Here is an excerpt from my commentary:
Many successful advertising campaigns have been based on this concept. Think of how, decades ago, the simple slogan “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” convinced so many people to get hooked on smoking. Back then I remember one of my high school English teachers being more concerned with a grammatical error in that seven word phrase than she was with the dangers to be associated with smoking cigarettes! (She was adamant that the sentence should have been, “Winston tastes good as a cigarette should!”)
Then there was the “Marlboro Man” a rugged looking actor dressed up as a cowboy who would light up a cigarette while the sound track from “The Magnificent Seven”played in the background. Listen to that impressive piece of music and ask yourself what that powerful music had to do with cigarettes? If that commercial had been honest, the actor smoking that cigarette should have been coughing and wheezing so loudly that it would have drowned out any music playing in the background.
But the point was that the advertising executives, who were paid megabucks to produce those commercials, did not care how many consumers would succumb to emphysema or lung cancer, but how much money they could earn by seducing lots of smokers- many of them young, impressionable teenagers.
Today cigarette companies cannot air commercials on television, and the Marlboro Man is gone, literally and figuratively. Wayne McLaren, one of those who participated in those commercials and a veteran of the rodeo, died of lung cancer at age 51 on July 22, 1992.
Similar slogans now flourish where immigration is concerned. We have all heard them-
providing millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and a pathway to citizenship they are providing encouragement and are inducing aspiring illegal aliens from all over the world to head for the United States. In effect, they are firing a starter’s pistol and for these illegal alien “marathoners,” the finish line is the border of the United States!
Here is an excerpt from that article:
On April 30, 2009 the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Immigration, conducted a hearing on the topic: “Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?” Among the witnesses called to testify before that hearing was Alan Greenspan, arguably one of the key architects of the economic crisis, who stated:
“…The second bonus (in accelerating the influx of skilled immigrant workers) would address the increasing concentration of income in this country. Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process, we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income inequality.”
Clearly Greenspan demonstrated unmitigated chutzpah, referring to skilled Americans as the “privileged elite!” His infuriating goal of reducing skill-based income inequality is nothing short of anti-American in both ways of interpreting that statement. It flies in the face of the American dream and would serve to pull the floor out from under American middle class workers and their families!
On May 15, 2007 an infuriating video was aired on Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN. The video runs about four and a half minutes and features 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 was, I believe, made clandestinely. This is the link to that video:
Our nation is greatly benefited by the rich diversity of our people which is why I could never imagine living anywhere except New York City, arguably the most diverse city in our nation if not, in fact, the world. However, my idea of diversity most certainly does not include members of MS-13, the Mexican drug cartels or members of other transnational gangs or members of al-Qaeda or other terrorist organizations!
It is also vital that American workers never be made to compete with foreign workers for their jobs! (This requirement is a component of the Immigration Laws that are not being enforced today!)
If our government’s failures to secure our nation’s borders and effectively enforce our immigration laws that are intended to protect our nation and our citizens 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!
We the People must 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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Here is a link to the program:
http://www.caps-blog.org/articles/2013/02/21/immigration-and-occams-razor/
Occam’s Razor is a principle frequently used in logic, problem-solving and science that states that the simplest solution to a problem is most often the correct solution.
Clearly the immigration system has failed. These failures should concern every American citizen and politician. Immigration laws were enacted to protect innocent lives and American workers.
But enforcement failures reverberate throughout the United States as evidenced by the nation’s 11 million illegal aliens.
The most striking immigration failure example is the 9/11 terrorist attack when the perpetrators gamed the visa process and the immigration benefits program.
The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel detailed numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States but to also embed themselves in the United States.
To cite an example, page 47 of the above-noted report contained the following paragraph:
“Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.
“Mohammed Salameh, who rented the truck used in the bombing, overstayed his tourist visa. He then applied for permanent residency under the agricultural workers program, but was rejected.
“Eyad Mahmoud Ismail, who drove the van containing the bomb, took English-language classes at Wichita State University in Kansas on a student visa; after he dropped out, he remained in the United States out of status.”
On July 27, 2006 I testified before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on the topic: WHETHER THE ATTEMPTED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REID-KENNEDY IMMIGRATION BILL WILL RESULT IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE AND NATIONAL SECURITY NIGHTMARE
Comprehensive Immigration Reform’s proponents claim that the solution to the immigration system’s failures is to reward aliens with lawful status and a pathway to citizenship. In point of fact, illegal aliens arrive from most nations including those that sponsor terrorism. While some come to work, others have far more sinister intentions.
There’s no way to know the identities or intentions of most. CIR would require United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)—an inept, incompetent and corrupt agency—to suddenly grapple with millions of applications. Face to face interviews would be impossible. National security would be compromised. Unemployed and under-employed American and lawful immigrant workers would suddenly be competing with millions of newly authorized foreign workers for too few jobs.
The time has come for a different approach.
I recommend my version which I’ll call COMPILE (Comprehensive Immigration Law Enforcement). Hire more ICE agents and more USCIS adjudications officers. Encourage and support them as they attempt to carry out their sworn duties and the immigration crisis will be a crisis no more! It’s absurd to try to arrest and deport millions of illegal aliens- just convince existing and aspiring illegal aliens around the world that we are serious about our securing our nation’s borders and enforcing immigration laws.
If you try to start your car and find it won’t work, perhaps you should check the gas gauge before you order an engine overhaul!