DREAM Act aside, immigration system needs investigations
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 10:12AM “The issues you wrote about are not exclusive to California USCIS but Mayorkas has issued orders to grant ungrantable cases throughout USCIS.”—Message to The US Report
The US Report received that message after publishing columns about Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R) inquiries asking for information about potential benefits fraud in the immigration process. Grassley sent a letter to US Citizenship and Immigration Services director Alejandro Mayorkas in September.
Pointing out the level of approval for benefits, Grassley wrote that the employees claim approval ratings for benefits are around 98 percent—“despite estimates that fraudulent applications stand at about 25 percent.” Grassley has sent letters on more than one occasion in an attempt to find out more.
Immigration fraud on all levels is nothing new. Do a quick search and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
For instance in Tampa, Barbara Branks, the owner of La Gringa Professional Immigration Services got prison time for fraud. The Tampa Tribune said, “[B]ranks filed 274 fraudulent asylum petitions.” The paper said she made $816,000 in profit. Those numbers are based on what could be proved.
The Iowa Independent published a story in October about an imam “suspected of conspiracy and fraud in [the] naturalization process, an immigration offense.”
Obviously the federal infrastructure and perhaps the state infrastructure as well need to be investigated. Based on numerous public documents I have come to the conclusion that gatekeepers in government agencies may be influenced by their own political ideology—a backdoor approach to amnesty that may increase because it is not likely the DREAM Act will pass.
I don’t believe the government can afford to implement the DREAM Act. If we are cutting entitlements for American seniors, how can we implement another costly entitlement program?
If you consider all the results you get from a search using the term ‘immigration fraud,’ it’s obvious US immigration policy has been subverted for politics and profit.
How is such fraud enabled? What role do high level federal employees and officials play? Is there a trickle down effect from Washington’s policy?
Immigration is currently projected as a hot button political topic, with leftwingers doe-eyed over the American melting pot and rightwingers wide-eyed over a process run amok.
What’s needed is an investigation of the infrastructure—the directors, the managers and the heads of departments who follow a policy that may not be in the best interest of the US taxpayer.
Look to 1986, to the amnesty bill passed by a Republican Senate and a Democrat House with President Ronald Reagan’s approval. The Center for Immigration Studies in an excellent backgrounder on the 1986 amnesty bill said, “[I]n separate, off-stage negotiations, three key young Democratic members of the House put together a compromise that satisfied representatives of both the (largely Hispanic) farm workers and the California growers. Working around a kitchen table in one of their bachelor apartments on Capital Hill, then-Rep. Leon Panetta (D-Calif.), who spoke for the growers, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who spoke for the illegal farm workers, and the broker, then-Rep., now Sen., Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) created a compromise provision for Special Agricultural Workers, or SAWs. The trio then convinced other members of Congress to accept their provisions for farm workers.”
We now know that bill led to chain migration and we also know it was costly for the US government. We also know that current entitlements and what I consider a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment on birthright citizenship are magnets for illegal entrants.
The federal system needs investigations and audits before anything like the DREAM Act is passed. Any member of Congress voting for such a bill before fraud and corruption are dealt with should be removed from office.
Case in point—does anyone really know what the DREAM Act will cost the US government?
Our subverted system not only harms the taxpayer and the unskilled American worker, it harms those who come here legally and respect federal law.
[Analysis by Kay B. Day/Nov. 24, 2010]
Reader Comments (1)
AMERICAN TAXPAYERS MUST READ THE FULL TEXT OF S 3827, BEFORE THEY CONDEMN THOSE AGAINST THE LAW. THIS DREAM ACT MUTANT LAW HAS MANY HEADS, THAT WILL HAVE BAD IMPLICATIONS ON OUR FUTURE. IT MUST BE TABLED AND THEN REVISED WITH COMMON SENSE? THIS IS ANOTHER EXPENSIVE PARTY FAVOR FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS AND WHOLE FAMILIES THAT WILL JOIN THEM LATER? AS FOR STUDENTS GOING ON HUNGER STRIKE, WE CANNOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THIS TYPE OF RECKLESS BEHAVIOR AND MUST NOT BE TOLERATED.
The Dream Act is not a crucial law if aliens want to join the military --right now? They don't need the Dream Act to enter the military? Just get them to the recruiting center. The Liberals have intentional failed to offer this message in such far left-oriented newspapers as the Huffington Post, New York Time, los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.
Another provision that misleads the public is the fact that illegal aliens can join the military in this time of conflict and collect as a guarantee a path to citizenship at a later date. Under the provisions of the current law (10 USC § 504), the Secretary of Defense can authorize the enlistment of illegal aliens. Once enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces, under 8 USC § 1440, these illegal aliens can become naturalized citizens through expedited processing, often obtaining U.S. citizenship in six months.
These corrupted legislators will not even tell you the real costs, for settling instant-citizenship infants (Anchor Babies?) Here is the last chance to harass your Senator or Representative by phoning (202)224-3121. Challenge them to stop the Left wing zealots for planting another Amnesty in America called the DREAM ACT. HOW CAN SENATOR HARRY REID AND HIS HIERARCHY OF LIBERAL CRONIES, PUSH PASSAGE OF THE DREAM ACT WHEN 15 TO 22 MILLION AMERICANS ARE GROVELING FOR A JOB? IN MOST CASES ANY JOB TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES?
Go to www.numbersusa.com website for in-depth information on illegal immigration and what you can do to stand for our sovereignty and citizen rights? The Tea Party is adamant that no new laws must--NOT--find passage until the real DOUBLE border fence is secure. That no new visas should be implemented until the Guest Worker fraud is extinguished, which businesses owners and their lawyers undertake annually. The Tea Party will blacklist any politician, including those lawmakers they backed, if they cater to illegal immigration and the DREAM ACT--as is?
Here is the full text of the Dream Act (S. 3827: Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2010:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3827
READ the facts about the Dream Act and not the propaganda from Senator Harry Reid's Liberal party leadership that must--END? Sen. Jeff Sessions put out the following release last week on the DREAM Act, that it’s an incremental illegal-alien amnesty bill. IT IS A VERY CAREFULLY PLANNED AMNESTY, FULL OF RHETORIC? BUT EVERY TAXPAYER NEEDS TO READ THE FULL TEXT OF THE WHITE PAPER. Remember your taxes are certain to accelerate upwards, to pay for all these indecent provisions. American citizens are already having money extorted from them to pay for the babies of illegal aliens born here, the education of illegal alien children, the health care for all family members and crammed prisons and jails for convicted illegal alien felons. All needs to be paid for by your taxes? High on the list of Negatives is that the students will be able to sponsor immediate family members under the chain migration law.
Not so much the students who would become naturalized citizens, but the chain migration that would snowball for all family members. As I have said before we are committing financial suicide, because the majority of guarantors never honor their affidavits to support the people they vouch? In the end the older family folks who have never paid into the Social Security system, become another public welfare liability. Hundreds of thousands or may be millions have been allowed into America on the surety of the original sponsor, who failed to support his-her immediate family. Over the years taxpayers have been confronted with this issue, as the US government never had the man-power to enforce this sponsorship law. Years of non-compliance has become yet another Social Security, (SSI) Supplementary Income of Tax payers left to pay even heavier taxes in support of people who were sponsored and then neglected. The amount of money that cannot even be estimated, that is being appropriated every year to account for the illegal immigration invasion.
The invasion hasn't stopped and never will until we cut of all welfare entitlements?
WANT THE REALITY OF COSTS? GOOGLE---Illegal immigrant costs and find out for yourself and then you decide? Then go to the Heritage Foundation website and it will explain with graphs, projections and text by the reputable in-depth analysis by Robert Rector.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/06/amnesty-will-cost-us-taxpayers-at-least-26-trillion
Next week will add further enticements for illegal immigrants to come here, if this Dream Act passes?
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