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7/9/14, "The Government vs. the People: Rebuilding Trust in the Midst of the Illegal Alien Tsunami," Laura Ingraham, Breitbart
"Our government threatens Border Patrol and healthcare workers who
want to tell the truth about this new crop of illegal aliens. It
restricts media access and reporting on the detention facilities.
Recently we learned it set free 36,000 criminal aliens, including
rapists, kidnappers, arsonists, burglars, sex offenders, and car
thieves. Both Republicans and Democrats warn about the threat posed by
ISIS after it overran Iraq’s borders but are strangely silent as our own
borders are swamped. These same pols hang on every word of pro-amnesty
billionaires, who enjoy lives of solitude behind their own high walls
and locked gates.
Meanwhile, when we raise our own voices in protest, we
are branded as racists and xenophobes. And we’re supposed to trust these people?
Until this relationship is repaired, it will be extremely difficult
to rally support for any immigration plan whatsoever. So what concrete
steps can the Administration take and the GOP support to shrink this
trust deficit? Here’s a start:
1. Start deporting people. Far from being
cold-hearted or “draconian,” deportations will save lives and restore
much-needed credibility to the U.S. immigration system. The thousands of
illegals who risk their lives and those of their minor children to
cross our southwest border are doing so in large part because they
believe once here, they will not be sent back. Here is where Obama’s
actions speak louder than his words. Contrary to the Administration’s
claim of toughness on deportation, interior removals have dropped by 40
percent over the past three years. In 2013, for instance, Obama’s
Administration deported less than 0.2 percent of illegal aliens who had
not committed a major crime. As John Sandweg, Obama’s former director of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Los Angeles Times in
April: “If you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally, your
odds of getting deported are close to zero.” No surprise that a
plurality of Americans in the latest Rasmussen poll believe President
Obama helped create the current crisis.
2. Halt foreign aid, work, and tourist visas for any country
that refuses to assist in the repatriation of its citizens who have
entered our country illegally. Ditto for countries that
facilitate the transport of illegals to the U.S., as Mexico is currently
doing. In egregious cases, we should consider suspending trade
agreements and freezing the bank accounts of the political leaders of
offending nations. If you abuse your relationship with America by
effectively dumping your low-skilled workers here, you should suffer the
economic consequences.
3. Order U.S. financial institutions to stop remittances illegal immigrants wire back to their home countries.
For decades, other nations have enjoyed the economic benefit of money
made illegally here but sent there. Last year, remittances topped a
whopping $51 billion, and almost half of that went to Mexico. The best
way for people to fix their own countries is to work in their home
countries and fight for political reforms there. The incentive to come
here illegally will be greatly reduced if they can’t transfer money out
of the country.
4. End birthright citizenship. The citizenship
clause of the 14th Amendment was never meant to require automatic
citizenship to infants born here where neither parent is a U.S. citizen.
Even Harry Reid has railed against this absurdity. Every day, women in
their 3rd trimesters of pregnancy travel to the U.S. from China, Mexico,
and beyond to deliver their new U.S. citizen babies—and gain unlimited
access to U.S. welfare. Once their infants get U.S. passports, they know
that there is little political appetite to deport that child’s family
(see Step 1 above). One need only Google the words “birth tourism” to
see how out of hand the situation has become. Canada and the U.S. are
the only two developed countries that allow birthright citizenship; the
U.K., Australia, Ireland, New Zealand are among the dozens of other
countries that have done away with it.
5. Inflict severe penalties against companies that hire illegal aliens. E-verify should make the system rather simple to administer. If
you can’t get legal workers to do your field or roofing work at the
wage you’re offering, raise the wage. If you cannot make a profit
without breaking the law, you should go out of business and make room
for someone who can.
6. Deny privileges of citizenship and legal immigrant status to immigration lawbreakers.
No Obamacare, food stamps, welfare, disability payments, driver’s
licenses, apartment rental contracts, mortgages, or bank accounts.
7. Lifetime ban of returning to America for illegal aliens
who use stolen Social Security numbers or other fraudulent
identification. These people should be in a fast-tracked deportation proceeding, then sent home.
8. Pass legislation to amend the George W. Bush-era human
trafficking law that made it exceedingly cumbersome to deport
unaccompanied minors to countries without contiguous borders.
9. Give ICE the manpower and resources it needs to do its job. Work
cooperatively with border states and local governments to accomplish
the common goal of expediting removals and reducing new arrivals. After
three months, if ICE isn't doing its job well, send the remaining funds
to the border states to do it themselves.
10. Finish the border fence. As Israel has demonstrated, properly constructed and monitored fences work.
11. Streamline adoptions from countries such as Guatemala for qualified U.S. families.
I know what you’re saying—how does this relate to immigration? It
directly relates to the abiding concern we have for innocent orphaned
children trapped in a system that doesn’t adequately attend to their
needs. Thousands of otherwise indigent and abandoned children are
waiting to be adopted throughout Central America. As someone who has
spent a good deal of time in El Salvador and Guatemala going back
to the mid-'80s, I am acutely aware of how desperate the situation
remains for millions in the region.
My experience in Guatemala is part of what drove me to adopt my
daughter Maria from an orphanage there 6 years ago. Since then,
international adoptions from Guatemala have slowed to a trickle, with
many families heartbroken after years of waiting to bring their adoptive
children home. When loving families are willing to open their hearts
and homes to abandoned children, we should as a nation support that.
Senators Mary Landrieu and Roy Blunt have worked tirelessly on this
issue; let’s rally behind their efforts.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers on immigration, but I do know
that the American people deserve and demand better. Six in ten
Americans now believe that the American Dream is out of reach. While the
rich get richer, most middle-income earners see prices for basic
necessities skyrocketing as their incomes flat-line. It’s no wonder
that recent polling shows that Americans want less immigration—even as
legislators are promoting endless increases to the number of foreign
workers imported into the nation. Yet, up to now, their desire seems to
fall on deaf ears.
Until both parties rebuild the trust they so cavalierly squandered on
immigration, there is no sense in trying to pass an immigration deal of
any kind. It’s time for our political class to start valuing
our Constitution and the well-being of their own citizens over the big business lobby, immigration activists, or their own political futures." via Howie Carr show
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