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March 30, 2005
Sensenbrenner Visits Border, Presses REAL ID Act Passage FAIR WAS THERE
House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, flanked by three senior California House members Duncan Hunter, Ed Royce and Duke Cunningham, turned up the heat on the Senate Tuesday at news conference along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border known as Smuggler’s Gulch south of San Diego.  Aliens waiting to cross the border illegally chat casually with reporters, while members of Congress hold press conference a few feet away. During a brief conversation I had with Chairman Sensenbrenner before the formal press conference began, he expressed guarded optimism that the Senate would approve the REAL ID Act, either as a free-standing piece of legislation or as part of an Appropriations measure to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I would say the chances are better than 50-50," Sensenbrenner said. Among the provisions of the REAL ID Act, which he authored, is one that allows for the completion of a second layer of fencing along a three-mile stretch of near San Diego. The completion has been delayed for six years by legal challenges filed by open borders advocates, claiming that construction of the barrier would damage the environment. The latest entity to impede construction of the security barrier is the California Coastal Commission, which is tasked with regulating development along the state’s fragile coastline. Several of the reporters who questioned the congressman about the claims of so-called environmentalists seemed oblivious to the mounds of trash strewn around the mountain canyons and damage caused by armies of illegal aliens as they traipsed through nearby estuaries.  The Mexican side of the security fence filled with dirt, making crossing easy. Each of the four members of Congress stated unequivocally that completion of the border fence is a matter of national security. "It is very plain that we will never have homeland security if we don’t have border security," said Sensenbrenner. Royce, who chairs a subcommittee on terrorism stated that al-Qaeda and other terrorist operatives "have changed their identities, taken Hispanic surnames and been ordered to infiltrate" the U.S. by sneaking across the southern border.  From left to right: Reps. Ed Royce, Duncan Hunter, James Sensenbrenner, and Duke Cunningham, addressing the media on national security risk at our southern border. During the formal news conference I asked why, 19 years after enactment of employer sanctions, which was meant to deter illegal immigration, the U.S. still had no employment verification system and no enforcement against employers who hire illegal aliens. Sensenbrenner agreed that this was vital to slowing the onslaught of illegal immigration, but he contended that his bill is "a homeland security bill, not an immigration bill." The issues are "so contentious that putting them both in the same pot will result in nothing happening." In further response to my question, Sensenbrenner revealed that a comprehensive immigration enforcement package would be forthcoming in 2006. While he did not cite specifics, the clear implication was that this legislation would include the means to enforce employer sanctions. "My intent is to deal with immigration in an overall way next year," said Sensenbrenner. He went on to say that the bill "will put employers who hire illegal aliens for cash and on the cheap out of business." -- Ira MehlmanPhoto courtesy Jim Dorcy Comments
What is it about "illegal" that BUSH and those pinheads DON'T UNDERSTAND????? Please keep me posted and advise address to send donation. They swore to uphold the constitution "to protectAMERICAN citizens". Where is Ross Perot when we need him? If we had listened to him in '92 we wouldn't be in this mess! Posted by: Frank Ervin on March 31, 2005 04:49 PM It is about time we address the complicity of employers concerning illegal immigration. In addition, we should tell President Fox that we will not tolerate Mexican interferance in how we solve our problems concerning illegal immigration, and that we will decuss immigration when the Mexican government cares about Mexicans while they are in Mexico. Posted by: Allan on April 4, 2005 03:24 PM Employers are not totally to blame. If the government does not control the border and deal harshly with all employers, then those employers who do not violate the law are at a competitive disadvantage. The responsibility rests with the government; especially those governments which declare sanctuaries. Posted by: Robert Hume on April 4, 2005 04:25 PM Our government needs to do everything in its power to stop illegal immigration. As Frank said, it is the Constitution and it is the government's job to protect AMERICAN CITIZENS. Strengthen border patrols, immediately deport all illegals, and put businesses out of business that hire illegals is imperative. The officers of such business should also serve jail time. If we can topple two foreign governments, we can certainly protect our borders. Government: Start taking care of American Citizens--only. It is your job. Posted by: Sally on April 4, 2005 06:17 PM Only those people that go through the NORMAL steps Posted by: Bes Singer on April 4, 2005 06:20 PM This is a call to lawyers who have a working knowledge of state and federal laws. One purpose is to bring suits against the appropriate law enforcement bodies, both state and federal, for compensation for all victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens. No matter what country they were from. Second, is to have these lawyers bring suits against Mexican open-borders organizations who not only advocate for and assist illegals in finding entry points, employment and sanctuary from law enforcement agencies. Open-borders politicians, local, state and federal are the direct recipients of this largess. Who knows how much of this money comes from drug trafficing? Posted by: ************** on April 4, 2005 08:12 PM We have two huge problems impeding progress on control of illegal immigration: George Bush and Vicente Fox. Bush has said we would never ask permission to defend ourselves. How does he explain his opposition to defending against this INVASION? Does he need an OK from Fox? Why is he not ouraged by Fox's threat to take the U.S. to an international tribunal to overturn AZ Prop 200? What right has Mexico to interfere with Arizona's internal affairs? Posted by: Mary Dagg on April 4, 2005 10:16 PM I believe that FAIR does an excellent job of keeping us alerted to the real problems about illegal immigration minus all the blah blah hype that the mainstream media expects us to believe. I also applaud the brave Minutemen and Sennsenbrenner and Tancredo and the others who are for Truth and standing up for what's right. I am an American woman and mother and I love God and my country and am so sick of those who don't even tho' they claim to be Americans "they" sure don't act like it and if the feeling is strong enough on their part maybe they just need to leave and leave this beautiful God-blessed country to those of us who DO love it. Posted by: Donna on April 4, 2005 11:13 PM I lived in a Wauconda, IL for 6 yrs. My wife and I found a new home in an older part of town. This was our very first home and we wanted our children to enjoy what took us 10 yrs to save enough money to buy. We felt secure that the police station was located less than 150 feet away. What a false sense of security that was. Across the street from our new home was an apartment complex. This complex was mostly seniors. After the first 1.5 yrs the complex changed to hispanic. We had shootings, fights involving as many as 15 people at one time. When the police were able arrest someone, they could not get an ID. When they did get an ID, it was not even valid. They told us unless it was a felony they would not make an arrests. After sveral years the police got so tired of the calls that they told us and the other people who called that if we did not like what was happening, we should think about moving. Shortly after that the police started responding to all calls in 45 mins and up to 1 hr after the call was placed. Remember the police station is only 150 feet away. We tried to get help from immigration but they told us that only local law enforcement could get their assistance. We asked the Village during a town meeting to call immigration and they told us that we should stop interfearing with police matters. I guess when Wauconda has several large companies that employ up to 400 hispanics at each location in this little town, you find it hard to control the work force off hours for fear that they ( town officals ) my not get re-elected. After 6 yrs of shootings, fights, cars runnig into my home and general disregard for personal property, we moved. To this day the people who were unable to sell or move are still having to live in this lawless enviroment that offers them nothing but fear of what will happen when they call for police assistance because they live next to this complex. Posted by: Del Kosyla on April 4, 2005 11:57 PM My county board of supervisors are determined to build a day laborer center primarily for illegal aliens. I went to their meeting and told them hiring illegals was a crime and taxpayer funds used for subsidizing employment of illegal aliens was aiding and abetting illegal aliens and discriminating against American workers. Posted by: Carolyn Moore on April 5, 2005 02:35 PM it time to get elligales out of this country Posted by: isidro lopez on April 8, 2005 05:42 AM You people have never tried to put yourselfs in somebody elses shoes before, have you? We are all just trying to live our lives the best we can and so are these illegals. Why is it that they came into our country in the first place? Obviously, they wanted something from this country that they weren't able to get from their home. Yes, you are gonna have to share some of your land with them, but lets not forget that this land is not the land of the Americans; this land belongs to God. No one should be declined of the chance to earn a living and get by in a life in which they won't have to suffer. all they want is to just make some money and be able to share it with thier family so they may be able to eat, have a place to sleep, and pay their bills. Posted by: someone with a heart on May 11, 2005 06:24 PM It is my sincere hope that "someone with a heart" will immediately begin sharing all that she/he has (which really belongs to God) with as many illegals as hear about it and are able to come partake of this "generous spirit". I am afraid that only immediate, practical experience of that which this person wants the greater nation to do will teach him/her what this entails and how awful the results will/would be. And, believe me, it WILL be awful. Regarding the entry above written so eloquently by Del Kosyla: it is important to remember that this particular subgroup of the culture (called "Hispanics" but really are "illegals Hispanics") has the highest incidence of family violence/domestic abuse and alcoholism than any other group in this country--or theirs for that matter! Alcoholism has haunted this culture for hundreds of years. In the Aztec empire, public drunkenness (unless you were a senior citizen--they were allowed to get drunk) was a CAPITAL offense punishable by death. We all know that laws are necessary and needful only if something has become a problem. And we also know that if a strong punishment is given to a certain crime, it is to greatly discourage it. Scholars take this to mean (and so do I, based on my practical observations of this culture) that, as today, alcoholism and the behaviors resulting from drunkenness were HUGE problems that began to need to be addressed with the severity described. This is exactly why I dread this massive importation of this culture into my nation. One only has to look at the crime statistics for any subsection of the cities and towns in which they gather in great numbers. The statistics declare them to be a source of great cost and crime when they are allowed to congregate and settle in such large numbers. Again, all they know is what they are and what they have seen modeled for years in Mexico. And again, when they come here in such large numbers constantly reinfused with the old culture (of Mexico), they merely establish "little Mexicos" everywhere--bringing with them the very problems they sought to escape. Bear in mind that these people do not come here, for the most part, wanting to "be Americans". They come wanting to have "things and possessions" that Americans have. This is a huge difference from other groups coming to this country as immigrants. When I lived there, I did not (honestly) see anyone starving to death. It wasn't Africa--these people had as much to eat daily as my parents did during the Depression in the US! They are coming here to get "things"--like cars, gadgets, clothes, etc. And they are certainly not coming for "freedom". They virtually never cite this as their reason for coming. Posted by: J on May 12, 2005 10:35 AM NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART/What Arabs Do To Other Arabs (wonder what they have planned for Americans): Here is an OpEd by Brigitte. WHAT THE ARAB WORLD THINKS By Brigitte Gabriel Torture is accepted and even expected in the Arab world. Yes, I know what you're thinking-that's not politically correct in most mainstream media. And you know some nice Arabs who have immigrated to America. But it's the truth in the Arab world. Might makes right. Real men don't eat quiche. They prove their manhood by the way they treat their enemy. After all it's what Muhammad did to the nonbelievers - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians in the Quoran - the 'holy book' allegedly mishandled in Guantanamo prison. Arab Muslim men gain honor by shaming, belittling, abusing and torturing their enemy in the most horrific ways. Just look at how the Palestinians treat so-called collaborators by disemboweling them and hanging them upside down in Manger Square in Bethlehem. Look at the terrorist torture chambers that the coalition forces recently uncovered in Iraq. When people refer to the prisons of Saddam Hussein and his regime they think he is the extreme exception. Not! The truth is his torture tactics are quite the norm in the Arab world. If you want to see torture that is beyond what any Westerner can ever imagine please go to http://www.masada2000.org/impalement.asx Yes, you read it right, impalement. You'll get a glimpse of what the Arabs do to their own people. As someone who came from the Arab world and knows how they think, it frustrates me to see self-appointed righteous minded politicians and media pundits oblivious to Arabic culture and thinking, criticizing America's actions at Guantanamo. These are a bunch of al Qaeda jihadists who were captured while bent on killing us - the kaffirs or 'unbelievers. They laugh watching our government bend over backwards, forwards and sideways trying to appease the critics. The more we stumble over ourselves questioning our goals and tactics, the more they think we are weak and easy to defeat. They smirk because they believe that Americans have demonstrated how stupid and weak they are by caving in to stories about maltreatment of Guantanamo detainees. They are watching our critics in this country and counting on them to embolden the radical Islamic cause and weaken our resolve. Actually Gitmo is a joke as far as the Arabs are concerned. Prison? You call that a prison? Let me tell you what some of the prisoners call Guantanamo, "Al muntazah al-dini lilmujaheden al Muslimin," The Religious Resort for Islamic Militants. They are given three halal meals a day in accordance to their religious dictates. How many kosher prisons are there in the Arabic world? None. Jews captured in the Arab world are butchered like those obscene pictures taken in Ramallah during the frenzied slaughter of two Israeli reservists who got lost. Remember the Palestinian man holding his red, Jewish blood dripping hands, high above his head in victory? Remember Nick Berg's head being held high also? Most of these detainees never had three meals a day in their entire life. They are gaining weight, and are living in what they refer to in Arabic as "Al-Jannah," paradise. They have radio, television, soccer games, air-conditioning, clean clothes, servants, meaning American GIs, who wait on them hand and foot. They have Islamic chaplains and handed Qu'rans, the social hate guide against Infidels, by people so concerned as not to offend that they wear latex gloves and carry the book with two hands. Many Muslims in the Middle East would gladly give up their poverty, dictatorial governments, corrupt leaders and social bondage to enjoy the relative luxuries Guantanamo offers. They have free medical care, better than millions of uninsured Americans and our military men and women serving on the jihadists' battlefield. Some of them who couldn't afford to see an optometrist now have glasses and can see and read their Qu'ran. Others who never had the opportunity to see a dentist now have a free dental plan. It has become such a joke; we even stop interrogations to let them take prayer breaks demanded by their religion. As an Arab, I can tell you that Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin is aiding and abetting the goals and strategy of Islamic jihadists who have declared war on the United States. Where was Durbin's comparison to the Nazis when we found the torture chambers in Iraq? Where was Durbin's comparison to Soviet gulags when we found the hundreds of thousands of bodies in Saddam's mass graves? Where was Durbin's head when he compared prisoners captured on the field of battle to the internment of Japanese American civilians during WWII? OK, apologize to unarmed citizens, not fighters with weapons in their hands. Where was Durbin when he compared Gitmo and Abu Ghraib to the industry of death that murdered 6 million Jewish men, women and children during WWII? If anything his heart and mind were in the jihadists terrorists' camp. If you see what story is being downloaded and shared by viewers of the al Jazeera web site you will find the story on Durbin's comments the winner. If I were an Islamic terrorist I would be thanking Durbin and forwarding his views to all my fellow fanatics. His reckless comments fuel the fanatic frenzied jihadists, motivating them to blow themselves up in the midst of innocent civilians, savagely cut the heads of helpless hostages and devote themselves to killing the infidel who could be your neighbor stationed in Iraq. Just like the Quran says they should. Dick Durbin is an unwitting champion of Islamic radical fundamentalists. His comments should be known from this day forward as a "Durbinization" of the facts. To demonize something grossly out of proportion to what the enemy is doing is to Durbinize. Gitmo and Abu Ghraib have been Durbinized and the Arab world loves it. They laugh at Durbin because he's supporting their belief in the destruction of our country and civilization. The shame is Durbin doesn't have a clue as to what he's done. As far as he's concerned, he did the right thing for the Islamic radical detainees living high on the proverbial hog in Gitmo. What he really did was made them laugh. Laugh at us for being fools and not real men. Now it's time to see if the voters in Illinois and his fellow members of Congress are men and women enough to tell the Moslem world Durbin isn't our real man. Posted by: Nancy Toribio on January 2, 2006 04:09 PM |