The Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security will receive a one-sided testimony today from members of the Bush Administration who will support the President’s weak immigration policies, as well as lobbyists representing the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, an organization in support of open borders and amnesty.

Today’s Judiciary Subcommittee hearing calls for a roadmap to amnesty through the Department of Homeland Security’s “US-VISITâ€? Program. According to the Department of Homeland Security’s website, the US-Visit Program “protects the privacy of our visitors,â€? and seeks to “demonstrate that we remain a welcoming nation and that we can keep America’s doors open and our nation secure.â€?

Hey, doesn’t the fact that we have no proper border barrier — other than the fence currently being built by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps — an under-funded border patrol, and immigration laws that go un-enforced, demonstrate that “we remain a welcoming nation” and that we are ALREADY “keep[ing] America’s doors open?”  And doesn’t it also indicate that, unless we close those doors to the international gang syndicates, arms dealers, rapists, drug traffickers and terrorists who cross our borders illegally everyday, there is no way the Department of Homeland Security can guarantee to “keep […] our nation secure?”

While these Senators are examining ways to keep our borders open, there is no one testifying with a common sense approach to border security. It is ridiculous for them to worry about the privacy of lawbreakers, rather than the security of our porous borders and the safety of our citizens.

Shouldn’t the Subcommittee be “hearing” from those on BOTH sides of the fence?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 2:59 pm and is filed under Politics, Labor, Homeland Security .