The reason for this illegal immigration scare

Dr. Joel McDurmon
Aug 11, 2014
All I’ve heard about the recent illegal immigration hype is that Obama is orchestrating this to bring about amnesty and to flood the U.S. with new Democrats. Well, it is orchestrated, but not for the reasons you may be led to believe. Specific Answers has a great article exposing an inconvenient statistic that you won’t hear in any of the news media—liberal or neocon alike. The facts are these: 1) this is not news, because not much has really changed statistically; 2) Obama is doing nothing but continuing W’s trend of reduced arrests; 3) The toughest level of border enforcement occurred under a recent Democrat, Clinton; and 4) This is really nothing more than a scare tactic to bring about—not amnesty—but national ID cards. Conservatives may be vulnerable enough on this issue enough to fall for it. Conservatives think they are making Obama look bad on this issue. They are doing nothing but setting themselves up for a trap.
Moreover, you won’t believe what I dug up that predicted all of this . . . in 1983! More on that in a moment.

First, some facts. Gary North posted this articlelast Wednesday. A U.S. Border Patrol charthighlighted by CNSNews.com shows the stats for arrests of illegal aliens since 1992. The fact is that apprehensions rose to a peak under Bill Clinton. They fell drastically in 2000 and trended strongly downward during W’s administration. Since then, Obama only continued W’s trend, though he did increase arrests slighty since 2011.


The points here are as I said. The recent “flood” of illegal immigrants across the border is not news. It has been steady with steadily fewer arrests since 2000.

So why has the media all of the sudden alarmed and panicked the public with this out of nowhere? Why? Because the powers that be want to finish off their agenda with the REAL ID Act—that is, a national ID card. Here’s what North reveals, and what the media says nothing about:

I cite the Wikipedia article on The REAL ID Act. It’s the law. It has been for nine years.

The REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub.L. 109–13, 119 Stat. 302, enacted May 11, 2005, was an Act of Congress that modified U.S. federal law pertaining to security, authentication, and issuance procedures standards for the state driver’s licenses and identification (ID) cards, as well as various immigration issues pertaining to terrorism.

The law sets forth requirements for state driver’s licenses and ID cards to be accepted by the federal government for “official purposes”, as defined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Secretary of Homeland Security has currently defined “official purposes” as presenting state driver’s licenses and identification cards for boarding commercially operated airline flights and entering federal buildings and nuclear power plants.

The Social Security card has functioned as an ID card for decades. I am old enough to have a card that says on the front: “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION.” From the beginning, defenders of civil liberties saw the threat. The card is now widely used for identification purposes.

The SS card is not current. Driver’s licenses are. So, the DHS is attempting to create a federal ID card that is tied to state driver’s licenses. The goal is to get the federal camel’s nose into the privacy tent. The DHS is encountering resistance.

The REAL ID Act implements the following:

Title II of the act establishes new federal standards for state-issued driver licenses and non-driver identification cards.

Changing visa limits for temporary workers, nurses, and Australian citizens.

Funding some reports and pilot projects related to border security.

Introducing rules covering “delivery bonds” (similar to bail bonds but for aliens who have been released pending hearings).

Updating and tightening the laws on application for asylum and deportation of aliens for terrorist activity.

Waiving laws that interfere with construction of physical barriers at the borders
Unlike the vast majority of federal laws, this one created widespread resistance. Half of the states have resisted or have refused to participate. This has thwarted the DHS.

But Why now? Because the Act has a looming deadline:

The DHS has a timetable for implementing this law. The Wikipedia article is clear about this timetable.

On December 20, 2013, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that implementation of Phase 1 would begin on January 20, 2014, which followed a yearlong period of “deferred enforcement”. As of January 2014, 21 states are compliant, 20 states and territories have been granted renewable extensions (until October 10, 2014), and 15 states and territories are noncompliant (but are eligible for extensions).

Let me ask the obvious question: When did the publicity begin about this “tidal wave of immigration”? When did the headlines begin?
Hint: not in 2013.

This is an orchestrated event. Watch for “relief” from the “wave of immigration” — formal calls for the acceptance and implementation of the REAL ID law.

For any specific destruction of our liberties, the destroyer knows exactly what weak spot to target in order to get voters to succumb. In this case, the illegal immigrant angle will be played up and hyped beyond measure, and conservatives will squeal and not be able to line up fast enough to demand National ID cards. This is the destroyer’s hope and plan anyway.

I recommend you read the rest of North’s article to learn more about how the REAL ID Act will destroy your privacy and freedom, if there is not continued resistance and repeal.

But just in case you think this is all too conspiratorial, convenient, coincidental, tangential, or whatever—I want you to consider what was predicted over 30 years ago precisely in regard to these two issues: orchestrated illegal immigration “scares” and National ID cards:
Another problem is looming. In early 1982, I spoke with Prof. Lewis Tambs, who is a specialist in Latin American history at Arizona State University in Tempe. (I must add that he is now the American ambassador to Columbia, and he has not repeated his opinion publicly since joining the government.) He pointed out that a traditional tactic of the Communists is to destabilize a society and then encourage refugees to flee to a nearby country. This destabilizes the recipient nation. The next step is obvious. Destabilize nations close to the United States.

Where are the most likely candidates today? In Central America. They are being helped by Mexico, at least to the extent that “free zones” appear to be established for the Marxists to use as bases (as in Cambodia before 1970). . . .

Tambs does not claim to be a prophet, but he thinks that 3 million to 5 million refugees from Latin America could come across the U.S. border over the next five years [1983–1988], if panic hits Mexico. To counter this sort of threat, Sen. Simpson of Wyoming [Republican] has introduced a bill to issue “worker identity cards,” which every person must show to an employer before being hired. . . .
In terms of lost civil liberties and the growth of Federal bureaucratic power, a National Identity Card would be a national disaster. It sounds like something out of Nazi-controlled Europe or the Soviet Union today. But it may well be accepted without serious protests if people get scared by headlines about the “Latin peril,” and they forget about the real peril, “bureaucracy peril.”

Same issues 31 years ago as today. Same agenda: reduce freedom in America. It gets even more specific, and even more relevant to todays “headlines”:

A wave of illegal immigrants will bring diseases with them, possibly mosquito-born [sic] diseases. The threat of malaria and even the ultimate killer, yellow fever, will increase.

Influxes of infectious disease get people’s attention real quick.

But let’s be smart. The main reasons such an influx will be a threat is because of the already-existing welfare state, and worse, the already-existing mentality among American voters who cannot think outside of the welfare state or its custodians—the police state. The call is for greater “security,” which means more bureaucracy and more police-state controls. The analysis continues:

What should be done about illegal aliens? First, require proof of immunization, or require those without proof to be immunized. Second, abolish the minimum wage law. Third, abolish all public welfare programs. Fourth, abolish the requirement that the children of illegal aliens be required to attend schools at taxpayers’ expense. Just let them work, at whatever wage they can get. In short, let them enjoy the freedom that we all want. But our home-grown socialist programs have made a threat out of those who are willing to work. Our great[-great]-grandparents were welcomed, or at least tolerated, because there was no American welfare State in the nineteenth century.
These subtleties will be lost on voters, should such a wave of refugees hit this nation. . . . The inability of the welfare State to deal with these immigrants so far has been obvious. What if we get millions of them? The free market will not be tried; they will not be absorbed by the legal labor markets; and the populists will be in hog heaven.

. . . If there were no State welfare costs, and there were a true free market for labor, what would be the problem? Cheap labor is as valuable to buyers as cheap anything else. As advertisers love to ask, “Why pay more?” Unfortunately, I fear that a lot of conservatives will be yelling for some sort of freedom-denying “national identity card.” Socialist, welfare State legislation has made immigrants a threat to economic stability, not the immigrants themselves. So let’s abolish welfare State restrictions, not adopt a national identity work card. Let’s blame the problem, not potential economic assets.

Voters will demand order. They will not live in anarchy. The Marxists and other late-nineteenth-century revolutionaries understood this. They promoted anarchism, assassination, and terrorism in order to force the State into repression, which in turn was supposed to lead to the great revolution of the masses. What it led to was more police bureaucracy, reduced civil liberties, and (in Russia) a far worse bureaucracy after the promised revolution.

This is all from Gary North’s book The Last Train Out, published in 1983, pages 131–133.

The REAL ID Act was introduced in January 2005 by a Republican congressman, Jim Sensenbrenner, who is also famous as the architect of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. The REAL ID Act was introduced under the guise of fighting terrorism by requiring stringent certification of citizenship for state drivers licenses. Gotta keep terrorists from immigrating and traveling among us. The bill had 140 cosponsors, mostly Republicans, including Todd Akin, Eric Cantor, Phil Gingrey, Paul Ryan, and many more. The bill passed the House 261-161 along mainly partisan lines, but was later attached as an appendix to an $85 billion Emergency “Global War on Terror” Spending bill to make its passage appear even more unified. It was not debated at all on the floor of the Senate. It ended up passing the Senate 99-0, and the final version passed in the House 368-58.

President George W. Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law on May 11, 2005. In that same year, the trend for reducing arrests of illegal immigrants started back downward on essentially the same percentage of decline which Obama has continued.

What is coming? A flood of new Democrats? Maybe. But much more likely is a tidal wave of propaganda aimed at scaring you into the need for further reduced freedom—a nation ID card. Just listen to what is already planned with the REAL ID:

There are four planned phases, three of which apply to areas that affect relatively few U.S. citizens—e.g., DHS headquarters, nuclear power plants, and restricted and semi-restricted federal facilities. The timeline for Phase 4, which applies to boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, will be determined after DHS conducts an evaluation of how the first three phases were implemented. To “ensure that the public has ample advanced [sic] notice”, DHS says that Phase 4 will not be implemented before January 1, 2016.
Phase 1 has already been resisted in several states. The government has backed off and given these states a “renewable extension” for “deferred enforcement.” These expire on October 2014. This is why the tidal wave of headlines has hit now: to spook the public, especially conservatives.

Notice how the progression is planned: the first phases don’t affect many people. Many people should not have squealed—although they did. This is good. DHS is trying to coax them along over time. But the last phase will affect everyone who gets on a commercial airplane. Without softening up—i.e. frightening—the public, such a step will not go over well. We have already with some success caused them to back off of the earlier phases. DHS itself has said it will only implement the last phase based upon how well they can achieve compliance with the earlier, easier phases. This will come “no sooner than 2016.”

But in their minds, it will come. And the massive attempts at propaganda will continue, because they will be necessary. I think they will certainly increase, especially toward that latter phase. I would not be surprised at all to see national headlines hyped with a new terror event with an airline as we approach that 2016 deadline. It could be another “event” like an “underwear bomber,” or it could possibly be something more major. I am not predicting this, but I would not be surprised by it. And such an event will be used to press for final implementation of such policy, and probably more.

For now, the crisis du jour is a flood of illegal immigrants from Central America, carrying disease, and who will eventually vote Democrat.

This is designed to scare conservative voters and herd them toward a common goal. The agenda for the REAL ID Act is perfectly consistent with this goal. The process has been predictable since at least 1983. It is even more predictable now.
It’s time to go beyond partial resistance. We need mass awareness and mass resistance not only to withstand this, but to push to get it repealed. In this effort, we must withstand the propaganda and scare tactics carefully designed to hit us where we fear the most. Stand, don’t fold.

http://americanvision.org/11180/the-...on-scare11180/

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