Mythical Racism in Enforcement Program

Article by Ed Kowalski, published in The Putnam County Courier , June 9, 2011.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that our state will no longer participate in the Secure Communities program. New York is the second state to choose not to participate in this federal immigration enforcement program.
Secure Communities is an information sharing program between state, local and federal enforcement agencies. It gives the FBI access to fingerprints taken by local police; after a person is in custody, who then shares this information with Homeland Security.
“There are concerns about the implementation of the program as well as its impact on families, immigrant communities and law enforcement in New York,” wrote Cuomo in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security. “As a result, New York is suspending its participation in the program.”
24 New York State County Sheriff’s Departments are already participating in this program, with Putnam, Dutchess and
Rockland Counties being among the first.
What is it that our Governor doesn’t understand? Certainly those Sheriff’s that entered the program, have, by oath adopted the proposition that they will honor the “rule of law” by enforcing the law consistently without prejudice and in defiance of external influences. While supporters of Cuomo’s decision will argue that that ‘situational discretion’ (compassion) remains an attribute of professional law enforcement, permitting compassion in the enforcement of law for an entire population of people (illegal aliens) would violate the rule of law as it is commonly understood. How can Governor Cuomo intelligently take the position that crime will not be reported if law is enforced? Isn’t the opposite true? That the uniform enforcement of the law creates an expectation of certainty for the public and for the criminal element that our laws are intended to deter?
The Governor’s decision to pander to La Raza with his refusal to report law violations to federal authorities not only facilitates criminal illegal aliens to remain in NY, but exposes our State, our Sanctuary Government, to liability exposure for every crime committed by the illegally present foreign national criminal and inspires further criminal activity by evidencing our Governor’s disinterest in the enforcement of all law.
Favoring the rule of law isn’t mean spirited or racist – it is the very foundation of the United States and is at the core of why America can welcome immigrants.
We have by far the most generous legal immigration system in the world, admitting 1 million immigrants each year. That has always been a net benefit for the United States. However, illegal immigration puts a strain on our economy, schools and hospitals and even poses serious national security threats. Enforcing all of our laws – including immigration laws – is critical to our success and sovereignty as a State and Nation.
Immigration laws do not discriminate against individuals based on their color, creed, gender or ethnic background. Instead, the law makes a distinction between law-keepers and lawbreakers. A crime is a crime, no matter who commits it.
The United States was founded upon the rule of law, and pro-enforcement policies uphold this American legacy. The Internal Revenue Service enforces tax law even though the majority of Americans do not enjoy paying taxes. Why? Because all Americans are required to play by the same rules.
The same goes for immigration laws. Governor Cuomo’s decision on Secure Communities sends the message to illegal immigrants and illegal border-crossers that we do not take our immigration laws seriously. We are a nation of immigrants, but in order to sustain the high levels of legal immigration we have, immigration laws must be enforced uniformly. Allowing already incarcerated aliens in NY jails to evade our laws will result in New Yorkers being further victimized by criminal illegal aliens.
Call the Governor at 518-474-8390 and tell him how wrong his decision is.
—Ed Kowalski is a resident of
Pawling and a Director of the 911
Families for a Secure
America Foundation.

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Article by Peter Gadiel, published in The Putnam County Courier , September 10, 2009.

We will soon observe the 8th anniversary of the mass murders of 3,000 people in the September 11 terrorist attacks and as the event recedes further into the past we hear more and more about the “9/10 mindset” versus the “9/11 mindset.” The one meaning settling back into the way we looked at the world the day before the attacks: smug; ignorant of the evil forces at loose in the world and careless of our vulnerability to them. The other, the 9/11 mindset meaning facing the reality of an era when we are no longer the safe and secure, geographically isolated fortress that this country was for over two hundred years. [Read more...]

Article by Ed Kowalski, Published in The Putnam County Courier , September 3, 2009 .

Criminal aliens set free on the streets of America – instead of being deported after serving their time – are being rearrested as many as six more times by U.S. authorities, according to a government audit just released.

But the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said it did not know how many of 262,105 illegals in the audit, who had been charged with a crime and then released, had been rearrested.
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Americans aren’t the only ones closely watching the outcome of the Obama-Pelosi healthcare battle. Millions of illegal immigrants here, and potentially millions more poised just south and north of our borders, are waiting to see what deal they may get out of our magnanimous new national leadership. The heedless march to socialize US healthcare may have been stymied for now, but the issue may now see the kind of scrutiny it deserves given what it fundamentally represents: a massive expansion of national power at the expense of the personal health decisions and privacy of Americans who will be footing the bill.  And this debate ought to include an honest discussion of why healthcare is joined at the hip with illegal immigration, which is the next item on President Obama’s “transformational” agenda.
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By Ed Kowalski, published in The Putnam County Courier , July 9, 2009.
While many if not most illegal aliens are decent people and are only illegally in the United States to provide for themselves or their families – an action that does not justify breaking the immigration laws of the United States – all of them are not decent and many are responsible for shocking crimes and incredible damage to families all across the America.

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On September 11, 2001, the willful negligence of federal, state, and local politicians aided in the murder of 3000 people. These murders were the foreseeable, inevitable result of decisions made by Presidents and Congresses beginning in the 1960s. They dismantled procedures that screened out dangerous aliens attempting to get visas while masquerading as students, tourists, and business travelers; and concurrently, to open US borders to millions of illegal aliens..
ALL nineteen of the 9/11 terrorists were given entry visas by the State Department despite laws that barred all of them..
In disregarding the law, bureaucrats merely obeyed the wishes of politicians who in turn bowed to lobbying and campaign contributions by the travel and education industries. They wanted ever increasing numbers of aliens to fill more airplane seats, amusement parks, hotels, and college and university classrooms..
There were profits to make and political careers to build by making it easy for any alien to get a visa, and neither the profiteers nor the politicians cared if some visitors were terrorists and criminals..
Meanwhile, employers such as beef and poultry processors, contractors, etc., discovered that the worker protections of the New Deal could be evaded and profits increased if American labor was replaced by cheap foreign workers, both legal and illegal..
Presidents and Congresses responded to their campaign donations by stripping America’s borders of personnel needed to keep out illegals and ending prosecutions of employers of illegals. State and city politicians joined in by giving drivers licenses, subsidized housing, and free medical care to illegals, and refusing to report them to the INS..
By 2001, the result of these political decisions was a population of over 10 million illegals and a culture of absolute lawlessness..
Thus, Al Qaeda’s planners knew the U.S. would grant visas to their agents, and that once in the U.S. the terrorists could blend in with the millions of illegals, free from fear of discovery; free to get drivers licenses, open bank accounts; free to finance, plan, and rehearse their mass murder; free, with U.S.-issued drivers’ licenses as valid ID, to board planes they would use to murder our loved ones..
All this freedom was granted them, wrongfully but knowingly, by American politicians in order to get support from those who profit from open borders. This must stop..
Originally published inCommon Sense on Mass Immigration