June 18, 2007
Immigrant Security Check Backlog Threatens Nation
Mismanagement and poor coordination between two U.S. government agencies has led to a major backlog of immigrant background security checks that poses a tremendous threat to the country’s safety.
The agency in charge of conducting the security checks of residents living in the U.S. and seeking citizenship, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is so inefficient that its backlog has doubled in the last two years to 329,160. This is just the latest mishap for a bureau that has been in trouble recently for its inefficiency and borderline incompetence.
Immigrant Security Check Backlog Threatens Nation
Mismanagement and poor coordination between two U.S. government agencies has led to a major backlog of immigrant background security checks that poses a tremendous threat to the country’s safety.
The agency in charge of conducting the security checks of residents living in the U.S. and seeking citizenship, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is so inefficient that its backlog has doubled in the last two years to 329,160. This is just the latest mishap for a bureau that has been in trouble recently for its inefficiency and borderline incompetence.
A republic is a sovereign state ruled by representatives of a widely inclusive electorate. In contrast to a direct democracy, a republic empowers voters who elect representatives to act for them at the federal level, where the majority rules – not a congressional district or a state – but the majority of U.S. representatives and senators:
contect to link thru title to continue read on how immigration is passed .
The United States of America is a federal republic, in which federal laws have precedence over state and municipal laws. With cities and states choosing to defy U.S. immigration laws, the result is anarchy at the borders – immigration anarchy.
The concept of sanctuary as a safe haven for undocumented immigrants has no legal basis in the United States. In 2002, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed U.S. immigration laws and denied sanctuary as a defense (USA v. Francine La May). In 1989, the Supreme Court upheld criminal convictions of sanctuary workers for violating immigration laws (USA v. Aquilar). In that landmark case, the Court affirmed U.S. immigration laws that prohibit bringing in or landing aliens, transporting or moving undocumented aliens within the U.S., and concealing, harboring, or shielding aliens.
Recent proclamations by certain U.S. cities and states offering sanctuary to all immigrants, despite their legal standing, demonstrates contempt for federal laws. Among the new sanctuaries or civil liberties safe zones are the states of California, Maine, and Oregon. Sanctuary cities include Chicago and Cook Cty. addition, Anchorage, Baltimore, Durham (NC), Madison (WI), along with Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York City. These renegade governmental entities, which challenge the validity of U.S. immigration laws, are spreading like a cancer rotting the sinew, muscle, and bone of the American Republic. The result, intentional or not, promises to be a balkanized network of warring city-states.
Recent proclamations by certain U.S. cities and states offering sanctuary to all immigrants, despite their legal standing, demonstrates contempt for federal laws. Among the new sanctuaries or civil liberties safe zones are the states of California, Maine, and Oregon. Sanctuary cities include Chicago and Cook Cty. addition, Anchorage, Baltimore, Durham (NC), Madison (WI), along with Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York City. These renegade governmental entities, which challenge the validity of U.S. immigration laws, are spreading like a cancer rotting the sinew, muscle, and bone of the American Republic. The result, intentional or not, promises to be a balkanized network of warring city-states.
The United States is a Republic governed by the vote of its citizens, rather than by self-serving city- states catering to non-citizens and destined for a disintegration similar to that of the Roman Empire. The United States is a nation of immigrants, but immigrants who swear allegiance to the American flag and to no other.
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.pl?articleID=1311&terms
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.pl?articleID=1311&terms
The above demonstrates the current dangerous actions of the Senate, Congress and all those that are ramming the current immigration bill down our throats full speed ahead along with safe sanctuary cities, counties and states. Our problems are severe. Full Border Security first and the involved agencies have to get their house's in order, along with making companies who choose to hire be the front runners who need to be held accountable less the slap on the hand and that's not going to happen over night. Were treading in dangerous waters, what about Homeland Security and the new amnesty thrust for the 20 million +? Profit Mongers banging on our doors. Were no where near being ready, for yet, another amnesty nor should we be allowing open borders that aid unknown hoppers and truckers. . Just what are our politicians thinking? Apparently, they simply don't care.
Who controls the media these days? Better yet who needs the corporate sponsored media of the past, we have blogs? Saving America one blog at a time.