IMMIIGRATION CRISIS IN AMERICA
By
Michael Cutler
June 9, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
As
many of you may know, I made a brief appearance in a recently released
documentary, "Border"
that was produced by Chris Burgard. I have also been interviewed on
film for three more documentaries that are expected to be released in
the next several months. As you would expect, these documentaries all
deal with the immigration crisis that is confronting our nation today.
These documentaries are of critical importance because, as you no doubt
have noticed, few "mainstream" news organizations refuse to
discuss the immigration crisis honestly and openly- making this the
new poster child for the "don't ask, don't tell" story. Indeed,
this is also the case for the two Presidential candidates. If Al Gore
thinks that global warming is an "Inconvenient Truth," the
reality is that the huge impact of illegal immigration is the real inconvenient
truth because for decades members of both political parties have seen
an advantage to not securing our nation's borders. Traditionally the
Democrats were seeking new voters because generally new citizens tend
to vote for the candidates of the Democratic Party, which Republicans
sought to provide a virtually limitless source of exploitable and hence
cheap and compliant labor.
You can view a 5 minute trailer of a documentary, "Undocumented,
the Movie" that is due to be released this fall.
I met the young people who are producing this film a couple of years
ago when I traveled to Farmers Branch, a small town outside of Dallas,
Texas when the citizens of that community were preparing to vote on
a referendum to punish those businesses in that town that hire illegal
aliens. In fact, the brief segment of the trailer in which I talk about
the fact that our nation cannot bring all of the world's poor to America
but that we need to work to improve living conditions around the world
was taped during the debate at Farmers Branch in which I participated
a few days before the residents of Farmers Branch voted on that referendum.
(When the vote was tallied, the referendum was passed by a great majority
of the voters!)
As you watch this trailer I want
you to pay special attention to a brief interview with a young lady
who talks about the issue of immigration benefit fraud. She notes a
disturbing policy that exists at present at USCIS (United States Citizenship
and Immigration Services), the agency that is charged with the responsibility
of adjudicating applications for various immigration benefits including
the granting of lawful immigrant status and the naturalization of aliens.
She states under current procedures, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
the DHS agency responsible for conducting investigations and enforcing
the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States,
is not contacted when adjudicators at USCIS uncover fraud in an application
for an immigration benefit unless the alien's file in question reflects
that the alien had filed at least 6 applications for benefits that contain
fraud!
I want you to stop and consider what this means. Of the 94 terrorists
who were identified as operating in our country in the decade leading
up to the attacks of September 11, 2001, 59 of those aliens committed
immigration fraud to enter the United States and/or embed themselves
in the United States after entering our nation.
Additionally, it is important to remember that according to the GAO,
two years ago, USCIS claimed to have lost 111,000 immigration files
relating to aliens seeking a wide variety of immigration benefits and
that this dysfunctional agency then went ahead and adjudicated all of
the applications without the relating files, including the files of
30,000 aliens who had applied to naturalize (become United States citizens)!
Presumably among the other 80,000 lost files were aliens seeking Green
Cards- that is to say, they had applied for lawful immigrant status
which puts them on the path to United States citizenship!
You can read an extremely disturbing account of this disaster that appeared
in "Government
Executive Magazine."
It
is critically important to remember that USCIS would be the agency that
would administer any Guest Worker Amnesty program including the disastrous
"Comprehensive Immigration Reform" program that was introduced
in the United States Senate last year and was defeated when We the People
made so many phone calls to the Senate that the switchboard was overloaded
and shut down! In part it is the historic ineptitude and incompetence
consistently demonstrated by USCIS that prompted me to write a commentary
for the Washington Times last year, concerning Comprehensive Immigration
Reform in which I said that the name for that treacherous legislation
should be changed to : "The Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation
Act of 2007!"
It is also important to understand that as I stated in that trailer,
as did several others, that while the situation for the illegal aliens
who are exploited is outrageous, the solution is not to bring all of
the world's poor to the United States, but to encourage people all over
the world to create better situations for themselves in their home countries.
It would make no sense for me to attempt to adopt dozens of orphans
living in an orphanage if I wanted to improve their situation. Well-intentioned
as such an effort might be, living on a civil servant's pension, such
an approach would not only not improve the situation for the orphans,
it would result in my family suffering as we inevitably bankrupted ourselves.
Our nation, not unlike the average family, has limitations as our economy
is demonstrating on a daily basis.
Our nation's failures at securing its borders and creating an immigration system that possesses integrity is a major factor in a laundry list of critical issues including national security, criminal justice, the economy, the environment, health care and education to note the most pressing of those issues.
The United Nations has estimated that poverty throughout the world is so severe and pervasive that approximately one billion people don't have access to safe drinking water!
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It is imperative that our nation secures its borders and creates an immigration system that possesses meaningful integrity. This issue, as I have pointed out countless times is neither a Conservative issue nor is it a Liberal issue: This is simply an AMERICAN issue!
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