RUTHFULLY YOURS

Here is my most recent commentary for the CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) website.

 I have often noted that President Abraham Lincoln eloquently summed up the sort of government that our constitution established- “A Government of the People, By the People and For the People.”

 Today it is nearly impossible to find evidence that this lofty ideal is still the guiding principle behind our government, especially in Washington, DC, but also in cities and towns across our nation.

The immigration laws of the United States were enacted to protect the citizens of our nation from aliens who should be prevented from entering the United States and, if they managed, in one way or another to enter the United States, to be removed from the United States.

In point of fact, some of the areas of concern where foreign nationals (aliens) are concerned, parallel the purpose for our nation’s military- to prevent terrorists, spies and saboteurs from entering our nation and attacking our citizens and/or our nation.  A term given to a foreign national whose purpose of entering our nation is to embed himself (herself) until the day that his phone rings, he receives an e-mail or someone visits him and announces that it is time to “go to work.”  While awaiting that fateful set of orders, the goal of that individual is to hide in plain sight.  In the intelligence community, such an individual is known as a “sleeper” or a “sleeper agent.”  The goal of such sleeper agents is to not attract any attention to himself and to not arouse any suspicions.  Often such individuals take nondescript jobs, just as did the terrorists who attacked our nation in 1993 and again on September 11, 2001.  Other terrorists who operated in our country have taken the same approach and, no doubt, there are others within our borders, living quiet lives, while they wait for the tap on the shoulder or that phone call.

Yet there are many politicians in the United States including, mayors of cities, governors of states and members of the administration in Washington and members of Congress who refuse to understand how illegal aliens who violate our borders to enter our country surreptitiously may have been motivated by more than a simple job to enter the United States.  What we don’t know about these aliens can kill many of us!  Such sleepers may be engaged in espionage, they may be engaged in terrorism or they may be affiliated with foreign governments who have pre-positioned their operatives in our country to be able to call them to action should hostilities break out between those countries and the United States.

Members of transnational gangs and narcotics trafficking organizations such as the Mexican cartels have also managed to set up shop in hundreds of cities across this vast nation and are able to move their poisonous drugs into the United States and money that represents the proceeds of the sale of those drugs back to their organizations in their home countries.  Yet Janet Napolitano, the head of DHS (Department of Homeland Surrender) continues to routinely boast how our borders are secure!

While this madness plays out each and every day, the expectations of privacy that the Constitution guaranteed our citizens is being whittled away continually- all in the name of “National Security!”

My commentary for CAPS, however, did not focus on the issue of national security nor did it focus on the continuing infestation of our cities and towns by violent and pernicious transnational criminals and gang members, it focused on how American worker have become America’s unemployed because of failures to secure our borders against illegal aliens who would take the economic bottom rung jobs and how visa fraud is all but ignored, thereby enabling “High Tech” workers to displace American computer programmers, engineers, scientists and technicians.

Not long ago I wrote about the way that attorney’s easily manipulate the visa process to swindle American workers out of the jobs they are eminently qualified to do, but have lost out to lawyers who want their legal fees for working to get those foreign workers visas to work in the United States and unscrupulous employers want to pay the least amount possible for the services of highly educated and highly skilled professionals.  As I have previously noted, abuses in the H-1B visa program that is supposed to enable high-tech workers of skills that are not supposedly available among the United States citizen or lawful immigrant workers are legendary and well documented in a series of GAO reports.  As I have noted in previous commentaries, you should take out a couple of minutes to watch a video that I guarantee you will really infuriate you.  It is the video of an immigration lawyers’ conference in which lawyers were being coached to “not find qualified U.S. workers!”  The lecturer who is instructing the attorneys is a guy by the name of Lawrence M. Lebowitz, the Vice President of Marketing for the firm of Cohen & Grigsby.  This video was posted on You Tube by the Programmer Guild, an organization that is comprised of computer programmers.

This video runs for roughly 4 minutes and 30 seconds and I urge you to watch this video that was, I believe, made clandestinely.  This is the link to that video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

The immigration laws that so many politicians and members of the administration are unwilling to enforce are at the bedrock of national security and the other issues and challenges that confront our nation today.

Show me a politician who refuses to enforce the immigration laws or attempts to trivialize these laws, and I will show you a politician who needs to find out what it is like to stand on the unemployment line!

Benjamin Franklin, in discussing our then fledgeling nation. said that they had given us a republic if we could keep it!