Disaster: Massive Immigration Scam Exposed

M. Stanton Evans * The Center for Western Journalism

On first appraisal, the amnesty/immigration bill before the Senate looks pretty bad. On a more careful comb-through, clause by clause, it looks much worse – like a complete disaster. It also looks like a massive venture in deception.

Consider the oft-repeated claim that under the bill, 11 million plus illegal immigrants now in the U.S. won’t get legal status unless and until the border with Mexico is secure. This claim has been incessantly made by backers of the measure who call it “tough, conservative” legislation.

Thus, a former official in the second Bush administration flatly tells us that “the bill’s path to citizenship doesn’t open until the border is secured.” The same claim is made in radio/tv ads in conservative media markets, featuring one-time tea party favorite and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the main Republican spokesman for the bill.

These commercials are funded by a Silicon Valley group calling itself “Americans for a Conservative Direction,” though conservatism isn’t evident otherwise in Silicon Valley political projects, which tilt heavily to Obama. One radio spot says of the bill’s approach: “it all begins with border security,” while a TV commercial featuring Rubio states, beneath his picture, “establish border security first.” Similar claims have been made innumerable times in the run-up to Senate voting.

That these statements are completely false can be seen by anyone who bothers to read the legislation. In fact, all the bill requires is that the Secretary of Homeland Security submit a “strategy” for securing the border, then certify that steps to implement this are “commencing.” These paper pledges would trigger the processing of applications for “provisional immigrant” status that would in essence legalize illegals.

The bogus nature of this “conservative” ad campaign was on full display last week in two rather startling developments involving Rubio in person. On June 13, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) submitted an amendment to the bill saying the border must demonstrably be secure before the legalization of illegals can happen. This was summarily rejected by a vote of 57-to-43, refusing to put into the bill the very thing its backers say is in it.

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