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Increasing Acceptance of I.D.'s Issued by Consulates Makes Illegal Mass Immigration and Fraud Easier

Consular I.D.'s are issued by the Mexican government consulates in the U.S. Their increasingly easy acceptance by U.S. businesses and government agencies:

1) encourages even more people to come to the U.S.A.;
2) threatens U.S. security and sovereignty;
3) increases taxpayer subsidies of mass immigration.

The Reconquista continues!
Consular I.D. cards are making it much easier to provide illegal immigrants the appearance of legitimacy. Increasing numbers of banks and U.S. government institutions, including some local police, are now accepting this card as legitimate identification. This unquestioning and increasingly easy acceptance of foreign I.D. cards opens up U.S. government coffers and citizens to massive abuses while enabling illegal aliens to acquire near invisibility to INS investigators.

These foreign-issued cards not only avoid application of U.S. security and identification standards but also enable the building of a shadow-Mexico inside American borders.

Other forms of identification are suffering a "standards erosion" as well. California, Illinois, Colorado, and Georgia are considering relaxing driver's license rules that would allow illegal aliens to gain a crucial I.D. for accessing jobs and social services (and airplanes!) that would otherwise be denied. Tennessee is one of the states with relaxed license rules, but some major airports and four states — Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, and South Carolina — will no longer accept a Tennessee license as a valid I.D., and, thus, Tennessee legislators are revisiting the issue.

Once a "valid" I.D. is obtained, an alien is not only on the road to permanent legal residence, but also to a wide variety of benefits. California, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin are all in various stages of subsidizing the higher education of children of illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants can thus receive the substantial benefit of heavily taxpayer subsidized in-state tuition, while out-of-state U.S. citizen taxpayers still pay closer to the full cost of tuition. For example, in-state tuition for the University of California system is less than $4,000 per year, while out-of-staters pay nearly $15,000 per year. Thus, illegal aliens receive a benefit that is $11,000 a year greater than available to an out-of-state U.S. citizen, and the California taxpayer foots the bill.

Needless to say, the easy availability of such benefits only encourages more illegal immigration. Make sure your state knows you will not support any measure that increases immigration and your tax burden and decreases security and the integrity of identification procedures!

The H-1B worker program, with regular increases in the visa cap, are another kick-in-the-pants to the millions of unemployed American workers in a recessionary economy! In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, U.S. companies received approval to hire 163,200 foreign workers (57% of which were high-tech workers in 1999) while, in the same period, high-tech companies announced 520,000 layoffs. [GO FIGURE!] In this environment, it is clear that we don't need any more immigration. More than one million U.S. workers have been laid off since September 11 alone!

BOTTOM LINE: Increasing use of consular I.D. cards increases the opportunity for the unscrupulous to obtain permanent resident status, plus costly welfare, and other benefits, and ultimately, citizenship, and the right to vote. The easy use of consular I.D. cards also threatens national security by allowing circumvention of U.S. security and identification standards.

RECOMMENDATION:

1) OBJECT strongly to your federal, state, and local Representatives, and 2) URGE them to prohibit consular I.D. use for benefits, security, and identification purposes.

CONSIDER: The lobby for easy consular I.D. use will continue to grow as long as mass immigration continues.

Pro-open borders forces continue to push to move ever-larger amnesty bills through Congress. The tired argument that legalizing all illegal immigrants will increase national security is irrational: terrorists can become legal residents simply by getting amnesty under another name.

Then, they would be free to travel as they wished with a protected American I.D., and could use both legal and illegal immigrant communities as cover. Undoubtedly, terrorists or criminals have more chances to slip passed overwhelmed border security personnel. Only by reducing the sheer numbers of immigrants can we make it possible to achieve national security.

The key to a real solution was identified by the National Commission on Terrorism:

"The massive flows of people across U.S. borders make exclusion of all foreign terrorists impossible." June 2000

Only by reducing the numbers can we achieve national security.
Tell Congress and the Bush Administration you want secure borders and significantly reduced immigration through a moratorium! Urge your Representatives to support only a visa or immigration reform bill that has an amendment enacting a five-year moratorium on all immigration in excess of 100,000 per year.

THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE...AN IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM

1. Urge President Bush and your representatives in Congress to support an immigration moratorium in the form of H.R. 2712, the Mass Immigration Reduction Act sponsored by Representative Tom Tancredo, Chairman of the House Immigration Caucus, with an amendment to cap the immigration numbers at 100,000 per year. H.R. 2712 explicitly "enacts a moratorium" on many categories of immigrants, and thus would mandate a dramatic reduction in numbers of immigrants, a move essential for our national security.

2. Push for Representative Brian Kerns' (R-IN) recently introduced House Concurrent Resolution 350, which specifically and unequivocally stands against any amnesty of any illegal aliens in the U.S.

3. Insist that we tighten U.S. security by:
a) deportation of illegal aliens, including those who overstay their visas, and strict enforcement of immigration laws; b) mandatory background checks and visa tracking for all applicants for entrance into the U.S.A.; c) longer waiting periods before visas are issued; d) machine-readable identification documents to monitor the status of all entrants, including the passage of Section 110, the border exit system. Such documents (for immigrants and visitors only) would avoid a requirement that citizens have a "national" I.D. card; and e) as technology allows, an retinal-scanning, or other mechanical/biological method of identification (for immigrants and visitors only).

4. Push for nonacceptance of consular I.D. cards for government benefits or security identification purposes.

5. Only a dramatic increase in grassroots support can defeat the open borders lobby. GIVE GIFT MEMBERSHIPS AND DONATIONS TO CCN TODAY so we can intensify our efforts!

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