Next let me offer you a little comic relief in this edition by way of George Carlin's comedic diatribe on "Education and the owners of America."
Finally let's get down to business . . .
In late June we sent a strong message to the Senate to stop any Amnesty of Illegal Aliens and and expansion of the H1-B Visa program. We made so many phone calls that the Senate switch board was brought down for the first time in Senate history. For weeks we thought they had got the message: "Stop the flow of Illegal and Legal Immigration into the United States." "We have 54 million Americans over 18 who are not working right now. So, how can you Senators and Congressmen justify bringing in more foreign Visa workers (e.g., H1-B, H2 etc.). And why are you doing nothing about the millions of Illegal Aliens who are leaching away our national treasure?"
For a few weeks we thought perhaps they FINALLY got the message. But then the Senate attempted to push thousands of American truckers out of their jobs by bringing in thousands of Mexican truckers. Apparently this was part of Clinton's NAFTA agreement and the corporate elite was getting impatient that this was not yet implemented. Once again we made our calls and sent out our faxes. And once again we prevailed.
But it is becoming apparent that neither House or Senate is "going to get it" when it comes to stopping immigration; securing our borders and bringing employers to justice for hiring illegal aliens.
Why do I say this? Because this week the Senate is going to try to sneak amendments into a Defense Authorization bill that would allow implementation of the DREAM Act amnesty and H-1B/H-2B Visa Increases. They think we are so stupid that we won't understand that the Amnesty Bill they couldn't pass in June could merely be cut up and placed as amendments on other bills. If they can't do it as a package they will merely pass it piecemeal.
One of the things these immigrant apologists keep saying is that "we can't possibly deport 12 million Illegal Aliens." But this, it turns out is utter bullshit. I have included an article about Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" that successfully deported nearly 1 million Illegal Mexican workers in less than a year with 1/10th the current Border Patrol. The truth is that our leaders are merely whores to Multi-National Corporations that want to destroy the American working class. Soon the truth will ring clear. You can't serve two masters. And if you aren't serving the interests of "the people" you don't deserve to be in office.
And the same criticism can be made of the entire field of Presidential candidate for the 2008 election. Most support more immigration. Most want to continue the War on People that choose to use Marijuana. Most are not really going to extend Universal Health Care to all of the American people despite the fact that we are the ONLY industrial nation that does not do this for its citizens.
What we need is a "New Agenda for America." And to that end I have set down a set of policy planks that I believe to be supported by a majority of American citizens. I urge you to share this agenda with your friends. And at every chance you get I implore you to ask each candidate:
"Which planks of the "New Agenda for America" do you support.
Do this with emails. Do this if you attend a political gathering.
The War on the Middle Class needs a response. And that response needs to be in the form of a War on the Corporate Elite. They are the ones that destroyed the US economy and they are the ones that need to ante up and pay for their hubris and deceit.
Lets take the 2008 Presidential Election and use it as a forum to rejuvenate the meaning of citizenship and as a vehicle to rejuvenate the Middle Class.
================================================ If you would like to discuss aspect of the "New Agenda for America" let me invite you to join my discussion group:
The following Lou Dobb's segment makes clear why we should all be pushing the "New Agenda for America" forward. At a time that America is hemorrhaging jobs, like no time in US history, ALL of the Democratic and Republican candidates are supporting the influx of more foreign workers. Why? Because they are all sucking on the big Multi-National Corporate teat: or in Craig's case, the big Multi-National Corporate penis. But in all seriousness let me ask this question: Don't the American people deserve better?
I mean consider what is really going on here. They want to allow 185,000 H1-B foreigners into this country each year to take what few remaining tech jobs even exist in the United States. We are allowing over 1 million foreigners to attain legal status in this country every year when last month the United States suffered a net loss of 4,000 jobs nation wide. How do these politicians even sleep at night? Is there still ANY question that none of these scumbags represent the "will of the American people?" This next Dobb's segment elaborates on this very point.
Copy the "New Agenda for America" planks onto a piece of paper and put it in your wallet, so it is always available.
New Agenda for America: (1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens (2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States (3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients (4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American Jobs (5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State (6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral Trade agreements (7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g., solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal) (8) Increasing the "minimum wage" to a "living wage" (9) Replacement of the "Federal Reserve" with a "People's Reserve" which has Congressional oversight.
I am also providing the link (below) to a Word Document that contains 8 copies of the "New Agenda for America" per page. Soon I will also release a *.pdf version of this file. If you are reading this from the homepage of my website (www.newagecitizen.com) you will see what a single copy of this printed listing of the "New Agenda for America" looks like:
Here is the link to the "New Age Agenda" mini-flyer Word document:
Please make additional copies to share with your friends. Just follow these steps:
(1) Print of a few copies (8 mini-flyers per page) (2) Cut them into individual flyers with a pair of scissors (3) Put them where they are easily accessible (e.g., your wallet or purse) (4) Share them with any eligible American voter.
Then start sharing. Share the agenda with your friends, your family, with the local policeman. If you call into a "talk show" or attend a political debate read off the list and ask, after each policy plank is read: will you promise to support this? IF a politician says NO to anything on this agenda, that you support, respectfully tell them that they are NOT GETTING YOUR VOTE.
Your can also get involved by joining the NAC discussion group or viewing the expanding library of NAC and other videos:
================================================ If you would like to discuss aspects of the "New Agenda for America" let me invite you to join my discussion group:
These two links are extensions to my website: www.newagecitizen.com ================================================
We have 14 months to change the course of the country by changing the agenda for the 2008 Presidential Election.
What would you rather have: the same old Corporate Presidential Agenda or "The New Agenda for America"?
I just think NAA makes too much sense to be ignored. It could be our last best chance to put this country back on track towards a sustainable future for our children.
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain Editor, New Age Citizen www.newagecitizen.com
Actually, I would give them a call throughout the week.
You can also click here to Send a fax opposing the DREAM Act amnesty and H-1B/H-2B Visa Increases.
Roy Beck, of NumbersUSA, is concerned that millions of Illegal Aliens will be granted Amnesty Next Week! I urge you to send this information to every discussion group and friend that you know.
I talked with Beck's people this morning and it appears that Corporate America has aided and abbetted these Illegal PAC's with a FAX system similar to NumbersUSA. Show your Senators just how angry you are becoming about their actions which go against the majority of Americans who want to stop both Legal and Illegal Immigration. Legal American workers need decent paying jobs!
This coming Monday I want everyone to do the following:
================================== THE QUICK PHONE MESSAGE YOU CAN GIVE TO SENATE OFFICES THIS AFTERNOON -- AND FIRST THING MONDAY
1. Call the Senate switchboard at:
202-224-3121
2. Ask for your Senator. (You can find the names of your Senators and all their contact info at: numbersusa.com/myMembers) 3. Use the Phone Action Note on your Action Buffet corkboard for up to date talking points for each of your two Senators and other pertinent information. 4. If you want to go with the simplest phone call, then follow the rest of these points: 5. Tell the person who answers that you are calling to ask the Senator to vote NO next week on three measures that are being considered for the Defense Authorization bill.
a. Vote NO on Amendment 2237 that would attach the Dream Act Amnesty. b. Vote NO on any measure to increase H-1B visas and permanent greencards for foreign workers to take jobs from skilled American workers and students. c. Vote NO on any attempt to increase H-2B visas for seasonal foreign workers to take jobs from America's most vulnerable workers.
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Summary of what the Senate is up to:
(September 14) During the consideration of the Department of Defense authorization bill (H.R. 1585) next week, open-borders Senators will attempt to attach three proposals that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and dramatically increase the importation of additional foreign labor for American jobs.
Senate Amendment 2237 to the bill, sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), is the DREAM Act, which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens that:
have maintained continuous presence in the United States for five years and was not yet 16 years old upon initial entry;
are of "good moral character" and is not inadmissible or deportable on certain criminal grounds or on the basis of being a risk to national security; and
have been admitted to an institution of higher education, has attained a high school diploma, or has obtained a GED in the United States.
In addition, amendments increasing availability of H-1B "high-skill" foreign worker visas and permanent residence for foreign workers and increasing the number of H-2B "low-skill" nonagricultural worker visas for seasonal foreign workers are expected to be brought up.
Efforts to add an amnesty for illegal farmworkers (AgJOBS) to the farm bill (H.R. 2419) have been delayed. However, pro-amnesty advocacy groups have been promised that AgJOBS will be attached to that measure this fall and signed into law.
For more background information on the latest Senate betrayal:
The fact that they kept a lid on this story -- both in the local and national media -- should really raise some questions about who is controlling our media. Here is a summary of the incident:
A 26-year-old man accused of carrying an assault rifle in a Michigan park remained in custody Friday on a $1 million cash bond.
Houssein Zorkot, of Dearborn, Mich., was arrested on Sept. 8 after witnesses called police to complain about a man with an AK-47, dark clothes and blackened face walking around a park.
"We don't know exactly what his intent was or what he was intending on doing," Dearborn Police Chief Michael Celeski told FOXNews.com.
Police responded to the scene and approached the vehicle Zorkot was driving. Zorkot attempted to flee and was not cooperative with police, Celeski said.
"At one point, he was reaching to a lower area of the vehicle and the other officer at the scene was able to determine there was a weapon on the floorboard," Celeski said.
Officers then took Zorkot into custody and charged him with one count of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, one count of possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle and one count of felony firearm. If convicted on all three counts, Zorkot faces 9 years in jail.
Zorkot was arraigned on Tuesday. A preliminary examination is scheduled for Sept. 21.
So we have a 26-year old Mid-Eastern walking around a local park with an assault rifle, 4 days prior to the 6th anniversary of "911" and it doesn't even get on the national news? But CNN spent hours and hours retelling the story about how OJ Simpson strong-armed some idiot that was ripping of his memorabilia.
Was Zorkot waiting to meet other terrorists that afternoon? Where was he intending to go? What was he intent on doing?
What is even more bizarre about this incident is the fact that he is a medical student. How would YOU like to be his patient? The police searched his home and found pictures of this guy, on vacation in Lebanon: standing next to a Hezbollah billboard. Of course Hezbollah is a Fundamentalist Islamic Organization that wants to convert the entire world to Islam. On top of that they found that Zorkot has constructed a website that has pictures of Bin Laden and numerous other radical Islamic fundamentalists that have stated numerous times that they want to overthrow the United States.
Here are a few links with additional information on this incident including a few videos:
So why wasn't the story made public prior to 911? The mayor of Dearborn didn't want to "stir anti-Muslim sentiments and fan the flames of terrorism." That is what he said in the following article. Note that this text was in the print edition but was missing from the online article:
According to Dearborn Mayor "Jack" O" Reilly, Jr., the release of the information about the case was delayed until after Zarkot's arraignment and late in the day that marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. City officials feared that announcing the arrest of an armed Arabic man so close to anniversary of the attack would stir anti-Muslim sentiments and fan the flames of terrorism.
"We didn't want this to become more than it is," O'Reilly said. "There are certain things that the media latches onto, and this would have turned into a story about terrorism. That's not the kind of tone we want to set."
Zorkot has not been identified as a terrorist and has yet to be associated with any terrorist group, O'Reilly said. He has been charged with multiple felonies for carrying a dangerous weapon. [Note: Your will not find this in the electronic version]
But there could be another reason that O'Reilly doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of the Islamic community. It has to do with the conspicuous wealth that they have been pouring into Dearborn and Dearborn Heights over the last 10 years. In this time nearly all of the Cell Phone Stores, Gas Stations and Dollar Stores are all conspicuously owned by Mid-Easterners. There are also numerous big-foot homes, replacing small ranches and bungalows in both cities. Nearly all of them are Mid-Eastern owned and they must be bringing sizable increases in revenue: possibly offsetting the American workers that have been displaced by the dying engine of the Michigan economy: the auto industry.
If the current trend in Mid-Eastern immigration continues both Dearborn and Dearborn Heights will have Muslim majorities in less than ten more years. I have lived in this area all of my life and have never witnessed such dramatic shifts in demographics. Many non-Mid-easterners feel they are essentially being colonized by conspicuous Mid-Eastern foreign wealth. Again, this might provide another reason why the mayor of Dearborn sat on this story until after 911. I'm sure he doesn't want to push any of that tax revenue away at a time when so many American workers are forced to leave the state due to Dearborn's Ford Motor Company moving all of it's jobs to Mexico and China.
Just consider that the prime minister and wife of the emir of Qatar recently donated $1.5 million towards a $5 million dollar American-Arab Center for Civil and Human Rights that just broke ground the other day in Dearborn. You can read the entire article here:
And who else was there for the ground breaking? Just about every major important political figure for the State of Michigan:
Other officials on hand included Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garret; Dearborn Police Chief Michael Celeski; Director of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's office Kimberly Trent; Dearborn Heights Councilman Tom Berry; Dearborn Councilman George Derani; representatives from the congressional offices of John Conyers, John Dingell and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, and representatives from the offices of U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.
Kind of makes you wonder what sort of marionettes these traitors have become to these Mid-Eastern interests doesn't' it?
Meanwhile most American's that I talk to want to see any further Mid-Eastern immigration, into the United states, halted immediately. Personally I believe this moratorium on immigration should extend to all immigrants: both legal and illegal. And it should stay in effect until the American working class is back on their feet once again.
Meanwhile growing numbers of Americans are beginning to wonder when the horrors of London, Madrid and France will start occurring on US soil. But don't count on your mayor, congressmen, senator of governor to do much about it. They are too concerned with the foreign money that they might be able to grab onto by allowing foreigners to buy this country out from under the American people.
And here's one more thing you might want to give some thought to. If a neighbor had not called the police what might have transpired? Could Zorkot have been waiting to meet up with a few of his fellow terrorists at Hemlock Park. And where might they have been going after that? A elementary school? A synagogue? The local Fairlane Mall?
When are we going to demand that our representatives get serious about stopping terrorism? That means securing our borders, identifying all illegal's and visa overstays and prosecuting employers that hire these people. It means a 20 year moratorium on ALL immigration into the United States. You think we might convince them before the next terrorist tragedy unfolds?
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain Editor, New Age Citizen www.newagecitizen.com
"Well, let me give you an example of giving. When I was President I had a secretary named Monica. She wasn't the smartest peach on the tree, but my could she give a good blowjob." said Clinton.
"And those stupid American working stiffs. They've been taking it up the ass from us Neo-cons, like ourselves, for years now. Ha, ha, ha." said George Bush the 2nd.
"Yep, that's the way it's supposed to work. The wage slaves "give it" and they "take it." And then we go laughing our asses off, all the way to the bank. It is hard to believe the American people are so stupid." said Clinton
Bill Clinton has written a new book. It is called “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World.” He will give a portion of the proceeds to charity. Giving, the former president informs us, gives us fulfilment in life and is “the fabric of our shared humanity.”
His book is the political equivalent of “Marley & Me” It is filled with a lot of vapid, feel-good stories about ordinary and wealthy Americans setting out to make the world a better place. It smacks of the philanthropy-as-publicity that characterized the largesse of the robber barons—the Mellons and the Rockefellers—and has become a pastime for our own oligarchic elite. Clinton’s call for charity is the equivalent of well-scrubbed prep school students spending a day in a soup kitchen, doling out food to the people whose jobs were outsourced by their mommies and daddies. It does little to alleviate suffering. But it is a balm to the conscience of the oligarchic class that profits handsomely from the impoverishment of the working class, globalization and our anti-democratic corporate state. The rich love to dine out on their own goodness.
The misery sweeping across the American landscape may have begun with Ronald Reagan, but it was accelerated and codified by Bill Clinton. He sold out the poor and the working class. And Clinton did it deliberately to feed the pathological hunger he and his wife have for political power. It was the Clintons who led the Democratic Party to the corporate watering trough. The Clintons argued that the party had to ditch labor unions, no longer a source of votes or power, as a political ally. Workers would vote Democratic anyway. They had no choice. It was better, the Clintons argued, to take corporate money and use government to service the needs of the corporations. By the 1990s, the Democratic Party, under Clinton’s leadership, had virtual fund-raising parity with the Republicans. In political terms, it was a success. In moral terms, it was a betrayal.
The North American Free Trade Agreement was sold to the country by the Clinton White House as an opportunity to raise the incomes and prosperity of the citizens of the United States, Canada and Mexico. Goods would be cheaper. Workers would be wealthier. Everyone would be happier. I am not sure how these contradictory things were supposed to happen, but in a sound-bite society, reality no longer matters. NAFTA would also, we were told, staunch Mexican immigration into the United States.
"There will be less illegal immigration because more Mexicans will be able to support their children by staying home,” President Clinton said in the spring of 1993 as he was lobbying for the bill.
But NAFTA, which took effect in 1994, had the curious effect of reversing every one of Clinton’s rosy predictions. Once the Mexican government lifted price supports on corn and beans for Mexican farmers, they had to compete against the huge agribusinesses in the United States. The Mexican farmers were swiftly bankrupted. At least 2 million Mexican farmers were driven off their land from 1993 through 2002. And guess where many of them went? This desperate flight of Mexicans into the United States is being exacerbated by large-scale factory closures along the border as manufacturers leave Mexico for the cut-rate embrace of China’s totalitarian capitalism.
Clinton’s welfare reform bill, which was signed on Aug. 22, 1996, obliterated the nation’s social safety net. It threw 6 million people, many of them single parents, off of the welfare rolls within three years. It dumped them onto the streets without child care, rent subsidies and continued Medicaid coverage. Families were plunged into crisis, struggling to survive on multiple jobs that paid $6 or $7 an hour, or less than $15,000 a year. But these were the lucky ones. In some states, half of those dropped from the welfare rolls could not find work. Clinton slashed Medicare by $115 billion over a five-year period and cut $25 billion in Medicaid funding. The booming and overcrowded prison system handled the influx of the poor, as well as our abandoned mentally ill.
The growing desperation provided a pool of broken people willing to work for low wages and without unions or benefits. And while Clinton was busy selling out the poor, he lowered the capital gains tax from 28 percent to 20 percent, a reduction that permitted the wealthiest 1 percent of the population to derive 80 percent of the tax savings. Clinton, like George W. Bush, also provided lavish government funding for his corporate backers, including in 1998 a $200-billion highway and transportation package for the big construction companies and a $17-billion increase in the military budget. This was the largest increase in military spending since the end of the Cold War. Corporations, flush with government aid, saw their taxes dwindle. Amway, for example, had its taxes cut during the Clinton years by an estimated $280 million. The Clinton and Bush administrations, through tax breaks and corporate bailouts, have squandered billions of our tax dollars on corporate welfare.
The appreciative oligarchs and corporate class have made Bill rich. He is fond of boasting in public about how wealthy he has become. Hillary raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, almost three times as much as any politician previously raised at that point in a presidential election.
We face the prospect of having two families govern the country for 16 years. The system is rigged. Our democracy is a consumer fraud. The government has given up any pretence of serving the interests of citizens. The corporations rule. And for all Clinton’s charm and talent for self-promotion, he is largely to blame.
Half a century ago, corporations paid 45 percent to 50 percent of the income tax. Today they pay 6 or 7 percent. This is why our infrastructure is crumbling, there is no universal health care, our public education is in crisis, regulatory agencies are impotent and our poor and working class are desperate.
The bottom line is that the Democrats, including John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, will never govern on our behalf. They are hostage to those who put them in power. And it is not us. Until we throw our weight behind fringe candidates such as Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader, if he runs, we will continue to be fleeced by corporate pawns such as the Clintons and the Bushes. It is no longer possible to argue between the lesser of two evils. The corporate state, which is carrying out a coup d’etat in slow motion and has already shredded most of our constitutional rights, is an unmitigated evil. We do not need charity. We need justice. And all of Bill Clinton’s heart-warming stories about giving are not going to save us from the corporations who sucked out his soul and seek to imprison the rest of us.
WASHINGTON – George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border. Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents - less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike's official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.
General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said "Amen" to Senator Fulbright's proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."
Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.
America "was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale," Mr. Brownell said. "When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint."
Although an on-and-off guest-worker program for Mexicans was operating at the time, farmers and ranchers in the Southwest had become dependent on an additional low-cost, docile, illegal labor force of up to 3 million, mostly Mexican, laborers.
According to the Handbook of Texas Online, published by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, this illegal workforce had a severe impact on the wages of ordinary working Americans. The Handbook Online reports that a study by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas in 1950 found that cotton growers in the Rio Grande Valley, where most illegal aliens in Texas worked, paid wages that were "approximately half" the farm wages paid elsewhere in the state.
Profits from illegal labor led to the kind of corruption that apparently worried Eisenhower. Joseph White, a retired 21-year veteran of the Border Patrol, says that in the early 1950s, some senior US officials overseeing immigration enforcement "had friends among the ranchers," and agents "did not dare" arrest their illegal workers.
Walt Edwards, who joined the Border Patrol in 1951, tells a similar story. He says: "When we caught illegal aliens on farms and ranches, the farmer or rancher would often call and complain [to officials in El Paso]. And depending on how politically connected they were, there would be political intervention. That is how we got into this mess we are in now."
Bill Chambers, who worked for a combined 33 years for the Border Patrol and the then-called US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), says politically powerful people are still fueling the flow of illegals.
During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower - if only for about 10 years.
In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.
One of Swing's first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
The sea voyage was "a rough trip, and they did not like it," says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.
Mr. Coppock says he "cannot understand why [President] Bush let [today's] problem get away from him as it has. I guess it was his compassionate conservatism, and trying to please [Mexican President] Vincente Fox."
There are now said to be 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the US. Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.
Border Patrol vets offer tips on curbing illegal immigration One day in 1954, Border Patrol agent Walt Edwards picked up a newspaper in Big Spring, Texas, and saw some startling news. The government was launching an all-out drive to oust illegal aliens from the United States.
The orders came straight from the top, where the new president, Dwight Eisenhower, had put a former West Point classmate, Gen. Joseph Swing, in charge of immigration enforcement.
General Swing's fast-moving campaign soon secured America's borders - an accomplishment no other president has since equaled. Illegal migration had dropped 95 percent by the late 1950s.
Several retired Border Patrol agents who took part in the 1950s effort, including Mr. Edwards, say much of what Swing did could be repeated today.
"Some say we cannot send 12 million illegals now in the United States back where they came from. Of course we can!" Edwards says.
Donald Coppock, who headed the Patrol from 1960 to 1973, says that if Swing and Ike were still running immigration enforcement, "they'd be on top of this in a minute."
William Chambers, another '50s veteran, agrees. "They could do a pretty good job" sealing the border.
Edwards says: "When we start enforcing the law, these various businesses are, on their own, going to replace their [illegal] workforce with a legal workforce."
While Congress debates building a fence on the border, these veterans say other actions should have higher priority.
1. End the current practice of taking captured Mexican aliens to the border and releasing them. Instead, deport them deep into Mexico, where return to the US would be more costly.
2. Crack down hard on employers who hire illegals. Without jobs, the aliens won't come.
3. End "catch and release" for non-Mexican aliens. It is common for illegal migrants not from Mexico to be set free after their arrest if they promise to appear later before a judge. Few show up.
The Patrol veterans say enforcement could also be aided by a legalized guest- worker program that permits Mexicans to register in their country for temporary jobs in the US. Eisenhower's team ran such a program. It permitted up to 400,000 Mexicans a year to enter the US for various agriculture jobs that lasted for 12 to 52 weeks.
The current mission of New Age Citizen is really quite simple: I want to push forward the "New Agenda for America (NAA)" in order to rejuvenate this once-great republic. To do this I intend to lecture publicly; run as a "write-in" presidential candidate and force this agenda down the throats of all 2008 Presidential Candidates. I have absolutely no illusions of winning and -- in point of fact -- will never officially run. But I think such a prank could very well garner attention and therefore, more consideration of the NAA. It is so critical that this nation chart a different course in the very immediate future.
If you are new to this website I ask but one initial consideration:
Please don't reach any conclusions about New Age Citizen until you have done the following:
I am confident that, having read some of this pertinent background material, you will understand that New Age Citizen is not interested in either racism or xenophobia. We really want to leave the United States, and the rest of the planet, in better shape than we found it when we arrived. But to do this effectively we also need to understand things as they are and not how we would prefer these things to be.
For the last few years I have assembled a number of policy planks and packaged them under the title "New Agenda for America." Here is the current set of planks:
(1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens (2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States (3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients (4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American Jobs (5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State (6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral Trade agreements (7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g., solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal) (8) Increasing the "minimum wage" to a "living wage" (9) Replacement of the "Federal Reserve" with a "People's Reserve" which has Congressional oversight.
Between now and the next presidential election (November 4, 2008) I am planning to take this agenda on the road by presenting it live through a series of lectures. The main purpose will be to pressure the main party candidates to embrace and endorse all political planks. I may also run as a "write-in" candidate though I have absolutely no serious illusion that there is any chance of me winning.
If you agree with most of the agenda I encourage you to share my website with you friends and families. Specifically, I would recommend that they all get on our mailing list so that we can alert them to new content at our website. We are in the midst of the destruction of the American Middle Class by a powerful group of Global Elitists. It is not happening through some hidden conspiracy. Rather it is happening right before our eyes through various forms of social engineering that are being orchestrated by the world's largest banks and corporations. The most visible manifestation of this can be observed by reading about the North America Union that is being implemented below the media radar stream and is being implemented with total disregard of Constitutional process. In addition it is being pushed forward by our Congressional representatives that are committing treason through their continued silence.
The following YouTube Video has the Editor of New Age Citizen, Bruce W. Cain, describing an overview to the "New Agenda for America": [originally referred to as the "New Age Agenda"]:
"New Agenda for America" will become a slogan for referring to the set of policy positions that NAC will be promoting in the coming years. It refers to a disturbing trend whereby our elected representatives appear to be increasingly at odds with the values of the founding fathers of this country (e.g., Washington, Franklin, Jefferson) and the American people.
To get this off the ground I am creating a frames based page which will allow my visitors to both understand the rational behind New Age Citizen as well as the preliminary agenda for "New Agenda for America." I will place a link to this at the top right hand corner of the homepage for now. You can take a quick look by clicking below:
The Editor of New Age Citizen, is considering giving a series of lectures that challenge the current "Demopublican" plutocracy with policy alternatives that are more to the interests of the American working class. The first lecture in the series will most likely address the current Immigration Reform measures that are being debated both in Congress and on the streets of America.
Lecture #001: No More Immigration: Legal or Illegal
This lecture will address the virtual propaganda surrounding the current immigration debate. It will expose the larger agenda that is intent on destroying the middle class by attempting to merge the United States into a "North American Union" consisting of Mexico, Canada and the United States. The primary argument against immigration focuses on the inability of the United States to provide adequate sustainable resources for the 200 million additional immigrants that will exceed the carrying capacity of this great country by 2050. The lecture will conclude that the best interests of legal American citizens will be served by implementing mandatory employer Social Security checks; punishing employers with extreme prejudice and putting an end to all Legal/Illegal immigration until the real wages of Americans is at or beyond what they were at their apex in 1973. If you live in SE Michigan and are interesting in attending one of these activist lectures please send an email to get on our lecture list.
In addition to these lectures I am considering staging a demonstration against further immigration and Bush's agenda to destroy the American working class. More on that in the near future. Lastly, if you know of any Anti-Immigrant Demonstrations, anywhere in the US, let me know. I will begin to post these on the website.
Also, please read this article if you have not already done so. Very illuminating stuff.
Please support our efforts to allow a form of Marijuana Re-Legalization where personal cultivation is neither taxed or regulated by any government agencies. For more information please read the following articles regarding the Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy (MRP) Project:
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So we have a 26-year old Mid-Eastern walking around a local park with an assault rifle, 4 days prior to the 6th anniversary of "911" and it doesn't even get on the national news? But CNN spent hours and hours retelling the story about how OJ Simpson strong-armed some idiot that was ripping of his memorabilia. 
