Gang of Eight and Immigration Reform - Bordering on a National Security Nightmare

...Some politicians, particularly those from the Republican Party, are being stampeded to act irrationally in a move to appeal to a segment of the American electorate, “Latino Voters.” We will address this foolhardy notion shortly.

While the Democratic Party has been most often seen as the party that was eager to enable and encourage millions of aliens, including illegal aliens, to enter the United States, the reality is that both Democrats and Republicans see significant gains to be achieved by opening America’s borders to aliens from around the world, irrespective of how they enter the United States.

What both parties have ignored is that America’s immigration laws were originally enacted to protect innocent lives and protect the jobs of American and lawful immigrant workers.

A Singular Issue

Immigration is not a single issue but is, rather, a singular issue that affects nearly every threat and challenge confronting America and Americans. The impact is arguably greatest where the issue of national security is concerned.

Prior to World War II, the responsibility to secure America’s borders and enforce and administer immigration laws was the responsibility of the U.S. Department of Labor. Back then it was understood that the key to growing America’s middle class and, in so doing, increase the standard of living for great numbers of American citizens, was to prevent American workers from being subjected to unfair competition from large numbers of foreign workers.

This is how the “American Dream” was born...

The Gang of Eight

During the past several weeks the White House has put together a “working group” of four Democrat and four Republican senators. These eight senators have come out in favor of enacting legislation that would grant lawful status and a pathway to citizenship for the officially estimated population of 11 million [to 40 million] illegal aliens. In reality, it is likely that should such a legislative catastrophe be foisted on the United States, it would result in the legalization of more than 30 million aliens, many of whose true identities (even their countries of citizenship), their backgrounds and their intentions would be unknown and unknowable...

Legal Vs. Illegal

Those who claim that there is no lawful way for immigrants to legally enter the United States ignore the fact that every year the United States admits more than 1.1 million lawful immigrants. This is a greater number than all of the immigrants admitted into every other country on our planet... These lawful immigrants are immediately placed on the pathway to United States citizenship. The United States also admits more than 150 million non-immigrant visitors every year...

During Ronald Reagan’s second term as President, in 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was enacted. This legislation provided for the legalization of an estimated one-and-a-half million illegal aliens. However, by the time the dust settled, it turned out that between three-and-a-half and four million illegal aliens had been granted lawful status...

Incredibly, the Gang of Eight have decided that none other than Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of DHS, should be given the authority to decide when America’s borders are secure so that the unknown millions of illegal aliens present in the United States can be processed for lawful status and a pathway to United States citizenship...

...while the advocates for open borders whom I have come to refer to as “Immigration Anarchists” assail anyone who would dare use the term “alien,” it must be understood that this term is a legal term that does not insult or denigrate anyone. The term “Alien” is defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as simply being “Any person, not a citizen or national of the United States.”...

Border Violence

On November 15, 2013 a report was issued by the Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management that was entitled: A Line In the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border.

This report paints a clear and disturbing picture of how drug trafficking organizations working cooperatively with terrorist organizations in Latin America pose a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and its citizens...

Pandering for Votes by Profiling Voters

...journalists are themselves engaging in an insidious form of profiling, predicting how a person will vote simply based on that person’s ethnicity, when they talk about the “Black Vote” or the “Jewish Vote,” or when they pontificate about how the way to attract Latino voters is to support “Comprehensive Immigration Reform!”...