Brought to you by many members of the MCDC forum.....

Please feel free to add items you wish to have included in this document.
Also try to be constructive please.

We are seeking your input to try and
formulate a real Secure Borders First Act in 2007.
Our representatives need our input in order to take
action, just like the encouragement we gave them to
oppose the CIR; we now need to phone, forward
ideas and encourage them to take actions to secure
the border - that means passing a strong
border security act.

Lamar Smith and Peter King are the points in
the House and Jeff Sessions and Jim DeMint in the Senate.

Formulating a strong, forthright bill will show the left,
socialists, and our critics across this nation, like Linda
Chavez-George Bush-Michael Chertoff-Ted Kennedy coalition
that we do have a viable alternative and it should be
enacted.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other chambers of
commerce are trying to lobby the congress to re-introduce
portions of the defunct CIR to get what they want.

WE have that right to petition our government for action,
the revolution is not over, we can not lay back in the woods,
rest on our laurels. As General Stonewall Jackson taught us,
after the initial strike fragmenting the enemy into its parts is
not the time to rest, rather it is the time to press the fight.

"You are the First Brigade!"

Remember, we are in a republic and we should press the fight
on our behalf, pushing our ideas up to our representatives.
Please leave your ideas on the elements we came up with
and the Secure Borders First Act of 2007.


Preamble

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

--Theodore Roosevelt, 1919


A Secure Borders First Act of 2007

1. The Office of the President of the United States and the Executive branch of the United States government are hereby instructed to enforce current immigration laws and the current elements enacted below.

2. A BILL To authorize appropriations for assistance for the MCDC-ALIPAC -Development Fund. (SECURE BORDERS FIRST ACT 2007) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Secure Borders First Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR MCDC-ALIPAC Development Fund. (a) Use- The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, to the extent amounts are made available pursuant to subsection (b), make a grant to the MCDC-ALIPAC for the purpose of providing technical and financial assistance to local non-profit organizations to undertake community development, community patrols, additional border security enforcement agents, additional deportation judges, additional deportation facilities, and additional agents to enforce immigration laws particularly through organizations located in neighborhoods with substantial populations of income-disadvantaged households of Hispanic, French, German, Italian, Greek, African, Asian origin. Assistance provided by the Secretary under this section may be used by the MCDC-ALIPAC. to-- (1) provide technical and financial assistance for site acquisition and development, construction financing, and short- and long-term financing for housing, community facilities, and economic development; (2) leverage capital from private entities, including private financial institutions, insurance companies, and private philanthropic organizations; (3) provide technical assistance, training, support, and advice to develop the management, financial, and administrative capabilities of housing development organizations serving low-income households, including Hispanic French, German, Italian, Greek, African, Asian origin households; and (4) conduct such other activities as may be determined by the Secretary of MCDC-ALIPAC. (b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section-- (1) $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and (2) $100,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.

3. This Legislation passes the Coburn Amendment requiring the enforcement of existing border security and immigration laws and congressional approval before amnesty can be granted. Laws to be enforced are the 1986, 1996 and 2006 acts, which make up a comprehensive law. These provisions of existing law include: control over maritime borders, full fencing required by law, integrated alien databases, US-VISIT program, biometric ID system, and ending “sanctuary cityâ€