Allow me to put on my other hat—the one I don as a board member of the American National Council for Immigration Reform (ANCIR)—in order to inform your readers of another attempt by the U.S. Congress to destroy our national boundaries. Congressional passage of a pending bill, whose content has been slowly leaked to the media, but whose precise wording is still unknown, will make the events in Hazleton, plus every other town/city that is engaged in confronting illegal immigration into their communities, moot, for federal law will be used to supercede any local or state statutes. The danger to our nation, then, is very real, and the public must know what is part of the bill if it were to pass.
The bill is jointly sponsored by a congressman with the eponymous name of (Jeff) Flake, a Republican from Arizona, and Democrat Luis Gutierrez, a combative “open borders” advocate from Illinois. Because it is a bi-partisan effort, it more dangerous, for many congressmen will use that cover to claim that the bill represents the will of both parties; hence, the nation. That extrapolation is a bald faced lie, since the overwhelming number of Americans in any given survey not only want current immigration law enforced, but legal immigration levels reduced. Flake-Gutierrez will do neither.
Prior to Flake-Gutierrez’s formal presentation in the House of Representatives, the stage was set earlier this week in the Senate, where bipartisan sympathy for amnesty for illegal immigrants has a long pedigree. The Senate’s Republican Minority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY), stated that “comprehensive immigration reform” was necessary. Those are code words for “amnesty” of one sort or another, and McConnell was unquestionably doing the president’s bidding.
Flake-Gutierrez will not improve our security; it will not fortify our borders against intrusion, and it will soon lead to a chaotic situation in which governmental ineptness and veniality will destroy any last vestige of our national identity. According to Rosemary Jenks, Congressional Legislative Adviser to NumbersUSA, Flake-Gutierrez will:
a. allow anyone with just about any “evidence” of being here prior to 2006 to be eligible for “a path to U.S. citizenship;”
b. delegate to the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) of the Department of Homeland Security the task of granting at least two million work visas annually, a task that they are eminently unable to perform;
c. have no enforcement provisions for the provision which requires that, after six years, those workers currently here leave the country; further, criminals whose fingerprints were not on file would be eligible for “a path to citizenship;”
d. issue 400,000 additional new work visas which would be granted each year to applicants worldwide (this is in addition to the “legal” immigration of nearly one million each year);
e. there is much more, but this part truly offends me, as it should all citizens: each law breaker, upon paying a $2,000 fine (there is no mechanism for orderly payment), could be allowed to continue “on the path to citizenship.” Is that the price we place on our citizenship?
Finally, there is another aspect of this treachery that interests me, as it might Lawrence Auster and many of you: is it purely coincidental that the two congressman who have introduced the bill are members of the the Church of the Latter Day Saints and Catholic Church?