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May 20, 2006
Mini-Interview With Congressman Jack Kingston On Illegal Immigration And More - The House May Hold The Line But Does Any Of This Really Matter?
Topics: Political News and commentariesRight Wing News has done an exclusive mini-interview with Congressman Jack Kingston (R-Ga) on illegal immigration:
John Hawkins: Let me ask you one more question. You may not be able to answer, but give it your best shot. What do you think is going to happen if and when we get a bad Senate bill through and it goes into committee with the House Bill?Read the rest!Jack Kingston: The House will kill it.
John Hawkins: You think so? You don't think the House would let something that conservatives would be really upset with get through?
Jack Kingston: I don't think so. I think there is a lot of division in the House, but I think we would kill it. ...We don't want perfection to be the enemy of progress here because we didn't get into this situation overnight and we won't get out of it overnight....
John Hawkins: So you don't think amnesty will get through?
Jack Kingston: No, and I can tell you that there are about 180 House members (who've) drawn a pretty strong line in the sand on that.
If what Congressman Kingston is saying about the House blocking amnesty holds true, then at least there's a chance that the Senate reforms can be diluted. But I can't help but wonder if all this hoopla about immigration reform on the part of our politicians in Washington is nothing more than a big act and all show, and after all is said and done, the ONLY result of all the talk and all the new legislation is to legalize the current illegal immigrant status quo, and in effect, the only thing that gets changed is the definitions.
If you think about what has been passed by the Senate carefully, not an iota of enforcement requirements have been built into any part of the reform bill, or even discussed (at least to my knowledge), and as Jerome Corsi pointed out in his World Net Daily piece yesterday, "If we apply an objective, measurable test to determine what the proposed "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" legislation really accomplishes, we see that all the bill does is to legalize the current illegal immigrant status quo. The only thing that changes is the definitions. ""
The whole point of the bill is to reclassify current illegal immigrants" as "guest workers" or those with PLR. Then the Democrats and the ACLU can begin pressing for these former "illegal immigrants" to have "rights" as the "almost citizens" the bill has magically transformed them into being. The bill under discussion in the Senate is sorely lacking on serious enforcement. The bill does not penalize the Social Security Administration for failing to track down "no match" Social Security numbers illegal aliens use to obtain jobs in full violation of the 1986 law. The bill does not place penalties upon the Internal Revenue Service for failing to go after employers who openly commit payroll tax fraud by hiring illegal aliens under the table. Where is the money to go after employers who never intended to pay taxes on illegal aliens in their employment, or to report the wages of their illegal immigrant employees so the IRS might go after them?In Deborah Whites article, "Why the Federal Government Can't End Illegal Immigration," we learn that the Bush administration has absolutely no intention whatsoever to end illegal immigration, and that under the Bush Administration - illegal immigration has actually accelerated, with the US gaining 3 million additional illegal immigrant residents in 2004:
[...] Ten million illegal immigrants live in the US, according to estimates by academic and government agencies, although Bear-Stearns investment firm analysts claim that the US illegal immigrant population "may be as high as 20 million people."There's a lot more to learn in White's article and I recommend that you read all of it. But you can easily catch the point here - the American people are being duped, and for the life of me I can't understand why all this hasn't come to light yet. Our only chance is that conservative bloggers and their readers work together to create a groundswell of anger, which may already be building thanks to the Senate's love affair with the illegal aliens. Hopefully, what Congressman Kingston anticipates as happening in the House will in fact happen - and at least amnesty will be stopped. But as you can see, there's much much more that needs to be done - the least of all is getting the Bush record on illegal immigration out to the light of day.Time magazine stated in 2004 that illegal immigration accelerated under the Bush Administration, with the US gaining 3 million additional illegal immigrant residents in 2004. A third of all illegal immigrants in the US live in California. Other states with large illegal populations are, in descending order, Texas, New York, Illinois, Florida and Arizona.
After more than 100 years in existence, President Bush dissolved the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)in March 2003 and absorbed it into the new Homeland Security Department, along with FEMA and dozens of other federal agencies created to help citizens and residents.
Until its dissolution, the INS had been part of the Justice Department since 1940, and before that, part of the US Labor Department. After the September 11, 2001 tragedy, the Bush Administration complained that the INS was insufficiently focused on deporting and expelling illegal immigrants, and thus asked that it be transferred to Homeland Security.
The US Border Patrol is charged with the responsibility of enforcing illegal immigration across US borders. Until 2003, the Border Patrol was part of the INS, but was also folded into Homeland Security (as a separate agency from INS).
The massive US intelligence agencies overhaul passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in January 2005 required Homeland Security to hire 10,000 more Border Patrol agents, 2,000 per year starting immediately. The Border Patrol currently employs 9,500 agents who patrol 8,000 miles of border.
But Bush Administration ignored the law mandating the hiring of new agents. Said Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) to CNN's Lou Dobbs, "Unfortunately, the White House ignored the law, and only asked us for 200 more agents. That's unacceptable." Culberson was referring to the federal budget for 2006 in which President Bush provided funds for only 210 new agents, not 2,000 additional agents.
Both houses of Congress worked together twice in 2005 to bypass the White House, and hire 1,500 new Border Patrol agents......500 shy of that required by law, but far surpassing the mere 210 planned by President Bush.
Related: Cal Thomas - Immigration bill would change character of U.S.
Posted by Richard at May 20, 2006 12:10 AM
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