"Immigration and the Art of the Question – Effective questions that must be asked of our politicians" – My article for The Social Contract

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As you may know, I write articles that focus on many aspects of the immigration issue for a number of terrific organizations.  One of those organizations publishes a quarterly journal, “The Social Contract.”  The most recent edition of this publication (Spring 2016) was just published and was also posted on its website.  This edition of The Social Contract takes on the issue of how the failures of the administration coupled with the refusal of local and state governments to enforce our immigration laws have created a “Sanctuary Nation.”
I have written extensively about the impact of sanctuary policies and also have testified about the impact of these wrong-headed policies when I have testified before Congress.  In fact, I wrote an article for The Social Contract’s Winter 2016 Edition that was entitled, Sanctuary Cities Endanger – National Security and Public Safety.

However, with the approval of the editors at The Social Contract, I thought that since I had already written about the ways that Sanctuary Cities and Sanctuary policies undermine national security and public safety that I would rather tackle the need for the citizens of our nation to make their elected representatives accountable.   
The concept of “Questioning authority” can be thought of in two ways- challenging those who hold positions of authority and how to actually devise questions that pin down the politicians who have, all too often, learned how to be “Artful Dodgers.”
My background, as you will see in my article, has provided me with the experience and training to strip away the smoke screen that these politicians hide behind.  I hope that my article will be helpful to make our leaders accountable.
Here is the link to my article that appears in the latest (Spring 2016) edition of The Social Contract:
    
                     

Immigration and the Art of the Question – Effective questions that must be asked of our politicians

By Michael W. Cutler, Senior Special Agent, INS (Ret.) (Spring 2016) 


On March 31, 2016 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Terrorism, Enclaves and Sanctuary Cities  –  How sanctuary cities facilitate the growth of terror enclaves in America.

On July 16, 2015 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my commentary:
On December 20, 2015 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my commentary:

Effective Interior Enforcement of Immigration Law Vital to Nat’l Security


On February 3, 2016 CAPS published my commentary:

Orders of Deportation (Removal) = Orders of Protection for Americans

On April 15, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

How Obama’s Refugee Policies Undermine National Security  – Obama orders “shields down” in the wake of a succession of deadly terror attacks.

Immigration Failure — By Design –  Doing the bidding of the Open Borders anarchists.


On January 6, 2016 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Obama’s Immigration Policies: Instrumentalities of Change  –  Displacement of American workers, suppression of wages and importation of new voters.


On February 23, 2016 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Skewed Immigration Polls May Skewer Americans  –  Figures don’t lie but liars can figure.


On April 5, 2016 Frontpage Magazine published my article:

America Now Has an Official Language: Newspeak –  The Library of Congress falls victim to semantic tyranny.

Immigration Law Enforcement Is Not About Xenophobia But Commonsense

On November 13, 2015 the Daily Caller published my article,  Political Candidates, Immigration And Home Repair Con-Artists

On November 6, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Decoding Politicians’ Immigration Newspeak The devious manipulation of language employed by the political class.

On July 7, 2014, FrontPage published my article, Border Security and the Immigration Colander.”

It is time that when the “compassion card” is brought out- the issue of compassion must first take into account the safety and well-being of America and Americans.  There is nothing compassionate about committing suicide!

The Summer Edition of The Social Contract includes my extensive article, The 9/11 Commission Report and Immigration: An Assessment, Fourteen Years after the Attacks.”

On April 20, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article, How DHS Ineptitude Facilitates Terrorist Operations » A chilling case-in-point from Ohio.
On January 23, 2015 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my commentary,  For America to Do Well, Americans Must Do Well

On November 13, 2015 the Daily Caller published my article,  Political Candidates, Immigration And Home Repair Con-Artists

On November 6, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Decoding Politicians’ Immigration Newspeak –The devious manipulation of language employed by the political class.

Consider the following articles:

On July 7, 2014, FrontPage published my article, Border Security and the Immigration Colander.

Keeping Track of Visa Violators

The overlooked source of the nation’s illegal immigration problems that people are finally talking about.


On September 10, 2015 FrontPage magazine published my article:

Educating Our Adversaries

Why educating foreign STEM students is bad for American workers and national security.


How DHS is failing to heed its own warnings.


On October 7, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Syrian ‘Refugees’ and Immigration Roulette

How the government is recklessly playing with American lives.


On November 12, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Educating ‘Engineers of Jihad’ at US Universities

How the legal immigration system allowed four al-Qaeda-linked terrorists to attend U.S. colleges and roam free among us.

Effective Immigration Law Enforcement is ‘Pro-Immigrant,’ Compassionate


On June 13, 2013 I was interviewed by Neil Cavuto at Fox News on the topic:

The interview ran about 4 minutes and is worth watching.

On April 4, 2014, CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my commentary that asks the questions all Americans need to ask their political “representatives.”  My commentary is aptly titled:  “How? Why?

In his historic speech before the 3rd Army on May 31, 1944, General George S. Patton said, on the strategy of holding a position:

We’re not holding anything, we’ll let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly, and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy.”

Pushing back against Comprehensive Immigration Reform is the same as holding position. The time has come for us to advance by demanding that our borders be made truly secure and our immigration laws be effectively administered and enforced.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform violates all of the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission but no one is willing to even consider how the lack of real border security and the lack of real integrity to the various components of the immigration system imperil national security and public safety.

The findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission must be the starting point for any discussion about immigration legislation.  That commission determined that a lack of border security, including the visa process. and fraud in the immigration benefits program, enabled terrorists to enter and embed themselves in the United States, as they went about their deadly preparations.

Immigration is not a single issue but a singular issue that impacts nearly every challenge and threat confronting the United States today!  Simply stated, the immigration laws were enacted to save lives and protect the jobs of American workers.  In point of fact, our borders and our immigration laws are America’s first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals.
It is not “Anti-Immigrant” to be “Pro-American!”

Our armed forces are charged with securing America’s borders externally while the DHS is supposed to secure those same borders from within.  The failures of the DHS to live up to its half of the equation are undermining the efforts, valor and incredible sacrifices of Americas men and women who serve in our military!
If our government’s failures to protect American jobs by securing our nation’s borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and Congressional “Representative. This is not only your right- it is your obligation! 

All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as dumb as they hope we are!

We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.

American Lives Matter!

This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!

You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!

Democracy is not a spectator sport!

Lead, follow or get out of the way!

-michael cutler- 


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