fingerprinting, although initially they did not use all ten fingers and the system was not, at first, linked to other criminal databases. Today of course, ICE and CBP have this vital technological capability and it is extremely effective.
The point is that no matter the challenge, with a bit of ingenuity and determination, nothing is impossible. We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michael Cutler is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a recognized authority who addresses the implications of immigration on national security and criminal justice. Feedback: editorialdirector@familysecuritymatters.org
THIS IS THE WAY WE DO IT FOLKS!!!
One at a time, get good conservatives in office. Let’s start with Rosanna Pulido and Illinois!!!!!
She is the best border control advocate we have!
“At the very least, an illegal alien who seek unlawful employment, does harm to our nation’s already weakened economy. This is not a “victimless crime.””
No Mike, because the toll bridge cheater is a one-time petty thief who, sooner or later, will get caught, not like the illegal alien who may very well suckle off the American taxpayer for generations to come, at best, or at worst serve as a Trojan Horse.
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The reason illegal aliens choose to violate our immigration law is irrelevant. Their presence is a serious threat to the survival of America in several areas, as indicted in this article.
Now Obama, with the Democratic control of Congress, the media and the courts, will remove any impediment to illegal entry. You can thank the Republican Party for this. George W Bush, John McCain and the entire upper echelon of the Party joined the Democrats in bringing this ab out.
McCain actually had Juan Hernandez (Juan of the perpetual sneer) working on his campaign in a behind the scenes capacity. I called his campaign HQ when I heard about it and a visibly irritated young woman told me that she was tired of people telling that lie. She indignantly informed me that Hernandez was not a PAID member of the team. She went on to tell me that “We will take help no matter where we get it.)
I have been forced to conclude that the entire two party system is nothing but a huge three card Monte game. You can look under any shell on the table for a politician representing Republican values. You won’t find one, not because the operator maniplated the shells, but because the politicians under the shell are both the same.
I hate to say it, but America may not survive the next four years. If there is any hope it lies in the pressure voters can put on their elected representitives. Those muts desperately want to hold on to power. Voters have to stay in their faces, assuring them that if they do not really represent us we will actively work to get them out of office.
Their response will probably remind you that if a Democrat is elected to the slot things will be worse. My answer to that is a Democrat is AlREADY in the office. There is just an R behind the name.
“I have been forced to conclude that the entire two party system is nothing but a huge three card Monte game. You can look under any shell on the table for a politician representing Republican values. You won’t find one, not because the operator maniplated the shells, but because the politicians under the shell are both the same.”
Precisely!
All of the illegal aliens demonstrate they are willing to break our laws if it benefits them. They remind many of burglars who not only break into the house but insist on staying.
Many of us parents have struggled to teach our children to respect the laws. It sends a demoralizing message to them when they see that those who break the laws receive special perks purely because they have broken our laws.
This country is being invaded and too many in Washington are willing to surrender because "there are too many." Nonsense. Especially because there are so many it is essential that they be deported and our borders protected. Of course, it can be and should be done.
“I have been forced to conclude that the entire two party system is nothing but a huge three card Monte game”
I have been saying vote for a third party, ie. Constitution Party. The only thing that gets these crooks to listen is the threat of losing their jobs, ie Kennedy/McCain amnesty bill.
I fear that this country is lost. Obama will create 600,000 new government jobs(democratic voters). Also he will work on granting amnesty(millions of democratic voters). At that point the numbers to overcome will be overwhelming.
Colombia’s drug mafias shift bases to Mexico: Official
http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/55960.htm
[snip]Bogota, Jan 26 (IANS) Colombia’s drug mafias have shifted bases to Mexico after their networks busted in the country, EFE reported.
Colombia’s National Police Chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo said the drug trade’s ‘centre of gravity’ has shifted to Mexico after Colombia tightened its grip on drugs cartels in recent years.
He said the country’s powerful Norte del Valle drug cartel network has been busted and Colombia would now help Mexico to end its drug crimes.
Maybe these guys know how to build a fence! lol
Elderly Montclair residents targeted in fence-repair scam
Police are seeking two men suspected of trying to swindle elderly Montclair residents out of money.
The men came to the homes of at least two people between 4:55 and 6:27 p.m. Sunday in the 9500 block of Pradera Avenue and the 9600 block of Mills Avenue.
They told two of the victims, who are in their 80s, that they are their backyard neighbors. They said there was a problem with their fence and wanted to fix it.
Police said the men asked to enter the victim’s homes and asked if they had any money.
They presented the victims with a $100 bill and said fixing the fence should only cost about $30 to $40, so they would need change. The victims believed the $100 bill was fake.
“One (victim) was pretty frightened and didn’t let them in the house,” said Montclair police Sgt. Ronny Cespedes. “Another did let them in the house.”
None of the victims handed over any money.
Police are investigating similar incidents in Chino.
Both men are Latino and in their 30s. One is 5-feet-4 inches tall, 180 pounds and had long black stringy hair and brown eyes. The second man was wearing a dark jacket. Both were traveling in a large tan sport utility vehicle that may have been a Ford or a Cadillac.
http://www.insidesocal.com/news247/2009/01/elderly-montclair-residents-ta.html
An example of the horrors of drug wars: Santiago Meza Lopez, 45, a Mexican hit man who calls himself "The Soupmaker" admitted he had dumped about 300 bodies into vats of acid over the past ten years and was paid $600 by drug boss Eduardo Garcia Simental. In 2008 more than 5,300 people died violent deaths connected to the drug cartels in Mexico. (The Washington Times, January 26, 2009)
I’ve got a very long back yard that cries for a garden in these tenuous economic times.
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