Patriots, Please be aware,

The administration has fired the starter’s pistol and the runners are taking to the field. No, we are not talking about the famed New York or Boston Marathons but rather the decisions being made by literally countless aspiring illegal aliens to charge America’s borders to participate in a sweeping amnesty program now being proposed by both the Obama administration and factions of the Republican Party to provide unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and with pathways to United States citizenship.

Here are the headlines and links to the articles they relate to that were both published in the Washington Times on Tuesday, January 29, 2013:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/29/arrests-signal-9-percent-jump-illegal-immigration/

Arrest numbers signal 9 percent jump in illegal immigration in 2012
By Stephen Dinan

Here is an excerpt from this news report:

President Bush and Congress boosted manpower and technology on the border, and the number of apprehensions — and, presumably, illegal crossings — dropped dramatically.

In fiscal year 2005 the Border Patrol made 1,1717,396 arrests along the southwest border; it made 1,071,972 arrests in 2006; 858,638 arrests in 2007; 705,005 arrests in 2008; 540,865 in 2009; 447,731 in 2010; and 327,577 in 2011.

A Government Accountability Office report earlier this month detailed some of the Border Patrol’s internal calculations about how many illegal crossers it misses, and the report said about 40 percent of would-be illegal immigrants get away. That rate has held consistent over time.

But Glenn Spencer, head of American Border Patrol, a private citizens group that tracks border crossings, said according to their own estimates, the Border Patrol only catches about 30 percent of illegal crossers.

If true, that would mean more than 800,000 illegal immigrants crossed without being apprehended last year.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/29/obama-sees-genuine-desire-pass-immigration-bill/

Border numbers rise ahead of talks on immigration
Security a hurdle for Obama
By Stephen Dinan

Here is an excerpt from this news report:

”The good news is that — for the first time in many years — Republicans and Democrats seem ready to tackle this problem together,” Mr. Obama said, blessing the broad outlines of the senators’ deal and saying the borders are secure enough to begin granting illegal immigrants citizenship.

But the latest numbers suggest that illegal crossings from the Mexican border once again may be on the rise after falling for six years. The U.S. Border Patrol made 356,873 arrests on the border in fiscal year 2012, up 9 percent from 2011.

December 21, 2011, when I appeared on Neil Cavuto’s television program to discuss immigration and the impact on jobs, Neil made the assertion that because Border Patrol arrest statistics had dropped that it meant that there were fewer illegal aliens in the United States. He suggested that this was happening because purportedly the Mexican economy was doing better and the American economy was doing worse.

I responded by saying that attempting to figure out how many illegal aliens are present in the United States by tracking Border Patrol arrest statistics was a bit like taking attendance by asking those present to raise their hands!

Here is a link to my interview with Neil:

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1340950814001/will-cuts-to-border-patrol-hurt-us-job-market/

So now, notwithstanding all sorts of efforts to “cook the books” and provide misleading arrest statistics to bolster arguments that the borders are now secure and the immigration problem has been solved, the number of arrests are rising because the number of illegal aliens flooding across our borders are surging.

Furthermore, no one in Washington is talking about the fact that there are at least 5 million illegal aliens present in the United States who, although they were admitted into the United States via the inspections process, went on to violate the terms of their admission rendering them deportable as well.

Here is a link to a CNN report aired on May 31, 2010 that was titled, ”Tracking Down Visa Violators:”

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/05/31/am.wian.border.patrol.cnn?iref=allsearch

Casey Wian and his producer, Sara Weisfeldt interviewed me for this report and I appear briefly on screen.

In point of fact, the United States does not have just “four border states” but 50 border states! Any state that has an international airport or a seaport is as much a border state as are those to be found along both the southern and northern borders of the United States!

On May 11, 2006 I testified before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on International Relations on the topic:

VISA OVERSTAYS:
CAN WE BAR THE TERRORIST DOOR?

Here is the link to the transcript of that hearing in its entirety:

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa27480.000/hfa27480_0f.htm

Before moving on to other issues, I am providing a segment, immediately below, of the transcript of this hearing which reflects my opening remarks for that hearing and an exchange I had with members of Congress who participated at that hearing- I think it may help to provide some additional insight. You should also know that at the time of the hearing the citizens of 26 countries were not required to apply for and receive visas before seeking entry into the United States under the auspices of the wrong-headed Visa Waiver Program. Today that number has ballooned to 37. You will see what I had to say about the national security risks that the Visa Waiver Program poses in this exchange, as well.