More Outrage from FAIR

http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/healthcare_09.pdf?docID=3501

Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has a new report out this month. The report is a typical FAIR propaganda piece that attempts to persuade readers that anything other than an all out assault on illegal aliens in our country leaves the nation vulnerable to terrorists.

FAIR has several recommendations that the current administration should implement including the following:
- Require use of E-Verify system
- Development of secure identification system through state drivers’ licenses
- Encourage local police to apprehend illegal aliens
- Increase emphasis on workplace enforcement
- Cancel proposed amnesty for illegal aliens
- Secure the U.S. Mexico Border
- Establish an electronic database that matches entries with exits thereby identifying those who overstay their visas

FAIR claims that the travel, hospitality and education industries have influenced the current administration to ease anti-terrorism efforts so that they can make higher profits. FAIR also blames it on the influence of pro-immigrant groups.

Pardon me, but when did an anti-immigrant group become an expert on counter terrorism techniques? And would someone please explain to me how apprehending and deporting a bunch of busboys, dishwashers and carpenters makes us more secure. I mean come on.

I understand that in an environment with unlimited resources that authorities could better protect the people if every visitor was assigned a team of five highly trained commandos to track his or her every move and ensure that he or she left when the visa expired, check every inch of every piece of luggage and every package that comes across the border and subject every human being to a daily rectal exam.

But the fact is that 100% security is just not possible in a world with limited resources. We have to decide how best to allocate those resources in order to best protect the nation. And allocating resources towards chasing down and deporting millions of illegal aliens the majority of whom only wish to work and live peacefully is not in the nation’s best interest.