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To enforce immigration laws currently on the books is causing one disaster after another.Some statistics: The Congress has quietly approved the most open-door policy in history, allowing up to l0,000 immigrants per day.

The number of illegal immigrants now in the United States is 8.7 million, and the INS is unable to deport them.

U.S. services and benefits given to legal and illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers $68 billion per year ? and that number is growing.


Bilingual education doubles the cost of schooling aliens. In the Southwest, a new school per day would have to be built to keep up.


English as our language is under assault ? with driver's licenses, voting ballots and citizenship ceremonies offered in dozens of languages.


American history and achievements are being replaced in schoolbooks with political correctness, self-criticism and America as "oppressor."


400,000 foreigners now collect Social Security benefits without ever working a single day in America. Immigrants get Medicaid twice as often as native citizens.


Immigration costs U.S.-born workers $133 billion per year in job losses.


On Sept. 11, legal and illegal Muslim immigrant terrorists killed 3,000 innocent Americans and destroyed tens of billions of dollars in property.


Over 25 percent of federal prisoners are immigrants. Illegals commit 12 percent of felonies, 25 percent of burglaries and 34 percent of car thefts.

Non-citizens collect $7 billion per year in welfare, including medical assistance, food stamps and housing ? courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, whose representatives in the Congress allow this to happen.

Two-thirds of U.S. population growth is due to our immigration policy. American cities, parks, roads, schools, beaches, hospitals and water supplies are straining under increasing pressure for more and more freebies.

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Congress continues to push for a permanent extension of Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which grants permanent legal status to many who had broken the rules and come to the U.S. illegally.

Although this provision has been defeated in recent past, it will no doubt rear it's ugly head again. It is important that we keep the pressure on members of Congress to continue to vote no on this dangerous amnesty provision.

Write your Senators and Representative and urge them to continue to vote against any extension of the Section 245(i).

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Guest commentary: Citizens know security starts at our borders

Sunday, April 7, 2002

By PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY, Special to the Daily News



Is our government doing enough to close our borders to potential terrorists? The polls indicate that the American people don't think so.

The people are way ahead of the politicians on this issue.

The Sept. 11 terrorists weren't violating our immigration laws, they were exploiting them. All 19 hijackers were young Middle Eastern male Muslims who entered the United States legally with visas issued by our government. The visas of three of them had expired and the aliens should have been deported. Most had Social Security numbers. Some had driver licenses.

Six were registered to vote.

If any further proof were needed that our visa-issuing system is in shambles, it came in March when the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) mailed student visa approvals for two of the hijackers who had died in their suicide planes six months earlier. Then the INS fouled up again when it granted "shore leave visa waivers" in Norfolk to four Pakistani crewmen who immediately disappeared and can't be found.

INS Commissioner James Ziglar now says, "The days of looking the other way are over." But why weren't they over by sundown on Sept. 11? It's not enough just to reassign some mid-level bureaucrats.

Attorney General John Ashcroft says he can't find more than 1,000 illegal aliens he is trying to question.

The General Accounting Office reported on Feb. 15 that immigration fraud is so great that it "threatens the integrity of the legal immigration system," and that fraud in the process is "pervasive and significant." The GAO predicted that immigration fraud "will increase as smugglers and other criminal enterprises use fraud as another means of bringing illegal aliens, including criminal aliens, into the country."

President Bush warned us in his State of Union speech that, "Thousands of dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning." But the Bush administration has yet to clamp down on the promiscuous issuance of student visas, even from countries that sponsor terrorism.

The most visible sign of "homeland security" is the harassment of old ladies who travel on planes. I've had to remove my high-heeled shoes for intensive inspection five times since Sept. 11.

The week before the Super Bowl, the police were all over the radio announcing that they were profiling ticket scalpers. If it's OK to profile people trying to make a couple of hundred bucks, it should be OK to profile men who might murder us.

Student visas are the biggest area of fraud. More than 500,000 student visas are issued each year. Over the past 10 years, U.S. universities have enrolled 16,000 students from states that sponsor terrorism. Hani Hanjour, who helped steer the plane into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, was on a student visa.

In addition to the danger from terrorism, the U.S. health-care system has discovered a major threat from the diseases brought into this country by aliens from the Third World. The present high level of immigrants, visa holders, refugees and illegal aliens makes it next to impossible to screen them adequately for disease, and of course the illegals aren't screened at all.

West Nile virus, an African import never seen in the United States prior to 1999, has now been found in 21 states including Florida. Tuberculosis, which we had virtually eradicated decades ago, is making a comeback. Immigrants and aliens account for 41 percent of TB cases in the United States, and two-thirds in some clinics.

Malaria was eradicated in the United States early in the 20th century, but is also coming back. The United States has been free from indigenous measles since 1998 and the only current cases come in with immigrants.

All cultures are not compatible with American values. Some practice obscene treatment of women, child marriages or punishing people by cutting off their hands. It's up to our immigration laws and regulations to screen out those who have a worldview that includes terrorism, as well as those who have criminal backgrounds, who are carrying diseases, or are smuggling drugs.

We welcome immigrants to the United States who want to be Americans, who come here legally, abide by our laws, respect our Constitution and learn to speak English.

It's up to our immigration laws and agencies to tell the difference between those wonderful immigrants and those who come with hate in their hearts.

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AMNESTY: Urgent Action Needed
Senators Are Feeling The Pressure! Keep Calling!

When the House of Representatives attached amnesty for illegal aliens to the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act (H.R. 1885), urgent constituent calls flooded the Capitol switchboard with demands that the Senate kill the bill. Because of this pressure, the Senate delayed action on amnesty and will have hearings. The House has passed two versions of the border security bill, one containing amnesty and one that does not. However, amnesty isn't dead yet. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who supports amnesty, will decide which border security bill to bring to the floor.

EXTENSION OF 245(i) IS AMNESTY
Because of the outrage over amnesty, proponents of open borders have claimed that extension of section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is not really amnesty, but they are 100 percent wrong. Extension of 245(i) permits visa overstays and aliens who crossed the border illegally to remain in the U.S. Furthermore, it forgives an illegal alien for his lawbreaking and excuses him from significant penalties normally levied. Under 245(i), illegal aliens are permitted to stay permanently in the U.S. The INS almost never deports an illegal alien under Section 245(i) unless he has committed a non-immigration-related felony.


WHY AMNESTY IS A BAD IDEA


Amnesty should be rejected because it encourages more illegal immigration.
In 1986, we gave amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens and were promised it would be a one-time-only. Today, we have eleven million illegal aliens. Amnesty sends a powerful message that law-breakers, not law-abiders, will be rewarded.

Amnesty is a slap in the face of legal immigrants who play by the rules.

Legal immigrants will ask: why linger on the waiting list? why fill out papers? why learn English? Amnesty sends a message to prospective immigrants that it's simpler and more rewarding to sneak in.

Amnesty threatens national security by further overwhelming an already inept agency.
The September 11 attack was a failure of U.S. immigration policy. In March, the INS issued visas to two dead 9/11 terrorists. In the last six months, the INS has issued over 50,000 visas at consulates in the Middle East, including to nationals from countries where al Qaeda is known to be active. Senator Jeff Sessions said, "The INS is completely incapable, at this point, of enforcing our very generous immigration laws." National security must start with border security. Amnesty puts that in jeopardy.

Urge your Senators to reject amnesty for illegal aliens. Amnesty can be completely killed, but only by immediate action from grassroots Americans. Make sure that they hear from you often.

Tell Senator Daschle to keep amnesty off the Senate floor.

Tell Senator Trent Lott that amnesty would be a crucial mistake.


Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121

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It's truly worse-than-that, especially if one uses proper English and not what's been deemed journalistically-pacifying and/or politically-correct for appeasing The American Citizenry and Taxpayer FOR EVERYTHING (even wordly-patronizing nonsense).

Besides, what's-the-big-deal about calling a spade a spade or A Criminally Illegal Alien CORRECTLY A Criminal Illegal Alien? That's exactly what "They" are. Also, and the times being such as they are, only fools could believe ALL CRIMINALLY ILLEGAL ALIENS come here solely to pick tomatoes (or whatever), or to help build up The Liberal/Democratic voter base and promote diversity.

Such a political and nonsensical mind-set aside, the unarguable truth of the matter is that more foreign mules, moles, spies, infiltrators, enemies, assasins and/or general low-lifes get into America this way,...than any produce pickers or menial workers ever will. Hey, there's just so much to pick.

Also, don't let Dan Rather and the like tell you any different.
After all, and given the many millions over the years of our: "Illegal Alien Invasion" accepted with open arms, only fools
could believe that with so many in The World hating Americans, that everyone sneaking into America are of well intent.
Such is numerically impossible.

Neil