Blurring the Lines Between Citizens and Aliens
Mike Cutler
The Family Security Foundation, Inc
Mar 12, 2007
The Washington Post recently published another one of its hand wringing tomes that expresses its concern the President is not going far enough in blurring the distinction between what it is to be a United States citizen, a resident alien (immigrant) and an illegal alien.
The maddening thing about those who want to open our borders and reward illegal aliens for ignoring our laws is that, rather than deal with the true issues, they resort to making accusations and intimidating those who would create an immigration system with true integrity, and secure our borders so that they are capable of keeping out criminals, terrorists, drugs and other law-breakers. They define success as the creation of a program that would reward illegal aliens for having violated our borders, encouraging others similarly to do so. Their vision of success also is a program that would enable criminals and terrorists to provide the overworked bureaucracy at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) with false names and then receive official identity documents that they can use to conceal their true identities and create brand new ones. This would enable criminals and especially terrorists to embed themselves easily in communities around the country and hide in plain sight waiting for instructions to participate in terrorist attacks, or provide assistance to terrorist organizations that would do grievous harm to our country and our citizens.
To support my position I have attached links to reports that paint a clear and highly disturbing picture about the failings of USCIS as well as the links to demonstrate the many failings of the components of the immigration system and our nation's vulnerability to terrorism related to those failings.
I suggest you start out by clicking here for the "911 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel:"
You may read the press release issued by then Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, F. James Sensenbrenner, on March 10, 2006 concerning the findings of the GAO in terms of the critical issue of immigration benefit fraud by clicking here.
The actual GAO report can be found here.
Finally, you may read the press release issued by Senator Charles Grassley about the missing immigration files and the naturalization of perhaps as many as 30,000 aliens by USCIS without their respective files being reviewed. The press release also contains a link to the GAO report that addresses this travesty:
Yet Congress and the administration remain generally mute.
I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this past summer about my objections to S. 2611, the Senate bill that would have created a Guest Worker Amnesty Program for millions of illegal aliens who are present in violation of US law. Although Senator Kennedy left the hearing room just as I began to speak and then returned at the precise moment I ended my prepared testimony, he sent me follow-up questions through then Committee Chairman Arlen Specter. It was interesting that Senator Specter accused those who opposed a Guest Worker Amnesty Program of suffering from "Xenophobia”.
I know that this commentary contains links to quite a bit of material but it is important to understand the profound impact that a Guest Worker Amnesty Program would have on our nation and our citizens, and our government knows this. It is important to understand how this program would undermine our nation's security and endanger our citizens' lives. It is important to understand how this program would encourage more massive illegal immigration and make an utter mockery of our country's claim to being a "Nation of laws". It is also important to understand how this program would hammer America's working poor and middle class making the "American Dream" more elusive than ever. Again, our government knows all this.
On top of government fecklessness, corporations engaged in all sorts of industries are salivating at the prospect of erasing our nation's borders so that they will fatten their profit margins. A stroll down the aisle of supermarkets and other retail establishments make it clear that these companies cannot wait to merge Mexico with the United States. Bilingual labels on much of what is offered for sale makes this abundantly clear.
