"Spanish and Islamic terrorist groups are using Mexico as a refuge”

A Finding from a “A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border”, a 2006 U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security report.

Using the very politically incorrect “enforcement only” approach, earlier this week, American law enforcement officers apprehended six Islamic crazies who were planning an attack on Ft. Dix, a U.S. Army base in New Jersey.

“Today we dodged a bullet” was a comment from FBI Agent J.P. Weis on the arrests of the group that included at least three illegal aliens – brothers - who had been living in the U.S. for more than twenty years. Several of those arrested made it clear that they were ready to “kill and die in the name of Allah.”

According to Fox News reports, the illegal aliens, the brothers Duka, entered the U.S. illegally near Brownsville Texas in 1984, two years before the “one time” amnesty of 1986.

This all too close brush with the horror of Americans being murdered in their own country by illegal aliens - again - will no doubt be discussed, if it is at all, as an “immigration” issue and pointed to as proof that “our immigration system is broken” by dishonest pundits, the open borders/illegal alien lobby and elected officials who are desperately looking for a way to grant a path to legalization for the more than 20 million illegal aliens in our country. Again.

It should be a wake up call to us all that “the immigration issue” is clearly a national security issue and that securing American borders should not be a trigger for anything other than a pathway to re-election for those who have sworn to protect us. To most Americans, this one included, this represents common sense.

In an effort to distract the American public from the fact that illegal immigration should have ceased on September 11, 2001, many in Congress hope that we will overlook the fact that protecting American borders is not a component of immigration reform, but a duty of office. And that any legislation aimed at doing so will merely be another bill that says our leaders must obey the law.

For years, news stories on America’s border security crisis have been intentionally focused on the mostly Mexican illegals who are coming into the United States because they can make more money here than in their own corrupt nation… the “cheap” labor to which cost cutting employers have grown addicted.

What is not reported is that hundreds of illegal aliens who come from countries with known terrorist ties are routinely apprehended by Border Patrol agents on the border with Mexico. And that we only catch a fraction of the total illegal crossers.

What is not reported is that we must stop all illegal entries into the U.S. …period

The last thing that the open borders lobby wants is for anyone to point to the obvious homeland security dangers involved in illegal immigration. Don’t expect the 2005 warning from Zapata County, Texas sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez to be part of the debate on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” in the U.S. Congress when amnesty-again is presented – again - as a solution to our national security problems at our borders.

Gonzalez, who heads the Texas Sheriff's Border Coalition, said a growing number of suspected incursions and violence aimed at the area's law -enforcement officers is making the border "a pretty dangerous place." Sheriff Gonzalez told the House Homeland Security Committee in 2006 that “If smugglers can bring in tons of marijuana and cocaine …and can smuggle 20 – 30 persons, one can just imagine how easy it would be to bring in 2 to 3 terrorists or their weapons of mass destruction…”

Indeed.

The U.S. Senate will take up “immigration” again as soon as next week.

Americans looking for a better life should be watchful to see which of the Senators has the courage to come out of the shadows and say out loud that the pro-American solution to the crisis that threatens the very survival of the republic is to secure the borders - at any cost - and to demand enthusiastic enforcement of the laws already passed. Period.

They may also want to point out that immigrants, by definition, have no need for legalization and do not require amnesty.

We’ll be watching.

“I hope by now the American people understand the need for comprehensive immigration reform is a clear need”President George W. Bush, at the Yuma, Arizona Border Patrol headquarters - April 9, 2007.

“Last year we passed the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen here in my thirteen years”Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, on the U.S. Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2005 - to the Marietta Rotary club - April 4, 2007

Having been in office since 2001 and taking an oath - twice - to faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the President, with several million illegal border crossings a year and the terror of 9/11, “Dubya” now hopes the American people understand the need for “immigration reform”?

This is the same man who, as Governor of Texas, said of the illegal border crossers and the Rio Grande River: "Hell, if they'll cross Big Bend, we want 'em"! The same man who labeled American citizens “vigilantes” for having spent part of 2005 observing the border and reporting illegal crossings to Border Patrol using cell phones…from lawn chairs.

We do understand Mr. President, all too well sir.

That even more labor equals even lower priced labor is not that difficult a concept to grasp.

Not many Americans fail to understand that the phrase “comprehensive immigration reform” is code for finding a way, any way, to officially allow the millions of illegal aliens who have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. illegally to remain here… like we did in 1986.

Memo to the President and Congress: No gracias and no sale. Been there, done that and sadly, we have the t-shirt. It reads: “Press one for English”.

Much like the menu at the corner Mexican restaurant, in the language of the President’s – and much of Congress’ - never ending effort to repeat the failed amnesty of 1986, you basically get the same five ingredients served fifty different ways.

Neither do many working Americans fail to understand that no one is mentioning any penalty for the millions of criminal employers who have been rewarded for faithful campaign donations with a virtual free pass on illegally hiring the taxpayer subsidized “cheap” labor that flows in from Mexico.

Now that amnesty-again by any other name is on the front page - again - look for the usual suspects in the media to renew the name calling aimed at marginalizing the huge majority of Americans who demand secure borders and an equally applied rule of law, without conditions…any conditions.

Many in the press like to paint those who oppose illegal immigration and our unsecured borders as “anti-immigration” - rather like labeling the activists involved with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) as being “anti-automobile”.

Few will argue with Senator Chambliss’ remarks to the Rotary club regarding last year’s Senate amnesty bill, but his use of the long worn-out phrase describing illegal aliens as being in “the shadows” is umm…nonsense. No one has forgotten the angry and defiant Mexican flag - waving criminals marching in the U.S. last year demanding American citizenship while screaming “THIS IS OUR CONTINENT and WE ARE AMERICA”!

In the shadows indeed.

For years we have been given the false choice of either rounding up and deporting millions of illegal aliens or rewarding them with what they came for: Legal status. For years we have been told the former is “impossible”.

Senator Chambliss says that now our government will decide which of the illegals are “behaving themselves” and which are “burdening our health care and legal systems”. The Senator told the Rotarians that “we will round up the latter folks and send them back”. Hmm.

It is not clear if income tax evasion, stealing the identities of Americans, manufacturing and using false documents, illegally accessing taxpayer funded services or repeatedly driving with out ever having a driver’s license is regarded as “behaving themselves”.

All of those actions are treated and prosecuted as crimes when committed by Americans in America.

The announced plan is to now make the “well behaved” criminals “Temporary Workers”…that can perpetually renew their “temporary” status. Proving what much of Europe has learned…few things are more permanent than a temporary worker.

Senator Chambliss added that “we’ve got to enforce whatever we put in place”.

Let’s start by enforcing what we have already put in place. Secure American borders - at any price - enforce the existing laws and watch as the flow of illegal immigration stops and the illegals go home. Attrition of the illegal alien population …and illegal employers through enforcement of the law.

That is what most Americans want. We are America.

D.A. King is a columnist in the Marietta Daily Journal and president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta-based coalition actively opposed to illegal immigration. On the Web: Dustin Inman Society

(The column below ran in today’s Marietta Daily Journal. I have added some hyperlinks to educate the reader.)

North American Union Would be Terrible Mistake

“There shall be open borders”
- A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution.

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America”.
- Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a 2000 campaign speech on Latin America in Miami.

As someone who studies our intentional lack of border security and the resulting terror threat and illegal immigration crisis in the new America of the Bush administration, the most common question I hear after people begin to suspect that the president of the United States has no intention of securing American borders - Sept. 11, 2001, be damned - is natural enough: “Why?”

Why would the president - and a large part of Congress - refuse do everything possible to stop what a 2006 House Committee on Homeland Security report estimated to be somewhere between four and 10 million illegal and uninspected border crossings in 2005 alone?

Why is there no effective and enforced removal program in place to ensure that visa holders leave the country when their visas expire? Visa overstays represent more than 40 percent of the more than 20 million illegal aliens in the same nation in which the president issued the call for us to “be vigilant” in November 2001.

The partial answer to the “why?” question is that the president is kneeling before the American business lobby, which is unwavering in its demand for continued access to the taxpayer subsidized illegal labor from Mexico. Others in elected power view the uncaught undocumented border crossers as willing future constituents - and the corporate funded, increasingly militant far-left ethnic lobby howls “racism” in a calculated and successful offensive defense of the uninterrupted supply of resentful victims of geography needed to expand the entitlements and political power on which it feeds.

These well-funded interest groups benefit from our virtually open borders and would profit significantly and quickly from a repeat of the path to citizenship granted to illegal aliens in 1986. They would all suffer from a return to a nation governed by the rule of law defined by well-defended borders and a common language.

It is past time that the readers of this space begin to hear about the rest of the answer: A larger plan and goal to create an EU-like North American Union by “integrating” the economies and the infrastructures of the United States, Canada, and that paradise to our south whose most notable exports are drugs and people - Mexico. A borderless continental super-state devoted to the lowest possible wages and maximized profits through the free flow of goods, services and people. Target date? 2010.

Essential actions for implementation? Amnesty - again - and the melding of the Mexican and American Social Security systems.

It is easy to imagine the looks of skepticism on the faces of the readers hearing this for the first time. It seems that the blueprint for the “integration of North America” detailed in the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations report “Building a North American Community,” promulgated in countless think tanks and taught and promoted in many universities - including Emory - has failed to qualify as news to the huge majority of the mainstream media.

*A coming Mexican customs office in Kansas City?

* Predictions from financial analysts that the struggling dollar could be replaced with the “Amero” as a common continental currency?

* A proposed Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment to lay the groundwork for North American business law - and a March 2005 announcement of a trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership? No news here?

Far too many reporters, editors and radio talk show hosts either haven’t done their homework or are willing to meekly sidestep the terrible truth in fear of being labeled “conspiracy nuts” are complicit in the “un-reporting” of what most Americans would regard as the story of the century.

You’ll read more on this fantastic scheme here in the future, but for now, I think U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-East Cobb) has reflected the opinion of most Americans on this whole enchilada in his statement to this column on the possibility of a North American Union:

“The United States for over 220 years has enjoyed the freedoms and responsibilities of an independent nation. We have served as a beacon to the world of the glories of a democratic republic. To allow our country to participate in a rumored ‘North American Union’ would take away our sovereignty and place an undue burden on the citizens of America.

“It would be a terrible mistake for the U.S. government to engage in any proposal that would diminish our independence or lessen our strength. I wholeheartedly oppose any such effort.”

Thank you, Senator Isakson. What do you think, dear reader?

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta-based coalition dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org.

The below column was written for and originally posted [ January 2, 2007 ] on Dick Pettys’ Insider Advantage Georgia , a subscription Website. Reposted here with permission. I have added several hyperlinks to educate the reader.

In a December 29 guest column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, acting Southeast regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund [MALDEF], Isaiah D. Delemar, threatens costly legal action if Cherokee County does not abandon its recently passed ordinance aimed at preventing landlords there from renting to “unauthorized immigrants”.

He goes on to argue that the federal government has sole jurisdiction and authority on immigration law enforcement - in contradiction of facts included in a publication distributed by his own organization.

It appears that Delemar has “unremebered” the first paragraph of the Introduction in a MALDEF co-sponsored publication entitled State and Local Police Enforcement of Federal Immigration laws: A Tool Kit for Advocates : “In 2003 the administration overturned a Department of Justice legal opinion and stated that the police have the inherent authority to enforce all federal immigration laws…”

The warning comes in the fifty-three page March 2006 online “how to” publication aimed at instructing pro-illegal immigration activists on defeating any local efforts at enforcement of immigration laws.

Absent the concern of an opposing view or equal time in the AJC - which Chaired the lavish 2004 annual MALDEF fundraiser gala in Atlanta - Delemar was able to bypass some important facts.

Unmentioned in Delemar’s AJC column: Existing law makes it a felony to shelter, assist, employ, harbor, transport or encourage an illegal alien to remain in the United States. Penalties are increased for doing so for commercial profit [8USC, 1324].

Recognized by many to be one of the most aggressive proponents of illegal immigration and bilingualism in the nation, the far left MALDEF shamelessly presents itself as a “civil rights organization”. The constant and relentless talking point from Delemar & Co. is that nothing less than a repeat of the legalization and a path to citizenship of the “one time” amnesty of 1986 is the solution to the crisis on which it thrives.

The code for this amnesty-again is “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.

Illegal immigration is a very lucrative enterprise. With net assets of nearly $12 million, funded in large part from tax deductible donations from the same corporations benefiting from the taxpayer subsidized black market labor and markets it enables, MALDEF does indeed have the financial ability and manpower to intimidate local governments into ignoring their inherent authority to enforce immigration laws.

What it lacks is a history of candor or consistency with the truth.

Using the tool that has consistently proven to be the most effective in its fight against the enforcement of American immigration laws MALDEF and Delemar have again conjured up the mindless concept that those laws - and their equal application - would involve “discrimination” and “racial profiling”.

One must note that Mexico does not suffer what MALDEF labels as an “anti-immigrant” debate – as it uses its military to secure its borders, enthusiastically enforces its immigration and employment laws and deports more people annually than does the United States…mostly Latinos from Central America.

Following one of the far too infrequent federal efforts at enforcement in Stillmore Georgia late last year, Delamar’s predecessor, Tisha Tallman, joined other local advocates for illegals - including soon – to - be former state Senator Sam Zamarripa and Mexican citizen Teodoro Maus - in leading self -announced illegals in an Atlanta “March for Dignity”… and a demand to an end for any further enforcement of American immigration laws.

Zamarripa sits on the Board of Directors of MALDEF; Maus is the former Atlanta Mexican Consul General.

For those who study illegal immigration, it is sadly comical to watch as what can only be labeled as the open borders lobby instructs its advocates on how to circumvent and combat existing authority and law while being allowed to write misleading newspaper columns declaring that the authority it opposes does not exist.

Readers and observers of future MALDEF presentations would do well to keep in mind the true motivation, goals and methods of this well-paid gang of leftists, and to remember this: By definition, real immigrants do not require legalization or a path to citizenship.

They are on a path to citizenship and already proudly enjoy the rights and privileges of all who join the American family according to American laws.