Issue 119: June 12, 2002

+== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+

In the face of continuing public outrage over the failure by our immigration, border, and security agencies to protect Americans, President Bush has announced plans for a massive restructuring within the federal government. Bush is asking Congress to create a brand new “umbrella” department called Homeland Security, under which numerous agencies would operate.

While this is a step in the right direction, the re-organization must consist of more than re-shuffling bureaucrats. Otherwise, the entire undertaking will be an expensive exercise in futility.

Unfortunately, so far, few in Washington are backing — at least publicly — the very best method for increasing the ability of the government to protect innocent Americans from foreigners who mean us harm: reducing the total number of foreigners coming to the United States.

While Washington is full of proclamations regarding “strategy” and “focus,” more than a million people a year continue to immigrate. Islam continues to be the fastest growing religion in the country. Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals continue to labor away in the hard sciences at our nation’s top universities. The Bush Administration’s hispandering political advisor Karl Rove continues to put politics above the national interest. Open-borders libertarian James Ziglar continues to run the INS. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continues to try to sabotage any attempt to tighten the free flow of labor and consumers across our borders.

The United States desperately needs to take a breather — a temporary time-out — while we fix our reckless immigration policy. There is no good reason not to.

Trying to fix our homeland security system, while blindly barreling full speed ahead with record-breaking immigration levels, is, as ProjectUSA’s West Coast representative Brenda Walker notes, like trying to fix a car while hurtling down the highway at 95 mph.
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GOPUSA interview with conservative favorite, Ann Coulter
http://gopusa.com/news/0610_coulterinterview.shtml

INS future becoming a ‘mess’ (UPI)
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=07062002-032943-5558r

Texas state GOP calls for a temporary moratorium on immigration from “terrorist nations” (AP)
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/060902/tex_outrage.shtml

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/t012802.htm

Rethinking Foreign Students (George J. Borjas)
http://www.nationalreview.com/issue/borjas061702.asp

+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+

On June 6 and 7, ProjectUSA director Craig Nelsen was in Washington, DC at a Federation for American Immigration Reform-sponsored lobbying effort on Capitol Hill.

The most remarkable thing about the whole event was the change in the climate from similar lobbying efforts in years past. Among both ethnic-identity Democrats and cheap labor Republicans, there was a new willingness to listen to arguments for a more modern and moderate immigration policy. Few could dispute our contention that it would serve the national interest to take a time-out while we fix our broken immigration and security systems.

This argument needs to be reinforced. Contact your representative and politely tell him or her that you support a time-out from mass immigration while we bring our broken security systems up to date. Please take a few minutes to do this. It’s important.

You can find your representative’s contact information at:
http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.php

+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, — then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

John Jay Chapman (1862-1933),

+== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+

INS Headquarters staff is more concerned with turf and politics than the mission they have been given; the Congress, for all its finger pointing, is too busy pandering to the business community and Hispanic activist groups for dollars and votes to provide the kind of oversight necessary to bring INS back to reality; and the President should hire a new bunch of advisors - perhaps a few with a smattering of knowledge about the subject of immigration would help? Meanwhile, and until some positive actions are taken, America’s citizens will continue to watch their country on a downhill slide - that shouldn’t be happening.

Bill King
Retired senior Border Patrol agent
Former head of the Border Patrol Academy

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