This post is lengthy, but very important!!!!

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Staying on top of the treason in the agency that has the authority to grant citizenship to those who want to kill us. The bogus argument that Marxist and Muslim illegal aliens are here for the American Dream is dispelled by the facts.

They are here for the American Funeral celebrate the death of this Republic and We the People. This outrage will not end under the watch of current treasonous leaders. We need a President who will clean house and put tough law enforcement minded, honest American Patriots in charge of the Keys to America. Not lobbyists for Marxist or Muslim nations.


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Date: Aug 15, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: GN: "U.S. agents accused of aiding Islamist scheme"



Hi Gang:

The article that I have copied below that appears in today's edition of the Washington Times is one that should alarm every citizen of the United States!

It also gives me no pleasure to write this commentary because as a former INS senior special agent and as someone who was also detailed to the division of the former INS that adjudicated applications for residency based on marriage to United States citizens and resident aliens, I hate to see instances where those in these positions of trust violate the trust that their positions entail. The sad thing is that this story has to infuriate the many honest employees who must feel, as I do, a particularly keen sense of betrayal.

I have often heard various people talk about the need for "border security" and I have countered by saying that simply securing the border will achieve little if the other components of the immigration system lack meaningful integrity. In order to hammer this point home, I have stated that if our government could borrow the "deflector shields" from the Starship Enterprise and install them along our nation's borders, little will have been accomplished if USCIS provides criminal and terrorist aliens with resident alien status and especially United States citizenship because these represent the "Keys to the Kingdom."

It would be the equivalent of hiring locksmiths and contractors to install gates on the windows and door of a home, put in the most secure locks and erect tall gates around the perimeter of the house and then hang the key to the locks on the outside doorknob!

I have also made the point, repeatedly, in fact, when I wrote yesterday's commentary that terrorists often commit a wide variety of crimes to fund their nefarious terrorist plots designed to slaughter as many innocent victims as possible. The article I have copied below makes all of these points and then some. What is most disturbing is that this is not because of negligence but by the criminal designs of what are supposed to be trusted employees and then, unbelievably, these traitors were apparently not fully investigated due to a lack of resources!

I want you to consider a statement made by the Director of USCIS, Emilio T. Gonzalez that appears in the article:

USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez in March told Congress that he could not establish how many terror suspects or persons of special interest have been granted immigration benefits.

"While USCIS has in place strong background check and adjudication suspension policies to avoid granting status to known terror risks, it is possible for USCIS to grant status to an individual before a risk is known, or when the security risk is not identified through standard background checks," said a statement provided to lawmakers.

"USCIS is not in a position to quantify all cases in which this may have happened. Recognizing that there may be presently known terror risks in the ranks of those who have obtained status previously."
This is an area of frustration for me that I have addressed at a number of Congressional hearings at which I testified concerning the failings and limitations of USCIS to know who would receive official identity documents if a Guest Worker Amnesty program such as the one recently defeated in the United States Senate was to have been implemented. There is a world of difference between a background check and a background investigation. The background check Mr. Gonzalez refers to would simply require that an applicant's name and fingerprints be run through computer databases to determine if the prints or the name relate to a known terrorist or criminal. Terrorists understand that in order to be effective they need to do everything in their power to never be fingerprinted in the United States before making any application for an immigration benefit. Then they provide a false name to immigration with clean fingerprints. Since the name and the fingerprints result in "No hit," that is to say no matches are found, the terrorist alien in question will receive an official identity document in the false name he (she) provided to USCIS.

Clearly Mr. Gonzalez has no idea as the scope and magnitude of the corruption at an agency that hands out the "Keys to the Kingdom." I also want to make it clear that this inept and corrupt agency would administer any Guest Worker Amnesty Program that our government would implement if such "leaders" as Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the President of the United States had their way.

A true background investigation such as that which I was required to undergo every 5 years because I had a "Top Secret" clearance required that investigators actually went out into the street with my photo and knocked on doors and interviewed neighbors, relatives and others to determine if I was known by any other names or if I was conducting myself in a suspicious manner. They also checked into my finances and other relevant avenues of inquiry.

The bottom line is, as the article noted, a terrorist needs to obtain official immigration status as a means of embedding himself in our country to be able to hide in plain sight.

For years the emphasis at USCIS is to make the rapid adjudications of applications the priority and not to uncover fraud. The GAO has issued a number of reports about this issue. Last Year USCIS claims to have "lost" more than 110,000 immigration alien files relating to aliens seeking a wide variety of immigration benefits including 30,000 alien applicants who applied to naturalize. Incredibly, according to the GAO, those aliens were naturalized even though the adjudications officers had no access to the relating immigration files!

I have no way of proving this, but I could not imagine losing 110,000 jelly beans or paper clips. I suspect that USCIS management simply decided that it would take too long to have the adjudicators review those files and so they simply claimed to not be able to find them. (The bureaucratic version of "Don't ask; don't tell!") To my knowledge not a single employee was fired or even disciplined for "losing" 110,000 files!

There are three ways that a job is not done properly. There is nonfeasance which simply means that the job is not done. There is misfeasance which means that the job is not done properly and then their is malfeasance which means that the job is not done properly because of corruption. It seems that all three issues are involved in the disastrous situation at USCIS today.

I am copying a segment of a commentary I wrote several months ago concerning the leadership at USCIS since its creation roughly 4 years ago as a result of an article that appeared in the Washington Post on May 28 of this year entitled, "Immigration Agency Mired in Inefficiency." The link to that article is:

http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2007/ 05/27/AR20070527 01118.html? referrer= emailarticle

I believe that the segment of this commentary that I wrote concerning that article, will help to illuminate the climate at USCIS today that probably contributed to the wide-scale corruption to be found at that component of DHS which I have come to refer to as the Department of Homeland Surrender:


There is a Yiddish expression that says that when a fish goes bad, it smells from the head! Let us consider the two men who have served as the director of USCIS. The first director of USCIS, Eduardo Aguirre is currently the United States' Ambassador to Spain. Check out his bio as posted by the United States Dept. of State:



http://www.state. gov/r/pa/ ei/biog/48921. htm


BIOGRAPHY

Eduardo Aguirre, Jr.
Ambassador, Spain
Term of Appointment: 06/24/2005 to present

Eduardo Aguirre, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra, was appointed by President George W. Bush upon confirmation by the U.S. Senate. He was sworn-in by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on June 24, 2005. He presented diplomatic credentials to H. M. King Juan Carlos I of Spain on June 29, 2005. He also presented credentials to President Jacques Chirac and Bishop Joan Enric Vives SicÃ*lia, Co-Princes of Andorra.

Previously, Ambassador Aguirre served, for 2 1/2 years, as the first Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an Under Secretary rank position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He led a team of 15,000 employees serving over 6 million annual applicants seeking immigration benefits. Under his leadership, USCIS made significant and measurable progress towards eliminating the application backlog, improving customer service, and enhancing national security.

Earlier, Ambassador Aguirre served as the Acting Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), a federal agency of the U.S. Government. During his 20 month tenure at Ex-Im, he also served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to his 5 years in President Bush's administration, Ambassador Aguirre was President of Bank of America's International Private Bank. Over the course of his 24-years with Bank of America, his team was consistently acknowledged for excellence in customer service, as well as high employee satisfaction. His banking career spans over three decades.

Two things immediately stand out in his bio, first of all, as he himself testified before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims and is now noted in his official bio, as the director of USCIS he listed his priorities as being first, to eliminating backlogs, second to improving customer service and finally third, enhancing national security. You simply cannot make this stuff up! Next it is worth noting that he had previously been the President of Bank of America's International Private Bank. Yes that bank, the one that issues credit cards to illegal aliens! I love former President Harry S. Truman's statement about banks when he said that they were no one's friend, they will only lend you money after you proved you didn't need it!

As for the current director of USCIS, Emilio T. Gonzalez, I have attached a copy of a section of his bio that appears on a White House website:

http://www.whitehou se.gov/governmen t/egonzalez- bio.html


Emilio T. González
Under Secretary of Homeland Security
Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)



Emilio T. González, Ph.D, serves as Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, an Under Secretary position within the Department of Homeland Security. Appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2005, Dr. González leads an organization of more than 15,000 federal and contract employees responsible for the accurate, efficient and secure processing of immigration benefits.

Prior to joining the Miami based international law firm of Tew Cardenas, Dr. González was Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council, Washington, D.C. In this capacity he served as a key National Security and Foreign Policy advisor to President George W. Bush and Dr. Condoleezza Rice.

An international affairs specialist, Dr. González has spent most of his professional career involved in foreign affairs and international security policy issues. He has served in or traveled to almost every country in the Western Hemisphere on numerous occasions, and has represented the United States Government on special diplomatic missions. Dr. González remains active in international politics. He often meets with Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, Trade Ministers, ambassadors and political leaders from throughout the hemisphere. Additionally, Dr. González is a noted commentator on Hispanic and international affairs and has appeared on local, national and international radio and television programs.

I highlighted the sentence in Mr. Gonzalez's bio that notes his having worked for Tew Cardenas. Tew Cardenas offers many services to its clients. The service of interest to me is that it offers services as a lobbying firm. It is, in fact, registered as representing the foreign governments of the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Panama as a lobbyist for those countries. While both the previous director of USCIS and the current director have had distinguished careers, I find it interesting that these two leaders did not come from a background of law enforcement, notwithstanding Mr. Gonzalez's background as a military officer. Frankly I am concerned that a former banker and a former attorney with a lobbying firm would wind up in charge of an agency that has such a strong national security component to the work that is conducted by its employees. Certainly the scathing reports that have been issued by the GAO and OIG have done nothing to dispel my apprehensions.
So now we come back to the article below. We are at war with some of the most pernicious slime to ever crawl out from under a rock and we have government employees selling their badges to those who would slaughter Americans. The article does not use the term that I believe is most appropriate concerning the actions of those corrupt employees but I will not be squeamish about the use of properly descriptive language. Those crooked employees, to my thinking, committed treason against our nation and our citizens and yet the director of USCIS admits to having no idea as the scope of the treason committed by those crooks!

I have said this before and I will repeat it again: The immigration system and not just the borders are broken. Until and unless our government addresses the lack of integrity of the entire immigration system, our nation's survival and the survival of our citizens is imperiled! We the People have every right to demand that our government get its act together as we approach the 6th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The clock is ticking and each day the terrorists may well be moving one step closer to the next attack against our nation while the inept and the corrupt members of the bureaucracy aid and abet those very same terrorists!

Democracy is not a spectator sport!

Lead, follow or get out of the way!