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Exclusive: Goodbye to the American Dream


Michael Cutler
Author: Michael Cutler
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: February 24, 2007



Will Senators Kennedy and McCain succeed in forcing a guest worker program down America’s throat? FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler explains the dangers inherent in their campaign.

Goodbye to the American Dream

By Michael Cutler

Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain have created an unholy alliance to force a Guest Worker Amnesty bill through the Senate that will give United States citizenship to illegal aliens and create a bureaucratic nightmare that will endanger national security.

Those who support this proposal have much to gain. This is all about undercutting wages for United States citizens and resident aliens. This is about providing immigration lawyers with a potentially limitless supply of clients. This is about providing political leverage to various advocacy groups who favor open borders.

The losers in this campaign are the many Americans who are hanging on to their share of the "American Dream," struggling to make ends meet.

The legislation, according to an article titled “Senate illegals bill near complete” in the Washington Times Thursday, will not just provide United States citizenship for millions of illegal aliens who are in the country now -- not to mention those who will charge the borders of our nation and claim to have been present in the United States for the required period of time -- it will open the floodgates for many more aliens to enter the United States legally as well.

Labor, just like any other commodity, is governed in the marketplace by the laws of supply and demand. With a virtually limitless supply, the price of labor will plummet, I fear to the point at which workers in the United States and workers in Mexico will be making comparable salaries. It is not that the wages for Mexicans will rise in Mexico; it is that the wages of our citizens will fall precipitously.

Additionally, our immigration system will be utterly incapable of dealing with the massive flood of new aliens - it can’t even handle the ones we have now. At present many Government Accountability Office and Office of Inspector General reports have thoroughly documented the rampant fraud crisis at US Customs and Immigration Services, the division of the Department of Homeland Security that adjudicates applications for immigration benefits, including the conferring of resident alien status and naturalization, affording them with the ultimate "keys to the kingdom:" United States citizenship. This agency, which has proven itself to be incompetent time and time again, is the same agency that will administer this new program.

The terrorists who attacked our nation on September 11, 2001, along with other terrorists who have operated within our country over the last couple of decades, have often entered our nation and hidden among us by availing themselves of opportunities to game the immigration system. This program that is favored by Senators Kennedy and McCain would make it so easy for terrorists and criminals to exploit vulnerabilities in the system that gaming the system will be like taking candy from a comatose baby.

The bill will eliminate the debates raging across the United States about the way in which local governments can enforce segments of the immigration law. Virtually every illegal alien present in the United States will ultimately be granted lawful immigration status and be put on the path to United States citizenship. They will also acquire the right to bring to America their family members as well! As United States citizens, they can petition the government to provide resident alien status to their parents, brothers and sisters (even if they have a dozen siblings) and their spouses and children.

If the legislation that emerges from the Senate is comparable to the travesty of the bill passed in the last session, S. 2611, illegal aliens will also be entitled to receive Social Security benefits even if they committed identity theft and worked illegally under another person's Social Security Number. It would not matter whether mayors and other local town officials had declared their municipalities to be "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens because the United States of America would become one big "Sanctuary Country."

Meanwhile, the President has been cheering on these politicians, doing everything he can to erase our nation's borders. The only way this train wreck can be prevented is for the House of Representatives to refuse to go along with the program.

It would appear that if the President and Senators Kennedy and McCain had their way, the only aliens to the United States on the planet earth would be those who are seen arriving in flying saucers. They would become like the characters portrayed by actors Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the movie, "Men in Black." Of course, that movie was good, clean entertainment. What these politicians are preparing is an unmitigated disaster.

As I have said before, those who protected and saved our nation during the dark days of the Second World War came to be known as the "Greatest Generation." Those of us who inhabit the United States today may be remembered as the "Last Generation!"

On September 1 of last year I was invited to travel to Dubuque, Iowa to testify at a field hearing called by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, then Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was entitled, "Is the Reid-Kennedy Bill a Repeat of the Failed Amnesty of 1986?" Joining me at the witness table were three other witnesses including Senator Charles Grassley. His appearance was particularly noteworthy because he had been an advocate for the abysmal Amnesty of 1986. You can read the transcript of that hearing and watch a video of the proceedings as well at:

http://judiciary.house.gov/oversight.aspx?ID=258

If ever there was a time for the citizens of our nation to be heard, the time is NOW!

If this bill is allowed to become the law of the land, there will be no going back!

Lead, follow or get out of the way!


FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michael Cutler is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a well-respected authority on immigration and border security issues.

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As I have said before, those who protected and saved our nation during the dark days of the Second World War came to be known as the "Greatest Generation." Those of us who inhabit the United States today may be remembered as the "Last Generation!"

What profoundly sad words !!! I will fight hard to make sure they are not prophetic words...WE are going to turn this around, failure is not an option.

It will never accept it as an option April. I refuse too.


America will rise up in opposition!!

As Lou Dobbs says...'War on the Middle Class' - I think that sums it up pretty well.

Originally Posted by April

As I have said before, those who protected and saved our nation during the dark days of the Second World War came to be known as the "Greatest Generation." Those of us who inhabit the United States today may be remembered as the "Last Generation!"

[quote:v8bo15my]What profoundly sad words !!! I will fight hard to make sure they are not prophetic words...WE are going to turn this around, failure is not an option.

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Ditto April!! failure is not an option!!