ALERT: (S. 350) Harvesting Illegals
Fri Apr 8, 2005 20:52
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Harvesting Illegals
By Mark Krikorian
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 8, 2005
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17649
More than 1,500 of our soldiers in Iraq have given their lives to ensure America’s safety. An emergency military spending bill to keep their comrades supplied with bullets and gasoline passed the House of Representatives last month with the addition of several important domestic security measures, including national standards for state driver’s licenses.
The Senate will debate the bill next week, and is considering an addition of its own: amnesty for illegal aliens.
I am not making this up. For several years now, Sen. Larry Craig has teamed up with Sen. Ted Kennedy to relentlessly push the AgJobs bill (the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act, currently S. 359), which would grant amnesty to most illegal alien farmworkers, and their families (plus admit many, many more through a harmful “temporary” worker program). Estimates are that as many as three million illegals could take advantage of this amnesty.
Sen. Craig has said he intends to offer his amnesty as an amendment when the military spending bill is considered next week on the Senate floor. His hope is that if his amnesty is added to the Senate version of the bill it will be too difficult for pro-borders Republicans in the House to kill it when the two bodies meet to reconcile the different versions of the bill.
There’s so much wrong with this it’s hard to know where to start. Firstly, regardless of the merits of bill, it’s simply irresponsible to hold up an emergency spending measure for an extensive debate on something as momentous as an illegal alien amnesty – and equally irresponsible to pass such an amnesty without extensive debate.
And there’s little merit to the Craig-Kennedy amnesty anyway. Supporters of the bill tell the soothing fairytale that this measure will help solve the illegal immigration problem, but this is a fairy tale we’ve heard before. Congress passed a “one-time-only” amnesty in 1986, and it supercharged illegal immigration, giving us an illegal population that is now twice as large as before the amnesty.
There was a farmworker component of that 1986 amnesty, too, which turned out to be possibly the most fraud-ridden government program in history. The story of that earlier amnesty would make you laugh if you weren’t crying. It became routine to hear applicants claiming to have harvested purple cotton, or dug cherries out of the ground, or picked watermelons from trees. But the political pressure to grant amnesty to as many people as possible was so intense, that only a handful of applications were rejected. In the end, the number of “farmworkers” legalized exceeded the total number of actual farmworkers in the whole country.
We would be guaranteed more of the same this time, because the Craig-Kennedy amnesty has even fewer safeguards than the 1986 amnesty.
And this isn’t just an abstract matter of following the rules. Among the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who were fraudulently legalized was one Mahmoud “The Red” Abouhalima, an Egyptian illegal alien cabbie in New York. It was only after he got his green card in the 1986 amnesty that he had the ability to travel to Afghanistan for terrorist training and then return to help plan the first World Trade Center attack, for which he is serving life in prison. Do we really want to find out what kinds of bad guys the next amnesty will legalize, enabling them to work and travel freely, preying on our society?
And, last but not least, the Craig-Kennedy amnesty would cost the Treasury billions. Illegal aliens get few public benefits on their own, but they do collect them on behalf of their U.S.-born citizen children, for a net cost to the federal government alone of $10 billion per year. When they get amnesty, their incomes (and thus tax payments) go up a little, but their use of government services balloons, because they are now eligible. Our estimate is that amnesty for all illegals would nearly triple the cost to Washington, to $29 billion per year.
The irony is exquisite. The same measure that would enable our soldiers to defend the borders of a newly free Iraq would also undermine our own borders. Mahmoud the Red is laughing from his prison cell.
Mark Krikorian is executive director of the
Center for Immigration Studies.
http://www.cis.org
===============
The High Cost of Cheap Labor
Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscal.html
=================
A Senate vote which would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in agricultural occupations is quickly approaching. Sen. Larry Craig plans to introduce his AgJOBS bill (S. 359) as an amendment to the Iraq War supplemental bill early next week. The AgJOBS amendment would grant legal status to roughly 500,000 to 1 million illegal immigrants in farm work.
Contact your Senators today and urge them to oppose the AgJOBS amendment to the Iraq War supplemental bill as well as any other legislation that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=7366396&type=CO
======================
We've reached a very strange moment in the immigration debate. On Wednesday President Bush condemned a group of good American citizens worried about the breaking of U.S. immigration law. He condemned the organizers of Project Minuteman as "vigilantes" even though they have broken no law and pledge not to do so. An hour or two later, Mr. Bush welcomed to his Texas ranch a man who insults the United States for its immigration policy and leads a government that routinely flouts U.S. immigration law.
CLICK FULL REPORT:
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/ILLEGALS.HTM
EXPORTING AMERICA & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/exporting.htm
Border Badlands
I spoke with a New Mexico entrepreneur who voiced the concern of many of his Latino colleagues. The Latinos, Arabs, Pakistanis, and Afghanis, who have many common facial features, some of whom are al-Qaeda or other terrorist group operatives, can easily mix in together unnoticed. The problem is that many of the Latinos and other groups have no desire to assimilate. They create their own reality and culture, including rival drug trafficking gangs, without loyalty to America. Terrorists can easily be smuggled in or even allowed to operate within their enclaves. Although Mexican officials do cooperate with their U.S. counterparts, the Mexican government is largely helpless in combating the violence of the Mexican drug cartels, and corrupt customs and police officials.
One task force source told WND that a spectacular Mexico-based attack is "not anymore a question of if, but rather of when and where." Guadalajara and Tijuana are harboring anti-American terror cells. Al-Qaeda and other allied organizations are expanding operations in Latin America, establishing both legitimate and criminal enterprises to fund future operations.
Jihadists and Drug Dealers
Ruthless youth gangs including the Mara-18 and Salvatrucha from Honduras and Guatemala are operating in Chiapas state and as far north as Tijuana. Those with ties to radical Islamic Jihadists and drug dealers filter in from Central America, preying on illegal immigrants. Terrorists are making serious preparations to infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico borders. There are threats on NASA's Johnson Space Center, the George Bush International Airport, and industrial oil and energy targets, according to WND.
Our borders have become outlaw country. Human traffickers charge desperate or suspect immigrants enormous fees. Drug gangs have married up with human traffickers to exploit this multi-million dollar trade. Mexican, U.S., Canadian and other consulate, customs and enforcement officials have cashed in on the profits.
Homeless scorch in the heat and drown in the rivers as they try to reach the Promised Land. Sex slave trade traffickers are making bundles of cash. And many border guards are dying.
Dr. Martin Brass is an International Lawyer and longtime contributor to SOF.
http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0804_Terrorist,00.html
By Mark Krikorian
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 8, 2005
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17649
More than 1,500 of our soldiers in Iraq have given their lives to ensure America’s safety. An emergency military spending bill to keep their comrades supplied with bullets and gasoline passed the House of Representatives last month with the addition of several important domestic security measures, including national standards for state driver’s licenses.
The Senate will debate the bill next week, and is considering an addition of its own: amnesty for illegal aliens.
I am not making this up. For several years now, Sen. Larry Craig has teamed up with Sen. Ted Kennedy to relentlessly push the AgJobs bill (the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act, currently S. 359), which would grant amnesty to most illegal alien farmworkers, and their families (plus admit many, many more through a harmful “temporary” worker program). Estimates are that as many as three million illegals could take advantage of this amnesty.
Sen. Craig has said he intends to offer his amnesty as an amendment when the military spending bill is considered next week on the Senate floor. His hope is that if his amnesty is added to the Senate version of the bill it will be too difficult for pro-borders Republicans in the House to kill it when the two bodies meet to reconcile the different versions of the bill.
There’s so much wrong with this it’s hard to know where to start. Firstly, regardless of the merits of bill, it’s simply irresponsible to hold up an emergency spending measure for an extensive debate on something as momentous as an illegal alien amnesty – and equally irresponsible to pass such an amnesty without extensive debate.
And there’s little merit to the Craig-Kennedy amnesty anyway. Supporters of the bill tell the soothing fairytale that this measure will help solve the illegal immigration problem, but this is a fairy tale we’ve heard before. Congress passed a “one-time-only” amnesty in 1986, and it supercharged illegal immigration, giving us an illegal population that is now twice as large as before the amnesty.
There was a farmworker component of that 1986 amnesty, too, which turned out to be possibly the most fraud-ridden government program in history. The story of that earlier amnesty would make you laugh if you weren’t crying. It became routine to hear applicants claiming to have harvested purple cotton, or dug cherries out of the ground, or picked watermelons from trees. But the political pressure to grant amnesty to as many people as possible was so intense, that only a handful of applications were rejected. In the end, the number of “farmworkers” legalized exceeded the total number of actual farmworkers in the whole country.
We would be guaranteed more of the same this time, because the Craig-Kennedy amnesty has even fewer safeguards than the 1986 amnesty.
And this isn’t just an abstract matter of following the rules. Among the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who were fraudulently legalized was one Mahmoud “The Red” Abouhalima, an Egyptian illegal alien cabbie in New York. It was only after he got his green card in the 1986 amnesty that he had the ability to travel to Afghanistan for terrorist training and then return to help plan the first World Trade Center attack, for which he is serving life in prison. Do we really want to find out what kinds of bad guys the next amnesty will legalize, enabling them to work and travel freely, preying on our society?
And, last but not least, the Craig-Kennedy amnesty would cost the Treasury billions. Illegal aliens get few public benefits on their own, but they do collect them on behalf of their U.S.-born citizen children, for a net cost to the federal government alone of $10 billion per year. When they get amnesty, their incomes (and thus tax payments) go up a little, but their use of government services balloons, because they are now eligible. Our estimate is that amnesty for all illegals would nearly triple the cost to Washington, to $29 billion per year.
The irony is exquisite. The same measure that would enable our soldiers to defend the borders of a newly free Iraq would also undermine our own borders. Mahmoud the Red is laughing from his prison cell.
Mark Krikorian is executive director of the
Center for Immigration Studies.
http://www.cis.org
===============
The High Cost of Cheap Labor
Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscal.html
=================
A Senate vote which would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in agricultural occupations is quickly approaching. Sen. Larry Craig plans to introduce his AgJOBS bill (S. 359) as an amendment to the Iraq War supplemental bill early next week. The AgJOBS amendment would grant legal status to roughly 500,000 to 1 million illegal immigrants in farm work.
Contact your Senators today and urge them to oppose the AgJOBS amendment to the Iraq War supplemental bill as well as any other legislation that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=7366396&type=CO
======================
We've reached a very strange moment in the immigration debate. On Wednesday President Bush condemned a group of good American citizens worried about the breaking of U.S. immigration law. He condemned the organizers of Project Minuteman as "vigilantes" even though they have broken no law and pledge not to do so. An hour or two later, Mr. Bush welcomed to his Texas ranch a man who insults the United States for its immigration policy and leads a government that routinely flouts U.S. immigration law.
CLICK FULL REPORT:
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/ILLEGALS.HTM
EXPORTING AMERICA & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/exporting.htm
Border Badlands
I spoke with a New Mexico entrepreneur who voiced the concern of many of his Latino colleagues. The Latinos, Arabs, Pakistanis, and Afghanis, who have many common facial features, some of whom are al-Qaeda or other terrorist group operatives, can easily mix in together unnoticed. The problem is that many of the Latinos and other groups have no desire to assimilate. They create their own reality and culture, including rival drug trafficking gangs, without loyalty to America. Terrorists can easily be smuggled in or even allowed to operate within their enclaves. Although Mexican officials do cooperate with their U.S. counterparts, the Mexican government is largely helpless in combating the violence of the Mexican drug cartels, and corrupt customs and police officials.
One task force source told WND that a spectacular Mexico-based attack is "not anymore a question of if, but rather of when and where." Guadalajara and Tijuana are harboring anti-American terror cells. Al-Qaeda and other allied organizations are expanding operations in Latin America, establishing both legitimate and criminal enterprises to fund future operations.
Jihadists and Drug Dealers
Ruthless youth gangs including the Mara-18 and Salvatrucha from Honduras and Guatemala are operating in Chiapas state and as far north as Tijuana. Those with ties to radical Islamic Jihadists and drug dealers filter in from Central America, preying on illegal immigrants. Terrorists are making serious preparations to infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico borders. There are threats on NASA's Johnson Space Center, the George Bush International Airport, and industrial oil and energy targets, according to WND.
Our borders have become outlaw country. Human traffickers charge desperate or suspect immigrants enormous fees. Drug gangs have married up with human traffickers to exploit this multi-million dollar trade. Mexican, U.S., Canadian and other consulate, customs and enforcement officials have cashed in on the profits.
Homeless scorch in the heat and drown in the rivers as they try to reach the Promised Land. Sex slave trade traffickers are making bundles of cash. And many border guards are dying.
Dr. Martin Brass is an International Lawyer and longtime contributor to SOF.
http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0804_Terrorist,00.html
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