It is Amnesty. The $5000 fine is a sham

Yes, it is Amnesty – the $5000 is the usual penalty for Illegal Alien illegal crossing

Wait until you hear this. President Bush tells us repeatedly that Senate Bill SB 1348 being debate in the Senate this week is not Amnesty. The argument he uses is that it is not Amnesty because the illegal aliens would have to pay a slap on the wrist penalty of $5,000. This “penalty” is a sham in two ways.

First, illegal aliens who do not have an interest in becoming citizens do not have to pay any fine whatsoever, they are just forgiven. In this group are the illegal aliens who have committed no more serious crime than illegal entry and identity and tax fraud (felonies), for example. They will be rewarded with permits to stay and work. This is 99% of what law abiding foreigners hope to achieve by dutifully following our immigration laws and waiting a number of years in their own countries until their time arrives.

The second way is even more shocking. If the same illegal alien, or criminal gang member who renounces his/hers “membership” to the gang, or a terrorist that agrees to stop being a terrorist wants to get on the path to citizenship, they could get on a path to citizenship by paying a slap on the wrist $5,000 “penalty”.

According the a study from the Heritage Foundation think tank, the amnesty bill that the President and the Senate want will pardon upwards of 20 million illegal aliens, open the path to millions more of their family relations and end up costing the U.S. taxpayers $2.5 Trillion in the next decade.

I wondered how President Bush and his two top law enforcement agents, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Michael Chertoff, who met in secret for many months with a handful of Senators, came up with the $5,000 “penalty” that the trio hopes would prevent this amnesty bill being called an amnesty bill.

Well, I did a little research and would you believe it, the civil penalty for violating the border is also $5,000. The reference is found in Title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1459.

Do you get it? There is no penalty because the penalty is the same as what each of these illegal aliens owes America in civil penalties for violating the border!

There must be thousands and thousands of scofflaw Americans facing possible excruciatingly heavy fines and jail time for identity theft and tax fraud that would stand in line for days to get off with a $5000 fine. Wouldn’t it be laughable if tax services would arrange bus trips to Mexico for their clients where the return trip would be through an unauthorized entry point into Arizona? To make their clients re-entry into the United States to benefit from the $5,000 forgiveness more rewarding they could throw in a total immersion Berlitz course in Spanglish or one of the languages spoken by the 155,000 or so other-than-Mexicans (OTM) that the Border Patrol apprehends annually including from countries suspected of harboring terrorists.

The other day I was listening to a radio show host called Bill O’Reilly. Mr. Reilly was chastising one of the callers for mislabeling the President's amnesty bill and amnesty bill. The reason Mr. O'Reilly defends the Presidents position that the Senate bill SB 1348 is not an amnesty is because the illegal aliens would have to pay, yes, you guessed it, a $5,000 fine. Mr. O’Reilly went on to say that this bill may not be perfect but that if “hard working” illegal aliens who had not committed any crime were given a chance to make their status legal and come out of the shadows, that it was OK by him.

Well, Mr. O’Reilly, I think that you may have led that listener stray. It turns out that in order for an illegal alien to stay in the United States; many crimes have to be committed to get by. Naturally, the first crime is violating our borders. Homeland Security tells us that most illegal aliens have violated our borders multiple times. The reason is the so called “catch and release” which DHS tells us they discontinued last August. Entering the United States illegally is a felony after the second time. Once in the country, illegal aliens need to eat, so barring stealing, which some do, others set find a job. To work one needs a Social Security numbers, only that illegal aliens cannot legally apply for one. So illegal aliens have to steal a Social Security number (there are 11 million cases of identity theft annually) or work without reporting the income. The U.S. Labor Department tells us that approximately 1 in 5 workers in America is now an illegal alien and that 40% of them do not report their income. So, Mr. O’Reilly, the first crimes that illegal aliens commit is identity fraud and the second is tax fraud, both are felonies.

On a speech made this past Memorial Day weekend, President Bush questioned the patriotism of anyone who doubted that the Senate’s Amnesty bill (SB 1348) was not an amnesty bill.

Mr. Bush said that if we question any part of it or if we called it an Amnesty, that we are not doing what is good for America and he intimated that we may even be racists.

Senators are getting thousands of calls and faxes from infuriated citizens who oppose it for many reasons. The Washington Times and the Washington Post have reported that Senators such as Senator Diane Feinstein received about 8000 calls the day the bill was introduced May 21 st. If we are to judge by the thundering opposition to this bill, most Americans do not want what is "good for America" in Mr. Bush’s estimation.

It could be that it is the President that is out of touch with the people. Mr. Bush’s popularity is on free-fall hovering around 32% while the Congress is even worse at around 29%. There is another measure of how wrong the President is in pushing an amnesty bill. It was reported Friday that the Republican National Committee has disbanded their solicitation call center. All the dismissed solicitors spoke of the anger the Republican voters felt towards the President's immigration policy. It is reported in the Washington Times that contributions are 40% down and that 99% of the Republican voters objected to the President’s failure to enforce border security and employer sanctions; and his amnesty proposal.

If you believe that Mr. Bush has mischaracterized us when he said those of us that do not agree with him do not know what is good for American, he needs to hear about it. The Senate will begin debating the Amnesty bill again on Monday, June 4th and is expected to pass it by Wednesday.

Once amnesty is voted into law we will not be able to take it back. So we will have to fight this week with all our strength to defeat it. We need to place 100,000 calls to the Senate this week. There will be many amendments offered throughout the day and debated so you are justified in calling several times per day reacting to each amendment. There is no need to give them a speech or a sermon. Remember, the people answering the phone are staffers who have been instructed to just write down if you support of oppose the law. Just call and tell about your thought in one sentence and do it in about 30 seconds. Tell them you want border security and employer sanctions only and you do not want amnesty. That is it. You are done. Call right now and keep calling throughout the day for the next few days. You are going to feel so great when you realize you played a vital role in defeating a great menace to our country.

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Tony Dolz


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