Monday, June 17, 2013

Yet Again, Why There Are 20 Million Illegal Aliens In the United States

There are more than 20 million illegal aliens in the United States.  One of the reasons why is this.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Special Victims Unit (ICE SVU), formerly know as Homeland Security Investigations, is now spending its resources searching for long lost Nazi documents.  In news today, ICE SVU has apparently been spending time searching for Alfred Rosenberg's stolen diaries.

MailOnline June 9, 2013
Missing Diary Of Hitler Confidant Which 'Sheds New Light On The Third Reich' Is Discovered In New York 70 Years After Disappearing At The Nuremberg Trials
A long-lost diary belonging to a confidant of Adolf Hitler has been recovered, it was revealed today.
The 400 pages belonged to Alfred Rosenberg, a high-ranking Nazi who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two...
The recovery is expected to be announced this week at a news conference in Delaware held jointly by officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Justice and Holocaust museum...
A Nuremberg prosecutor, Robert Kempner, was long suspected by U.S. officials of smuggling the diary back to the United States...
When Kempner died in 1993 at age 93, legal disputes about his papers raged for nearly a decade between his children, his former secretary, a local debris removal contractor and the Holocaust museum.

All very interesting, and the diary will be of historic import.  But if the documents were smuggled into the United States back in the late 1940s, why is the Federal government involved.

The children agreed to give their father's papers to the Holocaust museum, but when officials arrived to retrieve them from his home in 1999, they discovered that many thousands of pages were missing.
After the 1999 incident, the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the missing documents. No charges were filed in the case.

Interestingly, what crime was the FBI investigating?  The statute of limitations has long since run on any possible crime.  Like any evidence seized by the government, the ownership remains with the Rosenberg heirs in any event, not the U.S. Holocaust Museum, at the end of the trial.

Early this year, the Holocaust museum and an agent from Homeland Security Investigation tried to locate the missing diary pages. They tracked the diary to Richardson, who was living near Buffalo.

And why, since the FBI quite wisely decided that it had no case to make since the government was not taking possession of the documents, was ICE SVU involved?

It would have been a better use of Department of Homeland Security resources to assign that agent to arresting illegal aliens than to track down documents more relevant to a historian and archivist than to any interest by the so-called Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Furthermore, the Jewish World Review claims that the ICE SVU agents had a warrant of some sort.

Jewish World Review June 17, 2013 by John P. Martin
Hitler Insider's Missing Diary Found
Henry Mayer, a senior adviser on archives at the museum, said a breakthrough came when a German reporter told him that Kempner's one-time secretary, Margot Lipton, had given the diary to a friend "for safekeeping" before her death.
On April 5, agents bearing a warrant found it at that friend's house in Amherst.
Morton, who announced the discovery with U.S. Attorney Charles Oberly III, declined to name the man or say if anyone faced criminal charges. He said the man voluntarily turned over the document.
Officials displayed a half-dozen or so yellowed pages from the diary at the news conference in the Wilmington office of Homeland Security Investigations, the lead agency in the seizure. The materials eventually will be given to Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Morton and Mayer credited a list of law enforcement agencies and agents for staying on the case over the years, including police in Lansdowne and New York, HSI and the Wilmington-based prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall.

I can't imagine a Federal Magistrate or District Court Judge would issue a search warrant for an item stolen from the possession of the U.S. government in 1948.  Especially since there is no apparent criminal prosecution.  Much less that the diary was immediately turned over to a private party, the U.S. Holocaust Museum.  Clearly there was no intention of any criminal prosecution, which, by the way, makes the affidavit of the ICE SVU agent in support of the search warrant, false.  The same crime that Eric Holder committed when he claimed that James Rosen was a suspect who might flee, then claimed he never considered prosecuting journalists for such crimes.

But in any event, this is just more evidence that the Federal agency assigned to enforce immigration and customs laws is involved in issues far removed from its charge.

Friday, June 14, 2013

More Lies From Marco Rubio

Marco RINO has another Big Lie in defense of his amnesty legislation.  Now the party line is that we need amnesty because the $2,000.00 that the illegal aliens will pay to legalize will be paying for a border fence.

The Examiner June 14, 2013 by Bryon York
Marco Rubio: We Need To Legalize Immigrants So They Can Pay For Border Security
Why is it necessary to legalize the roughly 11 million currently-illegal immigrants in the U.S. before newly enhanced border security and internal enforcement measures are in place? Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Senate’s Gang of Eight, says part of the reason is that the federal government can’t afford to secure the border on its own and needs financial help from the immigrants themselves, in the form of fines paid when they are legalized.

But, as the Center For Immigration Studies has shown, most illegal aliens will not pay the fine and the illegal aliens only pay $500.00 up front, which will not even pay for the amnesty program itself, and nor will the alleged total fine of $2,000.00 pay the cost of the amnesty program.

CIS May 15, 2013 by John Feere
Five Myths about Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants in Senate Bill
The bill calls for immigrants to pay both a fee and a fine. In a recent speech Mr. Obama used the word “penalty” to describe the fine illegal immigrants must pay. Fees, on the other hand, are meant to help cover the cost of administering an amnesty.
As to the fees, the bill does not outline what the fees would be – and there are waivers. The bill simply notes that illegal immigrants aged 16 and older who want legal status will have to pay a fee “in an amount determined by [DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano].” While it is unclear how much the fee would be, the bill says it should be enough to cover processing the applications. But in the next section, the bill gives Ms. Napolitano the power to limit the fee and to exempt “classes of individuals” altogether. With such broad authority granted by Congress, it is unclear whether this fee will even apply to most amnesty applicants.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services already offers waivers for those who cannot afford certain fees. In fact, the Obama administration created a form for such waivers in 2010, and similar waivers may apply to any future amnesty.
To obtain a fee waiver for some existing immigration benefits, applicants simply must show that they are currently using a welfare program. Our estimates, which are based on Census data, show that 71 percent of illegal immigrant households with children make use of one form of welfare.
As for the fine – or "penalty" – the current version of the Senate immigration bill requires illegal immigrants to pay $500 for the initial probationary legal status and another fine of $500 six years later. If a person wants to switch from this provisional legal status to green card status (and eventual US citizenship), he or she will have to pay a $1,000 fine many years down the road. But there are many exceptions.
For example, a person of any age who claims to have entered the US before age 16 and has a high school degree or GED does not have to pay. Finally, people under 21 years of age are also exempted. Furthermore, it is likely that some non-profits will assist applicants in paying the fines – some of which will be using taxpayer-provided funds to do so. The bill actually grants such groups $150 million to help illegal immigrants apply for the amnesty. In reality, the fine may not be much of a punishment at all.

In fact, the amnesty legislation prohibits a border crossing fee to pay for the inspection program at current Ports-of-Entry that admit millions of people.  Given that Congress does not want any group of aliens to pay for the benefits they receive, just how is the group benefiting from amnesty, illegal aliens, going to pay for border security when then will neither pay the fee in the legislation, as the legislation allows most of the illegal aliens to avoid paying the fees?  

It is just another lie from Marco RINO.  The illegal aliens will not even pay enough fees to pay for the amnesty.  And they will certainly not be paying for any border security programs.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Separation Of Church And State

Only for Christians.  For homophobic (not that there is anything wrong with that), patriarchal, Muslim terrorists, there is no separation of mosque and State.  The City and County of San Francisco will build a house of worship for your exclusive use.  Of course the homosexuals and feminists are as silent as the grave.

SFGate June 9, 2013 by Matier and Ross
Airport’s Garage Now Muslim House Of Worship
Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray.
Under Islamic law, Muslims are required to pray five times a day — a ritual that also calls for a ceremonial cleansing.

And the City and County of San Francisco just gives the finger to the Constitution.

So Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan, 52, a Pakistani immigrant, collected some 300 signatures from fellow cabbies, urging the airport to give them their own cleansing station.
Airport brass obliged — and the wash equipment was installed on the ground floor of the main garage, right next to where the drivers congregate for their breaks.
“The way we look at it…this was in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with ground transportation providers,’’ says airport spokesman Doug Yakel.
As for using public resources?
Yakel says the costs were nominal, with the work done by in-house plumbers.

And the Muslim immigrants just declare themselves in charge of the country, the Constitution be damned.

As for Khan, he recognizes not everyone might appreciate the religious accommodation. But then he points out that Christians generally pray at church on Sundays — while for him and his fellow working Muslims, the ritual is woven into their daily routine.
And from the looks of things, they’re grateful.
“We are very happy,’’ said Ahmed Algazali, 49, a fellow driver from Yemen as he prepared to join Khan for a late-afternoon garage prayer.

Note that Pakistan and Yemen are significant sources of Muslim terrorists.  Osama Bin Ladin was of Yemeni descent and Pakistan provides terrorists for attacks such as those in Afghanistan, the Tube bombings in the UK, the Times Square Bomber and the attacks on Bombay, to name just a few.  Not only is terrorism driven by immigration, but so is then end of Constitutional governance.  Immigrants are enemies of the Constitution.  And the local ACLU office is silent.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

This Is What Amnesty Brings Us

A family of Mexican criminals.  The famous Mexican scammer, the Wendy's Chili Lady, Anna Ayala, is going back to prison.  

SFGate June 5, 2013 by Henry Lee
Chili Finger Scammer Headed Back To Prison
A woman who made international headlines when she lied about finding a severed finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose is expected to return to prison for concocting another tale - that someone had shot her son, a prosecutor said Wednesday. 

Ayala is clearly an immigrant, as her son does not have an American first name and does not share her last name, in the Mexican fashion

Anna Ayala, 47, and her son, Guadalupe Reyes, 26, who live separately in San Jose, allegedly hatched a plan last year to blame an innocent man for shooting Reyes in his left ankle, when in fact Reyes had accidentally shot himself.

Of course, Reyes is a long time criminal as well.  And apparently not to bright.

Reyes lied because he is a convicted burglar who is not supposed to have a gun, investigators said, and Ayala backed him up.
This week, Ayala pleaded no contest to being an accessory, falsely reporting a crime and being a felon with a gun. Her son pleaded no contest to two weapons-related charges and to falsely reporting a crime.

This is what Marco RINO wants to amnesty.  Do we really need more of these people?

Friday, May 31, 2013

FBI Is Now The Muslim Police

There was an incident of graffiti in a small Georgia town.  And it is not the police investigating the incident, but the FBI.  Now no law enforcement agency in this country investigates graffiti.  But when graffiti involves a Muslim victim, but not perpetrator, the FBI is on the case.  

NBC 11 Atlanta May 28, 2013 
Vandalism At Islamic Center Possible Response To London Terrorism 
ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Alpharetta police were in contact Tuesday evening with the Joint Terrorism Task Force after vandals painted over a sign at a mosque, with the possible reference to a recent attack in the U.K.  
At the Islamic Center of North Fulton, their sign was vandalized with white paint, reading "London Justice" on the front side. The rear of that same sign was also laced with white paint, reading "Where is Justice?" 
Alpharetta Police immediately contacted the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) because the vandalism happened at a place of worship. Dr. Mumtaz said FBI agents were at the Center investigating on Tuesday.

It is not as if there is a terrorism problem in the United States, or a problem with organized crime, or corrupt politicians, or IRS employees who are violating the civil rights of white Americans, that the FBI could be investigating.  Such are real crimes that the FBI is required by law to investigate.  Graffiti is not one of those crimes that either Federal law or the Constitution authorizes the Federal government to investigate.  

The reporter in the video of this story was openly editorializing, claiming without any evidence that the mosque was unconnected to what they said was an "alleged terrorist."  This despite the fact that the terrorists who murdered a soldier in London admitted that their act was terrorism and that it was motivated by Islam.

So, there is a connection between the mosque and the non-alleged act of terrorism.  Islam is the connection.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Treason Bar Proceeds Apace

On the heels of an illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of the legislative and taxing authority of Congress when the Obama Regime, in collusion with the Treason Bar, provided taxpayer funded attorneys to certain classes of illegal aliens, the Treason Bar, Marco RINO, and the Regime have tucked away legislative fig leaf to provide cover for the usurpation.   And on cue, the Treason Bar and it echo chamber in the media are demanding an expansion of taxpayer attorneys for the next class of illegal aliens.

Slate May 15, 2013 by Mark Noferi
Deportation Without Representation
Tucked onto page 567 of the Senate’s 844-page immigration reform bill is perhaps its most groundbreaking provision. For the first time, the U.S. government would voluntarily provide a free lawyer to an immigrant in deportation proceedings. The bill only gives lawyers to the most sympathetic: the mentally disabled, children, and the vaguely described “particularly vulnerable.” But the seeds are there for the broader right to counsel for detained immigrants that criminal defendants have received for 50 years. Congress should provide that. Immigrants who are detained and awaiting hearings cannot adequately represent themselves while jailed. And while other parts of immigration reform are hugely controversial, providing lawyers to detainees would be a surprisingly easy sell politically, if history is a guide.

Of course, also on cue, kritarchs are moving quickly, seeing an opening by the Regime's usurpation of Congress' authority, and moving to impose free attorneys for all illegal aliens.

No detained immigrants are appointed lawyers while jailed. Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit calls this the “immigrant representation crisis.” Some detainees hire lawyers, or are lucky enough to find free counsel. But 84 percent, in 2010, were not so lucky.

In due course, claim is put forward that taxpayer provided attorneys would "pay for themselves" by making immigration courts more efficient.

Another argument against appointed counsel for immigrants is the expense. Yet the lawyers most likely pay for themselves by increasing the efficiency of immigration courts, reducing time spent in costly detention, and lowering the cost of caring for children separated from their parents. Detention of one immigrant costs nearly $60,000 per year—about the cost of one lawyer, who could help hundreds escape detention and fight deportation. That’s money much better spent.

That, of course, is absurd.  The real purpose is that it will reduce deportations of illegal aliens by  clogging the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) with continuous appeals until the alien wins or the expense to the government of fighting each and every deportation to the Supreme Court becomes prohibitive.  

What this claim does though is expose the wastefulness of the immigration court system.  The only aliens with any claim to any review should be legal permanent residents, but most aliens in detention are those who have no legal status, either entering illegally or overstaying a term of admission (e.g. visa overstay).  The real solution to expensive detention is expedited removal, the process by which illegal aliens are deported with only an administrative review for factual and legal sufficiency.  This will not only immediately reduce administrative costs of the immigration enforcement system, but will systematically reduce the illegal immigration population by immediately increasing removals of illegal aliens, but the fear of enforcement will increase self-deportation as well as decrease new illegal immigration by reducing the magnet of an entrenched appeals system that is well know outside the United States.  





Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Make The Beneficiaries Of Immigration Law Pay The Costs

There are two border security items in the news recently.  In one, as usual, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is closing the barn door after the horses have left.  Suddenly CBP is verifying the status of students as they enter the United States.

KVUE.com May 12, 2013 by Angela Kocherga
New Procedure For Student Visas Causes Delays At Border
EL PASO, Texas -- A new security policy requiring Customs and Border Protection officers to verify all student visas is creating delays for students who commute daily from Mexico to universities in the United States.
“We’re hearing delays anywhere from 30 minutes to three to four hours,” said Gary Edens, vice president for Student Affairs at the University of Texas at El Paso.
The delays are in addition to the amount of time students wait in line with everyone else waiting to reach a Customs and Border Protection officer and present their documents...
On Friday, CBP officers started requiring students to go through a second screening process.
“You go to secondary. Park at a different place and get out of your car,” said Elizabeth Rodriguez, one of the international students.
Now she has to go inside where officers punch her information into a separate system used to verify student visas.
“The amount of international students that cross the border just overwhelms the amount of manpower they have to do that for every single one of us that’s coming every day, all day,” said Rodriguez.

All, of course, thanks to another office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that approved the asylum applications of the elder Tsarnaev brother and father, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The student visa verification procedure is in response to the Boston marathon bombing.

The related issue is as described by the not so comely UTEL co-ed, is related to the major problem at the border, under-funding of infrastructure and staffing.  The reason, of course, is that land border crossers do it for free.  Unlike persons arriving by plane or vessel, land border crossers do not pay a fee to be inspected by CBP.  Of course, CBP has slowly transitioned from funding by these user-fees to appropriation funding.  This is irrational, as border crossing fees should fund the function that CBP executes, inspecting arriving persons and cargo.  The fees now go directly to the general fund in most cases.  This is, in fact, a subsidy of illegal immigration, as 40% of illegal aliens enter the United States and subsequently violate the terms of admission and remain in the United States after the date of expiration of their period of admission.

Breitbart.com April 8, 2013 by William Bigelow
40% Of Illegal Immigrants Overstayed Visas
Roughly 40%  of the 11 million undocumented workers in the United States are foreigners who came legally mostly through visas but have overstayed the length of the visas or overstayed their legal residence here, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. These immigrants did not cross the U.S. border with stealth but rather obeyed the laws when they arrived. The scant hard evidence about this group indicates that they are better educated than non-visa illegal immigrants, and often speak English with greater fluency. They also tend to emigrate from Europe, Asia and Africa,  rather than Central and South America. In many cases, they used tourist visas to enter the U.S.

What this tells us is that CBP is falling down on the job.  And there is a direct corollary to the staffing issue at Ports-of-Entry.  CBP management emphasizes clearing flights in one hour, with local managers gaining bonuses for quick, rather than through, inspection of arriving passengers.  At the land borders, managers are judged not on drug seizures or illegal aliens intercepted but by border wait times.

The solution to the infrastructure and staffing problem, as well as the counterproductive emphasis on inspection speed is to expand CBP staffing to adequately address the problem of aliens who overstay by increasing the thoroughness of inspections.

To get there though, the problem at the land borders must be addressed.  And the way to address that is to build up staffing and infrastructure and to have the persons who use that service, especially the aliens who benefit from inspection, to pay the full cost of that inspection.

CBP has decided to transition to a fee structure, but the usual suspects oppose a fee because they see that CBP might actually start addressing the problem of the initial entry of visa overstayers.

Homeland Security News Wire May 28, 2013
Border Entry Fee Opposed By Border-State Lawmakers, Businesses
DHS, in its 2014 budget proposal, asked for permission to conduct a study about imposing fees at U.S. land border crossings. The proposal is bitterly opposed by both businesses on the northern border, which make most of their money from Canadians who cross into the United States just to shop, and lawmakers from states along the U.S.-Canada border, who say such fees will hurt both commerce and relations between the United States and Canada.
DHS, in its 2014 budget proposal, asked for permission to conduct a study about imposing fees at U.S. land border crossings. The proposal is bitterly opposed by both businesses on the northern border, which make most of their money from Canadians who cross into the United States just to shop, and lawmakers from states along the U.S.-Canada border, who say such fees will hurt both commerce and relations between the United States and Canada.
The Houston Chronicle reports that the DHS study calls for launching a pilot program to determine fee collection methods — short of actually collecting money at the border. The fee would offset the costs of border screenings and border security infrastructure. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has not said how much the study will cost.

The Slave Power is obviously opposed, but the intrepid reporter only interviewed merchants who were concerned about cross border shoppers, not the Slave Power who employ border crossers in the service industry primarily on the border with Mexico.

“It’s a deterrent,” Michael Hill, who owns a gas station is fully stocked with wine, beer and milk, all of which are cheaper in the U.S. told the  Chronicle. “They should be doing anything they can to get them down here to buy more.”
“The imposition of such a toll would act as a barrier to the greater economic integration that we seek, and is the absolute last thing we should be doing to grow our economy,” eighteen Republican and Democratic House members said in  a letter t to DHS secretary Janet Napolitano earlier this month.
Currently, those who enter the United States by air or sea travel pay $2.00 – the fee is included in the price of the ticket — , but those who  enter the country by land do so for free.

And those who seek to elect a new people are also concerned, and acted swiftly and aggressively.  Patrick Leahy, as is his wont, lead proponent of amnesty, was most concerned and filed an amendment that was added to Marco RINO's amnesty bill that would prohibit such fees or studies about the efficacy of fees.  

Even a miserly $2.00 fee per person at the land border would greatly aid in the proper funding of the inspection of persons seeking admission to the United States at our land borders.  It is certainly cheaper than admitting to the United States those millions of illegal aliens who present themselves for inspection.  A mere additional $2.00 for inspecting departing persons as well would help solve the overstay problem.  And, more importantly, place the cost of the enforcement of immigration laws upon those who benefit from the lax current standard and who are the users of the services.  It is no more a deterrent to lawful border crossers than an entrance fee to a national park is to tourists.