Exactly as I've been saying. Once this amnesty is passed, the pro enforcement provisions will get thrown out the window just like they did in 1986. These pro enforcement provisions are nothing more than window dressing and anyone who expects Bush and these elites to keep to their promises of enforcing the law are naive and stupid and should have their voter registeration revoked permanently.

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Border fence will never be built
Posted: May 18, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

The Senate voted to approve the amendment submitted by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to build a 370-mile section of triple-layered fence along the Mexican border. Now the Bush administration is trying to push this as a victory for conservatives. But the reality is, so what? Senate Democrats voted for the Sessions amendment only because they knew the amendment was meaningless.

Like so many law enforcement provisions in so many previous immigration laws, what happens if the fence is not built? Nothing happens – that's the answer. Maybe the money to build the fence is never appropriated, or the agency charged with designing the fence never finalizes an acceptable design. The Sessions amendment lacks any penalty if the government just forgets about the fence the moment President Bush signs the bill. Senate Democrats know the fence is just public relations, a provision intended to allow Republican senators who truly support illegal aliens to argue the bill is tough on enforcement. Sen. Kennedy would have moved immediately to kill any fence that meant something serious.

Sen. Kennedy – as well as top Republicans supporting the bill, including Sens. Hagel, R-Neb., Brownback, R-Kan., and McCain, R-Ariz. – know that the real point is for the Senate to pass some form of a "guest-worker" provision, even if the numbers of guest workers permitted are reduced, and to establish some sort of a "pathway to citizenship," even if the pathway does not reach down to those illegal immigrants who have only been here for two years or less.

Supporters of illegal immigrants, including Sens. Hagel, Brownback and McCain, are willing to be flexible on these "amnesty" provisions because they know the details of the "guest-workers" program or the "pathway to citizenship" will also never be enforced. Any illegal immigrant who needs a "guest-worker" certificate will soon be able to buy one on the black market. Any illegal immigrant who needs proof to establish their residence in the United States for five years or more can probably buy the false documentation in Mexico, before they cross the border illegally, under cover of night.

To measure the impact of this immigration bill, we have to ask what measurable changes will happen once the bill is passed. To begin with, we know that any National Guard deployed on the border will be a minimal force that will be deployed on the border only for a short time. Besides, President Fox has already let us know that if the National Guard does more than supplement the Minutemen already on the border, the American Civil Liberties Union will begin filing lawsuits. Moreover, even if a 370-mile fence is built, millions of illegal immigrants can still go around it, entering the United States somewhere else on the 1,600 miles where no new fence is being built. So, the end result is that more illegal immigrants will certainly continue to flood into the United States.

Looking at the "guest-worker" and "pathway" provisions, we can see that the day after the bill is passed, no illegal immigrants now here will feel any reason to leave. Why should they?

Any illegal immigrant who stays can easily argue they qualify for permanent legal residence, because they have just applied to be a "guest worker," or because they can produce documentation showing residence for five years or more, justifying their right to become a naturalized citizen sooner or later. If "guest workers" never leave, the bill specifies no penalty. If those with PLR never naturalize, the bill specifies no fault. So, why should any illegal immigrant no in the United States leave?

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?

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.

Sen. Hagel can complain that this is not an "amnesty" in that no illegal immigrant is immediately pardoned. But, the result amounts to the same. The bill has no meaningful penalties anyone intends to enforce. The only result of the legislation is that the millions illegal immigrants now here get to stay – one way or another – legitimately as "guest workers" or permanent legal residents who are on their way to citizenship.

Those who were "illegal immigrants" before the bill was proposed will redefined and grandfathered as 21st-century "guest workers" or as permanent legal residents the moment the bill is passed.

How exactly does this result differ from the result an amnesty would confer? The United States remains open to illegal immigration. The 370-mile fence will never get built. And the National Guard will just use their few days on the border as preparation for being deployed in Iraq. The message the Senate's bill sends is that millions more foreign nationals are invited to "com'on over" to join their friends and relatives – anyone who gets in the United States will get to stay.