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"Minuteman Project" Founder Jim Gilchrist – A Man With A True American View – Running For Congress In California; Doing The Job Bush Refuses To Do By Fighting Illegal Immigration

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Jim Gilchrist, founder of "The Minuteman Project," is running for Congress in California (for details, see JimGilchrist.com). We were honored to have Jim on our radio show Number 6. On this program about illegal immigration, we discussed how Jim and other private citizens doing the jobs Bush and Congress will not do -- stopping illegal aliens from entering our country in Cochise County, Arizona. We also discussed: President Bush's cheap shot where he called these patriotic Americans "vigilantes;" how illegal aliens take jobs from Americans; terrorism and illegal immigration; and much more.

Here is some of what Jim says about those who illegals who are breaking into our country:

JIM GILCHRIST Took a job one American (President Bush!) wouldn’t do by actually fighting illegal immigrationJIM GILCHRIST Took a job one American (President Bush!) wouldn’t do by actually fighting illegal immigration
Some people believe that America's illegal immigration problem is too big to solve. They therefore think that the only feasible solution is basically to do nothing--since things have seemingly gotten so far beyond the point of remedy.

Even the sheer size of our borders, themselves, causes some people to conclude that our borders are indefensible against invasion, incursion, and illicit trafficking--and that the steady flow of illegal aliens is thus unstoppable.

I believe otherwise. I also know that we MUST do a better job of securing our borders if we are to preserve our national security and sovereignty.

My plan for achieving this goal is much the same as that called for by a recent staff report by the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, which sent a team of independent investigators to study our Minuteman Project in April.

As a result of their study, the Immigration Reform Caucus observation team issued a number of workable recommendations--which I endorse in principle, and which I will work hard to see implemented if I become your Congressman. Among the team's findings are these:

  1. Reasonable manpower increases will immediately curtail rampant illegal immigration. An average of six additional personnel on station per border mile proved effective in dramatically reducing illegal crossings.
  2. Reinforcements can be oriented and deployed in days. In contrast to the Border Patrol position of two-year training time for new officers, the Minutemen demonstrated that auxiliary personnel can be trained and deployed in three days. The lesser duties of supporting higher-trained Border Patrol and other state and federal law enforcement agencies does not require the full legal skills of Border Patrol agents.
  3. 36,000 reinforcements would likely seal our southern border. However, unlike the Minutemen's 12-hour shifts, to maintain six personnel on station 24/7 on a permanent basis would require adequate personnel for at least three shifts, or 18 auxiliaries per mile. The 2000-mile southern border would therefore require a minimum 36,000 total additional personnel, with 48,000 likely for a long-term deployment requiring substantial support personnel.
  4. Reinforcements are available from existing reserves. Troops should be drawn from all 50 states, or the border states and their neighbors at minimum. Mobilizing troops from just the border states would exhaust their manpower reserves, eliminate the warfighting capability of Guard members in those states, and be unsustainable. Drawing 36,000 National Guard and State Defense Force personnel from the border states and their immediate neighbors would require 41% of available forces in the respective states. If drawn from National Guard forces nationwide, the border reinforcements would total 11% of available forces. As a long-term solution, one-half of the 70,000 federal troops returning from overseas could be permanently assigned the mission as part of the BRAC process currently underway.
  5. The Defense Authorization Act of 2005 provides specific legal authority for the Governors and the Secretary of Defense to immediately implement this plan with full federal funding. Section 512 of HR 4200, the Defense Authorization Act of 2005, passed by the 108th Congress, amends Title 32 Section 9 of U.S. Code to allow Governors to call forth their National Guard for homeland security duties within their state in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, and receive full federal funding for the mission, with no action required by Congress or the President.
  6. Long-term solutions: Border security should remain a federal responsibility. The U.S. Border Patrol must be increased to somewhere between 25,000-50,000 officers to adequately guard our southern border, with the final size determination dependent on proven field effectiveness of new technology and infrastructure such as fencing, lighting, UAVs, sensors, etc. Until the Border Patrol is fully staffed and equipped, military support will remain a necessity. One-half or more of the 70,000 federal troops returning from overseas should be assigned the mission as part of the BRAC process currently underway, to relieve our National Guard and State forces as soon as practicable. Federal troops should in turn be relieved by a strengthened Border Patrol, but only when such reinforcements are fully in place.

In addition to endorsing the recommendations of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus report, I also plan to seek a return to the RULE OF LAW regarding American national interests. Specifically, I will pursue criminal convictions and civil penalties under existing federal and state laws against:

When Michael Anthony Peroutka ran for President as the candidate of the Constitution Party, he said this about President Bush's so-called immigration "reform:"

"Regardless of what President Bush calls it, his scheme that would grant legal status to millions of illegal aliens is an amnesty. Furthermore, this scheme seems to be driven by partisan politics in that it blatantly panders to Hispanics in the hope that those who are not already Republicans will become Republicans.

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"This scheme also invites more acts of terrorism within the U.S. since it invites more terrorists to come here. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), chairman of the House Immigration Caucus, has noted that of the 37,000 non-Mexicans who illegally crossed our borders in 2002, more than 7,500 were from countries known to harbor terrorists. And 'Time' magazine has just reported a captured terrorist as claiming that al-Qaeda plans to smuggle nuclear materials into our country from Mexico.

"Finally, the President's scheme would throw millions of Americans out of work and/or depress their wages. As Roy Beck, Executive Director of Numbers USA said recently on CNN: "We have no need for a mass guest worker program. We have 14 million Americans who cannot find full-time work right now. We also have a situation in which we have millions of Americans who are working full-time who are near or below poverty level. The president`s plan is primarily for guest workers who are lower skilled workers. We don`t have a shortage of lower skilled workers. If we did, then lower skilled workers would see their wages rising…It is inexplicable why the president feels there is such urgency to legalize millions of lower skilled illegal aliens and bring in more foreign workers."

Secretary of State Colin Powell has said: "We must be innovative in our efforts to stop those who abuse the openness of our societies along the border." I agree. So, "innovate," please. Enforce our laws against illegal immigration, which must include a crackdown on those who employ illegals. Begin deporting illegals, and start transferring those 140,000 troops in Iraq to protect our borders.

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