I will be on “La Favorita” radio for a Q & A from Atlanta ( you can listen on the internet and all questions will be translated into the language of our Founders ) tomorrow, Friday, beginning at 11:00 AM.

WAOS 1600 and WXEM 1460 and WLBA 1130 on the AM dial in the Metro Atlanta area.

Click here for more info. Click “VIVO” to listen on the internet. Feel free to call in.

I will have plenty of questions of my own.
dak

The answer…of course, open the borders and make them legal.

Illegal immigrants burying border in garbage
The Associated Press
Jun. 3, 2007 11:30 AM

TUCSON – After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.

Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O’odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across southern Arizona from 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

But that’s only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there.

Some photos of trash in the Arizona desert that I took HERE.

Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus immigrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal immigrant discards eight pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert.

The trash is piling up faster than it can be cleaned up. Considering that the Border Patrol apprehended more than 577,000 illegal immigrants in 2004-05 alone, the BLM figures that those people left almost four million pounds of trash that same year.

That’s 16 times what was picked up in three years. And that doesn’t include the unknown amounts of garbage left by border-crossers who don’t get caught.

“We’re keeping up with the trash only in certain locations, in areas that we’ve hit as many as three times,” said Shela McFarlin, BLM’s special assistant for international programs.

The trash includes water bottles, sweaters, jeans, razors, soap, medications, food, ropes, batteries, cell phones, radios, homemade weapons and human waste.

It has been found in large quantities as high as Miller Peak, towering more than 9,400 feet in the Huachuca Mountains, as well as in low desert such as Organ Pipe National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

“In the Huachucas, you are almost wading through empty gallon water jugs,” said Steve Singkofer, the Hiking Club’s president. “There’s literally thousands of water jugs, clothes, shoes. You could send 1,000 people out there and they could each pick up a dozen water jugs, and they couldn’t get it all.”

Lots more of report here.

Poll on Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss’ Website ( Please respond to the poll and help the Senator make his mind up…here )

Of the following issues, which do you think is most urgent in Georgia?

Crime/Methamphetamine: 4%

Illegal Immigration: 79%

Education: 7%

Health Care: 10%

Economic Development: 2%

11449 total votes

I was very disappointed to get an email from the State Farm Bureau Office urging members to contact the Senators to tell them to support the Bill.

James S.

Press Release from Senator Sessions
Sen. Sessions Releases List of 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill

Monday, June 4, 2007

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a list of 20 loopholes in the comprehensive immigration bill today which reveals that the bill is fatally flawed and will not establish a functioning immigration system in the future.

The list of loopholes includes flaws effecting border security, chain-migration and assimilation policies. The list exposes the lack of serious attention given to ensuring that the legislation fixes America’s failed immigration system.

“I am deeply concerned about the numerous loopholes we have found in this legislation. They are more than technical errors, but rather symptoms of a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that stands no chance of actually fixing our broken immigration system,” Sessions said. “Many of the loopholes are indicative of a desire not to have the system work.”

For example, one loophole in the “enforcement trigger” fails to require the U.S. VISIT system – the biometric border check-in/check-out system established by Congress in 1996, but never implemented – to be fully functioning before new worker or amnesty programs begin. Without the system in place, the U.S. has no method of ensuring that workers and their families do not overstay their visas.

Another flaw in the legislation prevents the benefits of merit-based immigration from taking full effect until 2016. Until then, chain migration into the U.S. will actually triple, compared to a disproportionately low increase in skill-based immigration. As a result, the merit-based system in the bill is only a shell of what it should have been.

A third loophole in the bill allows immigrants to avoid demonstrating a proficiency in English for more than a decade. Illegal aliens are not required to learn English to receive full “probationary benefits” of citizenship. Passing a basic English test is only required for the third Z-visa renewal, twelve years after amnesty is granted.

Sessions will highlight many of the loopholes contained in the list this week during Senate debate on the immigration bill.

A full list of the 20 loopholes is attached.

20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill

Loophole 1 – Legal Status Before Enforcement:

Amnesty benefits do not wait for the “enforcement trigger.” After filing an application and waiting 24 hours, illegal aliens will receive full “probationary benefits,” complete with the ability to legally live and work in the U.S., travel outside of the U.S. and return, and their own social security card. Astonishingly, if the trigger is never met and amnesty applications are therefore never “approved,” the probationary benefits granted to the illegal alien population never expire, and the new social security cards issued to the illegal alien population are not revoked. [See pp. 1, 290-291, & 315].

Loophole 2 – U.S. VISIT Exit Not In Trigger:

The “enforcement trigger,” required to be met before the new temporary worker program begins, does not require that the exit portion of U.S. VISIT system – the biometric border check-in/check-out system first required by Congress in 1996 that is already well past its already postponed 2005 implementation due date – to be in place before new worker or amnesty programs begin. Without the U.S. VISIT exit portion, the U.S. has no method to ensure that workers (or their visiting families) do not overstay their visas. Our current illegal population contains 4 to 5.5 million visa overstays, therefore, we know that the U.S. VISIT exit component is key to a successful new temporary worker program. [See pp. 1-2].

Loophole 3 – Trigger Requires No More Agents, Beds, or Fencing Than Current Law:

The “enforcement trigger” does not require the Department of Homeland Security to have detention space sufficient to end “catch and release” at the border and in the interior. Even after the adoption of amendment 1172, the trigger merely requires the addition of 4,000 detention beds, bringing DHS to a 31,500 bed capacity. This is far short of the 43,000 beds required under current law to be in place by the end of 2007, or the additional 20,000 beds required later in the bill. Additionally, the bill establishes a “catch, pay, and release” program. This policy will benefit illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico that are caught at the border, then can post a $5,000 bond, be released and never show up for deportation hearings. Annual failure to appear rates for 2005 and 2006, caused in part by lack of detention space, doubled the 2004 rate (106,000 – 110,000 compared with 54,000). Claims that the bill “expands fencing” are inaccurate. The bill only requires 370 miles of fencing to be completed, while current law already mandates that more than 700 miles be constructed [See pp. 1-2, & 10-11, and EOIR’s FY2006 Statistical Yearbook, p. H2, and The Secure Fence Act of 2004].

Loophole 4 — Three Additional Years Worth of Illegal Aliens Granted Status, Treated Preferentially To Legal Filers:

Aliens who broke into the country illegally a mere 5 months ago, are treated better than foreign nationals who legally applied to come to the U.S. more than two years ago. Aliens who can prove they were illegally in the U.S. on January 1, 2007, are immediately eligible to apply from inside the U.S. for amnesty benefits, while foreign nationals that filed applications to come to the U.S. after May 1, 2005 must start the application process over again from their home countries. Last year’s bill required illegal aliens to have been here before January 7, 2004 to qualify for permanent legal status. [See pp. 263, 282, & 306].

Loophole 5 – Completion of Background Checks Not Required For Probationary Legal Status:

Legal status must be granted to illegal aliens 24 hours after they file an application, even if the aliens have not yet “passed all appropriate background checks.” (Last year’s bill gave DHS 90 days to check an alien’s background before any status was granted). No legal status should be given to any illegal alien until all appropriate background checks are complete. [See pp. 290].

Loophole 6 – Some Child Molesters Are Still Eligible:

Some aggravated felons – those who have sexually abused a minor – are eligible for amnesty. A child molester who committed the crime before the bill is enacted is not barred from getting amnesty if their conviction document omitted the age of the victim. The bill corrects this loophole for future child molesters, but does not close the loophole for current or past convictions. [See p. 47: 30-33, & p. 48: 1-2]

Loophole 7 – Terrorism Connections Allowed, Good Moral Character Not Required:

Illegal aliens with terrorism connections are not barred from getting amnesty. An illegal alien seeking most immigration benefits must show “good moral character.” Last year’s bill specifically barred aliens with terrorism connections from having “good moral character” and being eligible for amnesty. This year’s bill does neither. Additionally, bill drafters ignored the Administration’s request that changes be made to the asylum, cancellation of removal, and withholding of removal statutes in order to prevent aliens with terrorist connections from receiving relief. [Compare §204 in S. 2611 from the 109th Congress with missing §204 on p. 48 of S.A. 1150, & see missing subsection (5) on p. 287 of S.A. 1150].

Loophole 8 – Gang Members Are Eligible:

Instead of ensuring that members of violent gangs such as MS 13 are deported after coming out of the shadows to apply for amnesty, the bill will allow violent gang members to get amnesty as long as they “renounce” their gang membership on their application. [See p. 289: 34-36].

Loophole 9 – Absconders Are Eligible:

Aliens who have already had their day in court – those subject to final orders of removal, voluntary departure orders, or reinstatement of their final orders of removal – are eligible for amnesty under the bill. The same is true for aliens who have made a false claim to citizenship or engaged in document fraud. More than 636,000 alien fugitives could be covered by this loophole. [See p. 285:19-22 which waives the following inadmissibility grounds: failure to attend a removal proceeding; final orders of removal for alien smuggling; aliens unlawfully present after previous immigration violations or deportation orders; and aliens previously removed. This appears to conflict with language on p. 283:40-41. When a direct conflict appears in a statute, the statue is interpreted by the courts to the benefit of the alien.].

Loophole 10 – Learning English Not Required For A Decade:

Illegal aliens are not required to demonstrate any proficiency in English for more than a decade after they are granted amnesty. Learning English is not required for an illegal alien to receive probationary benefits, the first 4-year Z visa, or the second 4-year Z visa. The first Z visa renewal (the second 4-year Z visa) requires only that the alien demonstrate an “attempt” to learn English by being “on a waiting list for English classes.” Passing a basic English test is required only for a second Z visa renewal (the third 4-year Z visa), and even then the alien only has to pass the test “prior to the expiration of the second extension of Z status” (12 years down the road). [See pp. 295-296].

Loophole 11 – Earned Income Tax Credit Will Cost Taxpayers Billions In Just 10 Years:

Current illegal aliens and new guest workers will be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit designed to encourage American citizens and legal permanent residents to work. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this loophole will cost the U.S. taxpayer up to $20 billion dollars in just the first 10 years after the bill’s enactment. To be consistent with the intent of the 1996 welfare reforms – which limited new immigrants from receiving public benefits until they had been legal permanent residents for five years – the bill should withhold EITC eligibility from amnestied aliens until they become legal permanent residents. Closing this loophole will save the taxpayers billions of dollars. [See p. 293 after S.A. 1190 was adopted, p. 307, p. 315, §606. All that is required for EITC eligibility is a social security number and resident alien status. Nothing in the bill’s tax provisions limit EITC eligibility. The issuance of social security numbers to aliens as soon as they apply for amnesty will ensure they are able to qualify for the EITC.]

Loophole 12 – Affidavits From Friends Accepted As Evidence:

Records from day-labor centers, labor unions, and “sworn declarations” from any non-relative (acquaintances, friends, coworkers, etc) are to be accepted as evidence that the illegal alien has satisfied the bill’s amnesty requirements. This low burden of proof will invite fraud and more illegal immigration – even aliens who are not yet in the U.S. will likely meet this burden of proof. DHS will not have the resources to examine whether the claims contained in the “sworn declarations” of the alien’s friends (that the alien was here prior to January 1, 2007 and is currently employed) are actually valid. [See p. 293: 13-16].

Loophole 13 – Taxpayer Funded Legal Counsel and Arbitration:

Free legal counsel and the fees and expenses of arbitrators will be provided to aliens that have been working illegally in agriculture. The U.S. taxpayer will fund the attorneys that help these individuals fill out their amnesty applications. Additionally, if these individuals have a dispute with their employer over whether they were fired for “just cause,” DHS will “pay the fee and expenses of the arbitrator.” [See p. 339:37-41, & p. 332: 37-38.]

Loophole 14 – In-State Tuition and Student Loans:

In-state tuition and other higher education benefits, such as Stafford Loans, will be made available to current illegal aliens that are granted initial “probationary” status, even if the same in-state tuition rates are not offered to all U.S. citizens. This would normally violate current law (8 U.S.C. §1623) which mandates that educational institutions give citizens the same postsecondary education benefits they offer to illegal aliens. [See p. 321: 8-31].

Loophole 15 – Inadequacy of the Merit System:

The “merit system,” designed to shift the U.S. green card distribution system to attract higher skilled workers that benefit the national interest, is only a shell of what it should have been. Though the merit system begins immediately, it will not increase the percentage of high skilled immigrants coming to the United States until 2016, 8 years after enactment. Of the 247,000 green cards dedicated to the merit based system each year for the first 5 years, 100,000 green cards will be reserved for low-skilled guest workers (10,000) and for clearing the current employment based green card backlog (90,000). From 2013 to 2015, the number of merit based green cards drops to 140,000, and of that number, 100,000 green cards are still reserved each year for low-skilled guest workers (10,000) and for clearing the current employment based green card backlog (90,000). Even after 2015, when the merit system really begins (in 2016) by having 380,000 green cards annually, 10,00 green cards will be reserved specifically for low skilled workers, and points will be given for many characteristics that are not considered “high-skilled.” For example, 16 points will be given for aliens in “high demand occupations” which includes janitors, maids, food preparation workers, and groundskeepers. [See p.260: 25 – p. 261: 20, p. 262, & The Department of Labor’s list of “occupations with the largest job growth” available at www.bls.gov/emp/emptab3.htm].

Loophole 16 – Visas For Individuals That Plan To Overstay:

The new “parent” visa contained in the bill which allows parents of citizens, and the spouses and children of new temporary workers, to visit a worker in the United States is not only a misnomer, but also an invitation for high rates of visa overstays. This new visa specifically allows the spouse and children of new temporary workers who intend to abandon their residence in a foreign country, to qualify to come to the U.S. to “visit.” The visa requires only a $1,000 bond, which will be forfeited when, not if, family members of new temporary workers decide to overstay their 30 day visit. Workers should travel to their home countries to visit their families, not the other way around. [See p. 277:1 – 33, and p. 276: 38-43].

Loophole 17 – Chain Migration Tippled Before Being Eliminated:

Though the bill will eventually eliminate chain migration (relatives other than spouses and children of citizens and legal permanent residents), it will not have full effect until 2016. Until then, chain migration into the U.S. will actually triple, from approximately 138,000 chain migrants a year (equal to 14% of the 1 million green cards the U.S. currently distributes on an annual basis) to approximately 440,000 chain migrants a year (equal to 45% of the 1 million green cards the U.S. currently distributes on an annual basis). [See pp. 260:13, p. 270: 29 – pp. 271: 17]

Loophole 18 – Back Taxes Not Required:

Last year’s bill required illegal aliens to prove they had paid three of their last five years of taxes to get amnesty. This year, payment of back taxes is not required for amnesty. The bill requires taxes to be paid at the time of application for a green card, but at that time, only proof of payment of Federal taxes (not state and local) is required for the years the alien worked on a Z visa, not the years the alien has already worked illegally in the United States. Though Senator McCain’s S.A. 1190, adopted by voice vote, claimed to “require undocumented immigrants receiving legal status to pay owed back taxes,” the amendment actually only required proof of payment of taxes for “any year during the period of employment required by subparagraph (D)(i).” Since the bill does not contain a subparagraph (D)(i), nor require any past years of employment as a prerequisite for amnesty, the amendment essentially only requires proof of payment of taxes for future work in the U.S., not payment of “back taxes.” [See p. 307, and p. 293 as altered by S.A. 1190, amendment p. 2: 19-20.]

Loophole 19 – Social Security Credits Allowed For Some Illegal Work Histories:

Aliens who came to the U.S. on legal visas, but overstayed their visas and have been working in the U.S. for years, as well as illegal aliens who apply for Z visa status but do not qualify, will be able to collect social security credits for the years they worked illegally. Under the bill, if an alien was ever issued a social security account number – all work-authorized aliens who originally came on legal visas receive these – the alien will receive Social Security credits for any “quarters of coverage” the alien worked after receiving their social security account number. Because the bill requires social security account numbers to be issued “promptly” to illegal aliens as soon as they are granted “any probationary benefits based upon application [for Z status]” (these benefits are granted 24 hours after the application is filed), an illegal alien who is denied Z visa status but continues to work illegally in the U.S. will accumulate Social Security credits. [See pp. 316:8 – 16, and pp. 315: 32-39]

Loophole 20 – Criminal Fines Not Proportional To Conduct:

The criminal fines an illegal alien is required to pay to receive amnesty are less than the bill’s criminal fines for paperwork violations committed by U.S. citizens, and can be paid by installment. Under the bill, an illegal alien must pay a $1,000 criminal fine to apply for a Z visa, and a $4,000 fine to apply for a green card. Eighty percent of those fines can be paid on an installment plan. Under the bill’s confidentiality provisions, someone who improperly handles or uses information on an alien’s amnesty application can be fined $10,000. Administration officials suggest that the bill’s “criminal fines are proportionate to the criminal conduct.” Why, then, is the fine for illegally entering, using false documents to work, and live one-tenth the fine for a paperwork violation committed by a government official? [See p. 287: 34, p. 317: 9, p. 315:6-8, & remarks made by Secretary Gutierrez on Your World with Neil Cavuto, 4:00 May 31, 2007]

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We are home, lots of news to share, thanks so much for making the calls while we were gone. I am now sitting down to return e mail…yikes.

VIDEO HERE

Many thanks to all of the patriots in South Georgia for their kindness the last few days, we wil never forget!

Dear Friends,

We are making a difference. Both Georgia Senators are seriously reconsidering their position on – and defense of – the amnesty for illegal aliens bill in the Senate.

I write today just after having unpacked the car full of signs and banners used in yesterday’s rally here. It was a huge success and time well spent. Thank you all for coming. Photos of the rally are posted on the DIS 1,000 WORDS page.

I also write to thank the hundreds of you who have expressed your kind gratitude for our efforts here. I work at this 16-18 hours a day, either here at the computer, writing, studying or speaking to groups and lobbying elected officials.

I have not yet paid myself a salary.

I am very proud of what we are doing and understand that if the President gets the amnesty – again – he is pushing so hard, the result will be the open borders he and his corporate directors have wanted for so long.

Not many people work at this full time. I can hardly believe that I have been since October 2003, after studying the crisis since 2002. No one I know does it at their own expense.

For those of you new on this list, the short story is that in October 2003, I put down my 25 year insurance business to do this. I have spent our life savings, sold our stocks, refinanced our home of 23 years – twice – and refinanced my car to do this.

I began to ask for donations to help at Christmas time 2006 when my wife Sue lost her job. She is now here helping me fight the amnesty bill every day. Thank you – to the 10% of the people on the list who were kind enough to send donations. We are a non-profit, 501 (c)(4) corporation…which means that your donations are not tax deductible.

La Raza and MALDEF are 501 (c)(3) organizations, which means that the millions that they receive are tax deductible. It is largely corporations that donate to them. The same corporations that demand the taxpayer subsidized labor from Mexico. Don’t look now, but La Raza ( Google it) gets taxpayer money. Our money.

Jerry Gonzalez who runs GALEO has no need to send these pleas for help, as he is well funded and well paid by large donors, including Jane Fonda, for his work in encouraging illegal immigration and fighting enforcement of our immigration land border laws.

Because I know that if we loose this fight, we will lose our country, I would do it all over again in a minute. But I need help. I am now to the point at which we cannot pay our bills – or the webmaster that is integral to getting the information out that I get every day.

I am humiliated, again, to ask for financial help. But on my way out to a speaking engagement in South Georgia, I am doing just that. Please help us. I would have sent this out earlier, but have been too busy to take the time.

There are enough people reading this appeal to keep the effort going for the rest of the year if everyone will help out with a donation, even if they don’t have time to make the calls, write the letters or come to rallies.

Please know that the illegal alien/open borders lobby will never give up.

A very nice lady in Texas has promised a donation of $5,500.00 if I can raise twice that amount in total.

I am hoping that you will recognize the importance of our continuing and will send a check or use the secure Pay Pal connection at the bottom of our DONATE page. Our mailing address is listed at the bottom of this email.

We have several people who have donated what I regard as large sums of money to help…to you, my eternal gratitude. This letter is not directed at those people.

If you can spare $50.00 or $100.00…or more if you are able… to keep us going I will be equally as grateful. ANY amount will be a help and never will be forgotten. I cannot make myself give up and hope that you can help us continue. I am committed to stopping illegal employment and illegal immigration. I hope that you are as well.

I am proud but exhausted and somewhat burned out. I will be out of here until Tuesday. I am not taking my computer and will not be able to return email until then.

Please see our blog, as I have posted a lot of info there today.

PLEASE KEEP THE CALLS GOING INTO THE SENATORS OFFICES (here is contact info) …the President is a lost cause and the base of the problem. It is a waste of your time to contact the White House.

Please try to write letters to the editor AJC or your local newspaper outlining your position on the amnesty bill…it really does make a difference.

Sincerely,

D.A. King

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www.theDustinInmanSociety.org

From Congressman Phil Gingrey’s Website:
The results are in… Georgians oppose thee Senate immigration bill

In last week’s e-Newsletter, we conducted a survey asking if you support the Senate immigration reform bill that puts 12 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. The results are in, and here is what you said:

92% – No, I do not support the bill
5% – Yes, I support the bill
3% – I don’t know, I need more information

Marietta Daily Journal

It’s not amnesty…it’s Christmas for illegals

D.A. King
Columnist

“Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres…
Tell me with whom you walk and I will tell you who you are.” –
Spanish proverb – and a motto from the George W. Bush for president Website

“The American public cares about this issue. They know more about this issue, oftentimes, than the politicians themselves… they want the law enforced.”
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, on the pending immigration bill, to the president of the Senate, May 21, 2007

At the recent Georgia Republican convention, Saxby Chambliss, the senior senator from Georgia and along with our junior Senator, a defender of the “its not amnesty” bill, was booed and hissed when he brought up the proposed “Compromise” on illegal immigration and border security being debated in the U.S. Senate.

A Republican Senator being booed by Republicans doesn’t happen every day in Georgia. But neither do we see our elected officials so visibly walk with the big money and against the will of the people…and the law.

The bill being debated is called the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007. Whatever your common sense tells you, remember this from the president, the Georgia senators and the left wing media: Its not amnesty.

The secure borders part is a promise (trust us, we mean it this time). You can decide for yourself at whom the economic opportunity is aimed – but a clue is that it is not the low wage Americans who are watching their wages go down because they are forced to compete with millions of third world workers.

Maybe those wages will go up if we wave the magic wand of legalization over the problem…and bring in more third world workers?

The accuracy of the “Immigration Reform” tag is, again, up to you. Maybe making it clear that if one can get into the U.S. illegally, sooner or later he can count on being “not illegal” is an improvement on American immigration laws.

While we hear “its not amnesty” from the president, the Georgia Senators and all who would legalize the more than twenty million illegal aliens even now smirking at Americans – and those who are making every attempt to be one of the more than one million immigrants who join the American family without “its not amnesty” – a remark from a dear friend last week-end keeps ringing in my ears: “They’re right”, it’s not amnesty” she observed …”its Christmas!”

The president himself came to Georgia this week to sell his “its not amnesty” plan but he forgot to say a few things about the “its not amnesty” he is desperately pushing. While constantly talking about “triggers” and while walking with the president, maybe the Georgia Senators have as well.

Like something Senator Sessions told the president of the Senate: “First, the trigger only applies to the guest worker program. All other amnesty programs will begin immediately – the Z visa probationary status begins 24 hours after the Department of Homeland Security begins accepting applications. If the trigger is not met, it is unclear that status will ever expire.”

Or about Section 622 of “its not amnesty” that says the American taxpayer would foot the bill for “providing legal assistance directly related to an application for a Z Visa”.

On his trip to Georgia, the President, the self described “Decider”, forgot this too: As observed by the Heritage Foundation ( respected people who have actually read the bill) “Title VI’s amnesty extends even to fugitives who have been ordered deported by an immigration judge but chose to ignore their removal orders. More than 636,000 absconders are now present in the country, having defied the law twice: once when they broke U.S. immigration laws and again when they ignored the orders of the immigration courts.”
The criminals can stay…if they can show that leaving the U.S.”would result in extreme hardship to the alien or the alien’s spouse, parent or child.”

There is much more and my friend is right. It’s Christmas for criminals in Washington, and apparently the now very wary American people are being given the lump of coal that our leaders assume we will regard as “not amnesty”.

We have already unwrapped that little present that in 1986 with the last “one time” amnesty.
Not this year. We want the law enforced…no maybe’s. The next shopping season for Senators willing to walk with the people is just around the corner.

Anybody see another Jeff Sessions around anywhere?

I am very proud to say that Bill King ( no relation, but that was my Dad’s name) is a dear friend and a personal hero…dak

Border Patrol veteran hears echo of 1986 law
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A veteran U.S. Border Patrol agent who served as the Western regional director for an amnesty program authorized by Congress in 1986 says that while the law imposed sanctions on employers for hiring illegal aliens and promised increased border security, it delivered neither.

Instead, William King Jr., who headed the amnesty program in the West for the now-defunct U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), said the law inadequately punished employers who hired illegals, gave amnesty to 3.1 million aliens and their relatives, and fell significantly short of its stated goal.

Mr. King, a 27-year Border Patrol veteran and former sector chief, said that based on his 50 years of “continuous experience in immigration law enforcement” and his “oversight of the 1986 amnesty program,” he fears the immigration reform law being debated in the Senate will not succeed.

“I just can’t believe they’re trying to do this again,” he said. “We seem to be suffering from collective amnesia about why amnesty programs have never and will never work. They’re using the same language, the same logic and, I assure you, will reach the same conclusion: failure.”

“They should know it’s not going to work and the American people are going to pay the price,” he said.

An estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens are in the United States and 9,000 more cross into the country every day — about 375 every hour. Only about one-third of them will be caught, according to Border Patrol estimates.

“Because of the number of illegal aliens in the country and the massive potential for fraud today, the result of this new law is going to be three to five times worse than it was in 1986,” he said. “There is no way around it and all Americans should stand by for the inevitable rush on the border because of the promise of amnesty.”

The Senate is debating an immigration reform bill that calls for stricter border security, grants legal status to millions of aliens now in the country and increases penalties for employers who hire illegal workers.

It is similar to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which was supposed to reduce job prospects for illegals by imposing stiff fines and other penalties on employers, mandate increased border security and establish a one-year amnesty program for illegal aliens in the country. A total of 3.1 million illegal aliens and their relatives were legalized under the 1986 law.

The White House said the new measure does not confer amnesty to illegals, contains tougher border security triggers, requires an employment-verification system and substantially increases penalties on employers for hiring illegals.

Mr. King disagrees. He said the Senate bill, coupling amnesty with a failure to secure the border, will encourage an influx of illegal aliens as the 1986 law did.

“Whatever you want to call it, the truth of the matter is that the bill offers amnesty and based on its size, it is not workable,” he said. “I doubt there are enough employees in the entire Department of Homeland Security to process the numbers of people that would be considered eligible.

A lot more here. Our Senators should listen to Bill King, not to the Decider, who lacks any shred of integrity.