http://tancredo.house.gov/reformnow/

Border Bluff of the Day:

"The best way to intercept the jihadists and criminals, however, would be to give hard-working laborers a realistic opportunity to come here legally - by enacting a more generous legal immigration law with a guest-worker option."- Linda Chavez, New York Times, 11/17/2005

Fact:

Processing the millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. would crush the already broken immigration system. We’ve all seen what can happen when dangerous illegal aliens get amnesty: "This[Amnesty] can become a national-security problem, when ineligible people get legal status--people like, say, Mahmud Abouhalima, a cabbie in New York, who got amnesty as a farm worker under the 1986 law and went on to help lead the first World Trade Center attack. Having an illegal-alien terrorist in your country is bad; having one with legal status is worse, since he can work and travel freely, as Abouhalima did, going to Afghanistan to receive terrorist training only after he got amnesty."- National Review, 01/26/2004

Border Bluff of the Day:

Columnist Barry Smith of the Jacksonville Daily News complains about the proposed cutting off of federal highway funds to the state of North Carolina unless illegal aliens are prevented from obtaining driver’s licenses: “Instead of the federal government deciding on a clear immigration policy, it wants to dictate what the state government does on its driver's license policy. The federal government isn't doing its job right; yet it wants to tell the states how to do theirs.�- Jacksonville Daily News, 11/15/2005

Fact:

The federal government is merely trying to prevent North Carolina from creating an environment that enables and caters to illegal immigration. The state of North Carolina is adopting a policy that will increase the flow of illegal immigration, and it is the federal government's job to stop that from happening.

Border Bluff of the Day:

Amnesty cheerleader Rep. Jim Kolbe(R-AZ) has a problem with securing the homeland first before implementing a guest worker program: "If they only deal with enforcement now, what incentive is there later to come back and deal with the tougher, harder parts?" - Arizona Republic, 11/12/2005

Fact:

We can only figure out how many guest workers we need (and if we need them at all) when we secure our borders and get control over immigration. As in 1986, it’s easy to grant amnesty and say you’ll be tough on border security later.

For More Border Bluff visit archives:
http://tancredo.house.gov/reformnow/archive.shtml