Thursday, May 10, 2018

OUR BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

Submitted by: Terry Payne 


Subject: "A BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM: And the “fix” that would make it much
worse." - My latest contribution to FrontPage Magazine

Hi Gang:

Kindly forward this e-mail to your senators and congressional
representatives and to as many folks as you can and then ask that those to
whom you send this forward it along to everyone they can- I am attempting to
create a “Bucket Brigade of Truth!
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My article for FrontPage Magazine today is predicated on the undeniable fact
that multiple failures of the immigration system, that have been repeatedly
exploited by foreign terrorists operating in the United States to carry out
deadly terror attacks have yet to be effectively dealt with- no matter which
political party is in power.
President Trump was swept into office, arguably because he is the first
president in decades to make an issue out of secure borders, effective
immigration law enforcement and the goal of putting America and Americans
ahead of globalist goals.
It would also appear that for these very same reasons, President Trump is
under constant attack by politicians from both parties who are beholden to
the globalists who fund their campaigns.  Adding to this is the fact that
many members of Congress, from both parties are, themselves, attorneys and
consequently, for self-serving reasons have no desire to solve the
immigration crisis.
Immigration lawyers are happy to have an endless supply of clients and hence
hate to see their “clients” deported from the United States or, deterred
from entering the United States in the first place. 
For the average American, it is a case of “Tails they win- heads, we lose!"
Expecting these politicians to look out for the best interests of America
and Americans is worse than naive!
I hope that the information I provide can be helpful to you understanding
the issues and in pushing back against the false and often vitriolic
narrative and accusations of the globalists.
Ignorance is not bliss.  Knowledge is power so my article provides some cold
hard facts for you to consider and hopefully share with others.





<https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270044/broken-immigration-system-michael-c
utler>  
A BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
<https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270044/broken-immigration-system-michael-c
utler> 

And the “fix” that would make it much worse.

May 4, 2018

Michael Cutler <https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/michael-cutler
While politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties may have
differences on some issues, you may be shocked to know that there is clear
evidence that the leadership of both parties favor the continuation of the
immigration crisis caused by the dysfunctional “broken” immigration system.

Americans have been duped into believing immigration is a “Left” vs “Right”
issue when leadership of both parties essentially want the same thing.

Nancy Pelosi outrageously claimed that “DREAMERs are the best of the best of
the best during a lengthy tirade.  However, on April 17, 2018 Breitbart
reported
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/17/dreamers-are-among-our-b
est-and-brightest-koch-brothers-to-push-amnesty-with-seven-figure-ad-campaig
n/?mc_cid=168abf06a3&mc_eid=1b537ef8ea
> , ‘DREAMers Are Among Our Best and
Brightest:’ Koch Brothers to Push Amnesty with Seven-Figure Ad Campaign.

That article began with the following statement:

                Pro-mass immigration GOP megadonor billionaires the Koch
brothers are set to release a seven-figure ad campaign to push amnesty for
millions of illegal aliens in the United States, just months ahead of the
2018 midterm elections.

The Koch brothers are hardly they only “Conservative” campaign contributors
who take this anti-American position.

As I have noted in previous articles, politicians are not unlike magicians
who promise to cut their lovely assistants in half.

The magician knows that if they makes good on that promise, they will go to
prison for a long, long time and, even if they are ever let out of jail, no
one will ever work with them again.  

Therefore they know that they must only create the illusion of cutting their
assistant in half without harming a single hair on her beautiful head.

Politicians know, full well, that the great majority of their constituents
want our borders to be secured against illegal entry and our immigration
laws to be enforced fairly but effectively.

Therefore they promise to achieve both of those goals.  They also know that
their globalist campaign contributor such as the Koch brothers ultimately
want to dump an unlimited supply of foreign exploitable workers on America
along with a huge number of foreign students and a limitless number of
foreign tourists.

Political “leaders” have craftily convinced Americans that since “we cannot
arrest all 11 million illegal aliens” (there are probably 30 or 40 million
illegal aliens in the U.S. today) we must provide them with lawful status to
get them out of “the shadows.”

In a staged battle, the Democrats insist that these unknown millions of
illegal aliens must be granted U.S. citizenship while the “hard-line”
Republicans demand that no citizenship be provided to these aliens “only”
lawful status so that they can work.

The vast majority of illegal aliens who violate our immigration laws do so
in order to work and send money back to their families in their home
countries.  The position of both parties encourages millions of illegal
aliens to head for the United States embolden by those statements.

I addressed this in an article I wrote awhile back, Immigration Failure - By
Design
<https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262542/immigration-failure-design-michael-
cutler> .

That false argument about how there are simply too many illegal aliens to
arrest them all is a smoke screen.  There is no other area of law
enforcement where politicians and their chiefs of police wave what is
essentially the white flag of surrender.  The IRS certainly processes more
tax returns than there are illegal aliens in the United States.  However,
the IRS never says that there are just too many returns to weed out the
fraud and punish the tax cheats.

There are many more motorists with cell phones than there are illegal
aliens, yet no one ever says that there are too many such motorists for
police to crack down on drivers who text while driving.

If our leaders actually wanted to end the immigration crisis, the logical
step would be to greatly increase the number of ICE agents to increase the
likelihood that aliens who violate the immigration laws or fail to show up
for deportation hearings will be found, arrested, prosecuted and/or
deported.

For decades the missing component of immigration law enforcement has been
the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the
United States.

In point of fact, page 54 of the official report, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel
<http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf>
included the following paragraph under the heading “3.2 Terrorist Travel
Tactics by Plot.”

                Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior
immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support
terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the
United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after
9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt
terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.

Indeed, I would argue that hiring thousands of additional ICE (Immigration
and Customs Enforcement) Agents is as important and would be as effective
or, perhaps even more effective, than constructing a wall along the
U.S./Mexican border.

That is not to say that we should not construct that wall, only that an
issue of at least equal importance has been intentionally avoided.

While there is much justifiable consternation over the outrageous and
illegal sanctuary policies that have been implemented by hundreds of mayors
and some governors, including Governor Brown of California and, to an
extent, Governor Cuomo of New York, the abject lack of ICE agents creates a
de facto sanctuary for illegal aliens throughout the United States.  

Nearly half of all illegal aliens did not evade the inspections process at
ports of entry by running the border.  They entered the United States
through ports of entry and then, in one way or another went on to violate
the terms of their admission, including, in by committing felonies.

Most of the terrorists who have, to date have either carried out attacks or
attempted to carry out attacks entered the United States via the inspections
process at ports of entry.

There are currently about 6,000 ICE agents and half of the them are
conducting investigations into Customs law violations and other such issues
that have nothing to do with immigration.

ICE agents are not only tasked with locating and arresting illegal aliens
but also in conducting investigations into immigration fraud, the
intentional hiring of illegal aliens by unscrupulous employers and
participating in various task forces such as the Joint Terrorism Task Force
and the Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force (where I was assigned
for the last ten years of my career with the former INS).

Immigration fraud enables aliens to enter the United States by concealing
material facts that would bar their entry.  Immigration fraud has enabled
terrorists to carry out attacks in the United States.  

An alien who has been granted lawful immigrant status and/or U.S.
citizenship by committing fraud cannot be stopped by a wall on the border.  

Much has been made about the need to implement mandatory E-Verify, and
indeed, it must be made mandatory.  However, without an adequate number of
ICE agents to conduct field investigations crooked employers who hire
illegal aliens “off the books” will go undiscovered and unpunished.

A December 5, 2016 CRS (Congressional Research Service) report, Membership
of the 114th Congress: A Profile <https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43869.pdf>
that stated that as of the date of that report, 151 members of the House of
Representatives and 51 United States Senators were lawyers.

A number of those lawyers, from both political parties, have practiced
immigration law and have held or currently hold pivotal position in the
Congress including those who chair or have chaired
important committees and subcommittees that have oversight over the
enforcement and administration of our nation’s immigration laws.

It has been said that “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”

For lawyers, a flood of illegal aliens is not a problem but an opportunity.
Those aliens are all potential clients of immigration attorneys.  

Comprehensive Immigration Reform would have required certain attorney fees
to have been paid by federal funds.  Some folks naively and foolishly,
concluded that this was to “pander to illegal aliens.”  This was done to
make certain that the attorneys who would represent those illegal aliens
would have gotten paid.

I would call this a conflict of interest.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), as its name implies, is
the organization that represents attorneys who practice immigration laws.
The AILA website <http://aila.org/> , as you might expect, has a variety of
links.  One of the links is Stop Immigration Fraud
<http://www.stopnotariofraud.org/> . 

You would imagine lawyers would be concerned about clients attempting to
commit immigration fraud, after all, immigration fraud is a felony and, as I
have noted in my testimony at congressional hearings, as well as in many of
my articles, such as, Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill
<http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_27_3/tsc-27-3-cutler-2
.shtml
>  such fraud not only undermines the integrity of the immigration
system but undermines national security and public safety.  

However, contrary to what we might expect, that link has nothing to do with
aliens defrauding the immigration system but with concerns that some
notaries public practice immigration law although they are not lawyers.  In
fact, that section of the AILA website has the heading, Stop Notario Fraud!
(Notario is the Spanish term for notary.)

Another interesting link on the AILA website addresses legal strategies to
deal with the Trump administration’s Executive Orders concerning “Hire
American” policies that will likely make it more difficult for lawyers to
displace American workers.  That link relates to an upcoming seminar: “Buy
American, Hire American” Update
<https://agora.aila.org/conference/detail/1431>   5/1/2018.

“Bi-partisan immigration reform” means Americans will get hammered by both
parties.

Michael CUTLER
Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS
(Immigration and Naturalization Service) whose career spanned some 30 years.
He served as an Immigration Inspector, Immigration Adjudications Officer and
spent 26 years as an agent who rotated through all of the squads within the
Investigations Branch. For half of his career he was assigned to the Drug
Task Force. He has testified before well over a dozen congressional
hearings, provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission as well as state
legislative hearings around the United States and at trials where
immigration is at issue. He hosts his radio show, “The Michael Cutler Hour
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/usatalkradio> ,” on Friday evenings on
BlogTalk Radio. His personal website is http://michaelcutler.net/.
Discussions about immigration almost invariably focus on the lack of
integrity to the border that is supposed to separate the United States from
America.  Clearly that border lacks integrity and represents little more
than a speed bump to smugglers who transport illegal aliens and contraband
including record quantities of dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine
into the United States.
However, there are many more components to the immigration system including
systems by which aliens are granted visas to enter the United States and
various immigration benefits such as conferring employment authorization to
aliens in the United States and also include the adjudications process by
which aliens are granted lawful immigrant status and even United States
citizenship.
All of these systems of the immigration system lack integrity.  Aliens who
have gone on to commit crimes and even participate in terrorist attacks have
often been dissevered to have successfully gamed the immigration benefits
program in order to embed themselves in communities around the United States
as they went about their deadly preparations.
The findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission must be the starting
point for any discussion about immigration legislation.  That commission
determined that a lack of border security, including the visa process. and
fraud in the immigration benefits program, enabled terrorists to enter and
embed themselves in the United States, as they went about their deadly
preparations.
Immigration is not a single issue but a singular issue that impacts nearly
every challenge and threat confronting the United States today!  Simply
stated, the immigration laws were enacted to save lives and protect the jobs
of American workers.  In point of fact, our borders and our immigration laws
are America’s first line of defense and last line of defense against
international terrorists and transnational criminals.
It is not “Anti-Immigrant” to be “Pro-American!"
Our armed forces are charged with securing America’s borders externally
while the DHS is supposed to secure those same borders from within.  The
failures of the DHS to live up to its half of the equation are undermining
the efforts, valor and incredible sacrifices of Americas men and women who
serve in our military!
If our government's failures to protect American jobs by securing our
nation's borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws concerns you
or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and
Congressional "Representative. This is not only your right- it is your
obligation! 
All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as
dumb as they hope we are!

We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our
nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.

American Lives Matter!
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply
stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!
Democracy is not a spectator sport!
Lead, follow or get out of the way!

-michael cutler- 
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http://michaelcutler.net/


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