Month: February 2015

The first step in problem solving is to identify the components of the problem and then devising the best strategies to most effectively deal with the problem.  Sometimes the problems we face may be life-threatening.  

Our nation and our citizens face a list of challenges and threats- nearly every one of which is being exacerbated by long-standing failures of our nation to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws.  To be clear, it is not “Anti-Immigrant” to want these two issues to be dealt with effectively.  In point of fact, the same immigration laws that mandate the categories of aliens to be kept our of our country and the terms under which aliens should be removed from our country have absolutely nothing to do with race, religion or ethnicity, also provide for the lawful admission of roughly one million lawful immigrants and the naturalization of hundreds of thousands of new citizens each year.

It is therefore a contradiction in terms and thinking to claim that it is “Anti-Immigrant” to support the effective enforcement and administration of our immigration laws   

Let us be clear in our thinking- it is “Pro-Immigrant” to be “Pro-Enforcement!”

When the issue of immigration comes up most people purely focus on the lack of integrity to the border that is supposed to separate the United States from America.  Clearly that border lacks integrity and represents little more than a speed bump to smugglers who transport illegal aliens and contraband including record quantities of dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine into the United States.

However, there are many more components to the immigration system including systems by which aliens are granted visas to enter the United States and various immigration benefits such as conferring employment authorization to aliens in the United States and also include the adjudications process by which aliens are granted lawful immigrant status and even United States citizenship.

All of these systems of the immigration system lack integrity.  Aliens who have gone on to commit crimes and even participate in terrorist attacks have often been dissevered to have successfully gamed the immigration benefits program in order to embed themselves in communities around the United States as they went about their deadly preparations.

The Obama administration has been gearing up to provide a purported population of 5 million illegal aliens with temporary lawful status.  The Republican controlled Congress has decried these plans and are attempting to stop the administration.  Much media coverage has been given to this battle between the Congress and the administration.  

Meanwhile, a study was just released that demonstrate just how corrupt the administration is and just how inept and incompetent our political representatives have been.  The study reports on how over a period of more than five years, since 2009, the administration has provided employment authorization to 5.5 million aliens who, under our immigration laws, should not have received the authority to work in the United States.

Incredibly, even aliens whose applications for various immigration benefits were denied and who could have, therefore not only been subjected to deportation but criminal prosecution, were granted official authorization to work in the United States.  This revelation is breath-taking and infuriating.

Aliens admitted under the Visa Waiver Program are, according to the immigration laws, ineligible for extensions on their period of admission of 90 days.  The laws prohibit allowing such aliens to change their nonimmigrant status and are ineligible to be gainfully employed were, nevertheless among the categories of aliens who were among the 5.5 million aliens granted employment authorization. 

There are other categories of aliens who are statutorily inedible to receive employment authorization- yet the administration somehow managed to misuse limited resources to provide an immigration benefit for aliens who were not entitled to those benefits.

There is no information currently available to provide any insight into how the adjudications process was conducted.  The documents provided to aliens that enable them to work are known as EAD’s (Employment Authorization Documents).  These documents enable those aliens to whom they are issued to obtain Social Security Cards, driver’s licenses and other such identity documents.  An alien who has been issued an EAD will pass the scrutiny of E-Verify and has as much right to work in the United States as does a United States citizen.

Consider this excerpt to be found on page 98 of the “9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel” that was prepared by the staff that assisted the 9/11 Commission in determining how the terrorists who carried out the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 were able to enter the United States, embed themselves and go about their deadly pre

That paragraph, in case you missed it said that achieving temporary worker status was a method by which the 9/11 hijackers as well as other terrorists were able to embed themselves (hide in plain sight) by, among other methods, included “achieving temporary worker status!”

The many failures of our immigration system are evident to everyone.  Now we come to find out that as bad as we thought things were, we are in far worse shape than anyone- even our “Congressional Watchdogs” knew!

This deplorable situation is a self-inflicted wound of galactic proportions and yet it went on for more than a half decade and went un-noticed!

Yet, most recently, the House Committee on Homeland Security inexplicably proposed legislation that ignored all of the failures of the dysfunction, inept and indeed, corrupt immigration system and simply offered to gain “operational control” (whatever that vague term means) over the US/Mexican border while blithely ignoring all of the other massive failures of our immigration system that is our first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists, transnational criminals and foreign workers who by working in the United States would undermine the livelihoods of American workers and their beleaguered families.

Our immigration system is composed of many moving parts and all must be effectively dealt with.  If “a chain is as strong as its weakest link,” the immigration system must be thought of as a chain with extremely weak and even missing links.

The importance of our borders and our immigration laws cannot be overemphasized.  In the war on terror and transnational gangs, they are our first line of defense and our last line of defense. They are equally important to American workers who are facing unfair competition from foreign workers, aided and abetted by the administration and advocates for “Sanctuary Cities” and Comprehensive Immigration Reform,

On January 23, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article:

Sleeper Cells: The Immigration Component of the Threat

January 23, 2015 by Michael Cutler

On January 23, 2015 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my most recent commentary:

For America to Do Well, Americans Must Do Well

On December 19, 2014 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my latest commentary:

Obama’s ‘Gift’ to International Terrorists: Immigration Executive Action

On July 2, 2013 the Washington Times published my Op-Ed:

CUTLER: Tough questions about immigration ‘reform’

Who will find the answers while there’s still time to prevent a disaster?

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

“Does immigration reform pose too many risks?”  

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 3^rd 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.

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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