Emergency Alert

A NATIONAL SECURITY -- IMMIGRATION POLICY TRAGEDY

The terrible events of September 11, 2001 should never have taken place. An immigration policy which allows massive numbers of aliens to enter our country without proper background checks and tracking, and to train in our own schools, is one root cause. One conclusion becomes apparent:

NATIONAL SECURITY REQUIRES AN IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM:

The National Commission on Terrorism found that:

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

The sheer numbers of immigrants and visitors, not just lax enforcement of immigration laws, pose a national security threat. Now is the time to demand a moratorium on all immigration in excess of 100,000 per year. This reduction from over 1 million legal immigrants admitted each year would help relieve the incredible pressure on our immigrant processing system.

I. THE NUMBERS CHALLENGE:

Many of the millions of legal immigrants and visitors entering the U.S.A. legally each year become residents without adequate background checks and tracking. While most are law-abiding, that sheer number almost ensures that criminals and terrorists with harmful intent enter and remain in our country undetected.

II. THE NUMBERS THREAT:

According to Mexican President Vincente Fox, President Bush still, even after the September 11 tragedy, favors an AMNESTY of million of illegal aliens.

Rewarding ILLEGAL aliens with legal residence in the form of an amnesty would be sanctioning their law-breaking, an unacceptable precedent. Saying "NO" to another amnesty or a guestworker program is a good beginning to ensuring this tragedy is not replayed on American soil.

Incredibly, Congress is still actively considering the 245(i) provision, which would allow resident illegal aliens to continue to live and work in the U.S. while applying for permanent legal residency.

Given the threat that lawbreaking has already demonstrably inflicted on our national security, these law-breakers deserve deportation, not more leniency and "head-turning."

While we should not discriminate against immigrants or blame any particular religious or ethnic group, the number of immigrants entering each year must be reduced. If the numbers remain high, American citizens will have their civil rights infringed upon in the name of protecting national security, when, in fact, proof of identity, background, and lawful intent should remain the responsibility of the visa-holders, not our citizens.

III. THE NUMBERS SOLUTION:

A Moratorium on all immigration in excess of 100,000 per year would allow the obviously overwhelmed INS, and other agencies, to do more thorough background checks and tracking to protect our Nation and its people. Dramatically reducing the numbers is an essential key to national security.

IV. IMMIGRATION POLICY DEFECTS -- Consider:

1) At least one of the terrorists held an M-1 vocational-training visa. Many of the holders of a variety of visas remain in the U.S. illegally after their visas expire. At least 16 of the hijackers who commandeered our jetliners entered the U.S. with legal visas. Background checks, identification cards, and tracking of legal immigrants are essential to our security.

2) Lax residency requirements and background checks allowed an alleged 1993 World Trade Center bomber to become a legal resident through the 1986 amnesty.

3) The INS held off enforcing a recent law requiring foreign students be tracked during their stay in the U.S., agreeing to wait until September 30 -- well after students enrolled in college!

V. THE ALL-INCLUSIVE SOLUTION:

1) Demand that President Bush and your Representatives in Congress support an Immigration Moratorium in the form of HR 2712, the Mass Immigration Reduction Act sponsored by Rep. Tom Tancredo, Chairman of the House Immigration Caucus, with an amendment to cap the numbers of immigrants at 100,000 per year. HR 2712 explicitly "enacts a moratorium" on many categories of immigrants and thus would mandate the dramatic reduction in numbers of immigrants which our National Security requires.

2) Insist we tighten U.S. SECURITY by enacting:

a) Mandatory background checks for all applicants for entrance into the U.S.A.;

b) Machine-readable identification documents to monitor the status of all entrants, including the passage of Section 110, the border exit system. Such ID documents, for immigrants and visitors only, would avoid a requirement that citizens have a "national" ID card;

c) Longer waiting periods before visas are issues;

d) Deportation of illegal aliens, including visa overstayers, and strict enforcement of laws.

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Only a moratorium provides the all-inclusive solution necessary to reduce the numbers and protect our security.

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