Open Letter to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) on Immigration

By William S. Longino

June 14, 2013

Honorable Mark R. Warner

475 Russell Senate Office Building

United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Re:

(1) If the House and Senate Followed Current Immigration Laws, there would be no Illegal Aliens in our country today; Place an Immediate Moratorium on All Legal and Illegal Immigration until our Border Is Secure and Our Budget Is Balanced! Enforce Current Laws!

(2) Sen. Mark Warner correctly predicted, “By 2010, there are going to be less than 10 percent of the jobs that are no-skill jobs”.
(3) The United States is Financially Bankrupt; the Earned Income Tax Credit Alone Will Alone Devastate Our Federal Budget if we Legalize Individuals That Are Illegal Today! We are broke at the Federal, State and Local Level!

(4) Cong. Frank Wolf sent letters to the State Department regarding the issue of whether or not textbooks being used at the two Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) campuses in northern Virginia promote violence or intolerance. (http://wolf.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=232)

(5) Asking other American Citizens to pay Welfare and Medical Benefits for My In-Laws is a Moral Issue and Wrong!

(6) Under the REAL ID Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13), requires that all travel and entry documents, including visas, issued to aliens by the United States be machine-readable and tamper-resistant and include a standard biometric identifier. The solution is very simple: request all citizens/aliens of the United States the following question when involved with the government or employment. Are you a Citizen or legalized Alien in the United States? If a non-citizen, please provide your biometric identifier?

Dear Mr. Warner:

Since the founding of the Republic, the U.S. government and specifically the Office of the President has always sought to secure for the American people a set of basic objectives:

• The protection of their lives and personal safety, both at home and abroad.

• The maintenance of the nation's sovereignty, political freedoms, and independence, with its
values, institutions, and territory intact.

• Their material well-being and prosperity.

An estimated 11 million to 20 million unauthorized aliens reside in the United States today, and this population is estimated to increase by 500,000 annually. Each year approximately 1 million aliens are apprehended trying to enter the United States illegally. Although most of these aliens enter the United States for economic opportunities and family reunification, or to avoid civil strife and political unrest, some are criminals, and some may be terrorists. All are violating the United States’ immigration laws.

For your reference, I have provided detailed analysis for your review. As a citizen of this great country I am asking for you to respond to each question. To simplify my request, I have attached to the last page of this letter a consolidated list of all the questions. Please review my detailed analysis supported by government (Federal, State & Local) websites (URLs provided).

Number 1: If the House and Senate Followed Current Immigration Laws, there would be no Illegal

Aliens in our country today; Place an Immediate Moratorium on All Legal and Illegal

Immigration until our Border Is Secure and Our Budget Is Balanced! Enforce Current Laws!

Ed Meese, the former Attorney of General for the Reagan Administration recently stated, in the
mid-’80s, many Members of Congress advocated amnesty for long-settled illegal immigrants. President Reagan considered it reasonable to adjust the status of what was then a relatively small population, and as his attorney general, I supported his decision.

The path to citizenship was not automatic. Immigrants had to pay application fees, learn to speak English, understand American civics, pass a medical exam, and register for military selective service. Those with convictions for a felony or three misdemeanors were ineligible.

This should sound familiar, as it’s quite close to the path and provisions set forth by the Senate’s Gang of Eight. Today they call it a “roadmap to citizenship.” Ronald Reagan called it “amnesty.” And he was right. The 1986 reform did not solve our immigration problem—in fact, the population of illegal immigrants has nearly quadrupled since that “comprehensive” bill.

Why didn’t it work? Well, one reason is that everything else the 1986 bill promised—from border security to law enforcement—was to come later. It never did. Only amnesty prevailed, and that encouraged more illegal immigration. Today, we have many of the same needs we did then. We need to work on better securing our border. We need to modernize our legal immigration system, including effective temporary worker programs. And we need strong enforcement of the laws we already have, including those that enforce immigration policies in the workplace.

The Gang of Eight is making promises now. “Border security” is a big promise. But their proposal spends money and grants amnesty without the guarantee that this promise will be kept. We are having much the same debate and being offered much the same deal in exchange for promises largely dependent on the will of future Congresses and Presidents. Instead, we should learn from our mistakes. (http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/17/morning-bell-weve-seen-the-effect-of-amnesty-before/)

Please review a consolidated list of immigration legislation that has been enacted since 1986 and they all define one common denominator:

Overview of Select Major Immigration Enforcement Legislation since 1986

Since 1986, there have been several bills with major immigration enforcement provisions. The following highlights some of the most important enacted legislation for immigration enforcement activities in the Unites States, and provides a brief summary of the important changes. The enacted immigration enforcement legislation includes the:

· Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986(IRCA;P.L. 99-603), which addressed the control of illegal immigration by creating sanctions for employers who hire or continue to employ aliens who are not authorized to work, and by legalizing most of the unauthorized aliens present in the United States at that time;

· Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-322), which gave the Attorney General the option to bypass deportation proceedings for certain alien aggravated felons, enhanced penalties for alien smuggling and reentry after deportation, and increased appropriations for the border patrol;

· Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA; P.L. 104-208), which added to the grounds of inadmissibility and deportability, expanded the list of crimes constituting an aggravated felony, created expedited removal procedures, and reduced the judicial review of immigration decisions;

· USA Patriot Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-56), which broadened the terrorism grounds of excluding aliens from entering the United States, and increased monitoring of foreign students;

· Enhanced Border Control and Visa Reform Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-173), which required the development of an interoperable electronic data system to be used to share information relevant to alien admissibility and removability, and required the implementation of an integrated entry-exit data system.

· National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458), which expanded the grounds of inadmissibility and deportability, accelerated the deployment of the entry/exit system, and increased criminal penalties for alien smuggling, and

· REAL ID Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13), which established statutory guidelines for removal cases, expanded the terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and deportation, included measures to improve border infrastructure, and required states to verify an applicant’s legal status before issuing a driver’s license or personal identification card that may be accepted by the Border Control and Visa Reform Act of 2002.^{^[i]}

In a brief analysis of the Enhanced Border Control and Visa Reform Act of 2002, it represents the most comprehensive immigration-related response to the continuing terrorist threat America faces.

The Border Security law contains several provisions that are critical to our ability to control our borders. Among the most important are:

A requirement that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) make interoperable all its internal databases, so that all information about a particular alien may be accessed with a single search;

A requirement that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies share data on aliens with the INS and the State Department; and

A requirement that all travel and entry documents, including visas, issued to aliens by the United States be machine-readable and tamper-resistant and include a standard biometric identifier.

Recommendations:

The one common denominator for all of the above mentioned immigration laws; they have not been enforced to including border security! Why? Existing laws today provide ample opportunity to stop terrorists and illegal immigrants from entering the United States, and deporting them once they arrive. Weak laws did not allow the terrorists to succeed in attacking - weak implementation did. The provisions of the USA Patriot Act and other enforcement regulations, offered some long-needed funding and resources to enhance existing laws, do not fully solve this problem. We need to look beyond changes in the law to address the fundamental organizational problems, resources, and technology issues that are at the heart of the problem.

Our focus should shift to simplifying and implementing existing laws, not create new laws which already provide ample legal justification for screening out terrorists or potential terrorists and illegal immigrants. Enforce current regulation!

Congressional Question 1: Please provide me a detailed explanation on why Congress currently does not enforce the current immigration laws I noted above today? If you enforced current laws we would not have a terrorist or illegal immigration challenge in our country. Why would any United States Citizen believe Congress would enforce a new law if they currently do not/will not enforce the 7 immigration laws I have noted since 1986? Why?

Number 2: Gov. Mark Warner (D, VA) made the following comment in a speech to the governors’ conference in the spring of 2005, “By 2010, there’s going to be less than 10 percent of the jobs that are no-skill jobs”. (Source: The Examiner, Feb 7, 2005)

Michael R. Strain a Research Fellow at AEI, recently evaluated the recent United States government jobs report. “We still have 2.4 million fewer jobs than when the recession officially began 66 months ago.

We still have 4.4 million workers who have been unemployed for six months or longer. This is a very large number. Outside this downturn, the previous post-war record was under 3 million, back in the 1980s. Over 37% of the total unemployed are long-term unemployed. The previous post-war record, also back in the 1980s, was a comparatively low 26%.

When the Great Recession began in December 2007, 62.7% of the working-age population was employed; today it is a staggeringly lower 58.6%. The share of the working-age population with jobs has increased by only 0.4 percentage points since its low point in the official recovery. Though it doesn’t get much attention, many labor economists prefer the employment-to-population ratio as the best measure of the broad health of the labor market. That this measure has improved so little indicates that the economy is creating just a few more jobs than are needed to keep up with population growth. But this is not enough. We need to create enough jobs to handle the growth of the working-age population and to recover the jobs lost in the Great Recession. To put it simply, we are not succeeding.” (http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/these-are-the-most-important-numbers-from-the-latest-jobs-report/?utm_source=aeiorg&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=060713)

Congressional Question 2: Senator Mark Warner understood by the year 2010 the United States that less than 10 percent of all jobs would be no-skill! We still have 2.4 million fewer jobs than when the recession officially began 66 months ago. Why would the United States legalize over 11 million illegal aliens when we cannot provide enough jobs for the current population or allow one additional low-skilled immigrant into our country to take another American job?

Number 3: The United States is Financially Bankrupt; the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Alone Will Devastate Our Federal Budget if we Legalize Individuals That Are Illegal Today! We are broke at the Federal, State and Local Level!

The following is a review of the Internal Revenue Service 2013 EITC Income Limits, Maximum Credit Amounts and Tax Law Updates:

Preview of 2013 Tax Year

Earned Income and adjusted gross income (AGI) must each be less than:

• $46,227 ($51,567 married filing jointly) with three or more qualifying children

• $43,038 ($48.378 married filing jointly) with two qualifying children

• $37,870 ($43,210 married filing jointly) with one qualifying child

• $14,340 ($19,680 married filing jointly) with no qualifying children

Tax Year 2013 maximum credit:

• $6,044 with three or more qualifying children

• $5,372 with two qualifying children

• $3,250 with one qualifying child

• $487 with no qualifying children

Investment income must be $3,300 or less for the year.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Preview-of-2012-EITC-Income-Limits,-Maximum-Credit--Amounts-and-Tax-Law-Updates

The majority of the illegal aliens that reside in the United States would automatically qualify to receive Earned Income Tax Credit. To be direct, the majority of illegal aliens will not only receive back every dime of federal tax they have paid, if they are married and have 3 children will receive an additional
$ 6,044 each year, negating any Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes they may have paid. This is before the social costs of feeding, housing, educating and providing health care! The majority of these costs are paid at the local and state levels.

Do The Math: The majority of illegal aliens that currently reside in the United States today will be a net negative at the Federal level to include any Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes that may have been paid with just the EITC alone!

In the fall of 2006, I visited my primary physician, Mubarak Khan, MD to obtain a medical referral to an orthopedic surgeon to have a hand operation for Dupuytren's Contracture. While waiting to see the Doctor, a member of the administrative staff made a request to Mrs. Cartoon (do not know country of origin) to pay a 2 dollar copay for insurance. It would have never fazed me until I observed the copay was for her mother and she objected at the request to pay. Mrs. Cartoon continued to push back and the staff went out of their way to provide documentation if wanted and make a copy, send a bill and eventually told her she could be billed later. Her mother, dressed in a green gown and matching cover and her father dressed in a white gown with a white hat. Neither of the parents spoke any English. I became alarmed when they asked to see her MEDICARE card and then realized the request for the copay was for Mrs. Cartoon mother’s MEDICAID (welfare) insurance. I was shocked when I analyzed the costs asked to be paid by every American citizen. The following is a conservative summary of what Mrs. Cartoon’s parents will cost the United States:

(Supplemental Security Income) SSI amounts for 2013

The monthly maximum Federal amounts for 2013 are $710 for an eligible individual, $1,066 for an eligible individual with an eligible spouse:

Eligible couple 12,578.71 12,792.55 1,066

To get SSI: a non–citizen who meets the alien eligibility criteria under the 1996 legislation and its amendments. The SSI program makes payments to people with low income who are age 65. A non-citizen is able to get SSI if resources are worth no more than $2,000. A couple may be able to get SSI if they have resources worth no more than $3,000.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/SSI.html

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-11000.pdf

The Medicare Program is the second-largest social insurance program in the U.S., with 50.7 million beneficiaries and total expenditures of $574 billion in 2012: Cost per person in the U.S. = $ 11,321

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/index.html?redirect=/reportstrustfunds/

Medicaid costs Virginia $ 3,066 per year, for each Medicaid-eligible child compared to the average cost per adult Medicaid enrollee of $ 9140. http://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/federal-advocacy/access-to-care/Medicaid%20Fact%20Sheets/Virginia.pdf

Do The Math: If we assume Mrs. Cartoon’s parents live for at least 10 years, receive Medicaid, Medicare and SSI. The numbers will stagger you:

Medicaid: 2 x 10 x $ 9,140 = $ 182,800

Medicare: 2 x 10 x $ 11,321 = $ 226,420

SSI: 1 (couple) x 10 x $ 12,792.55 = $ 127,993

Total: $ 537,213

Congressional Question 3A: Our current immigration system allows adult parents of legal immigrants to be sponsored and legally immigrate into the United States. In Mrs. Cartoon’s example, why do we ask American citizens to pay the health care costs and welfare costs ($537,213) for two adult individuals that have no ties to the United States and/or paid any of the social costs for these programs? The United States is broke at the Federal, State and Local Level! Why do we allow any immigrants to come into our country and receive welfare benefits?

On Feb 1, 2011, The Washington Examiner ran an article on illegal immigrants in the Virginia and Maryland areas. The article reported 62,700 illegals in the County of Fairfax in 2009, up 9.6 percent from 2007 (Source: Immigration Policy Institute.)

Fairfax County exemplifies what is happening throughout the United States, we have segments of our population that are here illegally draining massive resources from our government services we cannot afford to individuals that broke our laws to live in the United States of America. Do we realize this country is “BROKE” at all levels of government! Do we believe in the “Rule of Law”? Do we believe in right and wrong? I will provide an example of what it costs to support one family.

In the spring of 2012, I went to the Giant Food store in Greenbrier shopping center near my home, an Hispanic women (do not know legal status) not wearing a wedding band, spoke little to no English was in front of me in the checkout line. She had three children and divided out her items to first pay in cash for items WIC and SNAP (food stamps) would not cover. After the cash items, she then filled out the WIC forms and finally paid for the rest of her items with her SNAP credit card. The entire process took over 30 minutes. I was appalled; I only have 2 children and concerned each day how I will pay my own food, health care, education and plan for retirement.

For your reference, let’s see how much this women and her family from a foreign country will cost you and every other American. I will arguably tell you, the United States is broke and we cannot afford it. I will also reference every numerical cost with a government provided link. We will start with free breakfast/lunch costs, direct school costs and Medicaid costs. For this example, we have established this family qualifies for WIC and SNAP (she used them in my presence); I will assume she will qualify for Medicaid and the free meal programs provided by the Fairfax County School systems.

According to Jack D. Dale, Superintendent of Schools in Fairfax, the number of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals is up 42 percent since 2006, to the point that now one in every four students in the County school system is in that category according to FCPS budget documents. This seems counterintuitive in a county with the highest average household income in the nation and less than 5 percent unemployment (these are his words).

He believes children need healthy meals to learn. Fairfax County Public Schools offer nutritious meals every day. Lunch prices will be $2.65 for elementary students, $2.75 for middle, high, and secondary school students. Breakfast, where offered is priced at $1.50. I don’t disagree with the need to feed children, but I do believe in personal responsibility at the parent level. The state requires each student to attend 180 days or 990 teaching hours in any school year. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dmb/fy2012/budget_questions/bos/responses_package_1/04_fcps_free_and_reduced_meals.pdf

Do The Math: 3 children (4.15 day x 3 children x 180 days x 13 years x 3 children)

$ 87,399 School Free Meal Program

Direct School Costs: The FY 2009 Fairfax County School cost per pupil expenditure is $13,340.

Do The Math: 3 children (13 years x 3 children x 13,340)

$ 520,260; this does not include any additional resources/costs such as ESL or LD

programs. (http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/government/budget/fcps-budget-facts.pdf)

Medical Costs: Twenty-seven percent of Virginia children are enrolled in Medicaid. It costs Virginia

just $3,066 per year, on average, for each Medicaid-eligible child compared to the

average costs per adult Medicaid enrollee of $ 9,140. (http://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/federal-advocacy/access-to-care/Medicaid%20Fact%20Sheets/Virginia.pdf)

Do The Math: 3 children (18 years x 3 children x 3,066) $ 165,564

SNAP (Food Stamps): Family of 5 is $ 793 per month

http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/applicant_recipients/ben.htmHow

Do The Math: 5 family members (18 years x 12 months x 793 per month) $ 171,288

Medicaid’s Role for Hispanic Americans

Medicaid plays a particularly important role among Hispanic Americans who are low-income, children, or in poor health. In 2009, Medicaid covered 45% of poor Hispanic Americans, or those living below the poverty line ($22,050 for a family of four in 2009), and 29% of near-poor, or those with incomes above poverty but below twice the poverty line (see Figure 3). Medicaid covered nearly half of all Hispanic children in the United States and 63% of low-income Hispanic children. Medicaid is an important source of coverage for many Hispanic Americans with substantial health service’s needs. Medicaid covered over a third (36%) of Hispanics in fair or poor health and half of Hispanics living with HIV/AIDS.

Medicaid will serve as a key building block to extending health insurance to Hispanic Americans. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands Medicaid eligibility to include most individuals with incomes up to 133% FPL, including men and childless adults. This expansion extends eligibility to nearly 8 million Hispanic Americans. http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/8189.pdf

Congressional Question 3C: How do we pay for Medicaid’s Role for Hispanic Americans; how many more will be added? Why do we pay welfare to individuals that immigrated to our country legally or illegally?

Number 4: Congressman Frank Wolf understands two Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in northern Virginia promote violence or intolerance, both supported by Saudi Arabia promoting the radical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam throughout the United States and world.

In June of 2008, Congressman Wolf wrote the Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice) under the Bush Administration voicing his concern, “I am writing to express my ongoing concern regarding media reports of violent and intolerant language in the textbooks used in the two Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) campuses in Virginia. The United States Commission on Religious Freedom (USCIRF) issued a report confirming that the ISA textbooks contained material inciting violence and intolerance.” Additionally, “It is well known that Saudi Arabia promotes the radical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam within its own borders and has financed radical clerics abroad. Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Looming Tower, points out that “Saudi Arabia, which constitutes only 1 percent of the world’s Muslim population…supports 90 percent of the expenses of the entire faith, “including “thousands of religious schools around the globe, staffed with Wahhabi imams and teachers.” The ISA is funded through the Saudi government, which also funds radical madrassas along the turbulent Pakistani borders.” (http://wolf.house.gov/uploads/RiceLetter-6-24-08.pdf)

In support of Congressman Wolf’s analysis, I wrote a Directed Research Paper while attending the Naval War College titled Confronting and Identifying Wahhabism in the United States. Congressman’s Wolf’s concern is not only accurate, but the challenge to the United States’ is much worse. For your reference, I will provide a brief summary:

1. At the time I wrote the paper in 2008, there are undeniably strong ties between the Wahhabi religious establishment and the Sunni royal family in Saudi Arabia. According to some estimates, Saudi Arabia has spent between $85 to 90 billion over the last 30 years fostering and spreading Wahhabism worldwide. (Woolsey, James The Global Spread of Wahhabi Islam: How Great a Threat? Transcript of remarks presented at the Pew Research Center, Washington, DC, May 3, 2005, 5.)

2. The spread of the Wahhabi movement has significant implications for greater Islam and other Muslim and non-Muslim countries. For instance, export of the most strident forms of Wahhabism can become a destabilizing influence in areas of the world with failed or failed states. These militant Islamic groups are often applying their own interpretation of Wahhabism to forward their geopolitical objectives in the Muslim world, such as eliminating Western influence and destabilizing governments that are secular and/or friendly to the West. As a result, the actions of these Islamic extremist groups have often manifested in beheadings, suicide bombings, and mass executions of Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

3. Wahhabi penetration of US mainstream Islamic institutions is substantial. A 2005 Freedom House Report examined over 200 books and other publications distributed in 15 prominent Saudi-funded American mosques. One such publication, bearing the imprint of the Saudi embassy and distributed by the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles, contained the following injunctions for Muslims living in America:

· Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.

· [W]hoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is an unbeliever himself.

· Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel.

( Blanchard, Christopher CRS Report for Congress: Islamic Religious Schools, Madrasas: Background (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2006), 3.)

In late 2002, The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP) undertook a survey of Saudi Arabian (Wahhabi) textbooks. Unlike the Center’s former surveys of Palestinian and Syrian textbooks, however, the Saudi textbook survey included the Saudi Arabian (Wahhabi) outlook on Christianity and the West as well as Saudi notions of government, women’s status and children’s rights as taught in schools.

The results of the survey provide some insight into the message the Saudis wish to instill in the minds of their students both in their Kingdom and throughout the world. The message, simply stated, is that Wahhabism either must dominate or be dominated. In terms of the democratization and modernization of the Arab world, Wahhabism stands as a monument to Arab stagnation and decline.

The Report analyzes 93 school textbooks taught in grades 1-10, mostly from the years 1999-2002 and presents a "unique" religious and political worldview to which school students between the ages 6 and 16 are exposed through their textbooks.

In these Wahhabi texts, Islam is presented as the only true religion while all other religions are presented as false. Islam is the only religion leading its followers to Paradise, whereas all other religions destroy their believers in Hell. The Muslims are, consequently, superior to followers of all other religions, in both this world and the next.

· Christians and Jews in particular are denounced as infidels. Jews especially are presented as enemies of Islam and of Muslims.

In a broader context, the textbooks make clear that the West, in particular, is the source of all misfortunes of the Muslim world – the most dangerous effect on Muslim society is its cultural and intellectual influence in various fields including the spread of Western practices and habits - from Western democracy to Western influence in the fields of literature, art, music, the media, fashion, education and research - including Christian missionary work, Western humanitarian and medical aid, and even Western-invented computer games.

The recent Boston Marathon Bombing exemplifies our failed post-9/11 immigration policy.

The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing. The Boston Herald reports that Massachusetts lawmakers “are working their way through more than 500 pages of documents on the benefits that Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and their family received.” Additionally, “federal agents are investigating why Tamerlan Tsarnaev…traveled to Russia for six months in 2012—while he was on welfare.”

State Representative Shaunna O’Connell (R–Taunton) says this “has become a national issue, and people are asking why someone who’s out of the country for six months—someone who is on a terrorist watch list—would be getting benefits. When you’re out of the state for two months, your benefits are supposed to be cut off.”

The Boston Herald says that “Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism.” ABC News adds that the time he was receiving state aid “coincides with the years Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly became more radicalized. He was interviewed by the FBI in 2011 after Russia flagged Tsarnaev for his potentially dangerous views.”

The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector explains that as of the late 1990s, “immigrant households were fifty percent more likely to receive means-tested [welfare] aid than native-born households.” He adds that “immigrants appear to assimilate into welfare use. The longer immigrants live in the U.S., the more likely they are to use welfare.” Rector explains that greater use of welfare among immigrants is often, but not always, due to lower education levels. This wasn’t necessarily the case with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar’s father, who “had held high-status government jobs” prior to coming to the U.S. Once in the U.S., he worked as a mechanic. Tamerlan and his wife Katherine Russell had not graduated from college.g from 2002 to 2012, the Boston Herald has learned. (http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/tsarnaev_family_received_100g_in_benefits)

The Boston Bomber left a very direct and telling note -- scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the boat cabin -- said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral damage" in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," Tsarnaev wrote.

In the recent Britain Woolwich attack: A British soldier has been butchered on a busy London street by two Islamist terrorists, one of whom proclaimed afterwards: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, The British paper, the Telegraph reported Terror police called in after prison warden stabbed in attack 'inspired by Woolwich murder'. Counter-terrorism police are investigating the attack on a prison warden by alleged fanatical Islamic inmates believed to have been inspired by the Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. It also mentioned all of us should be alarmed to know, more than a fifth (22%) of the prison’s inmates in 2012 were Muslims. (http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/tsarnaev_family_received_100g_in_benefits) This is a growing challenge and the numbers of Muslims in jail are reflective in all European countries today.

Just as we understood during World War II there was no such thing as “Radical Nazism”, it was Nazism or during the Cold War it was not “Militant Communism,” it was Communism. Today, both in the United States and around the world, there is no such thing as “Radical Islam,” “Islamic Fundamentalism,” “Islamic Extremism, “Political Islam” or “Islamofascism.”, there is only Islam.

Congressional Question 4: If Congressman Frank Wolf understands and identified two Islamic Saudi Academy s (ISA) in northern Virginia promote violence or intolerance, both supported by Saudi Arabia promoting a radical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam and your own Congressional Research Service documented the same findings in detailed analysis with the majority if not all Saudi supported schools and mosques promoting and teaching hate, intolerance and violence to young Islamic children in the United States. If we are truly concerned with terrorism why would Congress continue to allow/promote immigration from Islamic countries to enter our country and have access to our welfare system?

Number 5: Asking other American Citizens to pay Welfare and Medical Benefits for My In-Laws to immigrate to this country is a Moral Issue and Wrong!

My wife came to this country in 1982 as an immigrant, but she did it the right way, she is fluent in English, paid out of state tuition to receive her nursing degree at Northern Virginia Community College / George Mason University, cleaned homes and worked as a waitress to get a degree. She never asked/received public assistance or burdened our society with children she could not financially take care of or bring her parents into this country and ask every American to pay the social costs of health care, food and sustainment in their later years of life.

In the spring 2012, my father in-law with his handicapped wife visited the United States to see their daughter and grandchildren. My father in-law was interviewed and drilled by TSA; he had a legal passport and authorized to visit the United States. He was pulled aside from immigration and questioned on why he was here in the United States, his intentions, why he only had so little money in his wallet if he was going to stay for 6 weeks and received direct push back on all his answers. I applaud TSA for being pro-active and taking initiative. My only concern, every immigrant in this country should have some form of a port of entry card. Why do we only enforce the law with my father in-law and not the illegal aliens that reside in our country today?

Congressional Question 5: It would be immoral to bring my in-laws legally into this country and ask hard working American citizens or pass the costs on to my/your children and grandchildren to pay their health care costs and welfare payments today. Why do we allow any legal/ illegal immigrants and legal immigrants over the age 65 to receive welfare payments when our country is financially bankrupt?

Congressional Question 6: In the spring 2012, my father in-law with his handicapped wife visited the United States to see their daughter and grandchildren. My father in-law was interviewed and drilled by TSA; he had a legal passport and authorized to visit the United States. Every immigrant should by law have a port of entry card, why do we only enforce the law with my father in-law (abiding by the law) and not the illegal aliens that reside in our country today? Under the REAL ID Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13), requires that all travel and entry documents, including visas, issued to aliens by the United States be machine-readable and tamper-resistant and include a standard biometric identifier. The solution is very simple: Request all citizens/aliens of the United States the following question when involved with the

government or employment. Are you a Citizen or legalized Alien in the United States? If a non-citizen, please provide your biometric identifier? Why?

If Congress is really interested in economic prosperity for the American citizen in Homeland Security, all forms of immigration need to be stopped immediately. Our current strategy will eventually implode all facets of our government at the Federal, State, and Local levels. Most importantly it is the Federal Government’s job and responsibility to secure our borders and uphold the Constitution of the United States. I do not understand why our Federal government does not “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion.” Congress should immediately stop all immigration into our country. Place an immediate Moratorium on All legal and illegal immigration until our border is secure, our budget is balanced and we start enforcing current immigration laws!

Sincerely,

William S. Longino

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United States Senatorial/Congressional Consolidated List of Immigration Questions

Congressional Question 3B: Fairfax County alone has 62,700 illegal Hispanics alone! Do you think we should spend $ 944,511(three children) on just one family and ask the American citizens to pay for it? If we add Medicaid for the parents, add an additional $ 329,040.

Congressional Question 3C: How do we pay for Medicaid’s Role for Hispanic Americans; how many more will be added? Why do we pay welfare to individuals that immigrated to our country legally or illegally?

Congressional Question 4: If Congressman Frank Wolf understands and identified two Islamic Saudi Academys (ISA) in northern Virginia promote violence or intolerance, both supported by Saudi Arabia promoting a radical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam and your own Congressional Research Service documented the same findings in detailed analysis with the majority if not all Saudi supported schools and mosques promoting and teaching hate, intolerance and violence to young Islamic children in the United States. If we are truly concerned with terrorism why would Congress continue to allow/promote immigration from Islamic countries to enter our country and have access to our welfare system?

Congressional Question 5: It would be immoral to bring my in-laws legally into this country and ask hard working American citizens or pass the costs on to my/your children and grandchildren to pay their health care costs and welfare payments today. Why do we allow any legal/illegal immigrants and legal immigrants over the age 65 to receive welfare payments when our country is financially bankrupt?

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