Our Farblondzhet Senators

Homeland Security Newswire – by Robert Lee Maril

The Senate immigration reform bill has been presented as an effort to resolve the many complex problems resulting from the Immigration and Reform Act (IRCA) of 1986. Whether the bill passed by the Senate yesterday will succeed remains to be seen, but what is not in doubt is the fact that the border security provisions in the bill, in the words of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), read “like a Christmas wish list for Halliburton”and other big defense contractors. This is unfortunate, because the U.S.-Mexico border has become a graveyard for a long list of ambitious, technology-heavy – but ultimately ineffective and exceedingly wasteful – programs.  

As the days of summer get longer and hotter, our senators in Washington are becoming more and more farblondzhet. Even as deaths of illegal immigrants mount up as never before, senators generate stacks of new legislation and amendments to the new legislation (see “Big surge in border-crossing deaths reported,” USA Today, 18 March 2013).    Perhaps the Yiddish word farblondzhet seems the best word to describe the Senate legislation intended to resolve the many complex problems resulting from the Immigration and Reform Act (IRCA) of 1986.

Although there is no exact translation of farblondzhet, it falls within the definition of lost and confused, wandering aimlessly with no hope in sight.

At the top of the farblondzhet list are Republican and Democratic senators willing to focus most of their efforts on “border security” to the neglect of other real issues created by IRCA. According to the polls, most Americans want to fix the broken system. So do many senators and members of Congress, and so does President Obama.

Only a Senate majority, in spite of the best efforts of the Gang of Eight, can’t agree on how to fix it, at least not until just a few days ago.  Republican senators have taken the current Senate bill from the Gang of Eight and made it more palatable to others in their party — along with a number of Democrats — by highlighting “border security.” They claim that very, very soon a majority of senators will pass the amended legislation, leaving the House appearing incompetent if it fails to give a thumbs-up on the new Senate legislation which, after reconciliation, will go to a president eager to sign [the border security provisions in Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill were strengthened by an amendment authored by Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) and John Hoeven (R-North Dakota); the bill was passed by the Senate on Thursday, 27 June 2013, by a 68-32 vote].

And what, after almost three decades of problems generated by IRCA, did these farblondzhet senators come up with? Nothing short of a shopping list of big-ticket items that should send defense contractors into a feeding frenzy. Except there’s no reason for the frenzy because these same contractors have been lobbying for expensive technological fixes to border security since President Obama was sworn to a second term  with an agenda prioritizing immigration reform.

These same corporations are not stupid, just incredibly greedy. “Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont),” ……..

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130628-our-farblondzhet-senators

The Immigration and Reform Act (IRCA) of 1986 gave legal status to over 3 million illegal aliens at the same time the USA was recovering from another Federal Reserve engineered theft of our money, the Savings and Loan ripoff of the 1980’s.

Now Congress is back again, this time wanting to legalize up to 20 million illegal aliens at the same time we’re going thru the latest Federal Reserve engineered ripoff, the MBS, CDS, derivatives frauds.

Greg Bacon

Here’s some info on the 1986 alien invasion:

A Bailout for Illegal Immigrants? Lessons from the Implementation of the 1986 IRCA Amnesty 

It is well known that some 2.7 million aliens secured legal status — many of them fraudulently — in that program, but there has been little discussion of the strange inner machinations that caused so much of the problem.
 
It is now clear that:

 •The agency running the program, the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), far from being the tough law-enforcement agency the immigrants’ advocates feared, turned out to be a typical governmental agency with a strong case of client-itis, one that usually said “yes” to its applicants.

 •Operating without many useful precedents, INS created a new and questionable decision-making process that severely hampered the detection of fraud.

 •A great deal of money intended for the legalization program was diverted to other government programs.

 •As a result, there was a tremendous amount of fraud, largely ignored by INS. A subsequent Center for Immigration Studies estimate, based on population estimates, found that fully one quarter of those granted legal status had secured that status through fraud.3

http://www.cis.org/irca-amnesty

Who was a driving force behind that bit of trickery?  Rep. Charles Schumer, now a Senator.