>The Immigration Conflagration Is Not Yet Extinguished
>by Newt Gingrich
>
>Posted: 06/11/2007
>When Wa****ngton quit work last week, it looked as though the
>disastrous Bush-McCain-Kennedy immigration bill was dead.
>
>As I write this, however, it is now clear that the Bush Administration
>is determined to force it through with raw power, despite the fact
>that a large and increasingly vocal majority of Americans oppose it.
>
>Every recent survey has indicated that the American people think it is
>better to drop this bill and start over. But the power brokers and
>special interests in Wa****ngton feel otherwise.
>
>The White House press statement Sunday trumpeted: "This Bill Is Alive
>and Well"
>
>Act Now Before a White House-Senate GOP Meeting on Tuesday
>
>The President is apparently going to go to lunch with the Republican
>senators on Tuesday.
>
>Here are a few talking points you should share with your senator TODAY
>-- before the lunch with the President.
>
>The Proposed Bill Is Based on a Fantasy and Could Never Be Effectively
>Implemented: It is outrageous when the federal government is so
>incompetent it has to suspend pass****t requirements for Mexico and
>Canada while at the same time suggesting it will be able to process a
>"Z" visa for 12 million-plus illegal immigrants in one day. Tell your
>senator that only a Wa****ngton power structure totally out of touch
>with reality could propose that.
>As my good friend Linda E. wrote me:
>
>"While American citizens are waiting up to three months or longer for
>the federal government to process their pass****ts, illegal aliens
>could get a 'Z' visa within 24 hours under the hopefully dead Amnesty
>Bill. Outrageous!!! The system is beyond broken when we cannot
>prioritize the needs of citizens before the desires of non-citizen
>lawbreakers."
>
>The Attempt to Blackmail the American People by Threatening to Refuse
>to Enforce the Law Without a New Bill Is Disgraceful: A number of
>powerful figures in the Bush Administration and in the Senate have
>been saying that if we do not agree to pass this destructive bill,
>they will never enforce the law. Tell your senator that this is an
>extraordinary effort to blackmail the American people by having
>officials state that they will fail to perform their sworn duty, and
>we won't stand for it.
>
>
>Americans Do Not Change Our Values to Fit Government Failures: When
>Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said that we had to
>"bow to the reality" of millions of people being here illegally, he
>illustrated the difference between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan as
>President.
>Carter kept trying to convince us to accept malaise as the best we
>could do and to lower our expectations. Reagan told us we had every
>right to dream great dreams because we were Americans. Tell your
>senator that Secretary Chertoff needs to get off the Carter failure
>team and join the Reagan success team. That goes for everyone else in
>Wa****ngton who is trying to tell us we have no choice except to "bow
>to" illegality.
>
>Why Should Any American Believe That This Government Will Keep Its
>Word and Do Better This Time? We now hear from the President that we
>have failed to control the border and failed to enforce the law on
>employers, and therefore, we need a new law to replace the law we have
>been failing to enforce. But we have been here before. The
>Simpson-Mazzoli immigration law passed 20 years ago promised the same
>things. Click here for a set of quotes from those politicians who
>promised to fix the border 20 years ago and see how familiar their
>enforcement promises sound today.
>
>
>And this raises another question: Who has been running the government
>for the last six years? Why do we think anything will change and that
>the law will now suddenly be enforced? Over the last six years, the
>three recently arrested New Jersey terrorists who had been here
>illegally for 23 years had a total of 75 charges by the local police,
>and yet not once was our immigration enforcement infrastructure able
>to identify that they were here illegally. And now we are told that
>with the new comprehensive immigration bill, we will start to enforce
>the law against those have come here illegally after Jan. 1, 2007.
>
>But ask this simple question: Under the proposed law, will local,
>state and federal officials really try to distinguish between those
>who came to the U.S. illegally prior to Jan. 1, 2007 (eligible under
>the proposed law for amnesty), and those who have arrived here
>illegally -- or those who overstay their visas -- after Jan. 1, 2007
>(not eligible for the proposed amnesty)? The case of the 75 prior
>interactions with police of the Fort Dix terrorists demonstrates that
>we currently are incapable of identifying people here illegally, even
>if their names are in the judicial system. If 12 to 20 million are
>amnestied, who is seriously going to try and distinguish between the
>old illegal and the new illegal?
>
>Another sign that enforcement promises may be as empty today as they
>turned out to be 20 years ago is that Arizona Democratic Gov. Janet
>Napolitano just re****ted that the administration's budget cuts
>National Guard work at the border, even though the program is
>hopelessly behind in meeting its goals.
>
>Tell your senator that this is a good time to remember the Reagan rule
>of "trust but verify." Show us the controlled border, show us the law
>enforced on American employers, show us the ****ft back to English as
>the official language of government and show us the end of sanctuary
>cities that refuse to identify those here illegally (by the way the
>Senate bill actually codifies the right of cities and counties to give
>sanctuary to illegal terrorists), then we will begin to think about a
>new bill.
>
>This Is a Fight for America's Future: Your senator needs to understand
>that this is the key fight over America's future and returning to a
>law-abiding, effectively enforced, serious government worthy of the
>American people. Let them know they can be with the vast majority of
>Americans and kill the bill or they can side with the special
>interests and try to ram through this extraordinarily destructive
>bill. Either way, tell them you will remember them and how they vote.
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