The Bush Administration’s ongoing public relations offensive for its massive illegal alien non-deportation plan was resurrected recently with the testimony of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 18. Now Secretary Chertoff is bringing the "Secure Border Initiative” (SBI) propaganda push to a new audience—his own DHS employees.

It’s not working.

Secretary Chertoff addressed the DHS organization through a memorandum dated November 2, peddling the Bush Administration’s Big Lie that a "temporary worker program” would "help us strengthen interior enforcement” and "increase our security.” A VDARE.com reader provided a copy of the memo via e-mail on November 4. [PDF]

Chertoff’s DHS memorandum claims that the SBI "is built on a foundation of border security, interior enforcement, and a temporary worker program.”

Chertoff pays lip service to "a comprehensive view of immigration that aims for nothing less than to gain full control of our borders.” He goes on to mention the components of "border enforcement” and "interior enforcement.” But then he delivers the kicker—"the Temporary Worker Program.” Astute readers will now realize that the "Secure Border Initiative” is nothing more than a smokescreen for selling this renamed amnesty program.

Secretary Chertoff wrote:

"The Temporary Worker Program, proposed by President Bush last year, will help us strengthen interior enforcement. [Translation: by making deportable illegal aliens legal, there won’t be anyone to arrest!] The Temporary Worker Program will enable migrants to work in regulated, legal channels and will increase our security by giving us a better idea of who is entering our country and for what purpose.” [Translation: the "better idea” about who is here will be apparent only after the fact, when illegal aliens are given legal status through employment authorization.]

The danger in this latest propaganda effort is that, if Congress believes the Big Lie of SBI, then America may one day wake up with:

• more broken promises of border enforcement

• more broken promises of interior enforcement,

• and a massive, fully-implemented illegal alien amnesty free-for-all by stealth under the guise of a "temporary worker program."

"SBI" is the thinly-veiled harbinger of another disastrous amnesty betrayal.

Read the full story in my latest column on VDARE.com -- 11/07/05 - Even Federal Employees Revolt Against Bush’s "SBI" Big Lie and the Chertoff memo [PDF].