by Michael Cutler
Time to put the interests of American families first.
It has taken decades of concerted efforts by the immigration
anarchists to get America to the dangerous point where it is today.
Currently America has a population of unknown millions of illegal
aliens who entered the United States covertly and without vetting by
running our borders. Their presence in the United States and their very
identities are unknown and unknowable.
We
also have millions of illegal aliens who violated the terms of their
lawful admissions into the United States and have gone “missing in
America.”
Incredibly so-called “Sanctuary
Cities” and “Sanctuary States” harbor and shield these illegal aliens
from detection by the Department of Homeland Security and its component
immigration law enforcement agencies, even as mayors of those cities
demand to be given federal funds to combat crime and protect their
residents against international terrorists they may be harboring.
Securing our nation’s borders and enforcing our immigration laws from
within the interior of the United States has nothing to do with racism,
bigotry or xenophobia, the lie most often spewed by immigration
anarchists, but has everything to do with national security, public
safety and public health.
Our immigration laws have nothing to do with race, religion or ethnicity. A review of Title 8 U.S. Code § 1182 will
quickly lay waste to the notion that our immigration laws are about
racism or bigotry. That section of law enumerates the grounds of
inadmissibility of aliens without considering their race, religion or
ethnicity.
Among the categories of such
aliens to be excluded are those who have dangerous communicable
diseases, are seriously mentally ill, are criminals, fugitives, spies,
terrorists or have been previously deported from the United States and
have not been granted authorization since deportation to reenter the
United States. That section of law also protects American workers from
unfair foreign competition.
The primary
goal of all five branches of the U.S. military is to keep America’s
enemies as far from our shores as possible. However, in this era of
terrorism and asymmetrical warfare, terrorists don’t engage in
conventional warfare against our military, but seek to enter the United
States by whatever means that they can, to carry out deadly terrorist
attacks against our civilian population.
During World War II Nazi saboteurs came to America on German U-boats and
used other covert means to infiltrate the U.S. to spy and commit acts
of sabotage. Today, the terrorists most often enter the United
States through ports of entry.
However,
all means of entering the United States, both legal means and illegal
means, can and have provided terrorists and transnational criminals and
fugitives with access to the United States.
As I have frequently noted, the United States has fifty “border
states.” Any state that lies along America’s northern or southern
borders are border states as are those states that have access to
America’s 95,000 miles of coastline. Finally, any state that has an
international airport is also a border state.
Therefore the mission of immigration law enforcement is to back up the
military by making the borders of the United States our first and last
line of defense against America’s foes and those foreign nationals who
would pose a threat to the safety and well-being of America and
Americans.
On September 11, 2001 just
nineteen terrorists inflicted more casualties on the United States than
did the entire Japanese fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and
the death toll from the attacks of 9/11 continues to climb.
On December 14, 2017 the New York Post reported that a 9/11 first responder killed himself after a battle with lung disease.
That “first responder” was Douglas Greenwood, the NYPD Captain who led
the first responders who dug through the mountain of rubble at “Ground
Zero” that came to be known as “the pile” searching at first for
survivors and then for human remains. His disease not unlike so many
others, was attributed to exposure to the toxins released with the World
Trade Center complex was destroyed by two hijacked airliners on 9/11.
Today much has been made about chain migration and the underlying
principle of “family reunification.” The idea is that if an alien is
granted lawful immigrant status and subsequently becomes a United States
citizen, he/she may then petition the U.S. government to have their
brothers and sisters become resident aliens along with all of their
spouses and minor children.
The incredible
lie is that it is unfair for aliens to legally immigrate to the United
States and thus be separated from their families. The Obama
administration went even beyond the provisions of the immigration laws
and mandated that so-called illegal alien “unaccompanied minors” be
permitted to enter the United States to be “reunified” with their
illegal alien family members who were already living illegally in the
United States.
Under current immigration
laws, aliens who become lawful immigrants are able to bring their
nuclear families with them as immigrants. This means that their spouses
and minor children are also granted Alien Registration Cards (Green
Cards). This makes perfect sense.
However, when lawful immigrants become United States citizens, they are
then entitled to petition to have their parents and all of their
brothers and sisters admitted as lawful immigrants in their own rights.
Furthermore, their siblings are also entitled, as immigrants, to have
all of their spouses and minor children granted green cards as well.
Because of this, one newly-minted U.S. citizen
can ultimately provide lawful immigrant status to dozens of extended
family members.
Under this visa program,
the impact that such massive numbers of immigrants will have on job
prospects for America workers is not taken into account. Simply by
virtue of a familial
relationships, the United States admits large numbers of aliens who may compete unfairly with American workers.
Flooding American schools with non-English speaking children creates a
hardship for school districts and the students who attend those
beleaguered schools.
In December 2007 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published an important report, “The
Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local
Governments” that found that it costs between 20 percent and 40 percent
extra to educate students who lack English language proficiency.
We need to take a moment to consider how insane the notion of
providing green cards to extended family members of naturalized citizens
truly is given how this impacts America and Americans.
To shed light on the absurdity of the false narrative created by the
open borders/immigration anarchists that it is reasonable to provide
green cards to extended family members to reunite families in the United
States, we ought to consider that is not uncommon in America for
children to grow up and voluntarily take jobs across the United States
and even, outside the United States.
Those children are free to return home for holidays and to attend family
functions. Similarly, members of their families may opt to travel to
visit with them in their new homes across the United States.
This is comparable to the alien who makes the willful decision to
immigrate to America. These immigrants and naturalized citizens are
certainly free to travel back to their home countries to spend time with
their families whenever they wish.
Additionally -- and this is the part of the immigration issue that is
never discussed -- there are two forms of visas that can be granted to
aliens: immigrant visas and nonimmigrant visas.
Each year the United States provides approximately one million aliens
with lawful immigrant status. Immigrant visas immediately place the
alien on the pathway to citizenship. However, each year tens of
millions of nonimmigrant (temporary) foreign visitors are admitted into
the United States as tourists, foreign students and authorized temporary
workers.
Family members of naturalized
citizens are free to travel to the United States, presuming that they
have no criminal histories, or other such factors in their backgrounds,
as nonimmigrant visitors.
They
can be granted tourist visas or, if they are citizens of one of the 38
Visa Waiver Countries, don’t require visas to spend up to 90 days in the
United States to visit with their family members who have become
naturalized citizens.
As tourists they may not work in the United States, but they certainly can spend time with their family members here.
Back when I was an Immigration Inspector at the beginning of my career
with the INS it was not uncommon form many foreign visitors to travel
to the United States on tourist visas to visit for a temporary period
with their family members who had immigrated to the United States.
Today the news media and advocates for open border and immigration
anarchy refuse to discuss this aspect of the lawful immigration program
because it provides a “solution” to a problem that really does not
exist.
Current immigration laws are not incompatible with the compassion of our nation.
Nonimmigrant visas can enable families to be reunited in a way that
does not undermine the lives and livelihoods of Americans and the
sovereignty and security of our nation. However, this runs contrary to
the immigration anarchists who are often improperly referred to as being
“pro-immigrant” by the compliant globalist media.
Michael Cutler
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268867/debunking-lies-about-immigration-and-family-michael-cutler
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