Former INS agent speaks out
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
I have said it many times before and I will say it again. When the President and the other advocates for open borders make the assertion that our nation has attempted to create an “enforcement only approach to illegal immigration and it does not work” as a justification for a Guest Worker Amnesty Program, the reality is that all that our nation has done is to attempt to create an illusion of enforcement and it is this illusion that does not work!
It has been said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In law enforcement this means that the most effective approach to dealing with criminal activity is to provide meaningful deterrence. This means that those who would violate the laws have to be convinced that if they commit a crime that there is a real chance that they will be caught. If they are caught, they have to be convinced that they will be prosecuted and that upon conviction, they will face serious consequences.
My dad, who I quote often, told me when I was a teenager, that I would teach people how to treat me. As a young man, I was initially puzzled when my dad told me this. He explained that by staking out my positions and making it clear to those around me what I would and would not tolerate would set the tone for the way the people I would come into contact with, especially in my interpersonal relationships, would treat me. If I demonstrated a willingness to be taken advantage of, then people would come to expect to be able to take advantage of me. My dad spoke from personal experience, he was, as my mom used to say, “good-natured to a fault.” He had a real problem saying “No” to anyone who asked him for a favor even when he knew that the person he was helping would most likely never return the favor. For the past several decades, the United States and its “leaders” have been teaching people all over the world that we are not serious about securing our borders. We have taught people around the world that they can come to the United States and expect to not only get away with violating our laws, but to be rewarded for violating our laws. That was the lesson inherent in the Amnesty of 1986 and the message that was reinforced in the disastrous Senate immigration reform bill that was thankfully hammered by a few true leaders in the Senate such as Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. I came to refer to that legislative detritus as the “Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act of 2007.”
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