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Congress Must Be Held Accountable
for Solving the Illegal Immigration Crisis
Larry Greenley
JBS
Friday December 14, 2007
In the wake of the massive anti-amnesty protests that shut down
the Bush-Kennedy amnesty legislation in Congress last summer,
the American public must be prevented from being lulled to sleep
by tough sounding, but ultimately ineffective congressional legislation
regarding border security and illegal immigration, such as H.R.
4088/S. 2366, the SAVE Act of 2007.
Follow this link to the original source: "Solving
the Illegal Immigration Crisis Requires Blocking the NAU and Repealing
NAFTA"
We must be very careful to find a way to build on the momentum
generated during the massive anti-amnesty protests that shut down
the Bush-Kennedy amnesty legislation in Congress last summer.
The American public must be prevented from being lulled to sleep
by tough sounding, but ultimately ineffective congressional legislation
regarding border security and illegal immigration.
For example, there is a new bill that is receiving widespread
support from anti-illegal immigration organizations. This bill,
H.R.
4088, known as the Secure America Through Verification and
Enforcement Act of 2007 (SAVE Act of 2007), was introduced in
the House by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) on November 6. Two companion
bills were introduced in the Senate on November 15. Although this
bill sounds good by providing for increased numbers of border
patrol agents, better surveillance technology, better employee
verification, and better interior immigration enforcement, there
has already been some
harsh criticism from Tom DeWeese, president of the American
Policy Center, regarding this bill’s connections with the Real
ID Act, among other things.
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Nonetheless, the bigger problem with H.R. 4088 is that it is
based on tweaking our existing immigration laws in a way that
makes it appear that Congress is working hard to solve the illegal
immigration problem. The real problem, however, is that Congress
has allowed the executive branch to refuse to enforce our existing
immigration laws for the past couple decades. How will this change
if Congress passes a new immigration law that simply fine tunes
our current immigration laws?
Instead, Congress must earn our confidence in their stated intention
of tackling the illegal immigration crisis by including in their
bills the following four essential measures in addition to the
necessary steps of physically securing the border, enforcing visa
rules, verifying citizenship status for employment, ending welfare
for illegal immigrants, etc:
- End
birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants
in the U.S., thereby eliminating one of the primary
incentives for illegal immigration into the U.S.;
- Block the
North American Union (NAU) by defunding and dismantling
the
Security and Prosperity Partnership and all other government
programs that are being used in the process of creating an open
borders NAU merger of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada;
- Repeal NAFTA,
the legal platform upon which the open borders NAU merger process
is being developed; and
- Establish a moratorium on the consideration of any
legislation regarding amnesty (legalization of status in any
form) for illegal immigrants and temporary worker (or guest
worker) programs until both the President and Congress
can certify that illegal immigration has been brought under
control for several consecutive years. (Click
here for H.R. 946, introduced in the House in 2003 for a
similar purpose.)
Until Congress includes the four provisions outlined above in
their attempts to control illegal immigration, we must continue
to warn the American public against congressional attempts to
lull them to sleep by halfway measures.
Click
here to send Congress a message along the lines of this article.
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