Ending Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration and terrorism are inextricably linked: the entry of terrorists into the U.S. cannot be stopped without ending illegal immigration.

On September 11, 2001, three thousand innocent people were murdered by foreign terrorists. A primary factor that permitted these terrorists to carry out their conspiracy was that the borders of the U.S. are open to any person who wants to illegally enter this country. Because every illegal alien is a person whose true identity has never been verified by a competent agency of the U.S. government, any illegal alien may be a terrorist."

The goal of the 9/11 FSA Foundation is to educate Americans about the continuing threat that open borders and illegal immigration represent.

Because the U.S. has long failed to enforce existing immigration laws, the September 11 terrorists were able to easily enter this country and once here hide in plain sight among the more than ten million other illegals already living in the U.S., and then plan, rehearse, finance and carry out their conspiracy. When Osama bin Laden sent his underlings to commit mass murder he was aware that, like all other illegal aliens, these nineteen would not only be ignored by American law enforcement but would be able to participate in all the freedoms offered by the United States of America to any citizen or legal visitor. It was that freedom from discovery; freedom from fear of deportation; freedom to open bank accounts, to obtain credit cards, to obtain "valid ID" in the form of drivers' licenses, to rent cars, to transfer funds, and to travel. This ability to function, negligently granted by our government, permitted the terrorists to plan, rehearse, finance, and carry out their plans to take over airplanes and kill 3000 people.

In short: open borders and mass illegal immigration were essential to Osama bin Laden's plans to invade the U.S. and commit mass murder.

It is therefore obvious, as the 9/11 Commission stated, that open borders and insufficiently policed sea and airports are among the greatest dangers Americans face.

The 9/11 FSA Foundation recognizes the need to bring this danger home to Americans in all parts of the Nation. We need to engage activists at the local, state and federal level. In order to provide the incentive for this action and the facts needed to create that incentive the Foundation will educate Americans about the facts: how illegal immigration threatens them and their children; how their communities, states and the Nation as a whole are threatened. While the activists of 9/11 Families for a Secure America are eager to take action to secure our borders, they need guidance and tools in order to organize and implement campaigns. That guidance and tools will be provided by the 9/11 FSA Foundation.
 

Illegal Aliens and the 2010 Census

 
By Ed Kowalski , Director 9/11 Families for A Secure America 
 
The Constitution requires that seats in the U.S. House of Representatives be allotted to the states based on “the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”
 
That makes no distinction among U.S. citizens, legal immigrants and illegal aliens. So, states that have lots of illegal aliens get greater representation in Congress than states that have fewer. More illegal immigrants counted equals more power. This is not hypothetical. The Center for Immigration Studies determined that in the 2000 election cycle, the presence of non-citizens (including illegal immigrants, temporary visitors, and green-card holders) caused nine seats in the House to switch hands. California added six seats it would not have had otherwise. Texas, New York, and Florida each gained a seat. Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin each lost a seat. Montana, Kentucky, and Utah each failed to secure a seat they would otherwise have gained.
 
That injustice is magnified when you consider that some states — and some cities in certain states — have “sanctuary” policies that draw in illegal aliens, while other states and cities are vigorous in standing against illegal immigration. The law-abiding states are disadvantaged, compared with states that have looser laws, when it comes to congressional representation.
 
A University of Connecticut study predicts that California will gain two seats in Congress after the 2010 census because of growth in the number of illegal aliens there. Florida, New Jersey and other states could also gain political clout on that illegitimate basis.  Is it any wonder that Senator Gillibrand recently voted against stopping federal funding of ACORN programs?
 
The 2010 census will count all persons who physically reside in the United States and will make no distinction between legal and illegal residents.
 
According to Louisiana State University constitutional law professor John Baker and demographic analyst Elliott Stonecipher, this will unconstitutionally give some states greater representation in Congress than they should have, and also deprive other states of the representation they deserve.
 
Open borders have profound consequences. And they don’t end with congressional apportionment. The redistribution of power extends to presidential elections because the Electoral College is pegged to the size of congressional delegations.
 
This means states like Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas stand to gain clout in Congress because they have experienced a significant gain in residents who are not U.S. citizens, according to the Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey data. Is it any wonder that our own Senator Gillibrand recently voted against stopping federal funding of ACORN programs?
 
States that are “certain to lose seats” in Congress, according to Baker and Stonecipher, are: Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Other states that will likely lose a seat are Minnesota and Missouri.
 
No one should oppose a full count of the people who live in the United States, whatever their citizenship status. But everyone should be alarmed over the power of illegal aliens to warp congressional representation and is one more reason why Congress ought to secure our borders.

Drivers' Licenses for Illegals? No!

Prohibiting Drivers' Licenses for Illegal Aliens

Why all states should prohibit the issuance of drivers' licenses and "driving certificates" to illegal aliens.

The 9/11 Families for a Secure America are asking the few other states that give drivers' licenses to illegals to alter their statutes so as to prohibit people who are not legally present in this country from getting licenses.

Why is it necessary to keep illegal aliens from getting drivers' licenses?

BECAUSE A DRIVER'S LICENSE IS A TERRORIST'S TOOL

DRIVERS' LICENSES WERE THE 'VALID I.Ds' THAT GOT THE TERRORISTS ON THE PLANES THEY USED TO MURDER OUR LOVED ONES. Nearly every one of the 9/11 terrorists was allowed to board the planes that they used to commit mass murder because he had a driver's license from Virginia or Florida.

Drivers' licenses did more for the terrorists besides allowing them to board the planes. Drivers' licenses were the tools that allowed them to blend in as just ordinary Americans.

The driver's license is the basic identification document for nearly everyone in America. When the terrorists needed places to claim as a residence, they used their licenses as 'ID' for signing their leases. When they opened the bank accounts that they used to place the financing for the conspiracy, they used their licenses as ID. When they rented cars, rented motel rooms, when they paid tuition for their flying lessons they used their licenses to 'identify' themselves.

There are 8 to 11 million illegals in the US. Even their advocates call them 'undocumented.' AN 'UNDOCUMENTED' (ILLEGAL) ALIEN IS A PERSON WHOSE TRUE IDENTITY IS UNKNOWN, because he has never presented documents to US immigration officials, the only people capable of determining the authenticity of foreign documents.

Thus, a state that grants a driver's license to an 'undocumented' alien is giving an official 'valid ID' to a person who can be a terrorist.

Illegals are people who break the law to get into the US, break the law to stay here; break the law to get jobs here.

To give illegals the privilege of driving in the US is to reward criminal activity.

Giving licenses to illegals will encourage more illegals to come to the US.

Giving driver' licenses to illegals is opening the door to voter fraud

Under Federal 'motor voter' law: 'Each State motor vehicle driver's license application (including any renewal application) submitted to state motor vehicle agencies must serve as an application for voter registration with respect to elections for Federal office.' Thus, allowing illegals to get licenses will encourage them to vote, in violation of law.

Claims Without Merit

Those who favor giving licenses to illegals make several claims... all of their claims are completely without merit:

1. Aren't there a few legal immigrants who don't have documentation and thus will be denied licenses under this law?

Answer: NO. Never. Every native born citizen and every naturalized citizen has a social security number and other documents that prove legal status. Every LEGAL immigrant and every LEGAL visitor, no matter under which provision of law he/she is admitted to the US has documentation from the US government describing his/her legal status.

THE ONLY REASON A PERSON CANNOT PROVIDE PROOF OF LEGAL STATUS IS BECAUSE HE/SHE IS NOT LEGALLY PRESENT IN THE US. Only these illegals will be denied licenses, because they should not be given licenses.

2. Isn't it better to have illegal aliens driving around with licenses than without them?

Answer: An illegal alien is a person who committed one crime by entering this country illegally; another crime by staying here; another by working here. It is laughable to believe that such a person will be changed into someone devoted to obeying the rules of the road because he has been given a driver's license.

There are many cases where illegals have bought cars, obtained insurance in order to register them and get plates, and then immediately cancelled the insurance. After an accident, the illegal, a person with no real identity and no social security number has no difficulty moving to another state and assuming a new identity, leaving the victim of his careless driving with no one, and no insurance company, to pay the hospital.

The fact that the illegal immigrant lobby admits many illegals drive without licenses is an admission of widespread contempt for the law.

Along the same lines, there are people who cheat on their taxes. It is not a valid argument to say that if we eliminated the taxes the tax cheats would become law-abiding citizens.

3. Couldn't the terrorists could have gotten on the planes with their passports?

Answer: After 9/11 it would be impossible for a group of young men from terrorist-sponsoring nations to get on airplanes with passports from those nations without raising alarms among the flight crew and security people.

4. Didn't the 9/11 terrorists have social security numbers and couldn't they get licenses even under this proposed law?

Answer: the Social Security Administration USED TO BE as negligent in giving social security numbers. This is no longer true, and illegal aliens and people like the terrorists could no longer get SSN's. Therefore, if states don't give licenses to illegals terrorists can't get them either.

5. Isn't immigration law a matter for the federal government, not the states?

Answer: Collection of the federal income tax is a federal matter, spying for a foreign government is a federal matter. Yet no one would suggest that states reward those who violate laws regarding these 'federal matters.'

6. Isn't it too much to expect DMV clerks to be responsible for making a determination as to who is legal and who is not?

Answer: True. The federal government makes this determination. If an applicant has documentation, the DMV clerk can process the application. If the applicant lacks federal documentation, either he/she must obtain it or the application cannot be processed. DMV simply relies on the federal government to provide a list of valid documentation.

If a state refuses to rely on the federal government's determination, then the only alternative is to expect DMV clerks to examine and verify documents from any of the over 150 countries around the world, and the thousands of provinces, cities, and other authorities with the power to issue official papers.

7. What are other states doing on this issue?

The few states that have given licenses to illegals and terrorists in the past are enacting laws to ban this practice. Florida stopped issuing to illegals in 2002. Kentucky enacted a ban in 2002. Virginia enacted a ban in March 2003. (The bill passed 82 to 16 in the House, 32 to 8 in the Senate.)

Bills to ban licenses for illegals and terrorists are now pending in the Tennessee and North Carolina legislatures. (Although the license reform bill has not yet come to a vote, a companion bill to prohibit acceptance by the state of identification cards issued by foreign consulates in the US to illegal aliens recently passed the Tennessee house 93 to zero.)

In California, supporters of giving licenses to terrorists have tried in each of the last two years to change the law to permit this practice, but both attempts have been killed.

In New York, special interests have tried to change the law to allow terrorists to get licenses but the attempts have essentially been laughed out of the legislature.

Maryland is the only state since 9/11 to make its licenses available to terrorists and illegals.

8. Is it Constitutional to deny licenses to illegals?

MOST STATES DENY DRIVERS' LICENSES TO ILLEGALS AND THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SUCH LAWS IS UNQUESTIONED.

THERE IS NO LEGAL BASIS WHATSOEVER FOR THE CLAIM THAT AN ILLEGAL ALIEN HAS ANY 'RIGHT' TO A DRIVER'S LICENSE.

The families of the 3000 murdered on September 11 believe it is time that all states move to join the overwhelming majority of the states by enacting bills to ban issuance of drivers' licenses to illegal aliens and other lawbreakers.