[Original posting in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com]

Since the reorganization three years ago of the dreaded Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) into a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), what do the American taxpayers have to show for this billion-dollar bureaucratic bonanza?

Well, for starters, there’s taxpayer-funded DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.

He has been dutifully peddling the Bush Administration’s ongoing promotion of the Big Lie that a "guest worker program" is not an illegal alien amnesty.

The DHS Secretary reached another low of immigration non-enforcement with his latest outrageous comments last week in Brownsville, Texas:

"'We are in the midst of a serious discussion about a guest worker program,' Chertoff said Friday at Alice Walker Hope Park, which is on the bank of the Rio Grande with a view of Gateway International Bridge. 'Not as amnesty, not a reward, but a constructive mechanism to allow migrants in the U.S. to assume a strong labor demand.'

" 'A guest worker program would allow U.S. law enforcement agencies to spend more time focusing on 'dangerous' elements 'we really worry about,' rather than on the many thousands of people who come to the country seeking work, Chertoff said."

[Chertoff promotes guest worker program—Homeland Security secretary says security of nation depends on it," by Sara Ines Calderon, The Brownsville Herald, March 4, 2006.]

Well, Mr. Secretary, for your information, the "many thousands of people who come to the country seeking work" are called illegal aliens.

And by definition, these uninvited "guests" are breaking the immigration laws of the United States by their unlawful entry and presence.

[Read more]