Senate consideration of guest worker amnesty causes human tsunami at border

Source: The Minutemen Blog

(Emphasis mine)

(PHOENIX, AZ) March 6, 2006 – Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, issued the following statement regarding the testimony of Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar at last Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee, which confirmed that border apprehensions have skyrocketed this year:

“Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar testified last Wednesday before the Senate that Border Patrol agents have taken into custody well over 400,000 illegal aliens attempting to unlawfully cross the southern border in the first two months of this year—over one third of the 1.2 million apprehended in all of 2005. Those numbers are a startling signal of the disastrous effect the Senate’s consideration of ‘guest worker’ amnesty is having on our national security.

“The ‘guest worker’ amnesty proposed by Senators John McCain, Ted Kennedy and Arlen Specter, among others, has provoked a human tsunami at our southern border, overwhelming law enforcement agencies already under siege by international criminal cartels that have turned the border into a virtual war zone.

“For these very reasons, the Minutemen have been urging the government to secure the borders immediately before considering amnesty disguised as guest worker programs. The failure to do so has strained the resources of the Border Patrol and placed our national security at risk as this relentless tide of humanity heeds the clarion call of amnesty.

“It has been acknowledged by the government that an average of three illegal aliens successfully enter the country for every one that is apprehended. The whole world knows America’s commitment to border security and enforcement of our immigration laws is weak and ineffectual. Millions of people are pouring across our borders every year confident in the knowledge that President Bush and the United States Senate are going to grant them ‘guest worker’ amnesty and allow them to remain in this country indefinitely.

“The same day Aguilar testified before the Senate, Ted Kennedy led a rally of hundreds of illegal aliens on Capitol Hill where he told them he ‘smelled victory in the air.’ The emboldened illegal aliens then marched on the Senate to demand amnesty.

“Kennedy’s partner in Senate plans for another sweeping amnesty, John McCain—a future presidential candidate in search of a constituency—has turned his back on the people of Arizona he purportedly represents. Instead of actively working to protect his home state from the criminal onslaught at the border, McCain has allied himself with Ted Kennedy and extreme leftist groups as he travels the country promoting their amnesty bill.

“Two years ago when President Bush floated his ‘guest worker’ amnesty program in a major policy address, a similar race to the border took place. A U.S. Border Patrol survey of illegal aliens ordered by the Bush administration to gauge the effect of the President’s proposal showed that an astonishing 45% of those apprehended in the weeks after the speech said their decision to illegally enter America was motivated by President Bush’s ‘guest worker’ amnesty program. Subsequent analysis by the non-partisan group Judicial Watch indicates that these survey findings have been deliberately suppressed by the federal government, as politically damaging to the advancement of ‘guest worker’ amnesty schemes under Congressional consideration

“This year, Minuteman volunteers on patrol have experienced for themselves the surging numbers of illegal aliens jumping our border line. In a two-day weekend border watch operation last month in Three Points, Arizona, the presence of the Minutemen aided the Border Patrol in apprehending over 1000 illegal entrants, more than the agents were equipped to handle.

“The Minutemen will be returning to the northern and southern borders for the entire month of April to demonstrate once again to the politicians in Washington what effective border security looks like. We have issued an invitation challenging all 100 members of the Senate to join us at the border to witness in person the chaos that these amnesty proposals are creating. It is the U.S. Senate’s duty to observe the war zone in our own country before they cast their votes on border security and ‘guest worker’ amnesty.”

Unbelievable! Is there anything out government can't screw up?