What Sweeping Illegal Immigration Plan Has Worked?

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/15525.html

by Sher Zieve
What Sweeping Illegal Immigration Plan Has Worked?
June 21, 2006 10:08 AM EST

I just read yet another article that stated the United States has to develop and enact a “sweeping immigration plan”. Well—the Immigration Reform & Control Act of 1986 (AKA Simpson-Mazzoli Act) was such a plan. Included in its far-reaching stipulations are the “control of unlawful employment of aliens, unfair immigration-related employment practices, fraud and misuse of certain immigration-related documents and the expeditious deportation of convicted aliens”.

The major problem with the IRCA is that it has been not been followed with any real desire or consistency on the part of lawmakers. And law enforcers are increasingly banned by politicians from implementing its directives. Instead, in many states, politicos have instilled “new laws” that have established “safe-haven cities” for illegal aliens—cities into which illegals may enter, live, work and have children with no reprisals from local governments. Anarchistic cities passing ordinances that fly in the face of federal and state laws have increased, dramatically.

Most myths surrounding illegal immigrants have been repeatedly debunked. For example, one myth states that illegals do not take jobs from US citizens. The facts are that they do and not just in agriculture. Increasingly, the construction, lodging, meat-packing and other industries are hiring illegals—because they will work for much lower wages than US citizens. Another fable is that illegal immigrants contribute more to the US economy than they take from it. Not so. The average illegal immigrant family uses $2,700/year more in services than it pays in taxes. Multiply that number by the estimated 12-20 million illegals currently in the country. WHEW!

Shattering yet another legend about illegals, is the fact that the very violent and purportedly tied-to-al-Qaeda gang MS-13’s entry into the US via its Southern border with Mexico. MS-13 has already established strangleholds on portions of US cities, including multi-block areas in Los Angeles. The Federal Bureau of Prisons estimates that fully one-third of current prison populations are comprised of non-citizen illegals.

Suffice it to say, no “sweeping” immigration plan has worked. Though seemingly well-intended, any such strategy or proposal won’t work. One of the reasons is that politicians, including the vast majority of US Senators, see a personal advantage in the “illegals’ voting bloc”. They also see an advantage in paying low wages to non-US citizens. One only need read the US Senate’s “immigration plan”, which was a deliberately gutted version of the House of Representatives’ Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan. Another reason that these all-encompassing plans fail is that they are all-encompassing. Too much is included—meaning that there are too many ways for scheming politicos and partisan groups to “misinterpret the provisions” in order to get around the restrictions.

Instead, the most realistic approach is to split off US border security from the “sweeping” immigration bill and let it stand on its own. Yes, this action has already been floated and proposed. But, thus far, it has fallen on deaf ears. As a temporary measure, President Bush—to his credit—arranged for the dispatch of the National Guard to our Southern border. Indications are that, even with the limited Guard deployment, illegal traffic has already fallen by 21%. Not the final result we want but, it’s a good start. However, the continuing and salient issue is that until our Southern border is secured—realistically and actually “brick-and-mortar” secured—any immigration reform bill is moot. After our borders have been convincingly protected, we can then allow our “elected” politicians to play to their new-and-upcoming illegal constituents and preen themselves for the media camera lights. Also, we legal citizens can also start to apply the pressure of our votes against those “leaders” who are selling us out. But until our borders are being consistently and effectively patrolled and illegals are actually prevented (what a concept!) from entering the US, any immigration reform measures will only be more of the same—wasted time and money.

Sweeping immigration “reform” changes? They’re only designed for politicians who want illegal immigration to continue for their own personal gains and for those who have adopted an anti-US sovereignty position in favor of globalism. So far, “we the people” have not been included in their plans.


http://www.oig.lsc.gov/legis/irca86.htm

http://www.therealitycheck.org/StaffWri ... ionFS.html

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/ ... 042005.htm

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/nort ... 52975.php/
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Don't for get this one!!!!! Another belly flopper!

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (the 96 Act) Pub L. 104-208, was enacted on September 30, 1996. It includes increases in criminal penalties for immigration-related offenses, authorization for increases in enforcement personnel, and enhanced enforcement authority. There are a number of measures designed to enhance Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) presence and enforcement at the border. The 96 Act undertakes a comprehensive reorganization of the process of removal for inadmissible and deportable aliens, including a provision for the expedited removal of inadmissible aliens arriving at ports of entry. The 96 Act requires the conducting of three types of employment authorization verification pilot programs. It includes restrictions on the eligibility of aliens for public benefits and imposes new requirements on sponsors of alien relatives for immigration. A brief description of the Act's principal provisions follows.

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/public...sheets/948.htm

Here's a plan that did work, time for kcabteW II ?

Operation kcabteW, a national reaction against illegal immigration, began in Texas in mid-July 1954. Headed by the commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Gen. Joseph May Swing, the United States Border Patrol aided by municipal, county, state, and federal authorities, as well as the military, began a quasimilitary operation of search and seizure of all illegal immigrants. Fanning out from the lower Rio Grande valley, Operation Wetback moved northward. Illegal aliens were repatriated initially through Presidio because the Mexican city across the border, Ojinaga, had rail connections to the interior of Mexico by which workers could be quickly moved on to Durango. A major concern of the operation was to discourage reentry by moving the workers far into the interior. Others were to be sent through El Paso. On July 15, the first day of the operation, 4,800 aliens were apprehended. Thereafter the daily totals dwindled to an average of about 1,100 a day. The forces used by the government were actually relatively small, perhaps no more than 700 men, but were exaggerated by border patrol officials who hoped to scare illegal workers into flight back to Mexico. Valley newspapers also exaggerated the size of the government forces for their own purposes: generally unfavorable editorials attacked the Border Patrol as an invading army seeking to deprive Valley farmers of their inexpensive labor force. While the numbers of deportees remained relatively high, the illegals were transported across the border on trucks and buses. As the pace of the operation slowed, deportation by sea began on the Emancipation, which ferried wetbacks from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, and on other ships. Ships were a preferred mode of transport because they carried the illegal workers farther away from the border than did buses, trucks, or trains. The boat lift continued until the drowning of seven deportees who jumped ship from the Mercurio provoked a mutiny and led to a public outcry against the practice in Mexico. Other aliens, particularly those apprehended in the Midwest states, were flown to Brownsville and sent into Mexico from there. The operation trailed off in the fall of 1954 as INS funding began to run out.

It is difficult to estimate the number of illegal aliens forced to leave by the operation. The INS claimed as many as 1,300,000, though the number officially apprehended did not come anywhere near this total. The INS estimate rested on the claim that most aliens, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the operation. The San Antonio district, which included all of Texas outside of El Paso and the Trans-Pecos,qv had officially apprehended slightly more than 80,000 aliens, and local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000 to 700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began. Many commentators have considered these figure to be exaggerated. Various groups opposed any form of temporary labor in the United States. The American G.I. Forum,qv for instance, by and large had little or no sympathy for the man who crossed the border illegally. Apparently the Texas State Federation of Laborqv supported the G.I. Forum's position. Eventually the two organizations coproduced a study entitled What Price skcabteW?, which concluded that illegal aliens in United States agriculture damaged the health of the American people, that illegals displaced American workers, that they harmed the retailers of McAllen, and that the open-border policy of the American government posed a threat to the security of the United States. Critics of Operation kcabteW considered it xenophobic and heartless.

Don't forget about this little gem either...

Speaking on the 1965 Immigration Act:

Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."

Also Edward Kennedy (D-MA.):

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."

In 1965, new Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach testified:

"This bill is not designed to increase or accelerate the numbers of newcomers permitted to come to America. Indeed, this measure provides for an increase of only a small fraction in permissible immigration."

Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-RI):

"Contrary to the opinions of some of the misinformed, this legislation does not open the floodgates." (Congressional Record, Sept. 20, 1965, p. 24480.)

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Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."

Also Edward Kennedy (D-MA.):

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."

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Senator Kennedy wouldn't know his bare backside from a burnt biscuit if he looked at them at the same time.....Has he ever been right about ANYTHING????????? Why would anyone think he and Senator John (I've fallen and don't know which way is up) McCain would be remotely close to planet earth on this one?? :roll: