April 14th, 2014 by Daniel Horowitz
If you think the debate over illegal immigration
revolves strictly around the disagreement over what to do with those already
here illegally, you haven’t been paying attention. For anyone who really
wants to end illegal immigration and preserve our sovereignty, the solution is
not an enigma. All we have to do is actually implement the
border and interior enforcement mechanisms that both Republicans and Democrats
claim to support. All new illegal aliens would be barred from getting
jobs immediately. Finally, we would eliminate all welfare and
birthright citizenship for future waves of illegal immigration so that they
can’t drop anchor babies and get on the welfare doles.
At that point, the question of what to do with
those already here will be minimized and any legal status granted will be done
from a position of strength – knowing that we will not encourage a new surge of
illegal migration.
Yet, indeed, that is not what the majority in the
leadership of both political parties desire. They support permanent de
facto open borders. And their selfish and insidious desires are actually
engendering a massive surge in illegal immigration as we speak. The
irresponsible policy of passionately advocating for amnesty before illegal
immigration is halted has always resulted in perennial lawlessness and it
always will.
Last week, the New York Times reported on the surge in illegal
crossings in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This is part of the broader increase in illegal immigration
during each of the past three years. As the Times notes, much of the
increase is from Central American migrants who come here to take advantage of
our absurd and outdated refugee and asylum policies:
“Under asylum law, border agents are required to
ask migrants if they are afraid of returning to their countries. If the answer
is yes, migrants must be detained until an immigration officer interviews them
to determine if the fear is credible. If the officer concludes it is, the
migrant can petition for asylum. An immigration judge will decide whether there
is a “well-founded fear of persecution” based on race, religion, nationality,
political opinion or “membership in a particular social group.”
Immigration officials said they had set the bar
intentionally low for the initial “credible fear” test, to avoid turning away a
foreigner in danger. In 2013, 85 percent of fear claims were found to be
credible, according to federal figures.
As more Central Americans have come, fear claims
have spiked, more than doubling in 2013 to 36,026 from 13,931 in 2012.
Undoubtedly, we need immigration reform to pass
Congress. But much like healthcare reform and Obamacare, the type of
reforms we need are antithetical to those proposed by the open border lobby. We
are in serious need of cracking down on abuses in our refugee and asylum
policies.
It is simply unconscionable that liberals would
hold up border enforcement and visa tracking until they get amnesty for illegal
aliens. It is even more appalling that Republicans let them get away with
it. Just last week, a Moroccan national who was here on an expired visa was arrested for plotting to blow up a
federal building.
“El Mehdi Semlali Fahti, 26, entered the United States legally on a student visa
six years ago. Fahti had been planning to use a remote-controlled airplane to
deliver the bomb and stated, according to an affidavit, that “the bomb that he
planned to use would be made for him and he claimed that everything is
available in Southern California on the border.”
But he could not be deported and was released,
according to Special Agent Anabela Sharp in anaffidavit, because Fahti was granted a
“withholding of removal of relief” order “on or about August 16, 2013 based on
his claim of fear of persecution based on asylum.”
That order precluded the United States from
deporting him back to Morroco, and Special Agent Sharp testified that there is
probable cause to believe that his application for deportation relief was based
on fraud. For instance, even though Fahti claimed in his application that he
would be persecuted based on political opinion if deported back to Morocco, he
was never arrested in his home country for his political beliefs, which is
something his father also confirmed.”
It is a tragedy that Republicans have taken one of
the most important issues off the table, opting to join the Democrats instead
of going on offense by demanding real immigration reform.
To digress for a moment, let’s juxtapose what’s
going on with our borders to the way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is
treating the Bundy Ranch in Nevada. They are rounding up his cows for
grazing on federal lands he owned before the Department of the Interior decided
to buy up almost the entire state of Nevada. They are coming out with
full paramilitary force to get rid of the cows “trespassing” on federal
land. Yet, these same people have no problem with illegal aliens
trampling through our national parks, which has gotten so bad that some parks
were forced to close. In fact, they tie the hands of the border agents
protecting the safety and sovereignty of all Americans while the BLM police are
waging a full-scale war on harmless cows for violating the Endanger Species
Act.
It’s time for Republicans to start acting like an
alternative party and fight for America’s sovereignty instead of joining with
Democrats to subvert it.
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