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

An estimated 500,000 reconquistas took to the streets in Los Angeles over the past weekend to demand illegal alien amnesty. There were over 30,000 people in Denver, and more in other American cities….cities that are currently American, that is.

But the fantasy world inhabited by the federal immigration bureaucracy—which would be charged with enforcing any "guest worker" amnesty scam—still knows no limits.

Through its Office of Communications [OoC], DHS’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS] division has just (March 26) chosen to alert its employees in its Daily News e-mail broadcast that a "wave of anti-immigration sentiment is building throughout the state [of Colorado] . . . [c]learly there is a need to highlight the positive aspects of legal immigration."

To combat this "wave of anti-immigration sentiment", the CIS announced that the Denver District Office, in cooperation with the Office of Citizenship's "Community Liaison Officers" [Community Liaison Officers] has launched "a new initiative that embraces the rich diversity of culture that now exists in Colorado."

What a relief. So this is the tally:

• Nonexistent "lack of embracing diversity" problem: solved.

• Glaring immigration benefit fraud problem: ignored.

CIS made the glad news its lead news item for the day.

[Read the e-mail in full in my Original posting on VDARE.com]

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

The recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report – IMMIGRATION BENEFITS: Additional Controls and Sanctions Strategy Could Enhance DHS’s Ability to Control Benefit Fraud (GAO-06-259) [PDF] certainly raises more questions about the ability of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) division to even detect, let alone do anything about, the massive tidal wave of immigration benefit fraud that inundates its service centers, district offices and asylum offices nationwide.

Following the Mohammedan Jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001, the GAO filed reports in 2002 and 2004 attempting to find out exactly is going on in the way of application fraud detection at the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (and now the CIS).

And now, in the third of its latest of reports issued March 2006, the GAO again finds that there are STILL no immigration benefit fraud detection or prosecution methods in place at the agency.

So what else is new?

Actually this time around, the GAO gives its own suggestion as to how the folks at DHS could at least create the appearance of stemming the tide of immigration fraud.

GAO says how right on the front page of the report: "Additional controls and a sanctions strategy could enhance DHS' ability to control benefit fraud."

But where the GAO’s kinder and gentler Beltway warriors suggest some form of wrist-slapping "administrative sanctions" against the thousands of legal and illegal aliens who file all manner of phony applications seeking immigration benefits, I have another alternative.

Forget all the bureaucratic saber-rattling over "sanctions." How about DEPORTATION!

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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.

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DHS Deceptive On Expedited Removal — And Paralyzed By Bureaucratic Battling.

The public relations campaign launched by the post-9/11 Federal immigration bureaucracy—specifically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division—conceals a scandalous reality: immigration non-enforcement and an agency-wide kicking-and-screaming reluctance to actually implement summary removal authority granted by Congress almost ten years ago.

But that’s only the beginning. Reports from the field tell of institutionalized malaise and bureaucratic infighting, which persist long after the much-criticized Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was abolished.

Considering that summary removal is so vitally important for immigration law enforcement—see my Absolutely Definitive Essay on the subject—the DHS disinformation on expedited removal at the border is astounding.

Consider the following:

• The latest announcement on January 30 by the DHS that the federal government now "Streamlines Removal Process Along Entire U.S. Border" says nothing about the actual history of expedited removal under Section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

• But the current Section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed by Congress along with amendments called the "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996" (IIRIRA). The IIRIRA legislation was signed by President Clinton on September 30, 1996. It became effective on April 1, 1997.

• This allows for the summary removal of illegal aliens found anywhere in the United States—within two years of entering illegally. (It’s all right there in Immigration Act Section 235(b)(1)(A)(iii).) It’s just never been implemented. So much for the DHS’ press releases.

• Unfortunately, as I’ve written again and again, the much loved (by real immigration reformers) but hated and feared (by the Treason Lobby) immigration bill, H.R. 4437, passed last year by the House of Representatives, actually undercuts the 1996 expedited removal authority already on the books. It only allows the summary removal of illegal aliens found within 100 miles of a land border within 14 days of entry...the same standard already implemented in limited regulations by the DHS.

But that’s not all, folks.

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