Without passing a single new law, there are many things the government can do to better enforce laws against illegal immigration

Enforce employer sanctions.

End document fraud and implement REAL ID.

Implement an electronic employment verification system.

Construct the border security fence.

Fully fund the Border Patrol.

Increase interior enforcement.

Increase cooperation with local law enforcement.

Fund increases in detention facilities.

Increase deportations.

Fully implement the entry/exit system.

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The below column was written for and originally posted on Dick Pettys’ Insider Advantage Georgia ( June 11, 2007), a subscription website. Re-posted here with permission. I have added a few hyperlinks to educate the reader.

On Amnesty and Temporary Workers

D.A. King

Ahh, irony… and timing.

In its cover story this week, no less than Time magazine , describes the soon to be resurrected “immigration” bill as exactly what the President and a large majority of the U.S. Senate have been vehemently denying for weeks: The legislation is “amnesty”.

A source of great annoyance to elected officials in Georgia who would entertain taking the politically suicidal act of actually voting for the Bush Inc. / Kennedy/ La Raza scam is that the American public has come out of the shadows, learned some inconvenient and indisputable facts on the issue and now, like Time, recognizes amnesty when they see it.

Unlike Time, they want no part of it…again.

Those pesky facts and twenty-one years of looking for a better life in post amnesty America are impossible to ignore.

As is the observation of a principled Senator from Alabama.

With considerable understatement on La Bill, Jeff Sessions minces no words in a quote to CNN last week: “This is not a good piece of legislation, it really needs to be re-drafted.”

A component of the “Grand Bargain” not getting the focused attention it so richly deserves is the “Temporary Worker” plan incased in the legalization – at – any – cost scheme. It will never work as advertised and its certain failure is guaranteed by an arrangement put in place by the very people who wrote the language of the bill.

What we are to believe is that low-skilled workers will be legally admitted into the U.S. to provide low wage labor for the bosses, then, having earned five to ten times as much as possible in their own nations, will depart for home at the agreed upon date.

It is never going to happen.

We would do well to learn from the Europeans: Few things are more permanent than temporary workers.

The promise that our government will track down those Temps who refuse to depart on time is empty in light of the fact that at present, the Department of Homeland Security admits to lacking the ability to find about 650,000 convicted criminals who are already under deportation orders and roaming American streets.

The same coalition that is presently pushing the amnesty will insure that once in Ben Franklin’s Republic – people “doing the jobs Americans are not doing” ( at wages on which Americans cannot live) are firmly anchored and never leave.

The present convoluted and incorrect interpretation of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution is one pre-planned instrument to un-keep the promise of any “temporary” status of the bargain priced labor.

The practice of granting automatic citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to non-citizens is even now creating the absurd howls that forced removal is a human-rights violation and would “break up families”.

“You can’t make me leave, I have American citizen children” seems a defense that can be used by a variety of criminals to escape punishment. We look forward to the next Wall Street insider – trader defendant using the baby waving angle at trial…it seems to be working.

Despite the fact that existing federal immigration law (not something we hear much about in the Senate these days) makes it a crime to encourage an illegal alien to remain in the United States, the influential banking industry has for years been opening accounts, issuing credit cards and making mortgage loans to people it knows to be residing and working in the U.S. illegally.

Somebody, anybody, convince us that making a mortgage loan to anyone is not encouraging them to remain in the U.S. For now, let’s ignore the money-laundering aspect of running ill-gotten gains through bank accounts or wiring the same out of the country.

The site of well-heeled banking lobbyists spending millions to insure that the ‘temporary’ worker be allowed to remain because he has kids, a mortgage and is now part of the “fabric of America” does not require much imagination.

Neither does the true intent of the “Temporary worker” plan.

King is a columnist for the Marietta Daily Journal and president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta-based non-profit actively opposed to illegal immigration and the senate border security compromise legislation. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

TIME MAGAZINE: IT IS AMNESTY…and a good thing for America. Click here for story. I think you may need to buy the hard copy to see the entire article (?). I have one – the photos in the piece are worth the price alone.

To politely disagree with the Time writer on the positive spin or to thank him for at least using the proper term for La Bill, you can send letters to letters@time.com
Short with name and address… and phone number.

Check out the photo here

From the Orange County Register and the ” I wish I had written this catagory:

Mark Steyn: A lame joke becomes reality

About five years or so back, I started making references in columns to “fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community.” But from the lame Steyn joke of yesteryear to the reality of tomorrow is a mere hop and a skip. A few days ago, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, declared:

“This week we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong.”

Talk about “a fast track to citizenship”! Never mind probationary visas, Z-visas and Green Cards, in the eyes of the Democrat steering “comprehensive immigration reform” through Congress these guys are already “undocumented Americans.” Was it simply a slip of the tongue? Or did Senator Reid mean it?

If he did, the very concept of citizenship is dead, and the Senate might as well opt for really comprehensive immigration reform” and declare everyone on the planet a U.S. citizen with backdated Social Security entitlements.

I don’t know whether this sham of a bill is dead or just resting “in the shadows” like a fine upstanding member of the Vampiric-American community. But, if it rises on the third night to stalk the land once more, I would advise its supporters to go about their work more honestly.

First of all, the only guys “living in the shadows” are the aides of American senators beavering away out of the public eye to cook up this legislation and then present it as a fait accompli to the citizenry (if you’ll forgive the expression). That is an affront to small-“r” republican government, and, if intemperate hectoring mediocrities like Trent Lott and Lindsay Graham don’t understand that, then their electors should give them a well-deserved lesson.

Second, the bill’s supporters should stop assuming the bad faith of their opponents. On Fox News the other night, I was told by NPR’s Juan Williams, “You’re anti-immigrant!” Er, actually, I am an immigrant – one of the members of the very very teensy-weensy barely statistically detectable category of “legal immigrant.” But perhaps that doesn’t count any more. Perhaps, like Colin Powell’s blackness, it’s insufficiently “authentic.” By filing the relevant paperwork with the United States government, I’m not “keepin’ it real.”

I wouldn’t presume to speak for the millions of Americans who oppose this bill, but it’s because I’m an immigrant myself that I object to the most patent absurdity peddled by the pro-amnesty crowd. The bill is fundamentally a fraud. Its “comprehensive solution” to illegal immigration is simply to flip all the illegals overnight into the legal category. Voila! Problem solved! There can be no more illegal immigrants because the Senate has simply abolished the category. Ingenious! For their next bipartisan trick, Congress will reduce the murder rate by recategorizing murderers as jaywalkers.

Back in the real world, far from those senators living in the nonshadows of their boundless self-admiration, the truth is that America’s immigration bureaucracy cannot cope with its existing caseload, and thus will certainly be unable to cope with millions of additional teeming hordes tossed into its waiting room.

Currently, the time in which an immigration adjudicator is expected to approve or reject an application is six minutes. That’s not enough time to read the basic form, never mind any supporting documentation. Under political pressure to “bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows,” the immigration bureaucracy will rubber-stamp gazillions of applications for open-ended probationary legal status within 24 hours and with no more supporting documentation than a utility bill or an affidavit from a friend. There’s never been a better time for Mullah Omar to apply for U.S. residency.

Remember the 1986 amnesty? Mahmoud abu Halima applied for it and went on to bomb the World Trade Center seven years later. His colleague, Mohammad Salameh, was rejected but carried on living here anyway. John Lee Malvo was detained and released by U.S. immigration in breach of its own procedures and re-emerged as the Washington sniper. The young Muslim men who availed themselves of the U.S. government’s “visa express” system for Saudi Arabia filled in joke applications – “Address in the United States: HOTEL, AMERICA” – that octogenarian snowbirds from Toronto who’ve been wintering at their Florida condos since 1953 wouldn’t try to get away with. The late Mohammed Atta received his flight-school student visa on March 11, 2002, six months to the day after famously flying his first and last commercial airliner….

There is a lot more and it is well worth your time. Honest.

Harry Reid’s Favorables Fall to 19%: RASMUSSEN POLL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Isakson Press Office, 202-224-7777

Friday, June 8, 2007 Chambliss Press Office, 202-224-3423

Isakson, Chambliss: Immigration Bill Not Good Enough For Georgia

Both senators vote against cloture, criticize Democratic leader for refusing to allow votes on critical amendments

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) today criticized the Democratic leadership in the Senate for refusing to allow up or down votes on Republican amendments that would strengthen comprehensive immigration reform.

On June 7, Isakson and Chambliss helped defeat a procedural motion to cut off debate on the immigration bill and vowed to ensure that the principles of Georgians are contained in any immigration bill before the Senate. The procedural motion failed by a vote of 45 to 50.

“Senator Chambliss and I have been working hard to address the number one domestic issue in the United States,” Isakson said. “However, this bill was not good enough yet for the people of Georgia. We will continue our efforts, because it is absolutely critical to our state and this nation that we secure the borders and restore credibility to our immigration system.”

“Senator Isakson and I have worked tirelessly to ensure that this bill addresses Georgians’ concerns,” said Chambliss. “We must be allowed ample time to engage in a thoughtful and full debate so that we continue to improve this legislation. The window on immigration reform is closing and if we are going to have reform, it must be done in the right way–border security first, no amnesty, no new pathway to citizenship.”

Isakson and Chambliss participated in drafting sections of this year’s immigration reform legislation to ensure that the new Democratic-controlled Congress would not duplicate last year’s immigration bill, which would have guaranteed a repeat of 1986, when Congress granted amnesty to three million illegal immigrants but failed to secure the border.

Although the immigration bill included Isakson’s border security “trigger” prohibiting implementation of the Z visa program or any temporary guestworker program until the Department of Homeland Security certifies to the President and to the Congress that the border security provisions in the immigration legislation are fully funded and operational, the Senate Majority Leader refused to allow votes on amendments that would have strengthened the bill.

Among the critical initiatives Isakson and Chambliss supported but were not allowed up or down votes were an amendment mandating spending for border security as well as an amendment to require illegal immigrants to return home in order to participate in the Z visa program.

Chambliss was also refused an up or down vote on his amendment to preserve and protect Social Security benefits of American workers and to ensure that Congress plays a greater oversight role in totalization agreements. Totalization agreements allow workers who divide their careers between two countries to combine work credits from both countries to qualify for Social Security benefits.

Isakson and Chambliss have said throughout the debate that they would reserve judgment on the final bill until deliberations were complete.

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D.A. King at the Paulding County GOP Saturday. See here for details.